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goatfeeder100 said:
It would be easier to believe Pep is going to be here long enough to oversee another rebuild if there weren't constant noises about when he will leave us and who will likely take his place. Feels like that's coming sooner rather than later.
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I don't mean to sound ungrateful - he's been an amazing manager of course, and brought us a level of success we could never have dreamed of. But if he does go at the end of the season, I won't be sad. We've become stale and frankly often boring. A new manager may well not be as good (inevitably wont be?) and we may be worse and less successful. But it will be interesting once again, watching a team with a different style. We have the resources now to be a top, top side whoever manages us. And the club is not a basket case like over the road, so we won't be facing 10 years of wilderness.
 
Norbert D said:
He’s an impact sub to run at tired defenders, others will need to do the spade work, yesterday he did nothing, he doesn’t understand midfield. Btw he’s on £300k per week, outside of Saudi no one will pay his wages. Hes quickly becoming Jack Grealish mk 2.
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If you think Foden is one of the immediate problems in the suad then you know nothing of football and Id wager your opinion is based on something personal you dont like about him

I can name a number of players within the squad who are holding the team back in terms of their ability and not one of them is foden...

Sav
Bobb
Rico Lewis
Reijnders being inaffective - please dont quote his goals - even in those games he has been a ghost for 95% of the time
John Stones - due to injury history
Nathan Ake - due to injury history
No right back
No left back having been available
No fit first choice centre halves
Haaland being our only forward and run into the ground
Rodri not being fit for most of the season and still struggling.

All of this (or these) are much more considerable issues before Foden's form

Its like the people who blame Bernardo Silva - they know very little about football
 
noseve said:
Considering that one team has won six titles in that time and the other has barely had a sniff of one, 50% isn't particularly good, is it?
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Or perhaps shows that losing PL games to the rags, apart from bragging rights, biggest blues etc, doesn't stop us winning bigger and more important prizes ?
 
We we're shite in all departments bar the Don n Khush. Doku n Ake let simple balls roll into touch early doors n Foden looked like his interest was elsewhere, which is strange for a City Manc in a derby. Haaland got bullied by a dwarf, who he tossed aside previously and we didnt attack both their full backs on yellows. Rico Lewis shud never have started a game too big for him.

None of it adds up n I cant explain why we were so spineless ??
 
waspish said:
There isn a lot of Man City fans thinking that way! because like you the biggest moaners stand out are the loudest, to the quiet many!
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It's not "isn't", it's "aren't".

Whether there are a lot or not makes no difference. The fact is that more and more of the natives are getting restless.

Our football has become increasingly predictable and boring. Predictable and boring when winning is tolerable. Predictable and boring when dropping points, less so.
 
Willie Wontie said:
7 points behind serial bottlers Arsenal and you don’t think we’ll push them.
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Not really, no - but then, I don't believe that any team are year in/year out 'bottlers' , considering that personnel changes all the time.
They've finished runners-up to some brilliant teams.
I don't understand why posters on here refer to arsenal as 'shitting the bed' - including after a draw at Stamford Bridge - yet so easily dismiss the fact that we've just gone through four winnable matches, accumulating just 3 points.

Just my take. I hope I'm proved wrong, of course, but hand-on-heart I can see us dropping quite a few points against teams that arsenal will just boringly, relentlessly bully their way past.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
i disagree, we can’t keep panicking every time we have a few bad results. The club knew we had to rebuild, it might take two or three years or more, but this is, by far, the best run club in the World.
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I agree with that mate. I just think we need someone else to take over from Pep for that period and hopefully beyond.

New faces, new ideas.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Recent or not, that's all history now.

We looked a million miles away from being a great side yesterday, and Pep just looked on cluelessly.

Mid-transition maybe, but Pep's system is tired, his insistence on a small squad, and his continued selection of 'favourites' seems to be burning some players out (as it did with KDB and Gundogan)

Our current squad looks a lot weaker than that inherited by Pep from Manuel Pellegrini.

Our current league position reflects more the poor standard of most teams in the PL this season rather than how 'well' we are playing. That was made abundantly clear yesterday when we were soundly beaten by one of the worst rag sides in memory.

I make no secret that I believe that hat Pep should have left City after winning the CL, 'job done, goodbye'. He is understandably tired and seems to be running out of ideas (or already has). He's unlikely to extend his contract at City for any reason other than money, and as such I suspect that he may go at the end of this season.

We're stale and inconsistent, and need a change. If not tactically by a revitalised Pep, then with a new coach. It doesn't matter if it's someone 'as good' or 'better' than Pep has been (that coach doesn't exist), just someone fresher than he has become.

It's time for change.
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Careful what you wish for....

Judge Pep this season in 4/6 weeks time when the new signings have settled in and we should have some free spaces in the treatment room !
 
Lavinda Past said:
It's not "isn't", it's "aren't".

Whether there are a lot or not makes no difference. The fact is that more and more of the natives are getting restless.

Our football has become increasingly predictable and boring. Predictable and boring when winning is tolerable. Predictable and boring when dropping points, less so.
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Thing is pep goes new manager comes in and we in this position in the league in all competitions what will opinion be then of that scenario? Good or bad
 
Not advocating Pep being replaced but the reluctance to change the tactics even when we had already had two warnings with the high line being breached for the disallowed goals, smacks of arrogance.

It was only a matter of time before we conceded……I would say every City fan watching that knew it was inevitable.

We have had too many games where we don't create even one chance and barely have a shot on target.

A poor City from the Pearce era could always produce a result against the Rags but they would always have a chance or two against us…..we created absolutely nothing !!

We need our creative and innovative Pep back !
 
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bluegaz13 said:
Not advocating Pep being replaced but the reluctance to change the tactics even when we had two warnings with the high line being breached smacks of arrogance.

It was only a matter of time before we conceded……I would say every City fan watching that knew it was inevitable.

We have had too many games where we don't create even one chance and barely have a shot on target.

A poor City from the Pearce era could always produce a result against the Rags but they would always have a chance or two against us…..we created absolutely nothing !!

We need our creative and innovative Pep back !
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He needs to get his squad fully fit and new players all back up to speed! The amount of new players who have left and new come in if anyone thinks we be up winning the league so quickly is mad! Majority had Liverpool winning the league and Arsenal being up there Again as we are.. 12 months from now you should see us play better be more consistent..
 
Lavinda Past said:
It's not "isn't", it's "aren't".

Whether there are a lot or not makes no difference. The fact is that more and more of the natives are getting restless.

Our football has become increasingly predictable and boring. Predictable and boring when winning is tolerable. Predictable and boring when dropping points, less so.
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Can't help feeling that Pep is a victim of his own. success. We are rebuilding, have massive injury problems at the back, but are still second/third in the league, we're in all the cups (probably in the final for one). Beat Arsenal at home and we're still in the title race. What we do have now, is more and more 'entitled' fans, who, rather than back the team through thick and thin, moan and whinge constantly. Yes, yesterday's performance was dog shit but some of our fans have become what we hated about the Rags fans in the 90s.
 
Stones when out he is out for so so long comes back plays 2/3 games If that then out again for months must be serious injury to last last 2/3 years on and off
 
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The PL is controlling the style of the league, taking it back to the dark ages, all to accommodate the rags and dippers.
Pep coming to league was like a breath of fresh air. To me this was the beautiful game. Now for the sake of the money men, we're now being dragged back to the brutish, agricultural trash of the red tops.
 
Franny 1234 said:
If you asked the fans before the match then i agree they expected to get hammered.
Unfortunately the players didn't that's where the problem leys.
Our recent performances mean teams are no longer scared to play against us.
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No their players were certainly up for it. I never commented on that point.
 
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