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Thus says Kemo
To simply regain his confidence by playing disasterless games. For unlike at City he he being picked.Why are you hoping for him?
To simply regain his confidence by playing disasterless games. For unlike at City he he being picked.Why are you hoping for him?
Mason Holgate is having a shocker at Sheffield United too after joining in JanuaryIs this the worst start to a career of any established players ?
Game 1 - at fault for one goal
Game 2 - at fault for one goal
Game 3 - sent off
Not counting Arsenal when he came on as a 90th minute sub
This is worse than Taibi - who at least had one good game against Liverpool (even if he was at fault for one goal)
Is this the worst start to a career of any established players ?
Game 1 - at fault for one goal
Game 2 - at fault for one goal
Game 3 - sent off
Not counting Arsenal when he came on as a 90th minute sub
This is worse than Taibi - who at least had one good game against Liverpool (even if he was at fault for one goal)
I do worry a bit for his mental health.Since the euros it's been quite a sad career fall for him.
Yorkshire Pirlo they said.
Yorkshire pudding perhaps.Yorkshire Pirlo they said.
Shit you said it first.More like Yorkshire pudding
Have you got @One Night Only on ignore?Yorkshire pudding perhaps.
He didn't have the talent.It’s reached the point where as a foreigner wed be told he doesn’t care isn’t giving 100% and is impacting the desssing room
I saw it after, I replied to him.Have you got @One Night Only on ignore?
I think city are in the position to be pissed.He should sue Pep and City for whatever he can think of. He will be back at Leeds on 20k pw next year.
He should sue Pep and City for whatever he can think of. He will be back at Leeds on 20k pw next year.
Yep. Bielsa is a magician.Championship level player that Bielsa got a tune out of on a high level. Worst player I have seen at City since the financial doping started
According to Leeds fans I know, he weren't very good in the Championship before Bielsa either but then again Leeds weren't very good as a whole
I think his fitness at Leeds was a big part of his game under Bielsa. It allowed him to get about and cover ground. He is a decent passer and the combination allowed him to influence games.
Not having that level of fitness, or indeed even match fitness, has absolutely killed him. Big moves and big money are never guaranteed to you can understand why players secure their bag when the offer comes but it really was a terrible transfer for him.
If he had gone to Liverpool and gotten his inhaler, he would be starting for England in the Euros.
It all started with those shoes:
He's a treble winner. Great signing.Another City transfer that nobody bats an eyelid about.
West ham has been a disaster for him, but which club wouldn't?Lots has gone on for him and I think it's disrupted him a lot as a footballer. He had a career apex where he got himself into the England xi and the mega money move to City; probably at the point where he got there, he realised he wasn't good enough to play at the club, compounded by Pep's treatment, he mentally checked out. The weight gain and everything else ensued and he was unceremoniously booted.
It's not just a case of unpausing the button with regard to the intervening period between that apex and the City debacle - he's lost a lot of fitness and confidence in himself and I'd bet his appetite for the game has changed since knowing it'll never get better for him than the apex was, plus having secured the mega contract, it's easier to go through the motions than snap out of the malaise and very probably the mental burdens that come with it. Basically, if he's in the pits, he'll need someone or something to drag him out of it.
If he's one of those that doesn't even like football, getting back to playing isn't the incentive some would think - the bag is in and either way, he gets paid, so there could be a lot of soul searching for him over its duration. If he doesn't pick himself up, however, that'll be the end of his serious earning power as a PL player. At the moment, he wouldn't even be a good earner in the Championship, so there's a crossroads coming up for him that he'll have to directly address.
West Ham has been a disaster for him, but more so for that club. In the end, he goes back to his club, and it's they who are compromised by him stinking it up for them at times of need. Phillips' reputation has taken a hit, but that's not the most pressing matter with years left on that City contract; he still has time to turn it round in that regard.
If we take money out of the equation, he's has a torrid time with crazy highs and lows relative to the low profile he used to have.
Not sure what you mean?West ham has been a disaster for him, but which club wouldn't?