You are one of the only City fans I have time for,other is guy from my Thursday quiz team
Rodri | Man City player | Ballon d'Or winner
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You are one of the only City fans I have time for,other is guy from my Thursday quiz team
Guy should be a balon dor contender
Player of the season alongside Odegaard.
Well said,the fawning is getting unbearable
Tbf individual player performances aren't really much affected by the type of systemic cheating City have done. Cooking the books and stuff doesn't really make a player play better. Rodri deserves praise for his good performances.
“Dispossessed By Rodri” might as well be his full name, the commentators say it so much.
The guy is fecking psychic. So athletic, both in terms of physicality and pace/stamina. He’s got a great first touch when facing goal, and on the half turn. And he can play it simply or play through the lines. Oh, and he scores vital goals routinely.
Hateful player.
The guy is fecking psychic. So athletic, both in terms of physicality and pace/stamina. He’s got a great first touch when facing goal, and on the half turn. And he can play it simply or play through the lines. Oh, and he scores vital goals routinely.
Hateful player.
I felt his athleticism was poor in his first season but he's really improved (maybe it was just cause he was following Fernandinho) but his reading of the game is absolutely crazy. Both offensively and defensively he's almost always in the perfect position. Presses at the almost perfect time too, plus he's really good at the old tactical fouls when needed.
His only weakness seems to be he gets done for pace occasionally, and while he's not slow, his acceleration is his one weakness. Best midfielder in the world currently and the fact people are saying Foden, and Rice are ahead of him for PotY is extremely strange to me.
My point is I would have more respect for the likes of him, Walker, Stones, Grealish and De Bruyne if they hadn't take the big money at City but unfortunately they did so tainted medals.
Agreed. Modern day Busquets.
I called him Busquets-esque many years ago now. Unfortunately, we don't have a good eye for these types of players. You'd hope that will change now, but we'll see!
It's actually ridiculously over the top. He's being compared to some of the greats, but he's really more on the level of someone like Carrick except not as good on the ball. Nobody can tell me this City side wouldn't have won just as much with Carrick instead of Rodri in the team.
He's surrounded by a ridiculous amount of talent at City and KDB has been far more important to their resurgence recently. Let's not forget he was part of the teams that shipped 3 against Spurs and Madrid and also 4 against Chelsea. I get that they lost a couple of games when he was out, but one of them was their hardest away game of the season and the fact they miss him is also due to the fact that it's the one position they don't have an adequate replacement for, despite spending another £90m on midfielders last summer. Kalvin Phillips was supposed to be his deputy, but he's clearly not even good enough for a team like West Ham.
Of course it does. You're instantly benefitted from being part of a set up created by cheating, a coach brought on board by cheating, and you're playing next to far superior players than you might otherwise be. Would Rodri look as good at Brentford? Obviously not. What you're saying is true to a small extent, but no, you can't lost sight of just how far reaching their cheating is. without it, nothing else exists.
Nah, he's a great player. On his way to solidifying himself as one of the greats in his position.
Sorry but he's better than Carrick.
He is basically a Busquets that is also good inside and outside the box in terms of scoring. And I thought it's generally accepted that Busquets was better than Carrick.
Rodri's disappearing eyebrows since his move from Atletico is probably the smoking gun we need to prove City's PED regime
In that case KDB and anybody else in their squad can't be praised for just being good at football, which I think is an extreme take.
Of course they can be praised for being good at football. But its wrong to say the cheating city did hasnt impacted the levels the individual players have reached. It just has, we probably disagree on the extent, but it certainly has and sullies their careers, especially if city are found guilty - which they should be
I don’t think that’s particularly controversial.
It's not at all - and I actually think Carrick is somewhat underrated. But Rodri has goals in his game way more and is physically more imposing. I also think we fecked around with Carrick for a long time in that he was so good that we never really created a strong partnership for him in the same way City has, and maybe if he hadn't been playing with the Cleverleys and Andersons and others for some time in a sort of 1 man midfield, it might have been different... but those are ifs and buts and the reality is Rodri is just better.
There are some questionable picks on that list starting with VvD. Look at City PL record with Rodri in the lineup...now look at it without him. 1W ...3L That combined with what we see on the pitch should place him higher than Foden and Haaland.
Unbeaten streak goes bye bye.
It went bye bye against Madrid but it's nice to actually see that stupid record feck off thanks to us 
Has he come out yet moaning that only 1 team tried to play football
Not yet. Probably too busy painting eyebrows on after all the PED’s consumed this seasonHas he come out yet moaning that only 1 team tried to play football
It's really great that we're the ones who ended City's and especially Rodri's unbeaten run. What a player though, going that many games without losing is crazy.
Technically Real Madrid ended Rodri's unbeaten run
Obviously a very good player but I'm hoping next season more teams realise you can shut him down. He's not some press resistant monster.
You reduce him and you reduce City.
You reduce him and you reduce City.
McTominay put him in his pocket all game. Rodri couldn't do anything he is good at.
Yeah you get players around him and he's not a Modric. He can't manipulate the ball or step past players like Modric. Managers and players have given him too much time and space this season.
Spot on. He’s not the press resistant monster some other midfielders are
Whatever happens with Ten Hag he needs to start wearing bloody socks with suit trousers.
That's Bernardo Silva in that team.
Who ended Uniteds ones?
In 1993/94 it was Chelsea (lost to them at home 1-0) on 5th March (run started on 25th September). In 1998/99 it started with 3-0 win at home vs Forest on 26th December and lasted until end of the season. Arsenal ended it on 1st August 1999 beating us 2-1 in Community Shield. Lost to Lazio 1-0 in UEFA Super Cup as well. Not counting those games our next defeat came on 3rd October 1999 vs Chelsea when we lost 5-0 at Bridge (12 games played until that one in league an CL).
So glad it was us that ended that record.