He looked wank today. Almost cost City a goal a couple of times. Not seen anything of him yet to think he's a stand out player.
Benjamin Mendy
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Yeah but he used a smiley emoji and a blue heart, I was trying to be funny.
His energy is absolutely ridiculous. I thought I was seeing double at times in the game. The thing is, he’s absolutely garbage in defence but such a menace in attack. He’s perfect for Guardiola because his teams rarely have to defend. Pep will definitely hone his general attacking play and ball control - this lad has barely played football in the past year
He's a fantasy football dream points wise.
Absolute bargain. Pep's fullbacks always put up ridiculous stats and he was grossly underpriced.
He essentially hasn't played competitively since early last season outside of the odd game here and there for France, he is rusty as hell and still provided two assists. He was always better offensively than defensively, but today is not a proper indication of how he is on defense, he's more capable than that. It will take a bit of time, but he will come good soon enough.
The defenders in FPL are capped at £6.5m and he's £6.0m coming off a full season out, he isn't underpriced at all.
He's clearly rusty. He's barely played any football because of his ACL injury, but he still kept a clean sheet and assisted both goals.
I think he's great. He's enough of a threat going forward, that a lot of opposition managers will probably pin their own wingers back just to keep him in check so he'll rarely be exposed.
He got 11 assists in all comps in that final Monaco season. Absolute monster going forward. Shame he's such a twitter merchant
Defensively they'll be worse off with him in the side, offensively he'll give them another option
I guess the good will outweigh the bad though
I guess the good will outweigh the bad though
His attacking contribution is incredible. He's like a left winger sometimes.
It‘s the same case with Marcelo and Ramos. The people say they are a liability, but they don‘t see that those players win their teams more games than they lose.
he will get better defensively when tehy are in full strength and in the rhytm, they will attack 80% off times anyway though, due to them pressing all the time, and that's what important, can' imagine Shaw doing anything remotley what Mendy can do while being probnably the same defensively tbh...
I'd swap him with any of our fullbacks straight away, so there's that.
If we had Mendy and Walker in our team we'd be close to winning the league IMO, they make such a huge difference.
If we had Mendy and Walker in our team we'd be close to winning the league IMO, they make such a huge difference.
What a left back. Probably second best in the world. Ever since that Monaco season linking up with Lemar down the left who cut in a lot, Mendy dominated the flank.
Seems to have returned straight to form again after that awful injury.
Seems to have returned straight to form again after that awful injury.
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Good for City..
I like him, he is a tank. A bit clumsy, but there is no stopping him once he bursts forward. Also is mixing up his deliveries, not only brainlessly crossing and hoping someone gets to it.
Dunno about that.
This is what we lack
If your going to play inverted wingers you need fullbacks to overlap on the outside
With young on the left there he also tries to cut in on to his favor right foot
I think he’s a very good player.
For me, only Marcelo can say that he is exceptionally better than Mendy. The rest have all got their strengths and weaknesses but are at around the same level, in my opinion. So any of Alex Sandro, Alaba, Alba and anyone else I forgot doesn’t have the same claim Marcelo has over Mendy to be better than him.
Mental output going forwards, anyone without him in their fantasy team has made a mistake. He'll cost himself a few clean sheets bonuses though.
Such an attacking threat, looks unstoppable on the left
Wonder how more dominant City would have been if he was fit all last season.
He's an absolute machine. Best delivery I've seen from a full back in a while too.
Iirc, when City were scoring 5, 6 and 7 goals last season he was in the team wasn't he.
Phenomenal!
This City team look unbeatable and will surely dominate the league again this season!
This City team look unbeatable and will surely dominate the league again this season!
He’s ridiculous. In a position we really needed last summer too. Will get 15+ assists this season.
So that's what an attacking FB can do for you...
As an attacking entity, he's incredible.
Yup...quite an influence from him. Such a striking example of what we're missing
So which other left-backs are out there that can cross like he does?
I know. Don't want to ruin the thread by moaning about our lack of investment in the area but it's disappointing.
Mendy and Alonso are the best attacking LBs in the league. He played like a winger
He'd be rubbish for Mourinho because he can't defend to save his life. He suits Pep's system.
Marcelo and Kurzawa but the latter is bad at everything else.
Is that to say he's one of the top 3 crossers in the world for the position, or that generally the level of crossing amongst others is dire? (I'm guessing it's the former)
No, it's just the ones that I know and are in the same bracket when it comes to crossing. Kurzawa and Mendy are on par and I think that Marcelo is probably better, they are also consistent in that area but Kurzawa can't stay fit and he is defensively bad even when he tries. Mendy is just not balanced, he is like a young Marcelo, he will completely forgot that he is the LB but when he focuses on defending he is good.
Incredible that he does that after basically missing the entire year.