We just need to wake up and stop overrating our players. De Gea, Bruno and Pogba are the only players that are good enough for a top team.
There's a lot of issues with playing Pogba and Fernandes in the same team.
I’d suggest most of them players have shown more quality that the players of Palace and Brighton whom played us off the park this last week. I’ve seen plenty from this squad to say the quality is there. Poorly trained and managed by the look of it.
Ignore the title in the article. To me this is exactly one of the main reasons I still question if Ole is the right man. The CB partnership is seriously flawed, everyone but, the most ardent Lindelof supporters can see it for what it is. It's one that is highly susceptible on the break, it's weak defensively in the air, neither of them compliment each other by covering the other's flaws, they are hardly on the same wave length even after a year together playing majority of the games - yet it's for some reason Ole has dug his heels that it's the right pairing.
Jesus, Mourinho is going to have a fecking meltdown when he hears this.the problem is that we get beaten at home. When we draw in a league game we drop two points too.
You expect OGS to be SAF 1999 within 18 months of inheriting a totally broken and disjointed club?
What is he achieving?
And you conveniently ignore Greenwood, Martial, Rashford, Scott, AwB?
Williams, Dalot, Henderson, James, McTominay and Van de Beek are all 23 or younger. Literally half the team was young players
So it's a youth investment playing Martial, 25 years of age, who has been at the club for five years? AWB, you're having a laugh This isn't a youth investment or playing academy graduates.
Well Sevilla was away too.
So now you shift goalposts for academy graduates.
No. It was neutral.
Did Lindelof need fitness yesterday? Did Maguire need fitness against Luton? Stop putting words in my mouth just because you don't have anything to come up with.
There are 4-5 preseason games needed before every season and we had zero. We have only played 4th game of the season and clearly are still struggling. We also need to win games.
City hasn't played any games and he still has given plenty of debuts and plenty of minutes to fresh academy prospects. All I'm asking for is a Mengi against Luton, or a Laird yesterday. But I have said it for a long time, he's really not brave in these situations. He's very afraid of losing. Look at the team against a League One relegated team like Tranmere. And don't come with Greenwood, the boy is a generational talent and EVERY manager would've played him. And for all the times he chose Daniel James instead, including against Palace.
I think you are misunderstanding why some of the players played. City gave debuts yes, so? they still had Sterling, Walker, Laporte, Fernandinho, KDB, Mahrez playing.
Holy shit now you want youth, from academy and someone who is not talented. Just pick someone from academy who is a nobody and want him to become a legend down the road. That's really sad.
The players all need fitness. They still haven't played as many games as they would in a normal pre-season.
Isn't Pep giving those lads minutes due to injuries? He said himself he only has 14 fit outfield players.
He didn't play youth in any cups last season and we won feck all. Chances are we are not going to win anything this season either. Mengi and Laird are not 'nothing players'. No way Dalot and TFM are better than Laird, and with Dalot on his way out, it becomes laughable that he started yesterday. And Mengi needs to play.
Look at the average ago of the team last season, and compare that to Jose or compare it to the rest of the league.
Bailly and Lindelof needed to play. We need a partner for Maguire. Lindelof has not been in good form, and Bailly needs games - it was a needed game for them. Mengi using going to be partnering Maguire this season, and will have to bide his time.
I'm not saying Ole hasn't done anything right. Selling Lukaku and trusting Greenwood, Martial and Rashford is one thing he did right for example. Obviously, that is a kind of trusting youth. What I mean here is that he rarely just throws in Mengi, even against a lower league team he usually play a lot of deadwood. And it's not just now. Look at the game against a very substandard Tranmere so you can't just say it's because they need games. As I said earlier, it wasn't exactly necessary to have Maguire against Luton. I guess Maguire would've been involved again yesterday if not for his minor injury.
I think it’s far more difficult this season without the pre-season. Players are at different levels of fitness, which doesn’t help.
Laird was injured! He has just come back and joined the first team this week.
Sammy you continue to knock those that doubt Ole yet on your profile you have Pochettino as your No1? Think you should change it to Ole surely
It was the lowest, actually. We also had the youngest average aged starting XI and youngest squad in the league last year. Younger than Lampard's who have almost all been conveniently ditched once he was able to buy players.
It was a sarcastic tagline imposed on him because he was the number 1 Poch hater in the forum
You know, he doesn't HAVE to use them. He can have Pereira in the stands (which he has). IMO, he has given far too many chances to average players, which resulted in Gomes leaving. James is another. Chance after chance. As I said earlier, no way a new academy kid would have given that many chances.
Let’s see where Gomes is in 5 years. My bet is nowhere. If he makes it, then good on him, but he clearly wasn’t ready to play for Utd.
