please, a striker who can pose a threat from set pieces
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- Thread starter FantasyIreland
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please, a striker who can pose a threat from set pieces
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If 15 months isn’t long enough what is the exact time frame in your book? 17 months? 24? How about his methods in Europe is 100 months enough?
Injuries? ageing legends? Did he not see certain players injury records or their birth certificates?
How many teams last season and this and how many in Europe for 4 seasons that we have lost to have had better teams?
Answer these honestly and without emotional attachment and the problem becomes a lot clearer.
If he stays and adapts that’s fine just decide now. If he stays and doesn’t adapt I think it’s a mistake.
If you can read carefully and understand what I've written in this thread, you may found the answers you are looking for.
In any case, one must be really really daft to think that Pep's understanding of the game has become the problem at the club.
Similar "wait and see" comments were made by posters after last seasons indifferent start. Fans are sceptical at the moment and rightly so. That drubbing from Leicester was shocking, and that's putting it mildly. The teams mindset of 2 seasons ago needs to return. If not, goodbye PL title.Trajectory after 3 games lol. The trajectory was informed by injury and a Covid Summer. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this squad. Wait and see.
hilts
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If you can read carefully and understand what I've written in this thread, you may found the answers you are looking for.
In any case, one must be really really daft to think that Pep's understanding of the game has become the problem at the club.
I have results and performances as my guide you have err well nothing really just blind faith I guess which is fine. Its a discussion only. We have had these debates with pellegrini,Mancini and even Hughes(yes some were calling fans knee jerk with him too would you believe)
Anyhow the end result for all 3 was the same. Maybe it will be different this time if he can be arsed staying that is.
Let’s hope Peps continuous bad lack from last year and this and in Europe(since... it’s been that long I can’t remember) comes to an end.
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The main problems are:
1. No natural finishers up top when Agüero is out. We miss FAR too many chances, FAR too many sitters and FAR too many 1v1s
2. We’ve started (in the last 12 months) sloppily giving the ball away up high FAR too often and the determination to win the ball back is none existent
3. We’ve got too many slow midfielders.
The problem isn’t Pep and that he’s been “found out”, because we create the most chances in Europe. We’re creating as many chances as Vilanova’s Barça did, only thing is they put their chances away and outscore this City by a good 20 goals a season and their front three were scoring 35, 35 and 53.
We start getting excited because Sterling scored 30 goals in all comps last season. We should all, and so should he, be extremely disappointed with that! He plays the most minutes in the team and gets the most chances. In a team that creates what we do with the minutes Sterling plays, 30 goals is inadequate. And the big chances he misses (absolute sitter right in front of goal to get us back in the FAC semi against Arsenal, mis-hit wide; open net to make it 2-2 against Lyon, dinked over the bar because he used his wrong foot; 1v1 with the ’keeper to win the game for us yesterday, I can recall one goal he’s scored 1v1 with a ’keeper... to name but a few recent ones) are unforgivable.
You could replace all of our forwards (bar Agüero) with better players and they’d score a fucking shit load for us!
Jesus scuffs every other shot he ever hits, some of the scuffs go in, far too many don’t.
Plus the meek way Mahrez loses the ball is infuriating. I’ve seen slugs with more energy than him.
The problem is not the defence. I repeat; the problem is NOT the defence!
We could play the greatest back four in the history of football but when our front players give the ball away and prance about pretending to make an effort to win it back like they’ve started doing in the last year, as well as the opposition then easily being able to play past or around or bypass Rodri or Gundogan or both of them because they’re so slow; any defenders you could name will be left isolated or have balls played in behind them like ours do now, and be shown up.
All of our problems are ahead of the defence.
1. No natural finishers up top when Agüero is out. We miss FAR too many chances, FAR too many sitters and FAR too many 1v1s
2. We’ve started (in the last 12 months) sloppily giving the ball away up high FAR too often and the determination to win the ball back is none existent
3. We’ve got too many slow midfielders.
The problem isn’t Pep and that he’s been “found out”, because we create the most chances in Europe. We’re creating as many chances as Vilanova’s Barça did, only thing is they put their chances away and outscore this City by a good 20 goals a season and their front three were scoring 35, 35 and 53.
We start getting excited because Sterling scored 30 goals in all comps last season. We should all, and so should he, be extremely disappointed with that! He plays the most minutes in the team and gets the most chances. In a team that creates what we do with the minutes Sterling plays, 30 goals is inadequate. And the big chances he misses (absolute sitter right in front of goal to get us back in the FAC semi against Arsenal, mis-hit wide; open net to make it 2-2 against Lyon, dinked over the bar because he used his wrong foot; 1v1 with the ’keeper to win the game for us yesterday, I can recall one goal he’s scored 1v1 with a ’keeper... to name but a few recent ones) are unforgivable.
You could replace all of our forwards (bar Agüero) with better players and they’d score a fucking shit load for us!
Jesus scuffs every other shot he ever hits, some of the scuffs go in, far too many don’t.
Plus the meek way Mahrez loses the ball is infuriating. I’ve seen slugs with more energy than him.
The problem is not the defence. I repeat; the problem is NOT the defence!
We could play the greatest back four in the history of football but when our front players give the ball away and prance about pretending to make an effort to win it back like they’ve started doing in the last year, as well as the opposition then easily being able to play past or around or bypass Rodri or Gundogan or both of them because they’re so slow; any defenders you could name will be left isolated or have balls played in behind them like ours do now, and be shown up.
All of our problems are ahead of the defence.
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hilts
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Similar "wait and see" comments were made by posters after last seasons indifferent start. Fans are sceptical at the moment and rightly so. That drubbing from Leicester was shocking, and that's putting it mildly. The teams mindset of 2 seasons ago needs to return. If not, goodbye PL title.
It’s the bluemoon way say it early knee jerk say it late it’s hindsight. I think the general attitude is make excuses that don’t involve criticism of the manager or dof.
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Similar "wait and see" comments were made by posters after last seasons indifferent start. Fans are sceptical at the moment and rightly so. That drubbing from Leicester was shocking, and that's putting it mildly. The teams mindset of 2 seasons ago needs to return. If not, goodbye PL title.
The fear factor we once had has now gone. Teams used to be petrified of us as we could easily put 5/6 goals past them. Now teams know how wasteful we are which encourages them to attack us.
For all the shit our defence get, our forward line is just as bad.
He will take the current circumstances in to consideration. And it will be above your expectations too.What about our owner and his expectations, it will be clearly far greater than yours!
For me:
1) We haven't adjusted to the change that's started to happen in football. Bigger, stronger players who can play with the ball. I think our attack looks very very lightweight.
2) Left back and defensive mid.
3) We don't look fit enough to sustain constant pressure for 90mins anymore.
1) We haven't adjusted to the change that's started to happen in football. Bigger, stronger players who can play with the ball. I think our attack looks very very lightweight.
2) Left back and defensive mid.
3) We don't look fit enough to sustain constant pressure for 90mins anymore.