Yea, in reality if youd asked the majority on here if theyd be happy with where we are right now theyd have taken your hand of. We have progressed under Mourihno, no doubt.
Are you forgetting there was a spare 90mil kicking about for Griezman? Also the board did the right thing with Peresic because he’s barely worth 20mil.
It’s actually in an interview from Le’Equippe with Mbappe and it wasn’t that he hated it it was just that he didn’t think it was the right fit for him.
it's an excuse for losing but it's not the reason we lost - neither would it be if City lost De Bruyne given their strength in dept.
SAF didn't know and hence why he left. SAF could not play him in a league cup match while playing Park and Rafael in the middle. Pogba was ready but SAF thought it was wise to sit him out. Fat lot of good that did us.
Simple as
@Son Of Sam there is more to the interview where he mentions the style of play isn’t best for him, can be interpreted either way but I’m pretty sure he was looking at the way Martial and Rashford were utilised last year and though nah.
Surely the players can be coached better. Isn't that the point of coaching, to get players better than when they have arrived. These little details your speak of are a result of intentional coaching and sometimes rewiring. Every start of the season, our fans are happy to call out some City duds but pretty much all of them has progressively improved over the last 18 months.
I disagree. Without Pogba and Zlatan we are quite far behind them in terms of player quality. The reality is we are at least a season behind City in terms of getting enough quality players in place. Mainly due to the managerial merry-go-round we’ve been on post Fergie and the lack of investmentment in from 2009-2013.
Biggest pile of nonsense is the bold part. He hardly got a look in. And yes, SAF mismanaged Pogba. He could play Rafael in midfield instead of picking up Pogba and it ended up costing us nearly 100 mil pounds.
In short we struggle with being pressed badly but that comes down to us not doing enough on the training ground to overcome it, if players knew the movements and certain patterns would be drilled into them we would not see this happening. Right now as you rightly mentioned our players are not confident on the ball and rather lump it long when pressed because they are devoid of any options as our players are clearly told not to dither around with the ball in our half, those were clear instructions from the manager that is more interested in choosing the passing opportunity that carries least amount of risk instead of taking half of the city's team off by making a couple of more risky moves. Every player taking ages to play the ball because they are unsure of positions of their teammates and their respective movements, we move the ball so slowly making it super easy to impose the high pressing.
People will make excuses saying Pogba was out but we've got a very good squad. You don't need Pogba to compete. If you do then something is going behind the scenes. We either spent the first half panicking or hiding. Manager must take responsibility and do better than this.
Yea, its obvious what player on the market meets the criteria. Whether Jose goes for him in Jan is another story, but the warchest hes be apparently given has enough to entice Arsenals owners to let Ozil go for the right price rather than zero in the summer. That would be a good start.
Compare Pogba being missing to Scholsey retiring... Then coming back. One player can make a huge difference, especially when they are a creative midfielder with amazing vision and killer passing ability.
