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[chiswick blue]

My point is he may not be able to turn it around in his own mind. Anyway we will find out soon.

Pep is clearly struggling and under self imposed stress due to his very high winning standards. He’ll come through this as will the fans and club, fix one thing at a time and develop realistic plans for when we can see improvements in what areas. A remediation plan needs the small things to go right one element at a time to build a much larger change, when the initial improvements are made and plans look to be working then mood changes can be transformational.

The current situation is almost impossible to improve so it’s just a case of riding the storm

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Are you claiming the last 18 months of recruitment hasn't been poor?

No, I’m claiming that some forget that the same people were in charge of bringing us glory.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

No, I’m claiming that some forget that the same people were in charge of bringing us glory.

They were but since Haaland there has been a clear shift in the quality of player we look to buy.

 

[Sid C]

I can handle defeats and I’ve seen enough over the years but getting home and seeing Walker go down like a bag of shit has really really pissed me off. He’s the fucking Captain!! Get rid ASAP

 

[Palerider]

This slow and ponderous and build up play against a wall of 8 or 10 players is clearly not working anymore and Pep needs a completely new way of playing to break this run of poor results. Nothing else will change it. Haaland looks uninterested and fed up and will want out if this continues. Imagine him in this young vibrant Chelsea team, he would be loving it and racking up the goals.

I've thought the same. The number of times that Nicolas Jackson is freed up to run in on goal is impressive. Now Jackson is a really good player but can you imagine if they replace Jackson with Haaland and he is running free at the goal? If we want to keep Haaland then we need to find a way to weaponise him. Pep may need to switch to a higher risk strategy that allows the other side more of the ball which in turn means they will attack more which in turn means there is more space for Haaland to operate.

 

[argyle]

I can handle defeats and I’ve seen enough over the years but getting home and seeing Walker go down like a bag of shit has really really pissed me off. He’s the fucking Captain!! Get rid ASAP

It was stupid, but players dive and feign injury all the time.

A player threw himself to the floor and got Rodri sent off last season but Walker has had more abuse on here tonight than him.

 

[Streetsweeper]

Double header with Steve Coppell and a shout out to John Benson?

Benson? Great, that’s years of therapy disappearing round the u-bend.

 

[Blue tiger]

I can handle defeats and I’ve seen enough over the years but getting home and seeing Walker go down like a bag of shit has really really pissed me off. He’s the fucking Captain!! Get rid ASAP

Walkers pathetic play acting is as embarrassing as the result today. The guy has obviously been a big part of the greatest City team ever and for that im grateful, but I wouldn't be sad if he never wore the shirt again.

 

[Shirley]

Big test for Pep. The game has moved on and just trying to recreate another version of this City will probably not work. Wenger tried that at Arsenal and he and they just went steadily downhill so it's certainly not easy for a 'great' to reinvent themselves and adapt their thinking to a blank sheet and start again. We will see.

Interestingly, Arsenal have three ex City players (Jesus, Sterling and Zinchenko) and all look to have regressed since leaving City. So maybe the way City play is just mentally and physically exhausting. Remember Rodri complaining about the number of games last year?

Maybe, as others have said, we need a much larger squad so that burn out is avoided. We have 16 players earning more than £100,000 a week with 9 earning more than £200,000 a week! Bournemouth, who could overtake us in the League tomorrow, have 1 player earning £150,000 and the rest less than £100,000! So maybe, now that we are pretty much established as a top team we could attract really good players on 'realistic' sustainable wages? For instance, Antonee Robinson, Fulhams left back is on £50,000! Brentford's Brian Mbeumo is on £50,000. Matheus Cunha of Wolves is on £50,000. Now of course they would expect more at City and transfer fees are needed but all tree are good enough to get into the City squad without paying elite level wages.

Bournemouth barely break 10,000 crowds so they can’t justify higher salaries unless they’re winning trophies.

 

[RayCTID]

We aren't going like Kyle Walker's antics but that is part and parcel of modern football and there isn't a single club who will not try that to gain an advantage. I am cutting him slack because we don't have any alternatives for season. We aren't going pluck out another RB from thin air.