Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [5th - 9th February 2016]

dannyjo22 said:
With Chelsea out of the picture Pelligrini should have walked this league. The owners should put his head on a pike considering the resources in front of him. Another failure that will move on to the next club for a few million per year.

As for Liverpool, Klopp won't get enough time to sort that mess out. He won't get whats needed to do the job. Far too big a job. This time next year the questions will be asked how they are no further on and no closer to the top. Frankly if he get's near finishing his first contract I will be amazed.
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But yet a few people were saying that he's criminally underrated blah blah blah.


Still think that City will win the title in the end, Leicester are doing extremely well and may go onto win the league though. Arsenal will probably end up 3rd or 4th as usual, they can't seem to hold onto a lead in the league let alone hang onto the lead we had when we were first:p.
 
dannyjo22 said:
With Chelsea out of the picture Pelligrini should have walked this league. The owners should put his head on a pike considering the resources in front of him. Another failure that will move on to the next club for a few million per year.
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If the Man City team had half the commitment and work rate that Leicester are playing with, they should be 10+ points in front by now. :eek: :(
 
Kenai said:
Wanyama off again.

*looks at ref*

Oh, no surprises there then, should have stuck a fiver on that.
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Seeing a few more comments about this card only reinforced my assumption, Clattenburg being a useless knob again by the sounds of it.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
It's worrying isn't it. When you look at the team there's only a handful that are worth keeping.

Clyne
Can
Henderson
Coutinho

I wouldn't be that bothered if every other player was replaced or sent out on loan.
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You dont like Firmino? (I know he is very similar, even if not quite as good, to Coutinho, but still very useful to have surely?)
 
Firmino took his time to settle but has started to look a real player in the last month or 2. And although he plays in the same position (primarily) to Coutinho they're completely different players.

As I mentioned, we need a complete rebuild at the back. There are times where Sakho and Mignolet in particular have gone on runs where they've not just looked good but excellent and you think you've got a player on your hands but throughout their time here they've made far too many mistakes that have cost us.
 
Yas786 said:
But yet a few people were saying that he's criminally underrated blah blah blah.


Still think that City will win the title in the end, Leicester are doing extremely well and may go onto win the league though. Arsenal will probably end up 3rd or 4th as usual, they can't seem to hold onto a lead in the league let alone hang onto the lead we had when we were first:p.
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City have mistakenly built a team around Toure when he's done nothing worthy of it. Yeah he's had great games and had one great scoring season but even that season he was so bad in so many games that he cost them points and other top players could also score and contribute plenty.

When Toure is 'off' which is like 70% of every game, they struggle defensively and offensively. The difference between when Toure is bothering to play hard and not is night and day. It's not Pellegrini's fault they have Toure or won't sell him. Silva also frequently struggles under pressure, particularly in europe. He's a bit weak to play centrally in the 10 role, doesn't score enough for a central attacking mid/no 10 and he's far too slow to play wide. He does some magical stuff against weaker teams but when it comes to a Barcelona game he's anonymous.


Where Spurs are doing well for Poch is willing to back him getting rid of those players who are inconsistent, have the wrong attitude and don't have the drive. He pushed out Sandro/Paulinho and the team are massively better for it. To be fair to Sherwood, he dropped both and the team improved. Too many players are one in ten game players that clubs end up not pushing out the door.

There are two types of clubs really now, a Spurs which backed the manager and pushed out players the manager didn't want and those like City/Bayern/Real who buy the players the club want and the manager has to use what he's given. Bayern buy brilliantly and have a brilliant squad that any manager would love. City have too many 'meh' players that the manager has to just deal with. Fernando/Toure aren't nearly consistent/good enough for central midfield, Fernandinho is inconsistent but does have great games... with a more reliable partner in midfield he might be good enough.


I don't think Pellegrini has been great, but a lot of the teams issues are outside of his control, including Aguero's **** hamstrings.
 
BaZ87 said:
Firmino took his time to settle but has started to look a real player in the last month or 2. And although he plays in the same position (primarily) to Coutinho they're completely different players.

As I mentioned, we need a complete rebuild at the back. There are times where Sakho and Mignolet in particular have gone on runs where they've not just looked good but excellent and you think you've got a player on your hands but throughout their time here they've made far too many mistakes that have cost us.
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I actually think that Sakho is fitted to football on the continent. He is pretty capable but he gets in such a state whenever he has the ball at his feet. He cannot cope with being attacked quickly when he has possession and seems to go into a blind panic and doesnt think quick enough about what to do with the ball. On the continent, I dont think he would get closed upon as quickly as he does here in the EPL.

Mignolet though, I've lost patience with him. Personally I would like to see Ward in goal for the remaining games of the season. He is a goalkeeper who is well on form this year (albeit in Scotland) and as someone said earlier, he must be wondering why he was brought back off loan if he is just sitting in the background when he could have remained up there and continued his vein of form and experience gathering.
 
FrankJH said:
You dont like Firmino? (I know he is very similar, even if not quite as good, to Coutinho, but still very useful to have surely?)
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When he's good he's exceptional but he's only been exceptional in a 3 or 4 games and the rest he's been absolutely atrocious for us, good for the opposition.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
When he's good he's exceptional but he's only been exceptional in a 3 or 4 games and the rest he's been absolutely atrocious for us, good for the opposition.
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A month ago I'd have agreed with you. There were times when I was wondering if we signed a lookalike or something because he couldn't do the simplest of things. His form in the last month or so has been consistently good though and tbf to him, even when he wasn't playing well earlier in the season he was still producing individual moments in matches.
 
JohnnyG said:
They bought £35m+ worth of players this season, what is the cut off amount for buying the league?
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Probably something along the lines of what city have spent and to a lesser degree what Chelsea used to spend till your owner decided to tighten the purse strings.
 
JohnnyG said:
They bought £35m+ worth of players this season, what is the cut off amount for buying the league?
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Put it into perspective - Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd all spend that on one player. Villa spent 50m or so and look where we are!

Leicester's expenditure on players was 37.62m for 8 players, 2.8m more than Liverpool spent on Benteke alone and 12.32m less than Aston Villa spent on 10 players!
 
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