They'd all want to be starters and wouldn't be content with a bench role.
Who said they needed to be on the bench? Considering how my club is (supposed) (1) to be competiting properly in all 4 tourmements, this would mean that City would need to play over 60 games a season on a regular basis. Thus there is more than enough gametime for 2 sets of (11 player) teams to get game time, unless they feel that 30-34 games a season is not enough for them.
Besides if you where lets say VVD, where would you rather be? Playing well in most games but winning little/nothing in terms of trophies or playing in fewer games (but always doing well) and winning mutiple trophies every season?
You really don't need all those players
If City is to maintain the same level of high performance across a whole season (2), then they cannot keep playing the same starting XI game after game across a whole season (especially one managed by Pep), especially when the Second XI is nowhere near good enough to share the burden.
no club in the world has that many class players in one squad except for probably Real.
You mean used to (3), the thing is though if a club like my own is going to be aiming to be on the same level as Real (4), then we are going to be needing as many (if not more) WC players as both they and Barcelona tend to do when they are on a successful run.
Someone please inform this man we're doing exceedingly well this season. I honestly don't believe you have a right to be disappointed.
We indeed have done exceedingly well across half a season, better in the league than pretty much any other team in the history of the Premier League (and maybe the old first division as well) during a first half of a season. However as the history of league football has shown, Leagues are won by consistency across a whole season and not across half a season.
So the fact that City's performances since late November have been declining (by and large) due to having to play the same 11 game after game at high levels of performance (6) is something to be concerned about (7) and quite frankly the Liverpool (8) and Bristol City games should have been a wake up call for the need for improvements in our strength in depth when we are approching the toughest part of any season (9).
That is why I am so concerned about the Sane injury, because it means that our teams weakest point has got even worse both at the worst possible time and when United (now the only team that could win the League other than oursevles) have been giving a shot in the arm with the Sanchez signing.
You have a 12 pts lead and that is not going down, although we secretly all hope that it happens. Normally, it doesn't, so stop worrying.
It has happened on at least 2 occasions (Newcastle in 1996-1997, Manchester United in 1997-1998) though, likewise all City need to do is lose against United (now with added Sanchez), Chelsea, Tottenham and one other team for that lead to go up in smoke. Not exactly a massive margin of error unless United also screw up as well.
City fans are ridiculous. Moaning because they only have Ageuro, D Silva, B Silva and Sterling to lead their attack now.
D.Silva cannot really be relyed upon to cover the attack since we are not exactly stuffed with WC CM's in our squad (10) to take his place. Besides he also has a lot of personal issues to deal with as well so it is unreasonable to demand more playing time out of him for what is a difficult time for him at the moment.
Thus it really leaves only Ageuro, D Silva and Sterling with no one to back up them at all, not good when you look at our fixture list for the next month or so and how out of steam 2 of them are at the moment. So I am hoping that none of them end getting susepended or injured until we get Jesus back at least, because if that happens then maybe United better getting the tour bus ready at the end of the season...
(1) Or so that is what the owners are aiming for.
(2) Notice how our performance game by game has largely declined overall (just when we are now in the toughest part of the season) since Late November. Hence why we struggled to beat teams like Huddersfield, West Ham, Newcastle (Away), Crystal Palace and Bristol City since then and in turn why we lost to Liverpool earlier this month, a team both West Brom and Swansea have beaten in recent weeks.
(3) Although this was the case last season.
(4) Which they need to if the owners stand any chance of making a financial return and/or achiving their PR goals.
(5) I never said I was disappointed by how the team has performed overall this season, rather I have been disappointed at the clubs transfer business across this seasons trasnfer windows, not because we got players that turned out to be duds but rather the players we did not end up getting.
(6) Not helped by a lack of a decent Second XI.
(7) Titles have been lost (even by United under Fergie) due to a failure to be consistant across a whole season.
(8) A team that lost to both Swansea and West Brom in their last 2 games.
(9) With the 2nd half of the League Season, the League Cup Final, a whole FA Cup run and the Knockout Rounds of the Champions League taking place during this time.
(10) Sure we have KDB and maybe Gündoğan, but that is just about it.
