I should have qualified my answer with "To a do a Tevez before going".I don't. I think he's replacing the spine of the squad. It's essentialy still the team that Mancini built, with Hart, Vinny, Yaya and Sergio as our most important players. He fucked Hart off, Vinny has been fit for 6 weeks and has played one game. Yaya is only back because of injury to another key player, and now it looks like the end for Kun.
He is completely rebuilding the squad and when he's finished it will be a team that Pep has built and be able to take full credit for.
True. We will end up with the best team and squad these shores has ever seen.I don't. I think he's replacing the spine of the squad. It's essentialy still the team that Mancini built, with Hart, Vinny, Yaya and Sergio as our most important players. He fucked Hart off, Vinny has been fit for 6 weeks and has played one game. Yaya is only back because of injury to another key player, and now it looks like the end for Kun.
He is completely rebuilding the squad and when he's finished it will be a team that Pep has built and be able to take full credit for.
I'd still take Fabinho, Sidibe, Mendy and Bakayoko ahead of him.
We don't need another u21 pacey winger/striker. We've spent £125,000,000 on 3 of them in the last 18 months.
Mbappe may very well go on to be something special, but Sané, Jesus and Sterling are further down the same path, and you just have to play the ones we've got and enjoy watching them as they improve you can't fill the entire squad with wide forwards, and having too many just stifles them anyway.
I'm shocked at the amount of Blues I have come across who consider Monaco as some sort of also-rans.
We lucked out with this draw.
I heard some woman in Mary D's before the Swansea game being asked by a French journo what she thought of Monaco and I was just shaking my head at her lack of knowledge and levels of arrogance.
Apparently, "They'll be no problem, easy."
He'll be ahead of Benzema yes but getting no more game time than he does here, it's been a huge failing on behalf of both ourselves and Madrid that we've had so little cover for our main strikers and both of them have been in the unique position of being virtually undroppable because of it. Can't see him going to PSG, they have Cavani and even with Monaco starting to improve Ligue 1 is a huge step down from the PL.
If he doesn't play, he'll be off, and as others have pointed out that's down to him proving he's good enough and hungry enough in training to prove he is worth a place in our starting 11.The sun, or maybe the star, ran with this made up shit. Aguero, the club and Guardiola flatly deny it so i don't know what more City can do.
Who, Pochettino? Would be good to see what he could do with a squad with PSG's age profile and egos, might be a bit of a wake up call for him tbh.You do PSG a serious disservice. Yes of course Ligue 1 is a drop down from the PL and La Liga but for players these days Paris is as viable an option as Madrid/Barca/United/Chelsea. For Aguero I think it may even appeal more than Madrid precisely because of what you say about game time. I also have a sneaky suspicion that we're going to see an Argentinian manager at PSG in the very near future. ;)
Who, Pochettino? Would be good to see what he could do with a squad with PSG's age profile and egos, might be a bit of a wake up call for him tbh.
If he doesn't play, he'll be off, and as others have pointed out that's down to him proving he's good enough and hungry enough in training to prove he is worth a place in our starting 11.
We should see this as a positive because no one's place is guaranteed, and everyone has to fight for their place. If we were playing QPR in the last game of the season and a win guaranteed the title, there would be a very strong argument to play Sterling, jesus and Sane. Also an equally strong one to play Aguero, Jesus and Sane, but it's not cut and dried he starts, therefore there is justified speculation
Interesting, what shape is PSG's academy in? Can't imagine they have too much room under FFP for a major overhaul and I can't see Pochettino working with quite a few of the players there - although obviously Veratti, Matuidi and Moura are perfectly suited along with the right back with the attitude problems.They want him or Simeone long term. Word is Emery is their Pellegrini keeping the seat warm until one of them comes.
Because they're sad ****s that have taken every single chance they've gotten for the last 8 years to try and unsettle our squad and fans. I can still remember the fail running a 4 page spread before the 11/12 season on 11 players that were out the door at City - not one left and among those featured were Dzeko, Yaya, Silva, Lescott, Zaba and NDJ - trying to unsettle the core of the side much?Before this shit appeared on the back of a paper, everything you say in your second paragraph was true. Why dont the shit papers wax lyrical about a possible partnership with Aguero and Jesus instead of 'speculating' on Agueros fucking off?
Interesting, what shape is PSG's academy in? Can't imagine they have too much room under FFP for a major overhaul and I can't see Pochettino working with quite a few of the players there - although obviously Veratti, Matuidi and Moura are perfectly suited along with the right back with the attitude problems.
They're in better shape than I thought they'd be at this stage PSG so fair dues to them but I still think moving there is a huge step down - I can't see them winning the CL before Sergio goes back to Argentina (although I reckon we've a good chance) and it's effectively saying he wants to go and stroll through 30 league games a season in a far easier league (Monaco accepted - Nice look too much like a flash in the pan with some seriously in form attackers, the rest are shite).
Because they're sad ****s that have taken every single chance they've gotten for the last 8 years to try and unsettle our squad and fans. I can still remember the fail running a 4 page spread before the 11/12 season on 11 players that were out the door at City - not one left and among those featured were Dzeko, Yaya, Silva, Lescott, Zaba and NDJ - trying to unsettle the core of the side much?
He was rising to it earlier in the season - honestly I still think this is mountain out of molehill shit because he's been dropped for 2 games and Guardiola isn't the type of manager to give anyone assurances, it should calm down if he gets back in the team regularly and starts scoring again.PSG academy is excellent as it should be. Enormous catchment area, no other clubs locally competing with them in a one team City.
I see what you're saying about the CL but honestly if Kun was of that mentality he'd be having zero interest in leaving City. Instead the first sign of him needing to adapt and work harder than he has done previously and he's eyeing up a move. I hope he rises to the challenge but i'm not hopeful.
Used to work with a fucking idiot of a rag back at that time that believed every word that paper wrote - I remember looking at the list of players and telling him I'd give him an Even money bet that not one would leave - FFS we were building a squad at that time not dismantling one. That was the window we signed Sergio, in every single window since (including the first January one (homesick and doesn't like the weather iirc)) the star, mirror, sun and fail have been fabricating outright lies linking him with a move to Real and Barca and they've been wrong 11 windows on the trot and counting - that's why I'm still not convinced he'll leave this summer tbh.Is the right answer.
The notion that it's 'justified speculation' is at best naive.
PSG academy is excellent as it should be. Enormous catchment area, no other clubs locally competing with them in a one team City.
I see what you're saying about the CL but honestly if Kun was of that mentality he'd be having zero interest in leaving City. Instead the first sign of him needing to adapt and work harder than he has done previously and he's eyeing up a move. I hope he rises to the challenge but i'm not hopeful.