We've all been guilty of taking our success for granted this includes fans and players alike and defeat yesterday albeit annoying is exactly what the club needed.
This season even at home I can count the number of convincing performances on one hand, often we have been rescued by an individual moment from Aguero and the team has got away with it as a result.
Truth is we have been disjointed for a while now and never replaced the energy and work rate in the team after De Jong and Tevez have left.
Our focus seems to be on bringing in fancy skilful players which is great but when there is no core work rate to back this up we look average at best.
The FFPR haven't helped we all know they were designed to at the very least stall us if not stop us but this summer the club has a real opportunity to get it right both on and off the pitch.
Pellegrini should be treated the correct way and either have his hand shaken in the summer or finish his contract depending on whether a replacement is ready to come in which for me has to be Guardiola we cannot accept second best.
The club needs to remember what brought us to the point we are today it was the hunger and desire to get back to the top and yesterday should serve as a reminder to all that we are not as good or as big as we yet think it had to be earned the hard way.
All being said though I'm convinced our owners will get it right as they simply do not fail in what they do.
Keep the faith blues it will come.
This season even at home I can count the number of convincing performances on one hand, often we have been rescued by an individual moment from Aguero and the team has got away with it as a result.
Truth is we have been disjointed for a while now and never replaced the energy and work rate in the team after De Jong and Tevez have left.
Our focus seems to be on bringing in fancy skilful players which is great but when there is no core work rate to back this up we look average at best.
The FFPR haven't helped we all know they were designed to at the very least stall us if not stop us but this summer the club has a real opportunity to get it right both on and off the pitch.
Pellegrini should be treated the correct way and either have his hand shaken in the summer or finish his contract depending on whether a replacement is ready to come in which for me has to be Guardiola we cannot accept second best.
The club needs to remember what brought us to the point we are today it was the hunger and desire to get back to the top and yesterday should serve as a reminder to all that we are not as good or as big as we yet think it had to be earned the hard way.
All being said though I'm convinced our owners will get it right as they simply do not fail in what they do.
Keep the faith blues it will come.