How Have City Ended Up With Such A Revolting Team?

Sohofox

Sohofox

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Just look as the disgusting array of absolute garbage on show yesterday and ask yourself "How did it come to this???"
We had such a bunch of braves - not all stars but all gave their all.
Now all I see now are a bunch of caants most of whom can't control the ball and don't seem to have the basics needed to play professional football.
Its like watching a whole team of Akinbiyis and Benjamins with a mix of Junior Lewises thrown in.
Look at the caants. Apart from Maddison and Tielemans (and I'm not sure they are all they think they are) there's absolutely nothing worth a tuppenny wank at all.
We are going down because we deserve to go down.
Who in the name of all that is holy faacking recruited this lot?
The 7/2 is still blinding value for the drop cos realistically we are Evens at best.
 
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Sohofox said:
Just look as the disgusting array of absolute garbage on show yesterday and ask yourself "How did it come to this???"
We had such a bunch of braves - not all stars but all gave their all.
Now all I see now are a bunch of caants most of whom can't control the ball and don't seem to have the basics needed to play professional football.
Its like watching a whole team of Akinbiyis and Benjamins with a mix of Junior Lewises thrown in.
Look at the caants. Apart from Maddison and Tielemans (and I'm not sure they are all they think they are) there's absolutely nothing worth a tupenny wank at all.
We are going down because we deserve to go down.
Who in the name of all that is holy faacking recruited this lot?
The 7/2 is still blinding value for the drop cos realistically we are Evens at best.
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BFR, Congerton and Rudkin, the holy-shit trinity of ineptitude.
 
Soho .....we used to be a Team, now a collection of Individuals and not good ones either
Some of Saturday's woeful efforts you may well see in Saturday Morning School matches on the Recce, in defence of that those lads are learning.
The basics of football control, passing, and movement are missing God alone knows where its gone.
We are talking about supposed professional people here who get paid handsomely for providing their ( dare I say it) Skills. We are not at the crossroads we've past that ages ago, cannot see where we can pick up points,
If it was a collective unit playing there would be a glimmer of hope, but sadly
even the management cannot turn it around
as they look clueless as much as the players.
 
SemperEadem said:
Whelan, Spiers, Mundy and Top too
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We did not look at the track record of people put in control of acquiring players.Players put into the team were not at the standard of players leaving We thought we knew better than the market , we sold Mahrez for £60 million and tried to replace him with bargain basement acquisitions we played the same trick with Fofana
That is how to transform a top half Premier team into one at championship level
They look like they might achieve it
 
When the going gets tough the squad of ‘players’ (I use that term very loosely) should be inspired by the leaders on or off the pitch - we have not one.
The only one on Saturday who showed a modicum of effort needed was hooked and replaces by a complete wank-stain.
Please, please, please fuck off Rogers - and take the pile of dog mess you call tactics with you.
 
It’s all about crossing the fine line between conceit and narcissism. Most successful football managers are vain and conceited. They have to be, if they are to succeed against all odds. But those same qualities that are needed to drive teams forward (think Ferguson, think Clough) are present in excess in a narcissist. Their main traits, as defined by psychologists, are;
  • Overblown sense of self (exaggerates accomplishments, expects to be seen as superior)
  • Preoccupied with fantasies of power and brilliance
  • A strong sense of being unique
  • Excessive demands for attention and admiration
  • One who routinely belittles, or takes advantage, of others
  • A person lacking in empathy, who discounts the opinions of others, and is arrogant and haughty.
Again, psychological studies show that narcissistic leadership can be successful for a while. But the toll it takes on subordinates ultimately leads to burn out, disaffection, loss of team spirit and corporate failure.
 
channys6thswan said:
It’s all about crossing the fine line between conceit and narcissism. Most successful football managers are vain and conceited. They have to be, if they are to succeed against all odds. But those same qualities that are needed to drive teams forward (think Ferguson, think Clough) are present in excess in a narcissist. Their main traits, as defined by psychologists, are;
  • Overblown sense of self (exaggerates accomplishments, expects to be seen as superior)
  • Preoccupied with fantasies of power and brilliance
  • A strong sense of being unique
  • Excessive demands for attention and admiration
  • One who routinely belittles, or takes advantage, of others
  • A person lacking in empathy, who discounts the opinions of others, and is arrogant and haughty.
Again, psychological studies show that narcissistic leadership can be successful for a while. But the toll it takes on subordinates ultimately leads to burn out, disaffection, loss of team spirit and corporate failure.
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It’s interesting as I’ve called him a narcissist for ages. Yes Clough was the same. If he was made of chocolate he’d have eaten himself. But he showed when he was on his own he couldn’t do it. Put the straight talking Taylor with him to keep him on board he was a genius.
It’s always confused me that people compare Clough and MON. Apart from straight talking directness they’ve nothing in common. Clough was all about protecting himself whereas MON couldn’t be more different
 
Sohofox said:
Just look as the disgusting array of absolute garbage on show yesterday and ask yourself "How did it come to this???"
We had such a bunch of braves - not all stars but all gave their all.
Now all I see now are a bunch of caants most of whom can't control the ball and don't seem to have the basics needed to play professional football.
Its like watching a whole team of Akinbiyis and Benjamins with a mix of Junior Lewises thrown in.
Look at the caants. Apart from Maddison and Tielemans (and I'm not sure they are all they think they are) there's absolutely nothing worth a tuppenny wank at all.
We are going down because we deserve to go down.
Who in the name of all that is holy faacking recruited this lot?
The 7/2 is still blinding value for the drop cos realistically we are Evens at best.
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4/1 on the exchange
 
The immortals were not an assembly of quality, nor were they all die for each other grafters but they had enough of each in the right places along with a pattern of play which exploited what they did have to the maximum (set up by NFP and Shakespear). I think we started to go wrong when we stopped realising our limitations and started to think we could be a Ferrari on a Mini budget by our infallible recruitment capability. We then hired a Manager who thought he was getting a Ferrari as his type of play needed one. We can cope with the odd bad buy but when 4 out of 5 becomes the norm you're buggered.
 
The Immortals knew each others style of play, they knew weaknesses,the key was not disturbing from previous exploits
Ranieri recognised a unit combined with little tweaks in play after all it was simple basic football quick ball movement fast attack that had opponents twisting and turning not knowing it was exploited the full
Just surprised me and millions of others that the elite couldn't fathom it with there intricate methods
 
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Obsessed with the continuous selling of all our best players, while I appreciate the need for selling some, but there has to be a ballance!
The selling of all our best players, that's what's coming home to roost now. Why are people surprised that all we have left is unmotivated dross ???
 
Ibbo said:
Obsessed with the continuous selling of all our best players, while I appreciate the need for selling some, but there has to be a ballance!
The selling of all our best players, that's what's coming home to roost now. Why are people surprised that all we have left is unmotivated dross ???
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Oddly I think not selling Tielemans is one of the reasons for our current plight.
 
Too right Daggers it goes a hell of a lot deeper than him, simple techniques are shot to pieces, none seem comfortable on the ball, this quicker on the ball is simple if
You apply yourself, its not hard but if the concentration is lacking then you are indeed in the shit, which is where we find ourselves in at this moment
 
Ibbo said:
Obsessed with the continuous selling of all our best players, while I appreciate the need for selling some, but there has to be a ballance!
The selling of all our best players, that's what's coming home to roost now. Why are people surprised that all we have left is unmotivated dross ???
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& why are they unmotivated I wonder??? Oh yes their own manager saying his team are the equivalent of a mini to the opposition’s Ferrari would help with that wouldn’t it.
Shame a reporter wasn’t quick enough to point out that the Ferrari has been stuck in the garage all season with many issues that has caused it to be no better than a Nissan quasqui.
 
It's instructive to compare ourselves with BR's first two years.
Then we were hardworking, motivated and played for each other. Now we are anything but.
BR sensed this nine months ago, saying that the squad was in need of refreshing.
In other words some had been here too long, and not solely on the pitch.
The decision (FFP and transfer income loss motivated) to ignore this is at the root of today's lacklustre mood.
Added to which, far too many playing assets have missed matches, stretching an already overplayed squad
further, review needed?
Any fan knows that the best/only way out of a confidence crisis is a win or two. The team which beat Spurs
and Villa will get a break or two and all would be well. At least for the moment.
Whether BR then recovers his initial influence remains to be seen.
If not we go down and Captain Rodgers will go too. Those in charge of the finances won't.
 
Oadlad said:
It's instructive to compare ourselves with BR's first two years.
Then we were hardworking, motivated and played for each other. Now we are anything but.
BR sensed this nine months ago, saying that the squad was in need of refreshing.
In other words some had been here too long, and not solely on the pitch.
The decision (FFP and transfer income loss motivated) to ignore this is at the root of today's lacklustre mood.
Added to which, far too many playing assets have missed matches, stretching an already overplayed squad
further, review needed?
Any fan knows that the best/only way out of a confidence crisis is a win or two. The team which beat Spurs
and Villa will get a break or two and all would be well. At least for the moment.
Whether BR then recovers his initial influence remains to be seen.
If not we go down and Captain Rodgers will go too. Those in charge of the finances won't.
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He sensed it 9 months ago??
Well he’s more dim & slow than I think then because we’ve been playing very very poor football for over 18 months now. He is without doubt the main reason we are in serious shit right now.
 
This scenario should never have got this far
We have relied on players week in week out
Who are clearly were not up to the standard we needed, why did we not give youth a chance as the could quite honestly have done no worse, and could have improved themselves given the chance to do so.
Lost in all of this is the coaching aspect,
Given that it's is there job to remove weaknesses and improve players capabilities
Last of all is the Manager who I believe has lost the plot, no other in this field would tolerate the mistakes being made constantly
week in week out, without coming down hard on individuals, surely these players should upset other by their stupidity on occasions
 
Shmikes was one of the experienced backbone of the team, with Evans, and Vards.
They were all, with their experience, our voices on the pitch.
That's one of the things we miss.
Allowing KS to wander away without so much as a 'cheers' was criminal and can only have been to get his pay off the books.
It says so much about the bloke that he still 'loves us'.
 
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