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[hilts]

When Pep verbally threw the league cup under the bus and will probably do the same with the FA cup it makes you wonder if it's all about Europe for him now and the shit world crap cup for the players.

We have had Rodri and Debruyne both out injured for some time that's a tough ask for any team but it doesn't explain how some of these players have fell away in form so much they are unrecognisable, the chemistry in the side seems a bit off to me.

Maybe they got bored of winning? Maybe the PL charges are getting to them? Maybe without both of our midfield stalwarts they fall apart?

We are playing shit but he still wont play McAtee but will see Lewis struggling but continues with him through thick and thin. Players getting injured easily is a concern too.

No easy fixes here and I can't see this squad of players working through it, the year extension isn't enough to rebuild a squad and if Pep does leave after a year and leaves us with these players would he be leaving us with the same problems the GPC left the rags with, an aging backbone of the squad and where Gill left the rags so has Txiki.

Much work to do in the summer, we could do with a couple in Jan if anyone really good is available to get us in the CL again next year.

We have to be careful of panic buying average that we get stuck with.

 

[hilts]

That’s kind tbh.

Well he smells a lot better than some of the others if one is being balanced.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Much work to do in the summer, we could do with a couple in Jan if anyone really good is available to get us in the CL again next year.

We have to be careful of panic buying average that we get stuck with.

We’ve been panic buying average the past 5 transfer windows bar Gavardiol. Add to that just letting decent players leave without putting up a fight to keep them.

 

[ysmsa]

I wrote a bit of a hissy fit post in the match thread at 3-0…so taken a few deep breaths since then.

It took us 7+ hours to drive there today. It usually takes 4/4.5hrs. With 4 kids. As we do every home game (to be fair, kids don’t do weekdays, though I do). My boys are 15 and 12 and had to push the car a couple of times in the borders as the snow hit and the A702 was hit with the blizzard. It probably wasn’t good parenting to put us all at risk to be honest, the roads were lethal.

We’re now at Carlisle on the way back, if the roads are halfway decent it’s another couple of hours out to East Lothian.

But that was dogshit. Utter dogshit.

Like I said in my other post, I’ve barely missed a home game in 40 years. I was there at Lincoln when we let in 4. And Anfield for both games when we let in 10 in the space of 5 days. But tonight was dogshit.

What annoys me is the players we had our tonight have won everything. I’m not hacked off at Craig Russell, Ged Brannan, Martyn Margetson or (showing my age) Gary Fleming. They’d not won a thing, they had nothing to prove, they did their best.

Tonight, I didn’t feel that team did their best and that’s unforgivable.

Anyway, rant over. Back to the M6 and M74 and getting home wired from the coffee whilst the players have been asleep for hours and I carry an 8 year old to her bed.

Melodramatic I know and I’ll be there midweek as always but I’m royally f*cked off tonight, more than I should be.

That would make a brilliant Christmas film :-)

One of the kids gets left behind in the snow drift, you pick up a John Candy type hitch hiker en route.
You arrive at City starving to be told, "run out of chips"

And you are the only 6 people let in the ground at the full time whistle :-) (the hitch hiker has to blag his way in on a junior ticket).ha ha

 

[Chris Holmes]

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

In sum:

Rodri out - danger. He's our only real DM, emphasis on D.
Kovacic out as well - He's a semi-D mostly box-to-box/AM.

From there, we're in trouble as our mid won't be able to cut-out attacks as much as we need.

And then, as City, we play a very aggressive, possession-based, high line system. Our mid absolutely needs to close down attacks quickly - or at least quickly challenge for the ball - otherwise our high defensive line will be caught out. Coupled with the fact that our fullbacks aren't even in defensive position when we attack.

 

[hilts]

We’ve been panic buying average the past 5 transfer windows bar Gavardiol. Add to that just letting decent players leave without putting up a fight to keep them.

Lessons learnt and new guy so fingers crossed:-)

We have done quite well.over those 5 years do you not think?

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

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I'll bite... what was your feedback :-)

 

[sir baconface]

We need Doku.

I thought I was the only one who lights up when I see his name on the team sheet. He’s so often our only escape from predictability but gets too much disrespect.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Lessons learnt and new guy so fingers crossed:-)

We have done quite well.over those 5 years do you not think?

2 years really I said 5 transfer windows I was supposed to say 4. Since the summer we signed Haaland every window has been really poor with both incoming’s and outgoings