It's such an unconventional formation with play 4 cbs with one just standing beside rodri to watch him work. 4 attacking cms then and one massive lump. They actually don't have full backs now to change this nor the cms reserves thst are not attacking minded. Plus of course old man time is catching up with kdb Neville sounds sick now.
KdB looks like he's done with City. Feels like he's told Pep he off when his contract runs out and that's why he's not starting games anymore.
Agree. I think he's been great this season at the defensive side of the game but his decision making usually annoys me - I actually thought Elliott had a good case for taking his spot before his injury. Now that Elliott is back, hopefully they can push each other on.
What a team we have here. Brilliant start to the season this. Even VVD was feeling sorry and tried to gift them a goal but Kelleher had other ideas.
Silva is a nasty piece of work and should have been sent off for two yellows today. Good win and now Newcastle midweek away then the Derby.
It does seem odd he has been back for 3 or 4 weeks and has not been put into the starting line up could be a loyalty thing as you say as pep thinking if your not going to be here next year I don’t trust you.
Fixed He is the perfect example of why I dislike Man City; snide **** that shows zero respect to anyone
Think they’re already planning for the future tbh. New DOF coming in. Pep talking about needing investment to replenish the squad etc. Can see Walker kdb silva all moving on in the summer. They have a very old team who have been brilliant but grown old together and very reminiscent of us a few years ago. Ederson 31 walker 34 stones 30 akanji 29 ake 29 gundogan 34 Kdb 33 Silva 30 Kovacic 30 That’s a huge core that all need replacing in the next year or two and they’re attempts at replacing with younger layers just hasn’t worked (which is partly the reason their dof is moving on and replacing with sportings) Savinho looks likely but no end product doku the same Nunes no inpact phillips come and gone One area they always were very good in was recruitment but other than Haaland and Gvardiol last few seasons have been pretty shoddy
