Women's Team - 2021/22

[mat]

I thought City should have snapped up Casey Stoney when she left United, she was very impressive tactically and able to motivate her players.

She couldn't stop slagging us off as a rag and TV/Radio pundit, so she can get fucked.

 

[HelloCity]

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

View attachment 25988NYCFC Results past few years. They are getting closer, MLS is very difficult division to win. They still don't even have their own stadium ffs.

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Womens team past few years. Chelsea and Lyon are very strong, its tough to keep your best players in the womens game. Consistently challenging is very impressive.

Girona have been in the La Liga since we took over, the first time in their history and they are a very small team who just struggled in their second season and got relegated.

I am not sure what is half-hearted there.

I note you didn't mention Melbourne City who won the premier league last year? and the Melbourne City Women are the most successful team in Australia since 2015.

How about Montevideo and Yokohama F. Marinos who won the league in 2019?

Mumbai City who won the league last year?

New York City should be the #1 club in the MLS, there's no star branding or real breakthrough in that market and we should have got them a new stadium by now.

Melbourne finally won something after many years of failed attempts, again bigger investment could have brought them a much better squad much quicker.

City women, again a huge opportunity to be the dominant English side like Lyon were in France and instead we gave Chelsea the mantle and have now pissed about in 2nd and let the Rags gain a foothold in the sport rather than be the British side in the competition. We've given Gareth the job instead of demonstrate where we'll take the game by bringing people in far above anything else in this country in terms of coaching etc.

Girona are back unable to get out of the Segunda Division when they should be a mid-table La Liga side signing up the best young European, particularly Spanish talent, that drops outside the branches of Barca, Real and Atletico.

We're doing it on the cheap and we're half baked with intermittent success across the board, as opposed to utter ruthless investment and domination. Then again, the club can't even treat the fans right or buy a striker when promised so it's unsurprising. Lots of talk, little walk.

 

[domalino]

I don't get the point of the CFG if we aren't going to treat every team as their only purpose as being the best they can be. The Women's team comes across as an afterthought because we give the job to one of the boys instead of paying to have the best coaching team possible and the best squad within the salary cap possible with the best academy talent. Same with Girona, same with New York etc. Either put your money where your mouth is or get off the pot. Sick of half-hearted effort at board level at this club.

They obviously aren't serious about the womens game.

It would take 1 or 2% of CFG revenue to make them the best side in the world and pick up a ton of trophies as Lyon and Wolfsburg have done, and Barcelona seem set to for the foreseeable.

Always felt like its such an obvious place to grow the brand of the club, as womens football is only getting more and more exposure.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

New York City should be the #1 club in the MLS, there's no star branding or real breakthrough in that market and we should have got them a new stadium by now.

Melbourne finally won something after many years of failed attempts, again bigger investment could have brought them a much better squad much quicker.

City women, again a huge opportunity to be the dominant English side like Lyon were in France and instead we gave Chelsea the mantle and have now pissed about in 2nd and let the Rags gain a foothold in the sport rather than be the British side in the competition. We've given Gareth the job instead of demonstrate where we'll take the game by bringing people in far above anything else in this country in terms of coaching etc.

Girona are back unable to get out of the Segunda Division when they should be a mid-table La Liga side signing up the best young European, particularly Spanish talent, that drops outside the branches of Barca, Real and Atletico.

We're doing it on the cheap and we're half baked with intermittent success across the board, as opposed to utter ruthless investment and domination. Then again, the club can't even treat the fans right or buy a striker when promised so it's unsurprising. Lots of talk, little walk.

Sack the board!

:-)

 

[domalino]

View attachment 25988NYCFC Results past few years. They are getting closer, MLS is very difficult division to win. They still don't even have their own stadium ffs.

View attachment 25989
Womens team past few years. Chelsea and Lyon are very strong, its tough to keep your best players in the womens game. Consistently challenging is very impressive.

Girona have been in the La Liga since we took over, the first time in their history and they are a very small team who just struggled in their second season and got relegated.

I am not sure what is half-hearted there.

I note you didn't mention Melbourne City who won the premier league last year? and the Melbourne City Women are the most successful team in Australia since 2015.

How about Montevideo and Yokohama F. Marinos who won the league in 2019?

Mumbai City who won the league last year?

Is winning the league once in 7 years "very impressive"?

 

[HelloCity]

New York City should be the #1 club in the MLS, there's no star branding or real breakthrough in that market and we should have got them a new stadium by now.

Melbourne finally won something after many years of failed attempts, again bigger investment could have brought them a much better squad much quicker.

City women, again a huge opportunity to be the dominant English side like Lyon were in France and instead we gave Chelsea the mantle and have now pissed about in 2nd and let the Rags gain a foothold in the sport rather than be the British side in the competition. We've given Gareth the job instead of demonstrate where we'll take the game by bringing people in far above anything else in this country in terms of coaching etc.

Girona are back unable to get out of the Segunda Division when they should be a mid-table La Liga side signing up the best young European, particularly Spanish talent, that drops outside the branches of Barca, Real and Atletico.

We're doing it on the cheap and we're half baked with intermittent success across the board, as opposed to utter ruthless investment and domination. Then again, the club can't even treat the fans right or buy a striker when promised so it's unsurprising. Lots of talk, little walk.

Good grief

 

[cleavers]

Just 1 change to the starting line-up from the weekend with Hemp replacing Beckie.

It looked like we'd made 11 changes to the team from the weekend and played 11 imposters, that was truly woeful.

 

[dadnlad]

big Phil should be available soon enough to save us

 

[born2bblu]

Yesterday I was watching the highlights of the first City vs. United women derby on the Club website. It is striking how the quality of the players improved, yet coaching significantly declined. Cushing was doing a much better job with lower quality players.

The question: do City hierarchy consider women football a matter of PR publicity or a serious business? If it is a serious business, then get the best coach who can work with the gifted players we have now. As mentioned before, Jill Ellis is an excellent coach. Pea Sundhage is another excellent coach with tons of experience, and I won’t be surprised if she quit coaching Brazil to coach City in the WSL. I am sure there are others who are much better fit than limited Taylor.

Also, teams should play according to their skills and abilities, and not according to “a general plan.” Women team should quit playing from the back because current players, despite being skilled and gifted, are not at their best playing from the back. Or, alternatively, ask Guardiola to coach the women team and let us see how it will work. He will gradually replace several players with others who have the skills to play from the back, as he did with the men’s team. The current players and Taylor are not suitable for the “playing from the back” strategy.

On a different note, I agree that it is enough with recruiting American players. Not only the most recent experiment with the 3 players who joined last summer failed, but, in my opinion, this idea was underwhelming starting with the first player, Carli Lloyd. The team was good enough to win the FA cup with or without her. City shouldn’t recruit American players just for PR purposes.