For me its the midfield. Remember when Bobby was playing Barry, Nigel and yaya there and he got slated at first for playing 3 defensive midfielders? That's what we need now . 2 in midfield doesn't work now but pellegrini is to stubborn to change it
This. And for the second year in a row too, you'd think he'd learn.Injuries leaving a threadbare squad with little chance to recover physically between games. The only big error was starting the season without replacing the strikers we sold leaving us woefully short of cover.
One Half Fit quality striker and a kid is just not enough
We would do well to realise the "Best squad myth", Apart from attacking midfield and GK, we lack in every area,
get a gripfuck me, thats a lot of words.
The short version:
Shit Manager.
Laughable that the manager is copping all the flack for that performance, people need to look at the underlying causes more closely.
We have no coherent plan regarding our transfer policy except to throw obscene amounts of money around on fees for average players most of the time. Some may complain about a 'City tax' but do we really need to be forking out amounts nearing 30 million and 50 million for an immobile striker and Aaron Lennon's long lost twin? We also pay ridiculous wages to these players which makes it rather hard to move them on when the time comes.
Now, is this recruitment policy solely down to the manager or should fingers be pointed elsewhere? Our director of football seems to get off scot free in these discussions with some vehemently defending our transfer policy after the evidence points in the other direction.
You can reel off name after name that we've bought since the summer after we won the league under Mancini in which we've over paid for average dross and this is where the problem lies. Could you imagine having to sell Bony - which we will try to do this summer - we'll have to pay his contract up and let him go for around 10 million which means we probably won't get a penny back for him. Same for Fernando, Mangala and I'd put Sterling in that bracket too.
You can talk about tactics and motivation all day with justification but the simple fact is we have bought badly ever since Mancini asked for De Rossi, Van Perise and Hazard and ended up with Rodwell, Garcia and Scott Sinclair.
It’s really turning me off the club at present, just these fucking transfer circuses every summer in which we’re fleeced and exposed.
Your ire should be directed elsewhere.
Unfortunately we got 'forced' to buy English players to meet specific quotas. I don't think that Delph's fee was excessive but Raheem's was way over the top.
There were probably more English players available in summer but not deemed 'suitable' for our 'elite' squad so we just ignored them - how are they performing with their respective clubs now?
One of the problems to my mind is the relentless 'loaning' of our youngsters and this has been shown up with Martin's decline, a stupid policy.