Pep is unable to react to anyone that stands up to his team. He thinks teams should all stand back and applaud our great possession and passsing skills. Sporting just decided to front us up and we collapsed. Nothing complicated but Pep couldn't do anything about it. Deer in the headlightsJust how do you go from dominating them in the first half to getting thrashed ? well it's called not taking your chances and having an absolutely terrible defensive structure, this has been coming all season, Pep surely has to sort it now, yes there are injuries but it's still unacceptable.
Unlike who ?Biggest concern for me is that Pep hasn't got a clue how to fix this
Both Lavia and Palmer wanted to leave and Palmer wasn't the same player that is currently playing for Chelsea. Rogers looks useful for Villa but the issues were he looked way off in starring for City despite a promising pre-season.I think selling a lot of the promising young talents just at the point where they’d become first team players could have been a rare mistake from us
Palmer, Rogers, Lavia better than the players we signed to replace them.
On we go though…
Yeah he has a lot of credit in the bank, but he just looked so uninterested and off it tonight and what a shame for the young lad next to him who suffered for it.He is usually Mr reliable, miles off it tonight, tracking runners would help
Well said. We are in a bad moment. Of course we have made mistakes but everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. Our strongest defence in recent years has been Walker, Stones, Dias, Ake with Rodri in front them. We have lost them all as well as KDB and Bobb. Shit happens. We will have to hang in there and buy players in January. The fans must get behind the team. The media hate us and will revel in our problems. Our players and fans need to close ranks.This is the moment we are supposed to be behind our team not piling on like the rags and the media will be doing ffs ,some of the gibberish on the matchday was a disgrace surely not even blue fucking hell have we not witnessed worse than that before ..
we miss Rodri. More than expected.
Other than Phillips and maybe Nunes, who have we bought (invested in) in such an unwise manner?Manchester City:
1- squad approximate cost : $1.33 Billion
2- Annual wage bill $270 million
Sporting Lisbon :
1- squad approximate cost : between $250-$300 Million
2- Annual wage bill- around $40 million
Lets hope the club will invest more wisely
I never have a pop at the team but it has to be said that the team currently are phoning it in. Where is the fight? Where is the urgency in our play?
This isn't a one off, we've been like this for weeks, hopefully this is the kick up the arse that's needed.
This team needs a Fernandinho team meeting calling to sort it out but do we have a leader like that anymore?
Aye. That's not what you said though. And he's wasted the way we play this season. Completely wasted. And has still scored 11 goals?He was fucking terrible tonight. No hiding from that.
100% not a single captain on that pitch tonight, if you are going to lose then do it with heart, hard work and bollocks. Alls I saw from 90% of them tonight was sulking and throwing there arms in the air. Not one player was getting amongst each other and dishing some shit outAbsolutely painful display. Full of players sulking their way through the game with their heads down.
Fucking wide open every time we lose the ball. We’re dead set on stationing ourselves 40 yards from goal - teams are happy for us to do it because they know one pass or dallying on the ball means they can turn us over and be at our 2 defenders within a second.
We’ve got our centre halves being pulled all over the gaff because one of our full backs is coming central while the other one is high up trying to condense the play.
Pep’s flat out refusal to use McAtee is winding me up too. Can he be worse than what’s on there? Not a fucking chance.
Bernie and Kovacic as a midfield 2 is painful and sets the tone for the rest of the team. They play it too safe. Slow, tepid, no energy and get turned over so quickly.
Shit all the way through the team. Nobody on there willing to take responsibility or take the game by the scruff of the neck.
Painful, painful watch.
100% I will be pissed if any goSorry but not a single player should be going to their national teams over the international break
You got any good news ?Simple disgraceful tonight the minute they equalised. Played like pussies. No physicality. Defence are guaranteed to give up goals. Incapable of keeping clean sheets. Savinho has done little these last few games he's played. He's weak. It's clear we miss Rodri. More than expected. Haaland is off the boil. I can see us losing 4 in a row this weekend. Just can't see us winning a game at the moment.
The last few years are catching up on us now. It had to happen. It's been a blast. We now need to reset in January and summer. Dare I say it perhaps we need a fresh perspective from the sidelines now as well. Then we go again. CTID.