I love that Ian was there to give some historical context outside of the Prem as I'm tired of ppl thinking English football begins and ends in the Premier league.
Somebody pointed out that after Ian Rush returned to Liverpool, they only won one more league title before getting knocked off their perch by Man U. It's the same with Gundogan. Pep almost never rebuys his players, and the fact that he did so indicates that he's moving backwards instead of forwards. Also it's not true that Pep is inflexible. One of his greatest strengths, before now, that is he was always able to stay ahead of his competitors by changing his tactics before his opponents can figure out how to counter them. But he's pretty lost at the moment.
Hypocritical bias towards Haaland. If you dragged Mbappe thru the mud the same treatment can be reserved for Haaland, Foden and Grealish. I’m seeing a theme here…….
That’s what I said has to be racism..A lot of people getting away with it..Nunez is trash been with Liverpool 3 years and barely has goals..Mbappe first season everybody wants to hate him
The difference is if you take some of the greatest strikers of the last 25 years (R9, Henry, Suarez, Lewandowski etc) they all are capable of offering so much more than goals. Haaland doesn't do anything else, he's one-dimensional as they come.
Pep doing it on purpose im sure how tf is he not playing de bruyne, doku and savinho makes no sense. Why is he still playing rico lewis. Its either ego or he wants to get sacked
A lot of it has been down to individual mistakes tbf which he can’t control. It’s definitely cost them in recent games. They’ve made an already bad situation even worse.
Hopefully Pep leaves soon so that we can actually see a manager utilize Haaland in the way he's supposed to be utilized. 500 sideways and backwards passes every game whilst having Haaland as your striker is genuinely mind boggling.
@@gimalrobinson4348 He isn't scoring week in week out anymore, is he? And Pep isn't doing anything to get him more chances because they play such negative possession football
The fact Haaland is blamed for being the second highest goalscorer in the league shows what incredible high standards he's being held to... Consecutive golden boot winner in the Prem and currently second and a gola behind Salah and folks call him overrated!
I don't know why clueless pundits keep insisting that no one saw City's problems coming, or that no one thought Liverpool and Chelsea would be competing for the title. At the start of the season I predicted that City would really struggle to finish in the top four, because the current squad has reached the end of the road. I said it wouldn't be a surprise to me if Slot wins the Premier League and the Champions League in his first season, and I said Chelsea would easily finish in the top four and be potential title contenders now that they have a ruthless coach who's not afraid to make tough decisions. It's also worth mentioning that when the transfer window closed, and Arsenal had failed to sign a goalscoring number 9, I said they no longer had any chance of winning the title. Some things are actually easy to predict if you focus on what you see with your eyes instead of obsessing over "stats" without context.
Ian Darke is the voice that is attached to so many of my memories of watching sport on TV whilst growing up. He has always been my preferred commentator, especially when he was doing the big boxing during the 1990's on Sky Sports. That voice takes me straight back to those fights.
Everything Don Hutchison predicted about the title was wrong but I know deep down his heart he's very happy the way it turned out being a Liverpool man. 😅😅😅
Pep’s idea is very simple. You need a decent goalie. You need a great DM you need a great creative CM/10.. You need a good striker. So you need 4 top players down the spine. The rest of the team just need to be athletic and capable of making accurate 5 - 10 yard passes. Take out the DM he is the direct link to the midfield, he is the man who extinguishes danger before it manifests. The rest of the team collapses. Especially when the aging midfield are losing their legs.
Agreed but this is more than just Rodri missing . They lost matches with Rodri and they would have lost like they are now even if Rodri was fit . This is the end of an Era for city and what a great Era it was.But we finally seeing the end of that era,simple as that.
@@Mysterytruethis is simply not true. There’s a stat out there that Man City was undefeated every time Rodri played (last year at least). Even if this year was gonna be the end, losing Rodri - a Ballon D’or winner btw - only accelerated that drop off. There’s no one to cover the back line or support the midfield which is clearly out of form between aging & injuries
Is it really a downfall... we saw the same at barcelona.. however he decided to leave, it was pretty much the same at bayern, and he left.. this time however...time has caught up and squad dept his not the same..
@jacobreichert836 the club wanted him to win the CL.. feel failed all 3 seasons.. he lost the dressing room, and the spine of the team were aging.. the sane at barca.. ans the same now at city.. he is starting the lose some of his players. He allowed his spine to age.. while falling out with numerous players including concelo and Palmer. I think he overstayed in England.. but yet again.. pep is not know to rebuild a solid team for future managers.. he is now faced with this tasked.. and with the cloud of those 115 charges... we may not know the outcome
City can't adapt, Pep can't adapt...he's had plenty of games to change but they haven't... City are not resilient, they won't be a top 3 team for years too come. Once Pep leaves City will definitely be no more
Naybe not the last game but games b4 he missed alot of chances that he would normally score it's not like he would usually get a million chances you is used to getting a few chances and scoring thise few chances he has been messing alot of big chances in this bad run the team is having
Cognitive dissonance from these guys is next level. Truth always comes out. How dare Mbappe play badly for Real Madrid (biggest club with greatest pressure) yet poor Haaland he is such an angel he does no wrong !😂
I wouldn't feel sorry for city at all. "The stay humble" thing is now haunting them. They better go apologize to Arteta, if they wanna start winning again. Happy Christmas 🎄 Aged City.
People think that Lep Gaurdlessola is some untouchable individual. Consider the threat settled at the mighty gates of Paris Saint Germain in UCL, and think again.
7:15 "what's [Haaland] supposed to do?" he's made less than 10 passes in at least their past 5 days. he should start with doing better at that. they're not utilizing him well, yes, but when he's had as few chances as he used to, he's done nothing with it
100% he's not completely blameless... What are they talking about ? The guy main job is to score and he's not doing it. Any other team he gets benched and the team tries something else
Haaland is getting marked and Guardiola wants possesion, If City tries to play the ball to erling all the time in the box they’re risking giving away possesion - Its to obvious, the City team has been figured out. City needs a 9 that can move the ball and play as a false 9 sometimes. Not only a Haaland It is time to switch it up a bit, the City team is still good, it’s just a strategic problem i think coupled with a bit of lack of confidence and fatigue. Its normal they’ve been dominating for so long.
Dominating is not entirely accurate. On three occasions, they won it on the last day. They won it twice with one point. They were aided by biased officiating ( the Rodri handball against Everton comes to mind). City were not entirely as dominating as the champions medal might suggest.
Haaland is a pocher and it’s why I hate when people even think he’s as close to kylian . Kylian can create something out of nothing run past and dribble past player and score . Haaland needs a very good 10 to score and he can’t create something out of nothing.Nevertheless he is still a great striker .Hes just more of a Van nisterol while Mbappe is more of a Henry.
Fans from rival teams are very happy with the current City situation, Asernal has gone for decades with out Epl trophy.the mission is always top four & next season.
Everyone keeps saying City are old..That's false please..Doku, Foden, EH, Lewis, Akanji, Dias,Nunes, all under 30...Just Walker, Gundo and KDB are really old..It's just bad planning simply, they have relied so much on a set of guys, the others don't know how to be relied upon..
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What can pep do is simple make your players run harder with and without the ball and secondly never play walker again better you play sliver as a right back now than walker
If teams stop fearing them then it becomes a big problem for pep, just like Utd, arsenal and Chelsea when teams stop fearing big teams, it goes from if we can just hang on until half time we might get lucky and get draw or maybe sneak a win, which escalates to we can get win here, there struggling, to eventually it’s only city we can beat them we can beat them if we put in the effort
Don defending pep is funny.he bought players they failed.grealish , josko ,kova ,akanji , doku , savinho , foden over palmer, so stop saying he didnt spend his whole career built on spending at elite clubs
This group experts is totally biased. When things go wrong for Man City, its just that the whole team is off form, but when Real Madrid drops points its cz of Mbappe. Halaand is NOT half as capable as or talented or achiever as Mbappe.
There's much more expected of Mbappe. Real Madrid hold themselves to a much higher standard. Haaland plays for a team that nobody really cares about. They might have all the greasy oil money in the world, but they have no history, and if they don't win anything, who cares?
something is going on behind the scenes at that club. this is bigger than "they've fallen off a cliff together". that's an easy excuse for these lot. it lets Pep off the hook far too easily Pep hasn't covered himself in much glory through all this
Turning things around when they're going badly is a skill that Pep has never really need to acquire. He'll either come out of this period a better manager whose learned a new skill or it will break him.
I disagree, City's drop off is the worst ever considering their their big spending. Foden has not scored in the ELP yet still zero pressure or criticism for him. These guys only scrutinize players of colour
"players of colour" Eh? Absolutely horrific phrase which people insist on saying. Anyway besides that, Foden did score in his first goal on the weekend v Villa. I have never seen a drop off like that. In 1991 when Liverpool's decline set in with Dalglish's shock resignation, they still finished 2nd behind Arsenal. Like City, Dalglish having Ronnie Whelan and Steve McMahon out for the season from January 1991 did for him. They were the engine room in midfield. The lesson? Doesn't matter what era it is, if you lose your great midfield players, you are more or less finished for the time being until you get replacements.
@BurnsTennis bro I'm just saying no need for emotions. Let's be real if Pogba, Vinnie, Jude or Saka had such a drop off after being named player of the season in the EPL it would be headline news every week. Facts man 🤷♂️ you can't argue unless you in a different dimension. But then again what do I know. Its all good and well man. We love football regardless of what these former below average players think or say, right?
@@sanelebuthelezi4493 How long have you been watching football? Steve Nicol is a European Cup winner, clearly not below average. Pogba? I've always found him overrated but that's just my opinion. Foden? I said it all through the summer on ESPN FC videos when he played for England. Foden is not a world class player. He takes too many touches on the ball, he is too slow and ponderous, he is not a quick decision maker. He has no attributes to be one of the best players in the world unless something changes dramatically Quite frankly, it should not be headline news that he is struggling. Just football news.
You are very right. They are scared of criticizing Man City. Foden is getting a pass and mainly because of the color of his skin. @sanelebuthelezi4493
I don't get the comparisons between City today and that Liverpool side. That Dalglish side didn't fall of a cliff, as you say they came 2nd. The loss of McMahon was a big blow and Whelan too, but the Irishman's powers has waned by then as the team aged but there were still players who were playing well and scoring goals. Dalglish's tactics also became pretty negative by then. Playing defenders in midfield and full backs at wide midfield at times. Playing with 5 in midfield and only one up sometimes . Some dodgy team line ups and choice of signings too. I feel the signs that that Liverpool team were declining had been there previously and it was a much more gradual than what we're seeing with this city side. The loss of Rodri though massive, just doesn't explain the entire team becoming a pale shadow of themselves. Or that virtually nobody can score in that team, this season except Haaland. Full disclosure I was a child in 1990/91 so I am open to the idea that my perception at the time was missing something. 😁
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I love that Ian was there to give some historical context outside of the Prem as I'm tired of ppl thinking English football begins and ends in the Premier league.
In fact there is an argument to say that quality English football ended with the initiation of the Premier League 😢
Somebody pointed out that after Ian Rush returned to Liverpool, they only won one more league title before getting knocked off their perch by Man U. It's the same with Gundogan. Pep almost never rebuys his players, and the fact that he did so indicates that he's moving backwards instead of forwards.
Also it's not true that Pep is inflexible. One of his greatest strengths, before now, that is he was always able to stay ahead of his competitors by changing his tactics before his opponents can figure out how to counter them. But he's pretty lost at the moment.
The gap between Div 1 and Div 2 was a lot closer than the gap between the Prem and the Championship ...
Hypocritical bias towards Haaland. If you dragged Mbappe thru the mud the same treatment can be reserved for Haaland, Foden and Grealish. I’m seeing a theme here…….
Mbappe is black remember. And Haaland is more like the face of EPL now.
That’s what I said has to be racism..A lot of people getting away with it..Nunez is trash been with Liverpool 3 years and barely has goals..Mbappe first season everybody wants to hate him
exactly! extremely! Haaland is not the biggest issue of course but to say he’s blameless! lol
Bingo. Truth hurts.
Nonsense comment, mbappe is also trash just like many many footballers or modern footballers
The difference is if you take some of the greatest strikers of the last 25 years (R9, Henry, Suarez, Lewandowski etc) they all are capable of offering so much more than goals. Haaland doesn't do anything else, he's one-dimensional as they come.
I agree
Finally Haaland talk ..If you compare with the trash talking from those guys on Mbappe....
This City downfall is absolutely glorious 😍😍
the season is far from over
@KylianMbapepette you must be deluded if you don't think it's over for them. lmao
Pep doing it on purpose im sure how tf is he not playing de bruyne, doku and savinho makes no sense. Why is he still playing rico lewis. Its either ego or he wants to get sacked
Happiness ngl heheh
@@dead_r33dthey still have champions league and downfall if they don’t come back next year
Stevie dead wrong
Team always follow pep instructions. Pep is out of ideas to motivate this team.
A lot of it has been down to individual mistakes tbf which he can’t control. It’s definitely cost them in recent games. They’ve made an already bad situation even worse.
Merry Christmas to all football fans across the globe
Grealish 0 goals in 46 games is criminal. Doku actually gets at his fullback
Saw my ex and told her "stay humble eh" now I'm living under a bridge.
Bro Haaland has never stayed humbled since the Arsenal game
Hopefully Pep leaves soon so that we can actually see a manager utilize Haaland in the way he's supposed to be utilized. 500 sideways and backwards passes every game whilst having Haaland as your striker is genuinely mind boggling.
So like when Zlatan was at Barca
@@Siscon92exactly
Nobody cares about city
Where were people like u when he was scoring three every week on the same team
@@gimalrobinson4348 He isn't scoring week in week out anymore, is he? And Pep isn't doing anything to get him more chances because they play such negative possession football
The fact Haaland is blamed for being the second highest goalscorer in the league shows what incredible high standards he's being held to... Consecutive golden boot winner in the Prem and currently second and a gola behind Salah and folks call him overrated!
The thing is he scores high... Which is great for stats but awful for the team win %
Exactly one trick pony
Injuries, fatigue, older players and the bullying they allow on Haaland and mental stress on the court case is more than good reason for the drop of.
Haaland needs to do more he doesn’t pass or defend. Prove me wrong
I don't know why clueless pundits keep insisting that no one saw City's problems coming, or that no one thought Liverpool and Chelsea would be competing for the title. At the start of the season I predicted that City would really struggle to finish in the top four, because the current squad has reached the end of the road. I said it wouldn't be a surprise to me if Slot wins the Premier League and the Champions League in his first season, and I said Chelsea would easily finish in the top four and be potential title contenders now that they have a ruthless coach who's not afraid to make tough decisions.
It's also worth mentioning that when the transfer window closed, and Arsenal had failed to sign a goalscoring number 9, I said they no longer had any chance of winning the title. Some things are actually easy to predict if you focus on what you see with your eyes instead of obsessing over "stats" without context.
agreed
Ian Darke is the voice that is attached to so many of my memories of watching sport on TV whilst growing up.
He has always been my preferred commentator, especially when he was doing the big boxing during the 1990's on Sky Sports.
That voice takes me straight back to those fights.
Everything Don Hutchison predicted about the title was wrong but I know deep down his heart he's very happy the way it turned out being a Liverpool man. 😅😅😅
100% on point. Thanks guys and Merry Xmas
Merry Christmas to you all
Pep’s idea is very simple. You need a decent goalie. You need a great DM you need a great creative CM/10.. You need a good striker. So you need 4 top players down the spine. The rest of the team just need to be athletic and capable of making accurate 5 - 10 yard passes. Take out the DM he is the direct link to the midfield, he is the man who extinguishes danger before it manifests. The rest of the team collapses. Especially when the aging midfield are losing their legs.
Agreed but this is more than just Rodri missing . They lost matches with Rodri and they would have lost like they are now even if Rodri was fit . This is the end of an Era for city and what a great Era it was.But we finally seeing the end of that era,simple as that.
@@Mysterytruethis is simply not true. There’s a stat out there that Man City was undefeated every time Rodri played (last year at least). Even if this year was gonna be the end, losing Rodri - a Ballon D’or winner btw - only accelerated that drop off. There’s no one to cover the back line or support the midfield which is clearly out of form between aging & injuries
Cap Rodri doesn’t and cannot do everything
Is it really a downfall... we saw the same at barcelona.. however he decided to leave, it was pretty much the same at bayern, and he left.. this time however...time has caught up and squad dept his not the same..
we did not see the same with bayern???
@jacobreichert836 the club wanted him to win the CL.. feel failed all 3 seasons.. he lost the dressing room, and the spine of the team were aging.. the sane at barca.. ans the same now at city.. he is starting the lose some of his players. He allowed his spine to age.. while falling out with numerous players including concelo and Palmer. I think he overstayed in England.. but yet again.. pep is not know to rebuild a solid team for future managers.. he is now faced with this tasked.. and with the cloud of those 115 charges... we may not know the outcome
City can't adapt, Pep can't adapt...he's had plenty of games to change but they haven't...
City are not resilient, they won't be a top 3 team for years too come. Once Pep leaves City will definitely be no more
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Either he has to change the system or rebuild his team or it's over.
MAN SAID HAALAND IS NOT GETTING CHANCES THATS A RIDICULOUS STATEMENT
THAT'S FACTS. HOW MANY BALL IS HAALAND GETTING. YOUR HATE IS RIDICULOUS 😂😂😂
Naybe not the last game but games b4 he missed alot of chances that he would normally score it's not like he would usually get a million chances you is used to getting a few chances and scoring thise few chances he has been messing alot of big chances in this bad run the team is having
he's xg for most the loses are true the roof sick of these excuses
@@Kwami357brother it’s not hate, he is top 2 for most big chances missed in ucl and the premier league. These guys are hypocrites
Cognitive dissonance from these guys is next level. Truth always comes out. How dare Mbappe play badly for Real Madrid (biggest club with greatest pressure) yet poor Haaland he is such an angel he does no wrong !😂
4:06 That's one of those jackets Dennis Waterman would wear in *"Minder"* .
It's never good when you have to explain it
I wouldn't feel sorry for city at all. "The stay humble" thing is now haunting them. They better go apologize to Arteta, if they wanna start winning again. Happy Christmas 🎄 Aged City.
You had to make it about yourselves neh😂😂 Arsenal fans 😂
People think that Lep Gaurdlessola is some untouchable individual. Consider the threat settled at the mighty gates of Paris Saint Germain in UCL, and think again.
aren't you guys not even in the playoff places
Shut up idoits
Mbappe really destroyed something beautiful at PSG, typical of modern footballers , eg hallaand, b Fernandez , salah
7:15 "what's [Haaland] supposed to do?" he's made less than 10 passes in at least their past 5 days. he should start with doing better at that. they're not utilizing him well, yes, but when he's had as few chances as he used to, he's done nothing with it
and they act like haaland scored every chance he gets. that’s just not true
100% he's not completely blameless... What are they talking about ? The guy main job is to score and he's not doing it. Any other team he gets benched and the team tries something else
MAN CITY 0 - 1 EVERTON
Its like when the villain is finally beaten
Josep must go if he wants to continue winning, City must cope without the man who built their legend, that's the mark of the greats
Haaland is getting marked and Guardiola wants possesion,
If City tries to play the ball to erling all the time in the box they’re risking giving away possesion - Its to obvious, the City team has been figured out.
City needs a 9 that can move the ball and play as a false 9 sometimes.
Not only a Haaland
It is time to switch it up a bit, the City team is still good, it’s just a strategic problem i think coupled with a bit of lack of confidence and fatigue. Its normal they’ve been dominating for so long.
Dominating is not entirely accurate. On three occasions, they won it on the last day. They won it twice with one point. They were aided by biased officiating ( the Rodri handball against Everton comes to mind). City were not entirely as dominating as the champions medal might suggest.
Haaland is a pocher and it’s why I hate when people even think he’s as close to kylian . Kylian can create something out of nothing run past and dribble past player and score . Haaland needs a very good 10 to score and he can’t create something out of nothing.Nevertheless he is still a great striker .Hes just more of a Van nisterol while Mbappe is more of a Henry.
@@Damian-rt3rt winning the EPL 4-times in a row is to dominate, it's not a subjective thing it's merely a fact.
Pep kills individualism, personality and creativity. Now, in a crisis, you would exactly need this.
Rasmus Højlund blamed with no service. But sure not for Haaland and Pep
Pep must gain his confidence back
Atletico with 12 wins and city with 1 is crazy
Sell great players. Keep average golden boi Foden. Win.
Fans from rival teams are very happy with the current City situation, Asernal has gone for decades with out Epl trophy.the mission is always top four & next season.
Haaland without KDB and Rodri is basically a Norwegian Rickie Lambert / Gabriel Agbonlahor.....
A league 2 player
Lmao@Agbolanhor and Lambert!
Everyone keeps saying City are old..That's false please..Doku, Foden, EH, Lewis, Akanji, Dias,Nunes, all under 30...Just Walker, Gundo and KDB are really old..It's just bad planning simply, they have relied so much on a set of guys, the others don't know how to be relied upon..
City have the 5th oldest average age squad this season. Only West Ham, Fulham, Newcastle, and Everton have older squads.
Dan words slowly changing
Christmas miracle. Agreeing with Stevie tonight.
Guardiola is the new Newton
RODRI was that good!! Once he’s been gone it hasn’t been the same!!!
Where is the young acadamy players coming through for man city? They sold cole palmer. The best midfielder this year.
Gravenberch is best midfielder this season
I LOVE that Fiorentina Nintendo jersey i had Batistuta Fiorentina jersey in like 1999 cost my parents like 100.00 dollars to buy ( which is like 200.00 now ) pre internet .. bought at soccer store in long Island NY my b day gift BATIGOL and Nintendo my childhood in 1 shirt lol show in X Files and i had Trifecta lol
His says Intended not Nintendo 🤔
What goes up must come down
Why did pep sell all those players.
Mahrez
Alvarez
Palmer
Antidoping control. That's what happening
What can pep do is simple make your players run harder with and without the ball and secondly never play walker again better you play sliver as a right back now than walker
STAY HUMBLE!!
Last 15 days they are only talking about Man city down fall 😅
If teams stop fearing them then it becomes a big problem for pep, just like Utd, arsenal and Chelsea when teams stop fearing big teams, it goes from if we can just hang on until half time we might get lucky and get draw or maybe sneak a win, which escalates to we can get win here, there struggling, to eventually it’s only city we can beat them we can beat them if we put in the effort
Maybe Pep has run out of motivation, and wants out. Instead of going out like Klopp did, he's just letting everything go up in flames.
Hard to raise the bar for haaland when he had tremendous lst season scoring so many goals beating records he can't improve on that and got treble😂
Aguero could score goals out of nothing. Yes Haaland is a different kind of striker but can’t just give him a pass for every game
The EPL has figured out Haaland
115FC having a ruff Christmas 🥴🥴
they just got another 15 charges added, so it's a grand total (currently) of *130 charges.* 🤣🤣🤣
How come don,steve,ian&u not spending xmas with their families
Don defending pep is funny.he bought players they failed.grealish , josko ,kova ,akanji , doku , savinho , foden over palmer, so stop saying he didnt spend his whole career built on spending at elite clubs
Everton will score from a corner and it will end 1-0 to Everton. Unless KDB plays and he will find those passes to Haaland.
Stay humble bruh
Winning 4 consecutive premier league is no mean feat , so City and Pep will bounce back and that is a given.
I don't think Pep will be manager of man city by mid to late jan
haaland cant create by himself
The old saying cheats never prosper
Kevin de Bruyne can't save them no more
So he gets a ton of money money he gets all the credit and never any blame no matter what wow glazing him much
They probably have been told about punishment for 115 so now just don't care or maybe will be relegated so don't care .
Is that a bootleg Fiorentina shirt or something? Isn't that supposed to say Nintendo?
Man only won 1 championships league in 15 yrs😂😂😂
This group experts is totally biased. When things go wrong for Man City, its just that the whole team is off form, but when Real Madrid drops points its cz of Mbappe. Halaand is NOT half as capable as or talented or achiever as Mbappe.
There's much more expected of Mbappe. Real Madrid hold themselves to a much higher standard. Haaland plays for a team that nobody really cares about. They might have all the greasy oil money in the world, but they have no history, and if they don't win anything, who cares?
Stay humble huh
Message from City’s owners to Pep - go buy any players you fancy. We will back you !!! City to be back.
something is going on behind the scenes at that club. this is bigger than "they've fallen off a cliff together". that's an easy excuse for these lot. it lets Pep off the hook far too easily
Pep hasn't covered himself in much glory through all this
Turning things around when they're going badly is a skill that Pep has never really need to acquire. He'll either come out of this period a better manager whose learned a new skill or it will break him.
Can you just say that their signings have been trash 😂
Kay is my wife.
It will be 1-1
Delulu city fans will be back supporting their actual clubs 😄😄
All I want for Christmas is City to win games
Man City will bounce back come January, I think.
The fraudulent rise and humbling fall of the great Manchester City 😅😅😅
I disagree, City's drop off is the worst ever considering their their big spending. Foden has not scored in the ELP yet still zero pressure or criticism for him. These guys only scrutinize players of colour
"players of colour" Eh? Absolutely horrific phrase which people insist on saying. Anyway besides that, Foden did score in his first goal on the weekend v Villa. I have never seen a drop off like that. In 1991 when Liverpool's decline set in with Dalglish's shock resignation, they still finished 2nd behind Arsenal. Like City, Dalglish having Ronnie Whelan and Steve McMahon out for the season from January 1991 did for him. They were the engine room in midfield.
The lesson? Doesn't matter what era it is, if you lose your great midfield players, you are more or less finished for the time being until you get replacements.
@BurnsTennis bro I'm just saying no need for emotions. Let's be real if Pogba, Vinnie, Jude or Saka had such a drop off after being named player of the season in the EPL it would be headline news every week. Facts man 🤷♂️ you can't argue unless you in a different dimension. But then again what do I know.
Its all good and well man. We love football regardless of what these former below average players think or say, right?
@@sanelebuthelezi4493 How long have you been watching football? Steve Nicol is a European Cup winner, clearly not below average.
Pogba? I've always found him overrated but that's just my opinion.
Foden? I said it all through the summer on ESPN FC videos when he played for England. Foden is not a world class player. He takes too many touches on the ball, he is too slow and ponderous, he is not a quick decision maker. He has no attributes to be one of the best players in the world unless something changes dramatically
Quite frankly, it should not be headline news that he is struggling. Just football news.
You are very right. They are scared of criticizing Man City. Foden is getting a pass and mainly because of the color of his skin. @sanelebuthelezi4493
I don't get the comparisons between City today and that Liverpool side. That Dalglish side didn't fall of a cliff, as you say they came 2nd.
The loss of McMahon was a big blow and Whelan too, but the Irishman's powers has waned by then as the team aged but there were still players who were playing well and scoring goals.
Dalglish's tactics also became pretty negative by then. Playing defenders in midfield and full backs at wide midfield at times. Playing with 5 in midfield and only one up sometimes . Some dodgy team line ups and choice of signings too.
I feel the signs that that Liverpool team were declining had been there previously and it was a much more gradual than what we're seeing with this city side.
The loss of Rodri though massive, just doesn't explain the entire team becoming a pale shadow of themselves. Or that virtually nobody can score in that team, this season except Haaland.
Full disclosure I was a child in 1990/91 so I am open to the idea that my perception at the time was missing something. 😁
Keep loosing Pep you will get fired.
Haaland is overrated
Massively
It's crazy that you think Haaland is overrated
He's a box predator but he only becomes overrated when they compare him to a player like Mbappe
Compare Haaland 1st season vs Mbappe 1st season lol. Mbappe will only dream of 😂😂😂😂@@eL--RaL
@@gazagovana3291So a player who has 108g/a at City in 120 games is overrated 😂😂😂. You definitely never kicked football in your life 😂😂😂😂
Pep can't change anything when the only midfielders available are the ones I wouldn't have anywhere near City regardless of the situation
Mr. Overrated haaland should stay humble. One bad bad football player.. can only run straight and score tap ins. Delighted for him
Terrible roster moves
Что вы хотите, если Холланд игрок 2 Французской лиги!👆🤦🤣
Pep should be sacked
Everton 2 mancity 1
I don't see anyone else replacing Pep, except maybe Ancelloti or Klopp.
Good for man city😂😂😂
Pep thought Grielish and Foden would step up and they arent. It happens. No one wins forever.
City will win sooner
He obviously wants out. Even he couldn't be that bad when things are going wrong.