Which players are no longer good enough?

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

be hard to get rid of some with the contracts they are on. Who the fuck would want Kolorov with the wages he will be on. That's going to be a costly loan spell for us to get rid of him

 

[brian the blue]

Bony
Sterling
Delph
Yaya Toure (don't mean to offend him by putting him with such trash players but he's finished with us now)
Fernando
Kolarov
Zabaleta (same as with toure, a legend who has declined rapidly)
Navas
Demichelis

All of the above need to be shipped out immediately.

Only one I'd be tempted to keep is Navas as he can offer a lot to the team in terms of work rate and ability on the ball under pressure but ultimately he is no way near clinical enough.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Bony
Sterling
Delph
Yaya Toure (don't mean to offend him by putting him with such trash players but he's finished with us now)
Fernando
Kolarov
Zabaleta (same as with toure, a legend who has declined rapidly)
Navas
Demichelis

All of the above need to be shipped out immediately.

Only one I'd be tempted to keep is Navas as he can offer a lot to the team in terms of work rate and ability on the ball under pressure but ultimately he is no way near clinical enough.

Agreed

 

[george22]

Agreed

+2

 

[lazerblue]

Delph found his level at villa, he's way out of his depth playing for us

 

[Armaan]

Bingo, you hit the nail on the head just right there.
We are looking at replacing almost half of our entire squad.
He spend serious money over time on dross signing such as Sinclair, Rodwell, Bony, Garcia, Savic, Fernando, Jovetic, etc... and kept going on.
While we should have promoted youngsters from the EDS and made one or two big key signing per year.

I agree. When you compare our squad to let's say Liverpool or Spurs would you say our squads comfortably better? I woukdnt.

 

[Cityfan]

I agree. When you compare our squad to let's say Liverpool or Spurs would you say our squads comfortably better? I woukdnt.

I'd say we are a fair bit better than Liverpool in squad strength and quality. Spurs are a different team alltogether than Liverpool and although I think we have a marginally better squad in quality theirs is younger and improving quickly, and a lot less injury prone.

 

[@BluePhil8]

Not good enough: Bony, Demichellis (sad that Martin has deteriorated so quickly).

Too old to play with the intensity required by Pep: Yaya, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Clichy, Sagna.

Questionable: Willy. Has won some good will after his cup final heroics but it'd be good to have a younger ball playing back up keeper.

I'm happy for Hart, Kompany, Mangala, Otamendi, Denayer, Delph, Fernandinho, Fernando, Silva, Nasri, Navas, Sterling, De Bruyne and Aguero to be in the squad next year.

It seems like Gundogan is in the bag and he will be a huge signing.

I'd take Jovetic back if Inter don't want him. Pep could get a tune out of him and he has more technical ability in his injured little toe than Bony does.

 

[ZZmaestro]

I agree. When you compare our squad to let's say Liverpool or Spurs would you say our squads comfortably better? I woukdnt.

I would say we have still a slight edge on the whole league, but it is not what it's used to be during the 2011/2012 season.
For me, that was us at our highest strength, i get goosebumps just remembering teams dreading to come play at " Fortress Etihad ", but it was a long time ago in a footballing galaxy far away...

Honestly, when injury free and on song, our actual strongest eleven can batter close to any team in Europe :
Hart- Sagna - Kompany - Otamendy - Clichy - Fernh - Yaya - Nasri - Kdb - Silva - Aguero
Problem is our bench lost significant strength year after year after year, to the point that you just can't bare the loss in quality from subbing Kun for Bony,
or Fernh for whoever you want to field.

 

[geoff clipp]

All of our fullbacks, Fernando, Delph, Toure, Bony. All either past their best or never quite good enough in the first place.

Navas a decent squad player but shouldn't be in our first 11.

Jury still out on Mangala, Otamendi, Sterling but I'm starting to get a bit worried.

Kompany - who knows what to expect from him next season.

Silva - in decline, but it's unclear how much as his injury problems this year haven't helped. Would be foolish to rely on him being the difference in the future though.

Theres so much work to do over the summer. For now we absolutely have to finish fourth and I would still prioritise that above anything else for the rest of this season.