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Ha. Pot calling kettle black. You said agree to disagree on Cole's performance but then decided to have a little jibe in and treating as if the games you watched of Cole's performance is right and others are wrong.

MEH! Would be better for us had he not been called up. Well, at least Spain's last 2 WCQs are at home. Not too much traveling and all there..

Inter v Roma. Juventus v AC Milan. Lazio v Fiorentina. All this weekend. Should be fun..

Situation different then and now. Context changed and what you said then is based on current situation, not back 1-2 weeks ago when Barbara said things based circumstances then.

From Mourinho's presser earlier... OR...

Funny you say that when before that, you said this and treating as if your observation was the right one and anything opposite is wrong. Pathetic..

Agree to disagree I supposed but Cole has been under-par this season. Not offering anything going forward, not that he has contributed anything big in that aspect in the past few years, and defensively, he has been rather shaky. Still has some moments but producing more bad moments especially when he seems to be getting skinned all too easily these days by wide players.

Not sure if it's fair to say one is better than the other when they are both different type of players. It all depends on what kind of midfielder do you want. If you are looking for pure B2B midfielder, then Ramires wins it all day. If you want a deep lying playmaker, a passer of the ball, then Gundogan is obviously way better at it.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing Ryan. Had he stayed with us, his development probably won't have happened the way it did right now and we'll maybe just be sending on loan to here and there and everywhere..

Being focus is one thing but that's just one part of the problem! They have quality players from back to front but there are flaws generally in that team simply because of the system and that problem was totally exposed against Bayern. I'm not even questioning Pellegrini's style. Am just looking at the problems of his system and setup of the City team generally and against Bayern..

If that was the message he's sending, then there is clearly a contradiction in it. Cole and Hazard for instance haven't been playing well this season and yet they have started almost every game..

Think you should see the date of the post. Barbara said that before Mata eventually played himself into the starting XI after 3 good performances..

The thing is, City may have been doing well, but the warning signs were already there for City this season in that midfield and defensively as a team. Their away games in the Premier League, especially, have illustrated that. They are lacking the control in midfield with only 2 players in there and teams have found it easy at times to play around there and mind you, despite thrashing United in the derby, there were massive gaps in between City's defence and midfield which Rooney exploited it but to no avail thanks the rubbishness of his team that day. And yet despite all of this, Pellegrini did not look tighten things up yesterday. Also it wasn't just about the lack of mental strength and focus yesterday, the key issue was the setup. Any team playing a 4-4-2 against that Bayern team is extremely suicidal, even for a team with quality and/or with great mental strength and concentration. And again, am only focusing at the game alone yesterday. So, don't get why you are suddenly looking into other aspects of Pellegrini.

Pellegrini may be implementing a new style of play at City but it's one thing trying to play attacking football and another be a tad more streetwise in the approach against certain teams. Mourinho has arguably been trying to change our style of play and implement a new one but yet, he's still adaptable in his approach in setting us up differently for certain games, even though we have probably suffered a bit from it. As for Mancini, am just looking at his approach and suitability against Bayern specifically, not the overall situation with him and Pellegrini at City.

Maybe so but think after 2-3 years of like having no strikers, it's not the best of ideas to have another unpredictable ST in our ranks.

If Pellegrini starting with 2 STs wasn't naive enough, it's probably even more ridiculous that he did not rectify their problems in midfield at HT when City were only 1-0 down by getting another midfielder on. Had Mancini still been in charge, yesterday's humiliation probably wouldn't have happened.

There are some sensible ones on both sides, never said there weren't but those that are supposedly 'anti-Mikel' come up with even more silly excuses and reasons and blame him even when it's not his fault. Their 'opinions', if you can call it that, are arguably even more myopic than some others.

Not really. Sense that they are arguably a tad more sensible in their evaluation of Mikel..

Incredible to see Pellegrini playing a 4-4-2 against Bayern. Tactical genius...

It's not his natural position. It's not his forte. He's a wide player. And using pre-season games especially just because he scored from a ST position is not exactly a strong evidence to support the claim. Him playing there was just more of an experiment before the season starts. Nothing more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2smiXxA64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALt5O48pUg8

Agree but too often we have not got Hazard into a 1 v 1 situation to attack their RB and instead play it short and sometimes slow passing that by the time we get to the final third, Hazard already have 2-3 players marking him. Maybe his niggling injury is affecting his performance right now but it will certainly help if we isolate the opposition's RB with him more.

Proof from Chelsea TV yesterday that Mourinho DID NOT storm out of the press conference on Monday like how it was reported by the media.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNG6Lk1SAok&feature=player_embedded