What's the problem(s)?

[Damanino]

when it comes to recruitment Txiki was on his way to sign Jorginho, Fred, Maguire, alexis...

Nobody was there to save us from Rodri, Mahrez, Cancelo, 180m pounds...
And I am not sayng these are horrible players but are we sure spending 180m on players should only get us as stronger as Rodri/Cancelo/Mahrez did?
Allison/Van Dijk combined fee of 140m, two players but look at how much they improved them? they signed them and went to win CL, then finish on 97 points then win the league after 30 years with nearly 100 points.
those two signings gave them so much power and confidence for defence and whole team and also huge number of great performances of course.

Cancelo who is not more capable of replacing Walker than Danilo was, Mahrez who is not a perfect fit for the way we play, and Rodri who happens to be compared to an ultimate workhorse Fernandinho whose hard work and defensive performance was crucial in all of our great successes since Pellegrini.
Rodri coming from a defensive Atletico side where Simeone has complete different mindset, he is happy to have 30% possession but win games 1-0, and Rodri always had wingers tracking back, defence was not high line of course, attackers tracking back helping midfield.
At City he has so much harder job its unreal. And this is quicker league, while he is just not fast enough.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

At the moment our football just seems somewhat chaotic.

We're good for a short period, then fall apart.

When we fall apart, there's no leadership, players suddenly look disorganised and unfit and cannot maintain the intensity.

No pre-season obviously hasn't helped. But it just seems more than that. Something just seems off, something not right.

 

[bluwes]

2. Txiki
3. Pep


Edited to cut to the chase

So your response to resolve our issues (after 3 games ) is

 

[wythenshaweblue£££]

WE just don’t take out chances we should of been out of sight in the first 20 minutes. Not panicking though some people are having full on meltdowns on here.

 

[I'm Blue]

We’ve become lazy.
We know longer press like we used to, pass and move like we used to.
We can no longer work hard for 90 minutes, seems the most we can manage is 20 minutes at the beginning of the game and a 10 minute spell at the end.
This team looks worlds apart from the one 18 months ago.

 

[cityboy1]

Think the best teams are now pace and power, we are slow and small

laporte, diaz, ake, mendy, walker, rodri, kdb and torres are hardly small were not the biggest of teams but were not small either. Slow ill give you mainly in midfield at times.

 

[TFC]

We’ve become lazy.
We know longer press like we used to, pass and move like we used to.
We can no longer work hard for 90 minutes, seems the most we can manage is 20 minutes at the beginning of the game and a 10 minute spell at the end.
This team looks worlds apart from the one 18 months ago.

This sums it up nicely.

 

[Tevez City]

 

[hilts]

So your response to resolve our issues (after 41 league games+ cl games ) is

Edited for accuracy and to avoid a common deflection tactic

 

[hilts]

Awkward