Man City are not Lance Armstrong FC; they are not financially doping. They just spend their money better. Plus, views on Klopp and Ten Hag.
Man City are not Lance Armstrong FC; they are not financially doping. They just spend their money better.Hearing the Liverpool and Arsenal fans trotting out the usual “what do you expect…Man115City outspent us” seems contrived to say the least.
The reality is that all those clubs could have made a play for Pep, and could have bought Grealish, Haaland, or De Bruyne. For whatever reason, they didn’t and prioritised other players . Conversely, if Man City lose, it will be because they weakened themselves considerably by binning off Gungodan, Mahrez, and Cole Palmer.Armstrong cheated by juicing himself with various performance enhancing drugs to his advantage over natural non-drug taking cyclists. His body was then stronger, faster and with more endurance, which allowed him to perform at a level no one else could complete with. That is clearly cheating by gaining an unfair advantage over everyone he is competing against.
The idea that City have “unlimited fossil fuel funding” is laughable when City haven’t signed a left back since 2017. And that same left back was injured after a month and City have had to use midfielders, right backs, centre backs and even Bernardo Silva as solutions for this gap since then. Cast your mind back to Sunday afternoon. The final whistle blows. Mikel has a face like a slapped arse and the Villa players are celebrating in front of their fans. Sky do the usual quick cut highlights package of the goals as they head to a commercial break and display their now customary tag line which on this occasion reads:I’m sorry, I could’ve sworn that City played Luton the day before.
As a fan, it’s frustrating, because you can see they have the physical and technical attributes to be a top class player and if things could just click… but they won’t. It never will. They are what they are. Darwin, like Nani, is a decent player, capable of the sublime but also the ridiculous. He’s coming 25, he’s not a kid, the penny won’t drop. Accept him for what he is now or be forever frustrated; he’s not for changing.
This would give United more of the attacking opportunities where they perform best whilst retaining possession and omitting the problems associated with a low block defence. United do this by playing the ball around the defensive line and retreating back towards their own goal which draws the opposition into their half. When sufficiently deep they either play a long accurate pass or a series of quick forward passes into the front three who can now attack a thin backtracking defence.
Why would Ten Hag implement this reckless style without the necessary players? Stubbornness. The now meme like response of “stick to the plan” is basically his mantra, he’s been saying it since the losses to Brighton and Brentford in his first season and I think this style has been the plan all along.
If he was to remain in charge and was backed to perfect this strategy then that team would be a sight to behold. It might not be solid or conservative enough to win the league but it would play murder in the cups and likely do best against those teams who press high. Ultimately, I don’t think he’ll get the time to finish his plan but the chaos is at least very entertaining in the meantime and understanding his motives does make it a bit easier to endure the bad performances.
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