What if we just went with Delap, Jesus, and Torres?

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wagonman said:
I believe we'll do fine this season.

Blue Mooning bed wetters, with their knickers in a twist, don't seem to realise just how good we are.

"We must have a striker, we must have a striker... we haven't bought a striker, we must have a striker, we're doomed."

What a load of old smelly bollocks.

Just give your heads a good wobble, get to the matches or turn the telly on and watch our City play magnificent and entertaining football and thank your lucky stars you are not Burnley or West Brom supporters.

JJ
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i agree with that also, but just feel that as teams like Chelsea have strengthened and look useful, Liverpool have got players back so they will be a pain again, and not even going to mention the unclean and their unknown quantity, and a recognised striker who can just convert some of the chances we have been wasting would be a small edge in what will be a tough old season on all fronts
 
If Torres gets to play his fair share of games and is played up front I can see him getting 15 league goals maybe 20.

Grealish gives us another dimension too so although a top top striker would’ve been nice there’s no reason we shouldn’t be even more potent in attack than last season.
 
chaddblue said:
Why won't it?

I said months ago that in my opinion signing a top striker will be the difference between us potentially winning everything or nothing
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I’m not talking about winning everything, but if we finish 4th it’ll mean the 10 other players will have dropped form hugely from last season, not because of whoever plays as a 9 or false whatever.
 
Pablo1 said:
Not sure Pep has to prove himself as a coach either at this stage so being hamstrung with a lack of signings in positions that need filling whilst our main rivals strive to improve seems like an unnecessary course of action..
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...it was the course of action that the club took :(
 
Zinchilla said:
I’m not talking about winning everything, but if we finish 4th it’ll mean the 10 other players will have dropped form hugely from last season, not because of whoever plays as a 9 or false whatever.
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Or it means we maintain the same quality but 2 or 3 other teams significantly improve
 
argyle said:
I admire peoples optimism but last season we started completely shit and only started doing well when the toll of playing every 3 days started to effect other teams.

Peps squad management won us the league last season.

Do u think with a normal fixture list that we'll do the same without a striker?

Guess we'll know around Christmas/January time.
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We have a striker. People think we need more, or at least another, one, and while I share that sentiment, we have multiple options…plus the new one of Liam Delap!

Glass is not only half full, it’s 80% full.
 
chaddblue said:
Or it means we maintain the same quality but 2 or 3 other teams significantly improve
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I’m sure other teams will improve, Chelsea the obvious one, Liverpool will have a better season, but we still have a strong squad, for us to drop to 4th is a massive shift of what 20 points. I know the gap may not be as big this season, but we haven’t suddenly become a weaker team compared to last season. I think we’re better for the addition of Grealish and more experience for Torres and the younger players.
 
sky_blue said:
Just to clarify, you think the attack won us the league last season despite us having the best defence (least goals, most clean sheets)?
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I think we pissed the league because we had the best of both.

I'm just not one of those people pretending the top scoring club in the country has a goalscoring issue.
 
dont really know Delap will feature a significant amount of time or not. he got a bit hype going in early on the season (where is Delap, is he starting etc) but never actually played for us after September 2020 despite Kun being off for long having 2 games every single week nearly.
he played 39 minutes of PL football in the 5-2 Leicester loss and 1 Carabao game where he scored in early round and that was it really iin the first team.

false 9 does not favour his chances imo for selection. hopefully he gets more time this season.
 
wagonman said:
I believe we'll do fine this season.

Blue Mooning bed wetters, with their knickers in a twist, don't seem to realise just how good we are.

"We must have a striker, we must have a striker... we haven't bought a striker, we must have a striker, we're doomed."

What a load of old smelly bollocks.

Just give your heads a good wobble, get to the matches or turn the telly on and watch our City play magnificent and entertaining football and thank your lucky stars you are not Burnley or West Brom supporters.

JJ
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I second this, all day long
 
If we could rotate them and also with Kayky arriving this week now not January and going straight into the first team squad, then I woyld be happy to see them fully tried out as out striking choices.

Even if it meant no trophies but a top 3 finish and these players become better and ready for th eseason after, I could live with than happily
 
domalino said:
I think we pissed the league because we had the best of both.

I'm just not one of those people pretending the top scoring club in the country has a goalscoring issue.
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We scored a lot of goals because Pep found a brilliant system with CMs/wingers playing as false 9.

There are some people who believe that since Pep found the solution to our goalscoring problems (and there were problems prior to the West Brom game in December), he can do it again - whether it's by playing the same system (false 9) or by inventing a new system.

This is seen as a stop-gap solution by some other people to manage our underlying goalscoring issues in the short term. This group of people doesn't believe that it's something that can be easily replicated twice.
 
alexmcity said:
What if....Well, we may win the league again, who knows?

Thing is, Aguero contributed next to nothing last season. Sterling had his worst season since 16/17 and Jesus since 17/18. Even Kevin wasn't at his very best.

Now, if Grealish comes good and Foden flourishes, and if Sterling, Jesus and Kevin return to the level they had before 20/21, then we may do better than expected. Some players may surprise us and score many goals. Or perhaps not, nobody really knows. Living with uncertaintly is part of what it is to be a fan. Keep an open mind and hope for the best. Most importantly, get behind the team.
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i agree with a lot of what you’re saying but that’s a lot of ifs & mays….I don’t doubt the ability of our squad, but all the speculation surrounding Messi Kane or Ronaldo coming has got to be disruptive, I know they are paid professionals but this will have an effect, let’s hope it’s a positive one! We really need a big season from Kev
 
sky_blue said:
We scored a lot of goals because Pep found a brilliant system with CMs/wingers playing as false 9.

There are some people who believe that since Pep found the solution to our goalscoring problems (and there were problems prior to the West Brom game in December), he can do it again - whether it's by playing the same system (false 9) or by inventing a new system.

This is seen as a stop-gap solution by some other people to manage our underlying goalscoring issues in the short term. This group of people doesn't believe that it's something that can be easily replicated twice.
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There's this odd premise at the heart of your comment which is that we are starting from zero again. "Replicated twice" is a weird way of saying keep playing the system we have for the last 10 months with incredible results.

28 games with it so far and 2.57 goals per game. Its not slowing down.

Pep didn't invent anything last season, he reverted to a system he's used for over a decade when it suits the squad he has. Aguero and Jesus were injured so it suited the squad so he used it. There is nothing stop gap about it.

"Underlying goalscoring issues" what are those exactly? Is it being top scorers 4 seasons in a row? Is it having goals from almost every postion on the pitch?

Or is it just trying to sound smart when you mean "occasionally we don't score" which is true for every team in history no matter how many strikers they have?

We scored in 36/38 games last season. 34 in 19/20, 36 in 18/19 and 36 in 17/18.

So I'm really struggling to work out what "underlying goalscoring problems" actually means as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with scoring goals.
 
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