So what is wrong at the moment?

[BlueMoonz1977]

Formation, tactics, desire and attitude

Manager and players to blame.

Do the players agree with what they are being told to do ??

 

[bert38]

I'm not sure there is an awful lot wrong aside from a slow start for many of the World Cup players, new players finding their feet and some key injuries. People bang on about the yaya problem but we won the league twice with him playing in a flat 4 midfield. Last season was an outlier season for him in terms of goals and the media have finally noticed that he is lazy out of position-but that's how he plays.

I agree that Pellegrini's stubbornness and blind faith in 4-4-2, just like Mancini, has been his downfall in Europe but we are third, playing some good stuff. There is no benefit from sacking Pellegrini. Get behind the team and the new players. I still think the league can be won. I've waited all my life for these years-these are the good times.

 

[Matt the Giant]

Do we know for certain, that the manage is free to change formation as he finds necessary, or is he obliged to follow a specific "style" dictated by the board?

Someone who knows about Pellegrini's formations at previous clubs?

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Funny because i made a similar point, under a different user name a couple of seasons ago and got absolutely slaughtered.

My critics all followed the same route:

August 2012: What’s your problem? We’re champions
September 2012: What’s you’re problem? We’re only one point worse than last year?
October 2012: What’s your problem? If we win our game in hand we’ll be level with United.
November 2012: What;s your problem? Sign of a good team to be playing badly and still be 2nd in the table.
December 2012 What’s your problem? United blew a bigger lead last season
January 2013: Rag alert

At the end of the day it’s all about the preparation

Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance.

My word...

This Wum still knocking about??

Fuck me how old is this fucking line.

Straight out of a shit training course.





From the 1980's.

That was my whole point. It's an old cliche because it's 100% correct.

Let's put it another way.

Posing and pissing about in Pre season, preoccupied with pleasing potential pricks at palatial parties, poses particulalry preventable problems,, too prickly and perplexing for the passive Pellegrini.

 

[Lucky Toma]

My word...

This Wum still knocking about??

Fuck me how old is this fucking line.

Straight out of a shit training course.





From the 1980's.

That was my whole point. It's an old cliche because it's 100% correct.

Let's put it another way.

Posing and pissing about in Pre season, preoccupied with pleasing potential pricks at palatial parties, poses particulalry preventable problems,, too prickly and perplexing for the passive Pellegrini.

Piss poff.

 

[CC1]

My word...

This Wum still knocking about??

Fuck me how old is this fucking line.

Straight out of a shit training course.





From the 1980's.

That was my whole point. It's an old cliche because it's 100% correct.

Let's put it another way.

Posing and pissing about in Pre season, preoccupied with pleasing potential pricks at palatial parties, poses particulalry preventable problems,, too prickly and perplexing for the passive Pellegrini.

you are so boring. Go away and write poetry in private

 

[lasereyes]

Having watched the Liverpool v Chelsea game earlier today either we need to find form quickly and / or Chelski have a sudden dip. Otherwise our title will be gone by January.
Chelsea are playing with such intensity and energy and at times today pressed the Dippers so far back that the defenders constantly made errors and looked so ragged.Also the speed of counter attack was impressive.
We regularly have possession above 60% but we too often run down cul de sacs and then when the opposition break we are caught with our pants down.
Can we adapt our game to match the Chavs, Bayern, Madrid, etc.? With our current personnel I think not. New fresher younger squad members a must for next season. I am not like some suggesting a major overhaul but just the engine room where it all happens.

It helps when every bleeding ref decision goes your way. Following Hazard's soft penalty last week, we had a goal where Matic handled; another where the ball had gone out early in the play, and a stone dead Scouser penalty not given. Compare that with our Clattenburg lashing last April.

 

[kp789]

A point on our transfers.

We seem to be bringing in 'like for like' players in the most part, over players who improve us. I am not saying we are signing bad players, but we are not exactly signing players who seriously bring us up to another level, like when we signed Tevez, or when we got Aguero, Silva, Yaya etc etc. Choosing to consolidate rather than improve is dangerous.

 

[BlueAnorak]

It started with a complete lack of pre-season and went down hill from there.

 

[blueplan]

Overexpectant Fans.
Who can't take the bad results with the good. Expect City to win every game. City's players are human not robots. Take the case of Zaba, mentally & physically exhausted, for CSKA 2nd' goal.
Likewise an inadvertent own goal by Demichelis against QPR. Shi* haPPENS.
FFS sTop whining & having a nervous nellie breakdown IF WE DON'T WIN, slagging & SCAPEGOATING every City player you dislike!!