What are your unpopular opinions on City that you believe 100%?

[GoatersLeftShin]

Points 5 and 6 defeat your whole argument.

Clichy was average at best and never a Pep player for me, Goat a legend but 40 goals, please.

At least they are unpopular opinions! :)

Clichy wasn't world class, but he's still a better defender than the rest who came after him in my opinion. We've never really "replaced" him.

As for the Goat, he had a knack of scoring very simple goals. Off his ankles, knees or even left shin :) I'd love us to sign someone like him who couldn't pass, dribble, tackle etc. The only thing he could do was score goals! He'd definitely get a hatful for us :)

 

[Whitefield Blue]

Nicky Weaver’s so called unbelievable performance at home v Ipswich wasn’t anything special. Two saves at the end of the game which any competent keeper would’ve made.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Points 5 and 6 defeat your whole argument.

Clichy was average at best and never a Pep player for me, Goat a legend but 40 goals, please.

No player we’ve had who’s played a part in any title winning team is anywhere near average. Delph wasn’t average, Zinchenko isn’t average, Clichy was definitely miles above average.

 

[Keeper!]

No player we’ve had who’s played a part in any title winning team is anywhere near average. Delph wasn’t average, Zinchenko isn’t average, Clichy was definitely miles above average.

Delph WHEN fit was a very good footballer, sadly his career has been destroyed by injuries.
Clichy was a very decent premier league player , nothing more and nothing less, ANY player that plays regularly in this league is well above an average player.
Zinchenko, not sure why you mention him, a class act on and off the field, a dream man to have in any top squad.

 

[mccity]

My current unpopular opinion is that Laporte is far better than he's given credit for. He's probably the one player where people literally only focus on the negatives instead of any of the many positives he has.

 

[mrcakey]

My current unpopular opinion is that Laporte is far better than he's given credit for. He's probably the one player where people literally only focus on the negatives instead of any of the many positives he has.

I see your Laporte and raise you a Sterling.

 

[Whitefield Blue]

Peter Schmeichel was only marginally better than Seaman during his year at City. Understandably slow to get down to anything low due to his age and a myth has since grown (due to one very good save at Liverpool) that he was really good for us.

 

[Whitefield Blue]

Berkovic was better than Benarbia.

 

[Corky]

Richard Edgehill was a better prospect than Paul Lake at the same age, both had a similar injury after being included in England squads, one got abuse for coming back not quite as good, the one who never really came back is made out to be a superstar.

 

[youngbob]

6. Clichy was the best left back we've had for something like 30+ years and we've not replaced him

Agreed. Age and injuries caught up with him in the end and we had to sell him when we did, but from the moment we signed him he was comfortably the better option out of him and Kolarov. I'd argue that what Pep now demands of his full-backs might have been beyond his skillset but for, what, £8m (?) he was an absolute steal. He was comfortably the best left-back we'd had at the club for years (to be fair, he didn't have much competition there) and of all the left-backs who've gone through our doors since Shinawatra took over - Garrido, Ball, Bridge, Kolarov, Mendy, Delph, Cancelo - I'd say he was the best of them.