Kai Havertz has picked up an injury in Dubai. We had a front 3 of Martinelli, Saka and Havertz – all of those are injured. We are left with Nwaneri (an 18 year old), Trossard and Sterling (who is on loan). It was clear 2 seasons ago that we needed enforcement in attack and we ignored it completely. I don’t care if it’s the manager or the technical director or the club stopping such a move, I know the money was there and we spent it all on defenders. We have this approach of making sure to cover all ifs and buts in the defense while praying for the god if something happens in attack. And the pryaer didn’t work, so we are going to pay the price!
Kai Havertz is out for the season. Not that he was a prolific striker but we lack even the half decent options in attack and him missing at this season puts our season in jeopardy. Ultimately, Sterling will play on one side, Nwaneri on the other and Trossard in the middle. It doesn’t give me confidence at all.
I’m not sure if anyone had given attention to the attack, at all! Gabriel Jesus is an injury prone player, everyone knew that when he was at City. Havertz was brought as a midfielder who is covering the CF position, but it’s not like he is a TH14 incarnation whom we have moved from the wings to the middle. We needed a striker and we didn’t have one since Aubameyang left. It’s such a pathetic condition that if the twitter ITKs spread the rumours that we are in the market for Eddie Nketiah, I will feel happy!
All this crap of ‘titles are won in the defence’ makes sense when you have Mustafi in your line-up. Not when you have a 17 year keeping the likes of Zinchenko (45m), Calafiori (35m) away from the starting line up. You, at this level, should have identified that talent, stopped yourself from spending 40 odd millions in the defence and used that money to get a CF. We were ready to pay 40m for Ollie Watkins, Villa were asking for 60. 60million GBP for a decent striker at 29 years of age is YES any day when you have Jesus and Havertz to pick from. If you were out of money, you should have sold Zinchenko, or shouldn’t have bought Calafiori and used some of that money to fix the main problem.
I’m frustrated. Havertz is injured for the season and we have no one to fix this problem. We did nothing in the transfer window.
You know what Mikel will do? He will try to fix it by playing Merino or Trossard in that position. Be brave enough, accept your mistake and develop someone in that role from the academy. You got MLS, Saka, Nwaneri who is saving your arse, go and develop someone for a change rather than crying in every press conference. If you can’t do that and the only thing you know is spending 100m to fix a problem, you are just Pep without trophies.
Right, a short rant today. Hope you are doing well.
FFS why take Skelly off he just saved us
The closest and only one is Nwari.
Hit the upright and the crossbar ,once each
MOTM Nwaneri for me better than Ode and closest to scoring
Let’s get a status outside Emirates of Merino yeah
Nwaneri just saved Arteta from some serious grief.
Thank fuck for Nwaneri’s vision. Sub the midget and put 6 footer on
statue*
Bit premature Ambarish but I understand your feeling
Fuck sake
Need a 2nd to put this game to bed against relegation placed LC
Tony
I’m guessing you agree with me now
Merino our new 9 finally playing sensible with thinking player.
Well until Martinelli’s back when there’s an argument for him to start through the middle I don’t want to see Sterling starting for us.
Over to Slot now. Pressure now on pool at last.
Marc
Sterling should be sent back to Chavs. He’s that bad and why Chavs didn’t want him.
Can someone tell me why City – Newcastle isn’t a televised match in the UK?
I mean the 5.30 kickoff is Palace vs Everton – we’ll all need some of Kroenke medicine to keep awake for that one.
Tony
No argument – we’d be better off investing the time in a youth player.
If on Hotstar, select Premier League tag. Thare all matches are listed.
Match has not started yet.
Maybe 12 minutes more
Marc try this streams. Really good.
https://soccer-100.com/
Thanks Madhu
It was more a who’s selecting the televised matches.