31 Aug 2015 10:13:46
thoughts on who we will actually sign then?
I think the de bruyne deal may force our hand on going all out for Pogba. player for player city are looking streets ahead of any other team in the league right now.
so i'm thinking we MIGHT get pogba at the last minute. I expect us to sign a fairly average CB also. Terry/Cahill/zouma will come good. you don't go from the best defence to the worst defence in a couple months. the players just need to pull themselves together and boost up their confidence with a couple clean sheets.
31 Aug 2015 10:58:46
Fact is that defense was playing deep, and had most of the 11 defending with them. Now they're suddenly playing high line for some reason (maybe the fans whinging about boringness) and they are bad. It's like the AVB days, high line with this current crop is never going to work. Never did understand why Felipe Luis didn't get games. And Zouma needs to be starting. If he's not good enough, we need to go into the market for another pacy centre back.
31 Aug 2015 11:27:44
The change to high line does confuse me. Maybe when baba has trained with the squad enough and is ready to play he will make a difference. we need a box to box midfielder so badly imo. an in form ramires would do for now but that seems about as likely as a mikel goal.
31 Aug 2015 11:47:06
Ramires contributes very little, in my opinion. He scores infrequently and he creates nothing. If he runs with the ball he normally just keeps going until he loses it. His main talent seems to be getting yellow and red cards.
31 Aug 2015 11:55:30
Whilst what you have said is reasonably accurate in the past season and a half or so. before then ramires was one of the first names on the teamsheet. if he could pick up his form and master some late runs into the box he could be a good stop-gap until we find a good partner for matic.