Manchester City – “Kryptonite!”

[Nike19]

Is their Helm and place on Mantle over?

Does this correlate with the Ultimate Decision of 115 + Charges hanging Over?

Just Nature?

T 1000 No Doubt, though All Things As they Say Come To An END?

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[Mikus LFC]

This is some derailment it has to be said. We saw Liverpool under Klopp go through some awful runs of form. I think with this modern intense way of playing – when it works well, it’s great. But lose even a couple of percent on the performance levels, and it can all fall down quickly like a house of cards, particularly with injuries and/or a team starting to age.

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[Nike19]

Mikus spot on. I read a comment like this on another platform that correlates with Jurgen’s gegen-pressing. Inevitably season after season cannot be sustainable. It’s actually a miracle we have Salah playing so many seasons for us and is probably at his best level. Van Dijk too.

Rodri and Kovacic there’s no denying, but other players levels have dropped and naturally their confidence has taken a beating.

Playing I believe with 2 holding midfielders is probably a more safer way to try and rebuild some lost resilience. Pep’s wingers have lacked too. There was goals before coming from more than just Haaland.

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[sean the sailor]

Rodri is just a massive loss. Real first test for pep as a manager to bounce back and im sure he will

Few players out of form and kovaic a loss aswell. Lack of legs in there

They will bounce back sooner rather then later

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[CM]

Know he signed a new contract shortly afterwards, but in my opinion Peps and City dive in form coincides with Txiki Begiristain announcing his departure. The same happened at Barcelona and Pep left just shortly afterwards. Peps best years has always been working alongside Txiki Begiristain.

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[threeps]

I think there’s a number of reasons that have coincided at the same time. Player performances have nose dived but why?

Key old players losing their legs at the same time for one.

Poor recruitment with the likes of Nunes, salvinho, Grealish and Doku not a patch on the likes of Silva, Mahrez and Aguero. They have also sold better players than they have bought, Palmer being the obvious but also Alvarez and even Delap.

Over reliant on Haaland for goals but when you play him it’s like being a man down during the build up and if you’re not in form then it shows, but there’s no one to change that.

115 (129/130) causing issues? Maybe not so much with the players but certainly with the crowd, not that they are know as the most influential anyway.

Injuries? Sure an elite player like Rodri will be missed but this again goes to poor recruitment, there should be a back up other than the injured Kovavic who I am not is an able back up in that role. Can you imagine what would happen if Haaland gets injured?

But also Pep must share responsibility. He is a great coach no doubt, he has shaped to some degree the template of how elite football is played these days. But I feel he needs every player in his system to function at 100% and he doesn’t have the flexibility to change things if they don’t. A player fails the system fails and he cannot or will not fix it.

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[Editor]

Completely agree with Threeps. If it’s mostly because of Rodri missing then that’s on Pep for not having adequate backup. For years they’ve been banging on about their impressive net spend and it’s come back to bite them. I can’t help but feel they place more value on being able to show how much they made on the likes of Alvarez than actually worrying about how valuable he was to the team. This is the first time in a long time City’s recruitment can be seriously questioned. Imagine where they’d be if they’d kept Lavia, Palmer and Alvarez, for instance.

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[Mikus LFC]

Good posts above. I’d just add that I think with this modern intense way of playing, you only need to have a couple of percent drop off in performance to create a much bigger drop off in results. You also saw this with Klopp at Liverpool when they went through some horrible patches of form. It’s not just a case of dropping a few points here and there, it’s losing 6, 7 games in a row. It all reminds me of a concept called “unstable equilibrium”. Things can appear to be fine for a long time – but it can only take a small nudge or change of conditions for the whole thing to fall like a house of cards.

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[Nike19]

Three P’s, first line of your post is Spot On.

I think too ultimately, there’s a shelf life for Pep as far as his tenure at City goes. This Parallels to Jurgen Klopp and he knew it was the right time to walk and allow a new face to take charge.

There’s no denying of a period of Dominance push aside the allegations and all the rest of it.

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[CM]

Average cost of starting 11 between 2016-2024

Manchester City-£550m
Manchester United – £370m
Chelsea – £370m
Liverpool -£340m
Arsenal – £340m

Average cost of starting 11 this season

Chelsea – £420m
Manchester City-£410m
Manchester United – £360m
Arsenal – £360m
Liverpool -£350m

Saw this earlier and again, don’t know how accurate it is. But is Pep pretty much on a even playing field now.

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[Nike19]

Just looking at Newcastle’s form and Isak on Strike yet again. Ok, so a small margin, but City for the first time in years, in freak in my mind face even securing Top 4.

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[sean the sailor]

Lol thats some contract for haaland.

City will get away with those charges. Heavy fine id say

Signing players and handing out cobtracts like that

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[threeps]

Doesn’t the contract length work out to 115 months?

City won’t know the outcome yet so this has no relevance. But good news for Haaland we will be loaded if someone comes in for him, the thing is no one can for the foreseeable future.

Buying players to solve problems is City and Pep’s MO. Thought the best coach in the world could have coached a solution? No, just buy buy buy…

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[Chucky McChuckface]

To be fair, who would turn him down? I think any team would have “bought” him if they either had the dosh or permission from his Dad… 🙂

Anyway, I’d be beating all the Monster Munch in the world he won’t be seeing it out. If he’s still there in 2034 I’ll eat a pair of Buffy’s pants!

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[steveosnakeeye]

Again?

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Taste so gooooooooodddddd… I’ll let you take them off this time!

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[steveosnakeeye]

🤮

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[Nike19]

There’s just something really odd about all this. Just Bananas. Handbrake probably already off; but this stuff with the length of time is just so off.

The only thing I can see is the owners trying to keep him knowing he’s a ‘commodity’ that will sell shirts and buy an audience.

Shirt and ticket prices in very recent times have inflated.

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[CM]

They have escaped punishment.

How else would they be able to afford to give such a lengthy and lucrative contract to their star player.

It is pretty much a hint.

English football is dead, we know they cheated, they are state owned and can buy out of whatever they want.

They are even going off and spending 70m on a new signing.

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[Nike19]

I honestly don’t understand it. Seems like a correlation against their current situation re FFP.

If anybody can kindly explain what this all means, I would be grateful 🙂

We can meanwhile enjoy a little City’s current situation in the league 😉

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