http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/9073736/mourinho-we-have-to-kill-off-matches Jose very calm and realistic about this season
This interview is actually very reassuring. This guy knows exactly whats happening with the squad and can see the flaws. I am certain now more than ever that City will win the title this season, we will come 2nd or 3rd. Give Jose January and then the summer to sort this squad out, and, at the risk of sounding like a dipper......Next year will be our time.
I guess you cannot rule us out and this is football, so anything can happen.... But we only stand a chance if we start getting some consistency and stop leaking goals.
Agree totally. City are going to be the team to beat but a few additions to the defence and we'll be the team to beat next year. Was so hoping to see Kalas and Omereu break through but that looks unlikely. Coutois,Lukaku and Piazon must be here next season.
This we need a new spine, I said in another thread the other day, a new CB, new CM and a new CF. At the moment we just have way too many attacking midfielders. Also still think Luiz was better in midfield. Thats the one thing Rafa got spot on.
But Rafa dropped luiz from midfield bar one more try after we lost to Everton and he had a stinker. Not saying luiz would not work in CM, just would reserve judgement until he has played regular games there. We need a ready made proven pivot man, whether creative Pirlo type or more abrasive Schweinstiger type. We've been looking for three years now and four managers now. It is becoming a joke
If Man City sort out their problems on the road then the titles theirs! If they continue as they have been, then we surely must get top spot!
that and the business end is going to be very difficult for Manny tbh. We are super good even without managers in the business end. Now we have Jose to guide us. I am not blindly optimistic.
Additional postmatch BBC interview: "You don't kill and when you don't kill you are giving a chance to the opponent. It happened to us against Everton, it happened to us against Stoke. You have situations to kill and you don't, so it's difficult. "It is a concern. We have to try to improve our defensive mistakes but I think the defensive mistakes are also a consequence of the fact you don't kill." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25384968
That's where I'd be starting as well EC, think we missed a good one with Sjneider, he'd get this lot running smoothly. We have just one cog in the middle of the wheel that's slipping, the right midfielder will make a huge difference to the front men and the back end. In retrospect, how good was Ballack !!! Didn't run the show, but he was the glue that held everything together.
Superb Ballack, especially adjusting to a new position to accommodate Lamps. Some chelsea fans stupidly got on his back for being too casual. And when he rarely played further up, he delivered too. Wouldn't sneijder be another AM to accommodate at the expense of mata or oscar? Don't we need someone deeper
