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This. Same reason why despite his defensive errors at times, Pellegrini was never going to buy a new LB as Kolarov is porbably the best attacking LB in League and one of the best in Europe. Give Baba games on a regular basis and he will grow. I am sure of it. He made more tackles than any other full back in the Bundesliga for a reason last season.

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As much as I think his general performance has been poor, we really don't provide him with the service he needs. This stat is telling. From defence to midfield to attack, we seem bereft of ideas.

It will not make a difference. He will not displace Deeney or Ighalo from the team. Then look at their other strikers. Diamaniti, Ibarbo and Oulare who are all more experienced and probably better than Bamford too. That loan would be a no go. I think we have to accept the reality is he is not going to get into a PL side. He might get a start against Palace in the cup game but then it will be back to square one.

Yet he still created the best chance of the game for Yaya Toure which he fluffed. Pellegrini admitted himself that his side was more defensive today than usual. Hazard was no different when we played City last season because of our tactics but both games, created the best chances but it was difficult for him to shine. That was obviously the same with KDB. He obviously was not great but he still created the best chances in a game where the attacking display from both teams were rather dull.

Has been injured in recent weeks.He is now fit but not match fit. Either way, before he got injured he lost his place in the team and will have more difficulties getting in now as they are improving as a team. I suspect this loan atm is a bit of a step too far for him. Tbh, I have never been his biggest fan. I think he is a player who cuts it out in youth levels because of his physicality but in the men's game he will struggle imo. Especially with the fact that we are turning him more into a winger. He has not got outstanding pace and is not a very good dribbler, he is decent. I don't have him in the same category I rate other youngsters such as Boga, Musonda, Solanke and RLC for instance. Maybe he will prove me wrong. He is only 18 after all.

Sterling got a hattrick first. Now Kane. Both against Bournemouth. Costa should have a field day against Bournemouth when we play them. They have lost key players to injuries and think they are certainly going down.

Why did you make a promise if you can't keep it? You said you are working on it from 2 weeks ago. Be a man and stick to your world pal.

Mate, just a few weeks ago people were saying Kenedy was an upgrade over him. Football is such a fickle world.

Right now he is lacking in pretty much everything. He gets dominated in the air, seems to have lost a lot of speed and just is not clicking atm. Really needs to improve on his hold up play and aerial ability because he literally is not offering anything for us up front.

Just seen what Matic done on MOTD. What can his explanation be? Someone mentioned it was like he almost done it on purpose. It literally looked like he did. Was a ridiculous thing to do and Azpi had it covered anyway. Mind boggling. Feels so awful being a Chelsea fan right now.

James is not better than Hazard. Hazard is in a bad spell but he is better than James imo.

Seriously, how does Mourinho expect us to win games by playing Zouma at RB and Azpi at LB. It has defensively set up written all over it. Zouma is fast but is not good enough on the ball to offer a threat going forward. Azpi is a RB playing at LB. Says it all. He still thinks playing this kind of bullshit is fine. Do it one game against Kiev when you want a point fair enough but constantly planning to do that is ridiculous. Had enough of his boring tactics. I could accept it last season when it was effective but now we cannot attack nor can we defend.

I know the situation with Matic did not help but 15th after 10 games is just poor and form that deserves to be sack. Cannot stay any longer surely. He can't get the team out of this mess. We still have not stringed 2 league wins together and this is just going from bad to worse. His supporters can't keep defending him for much longer. Becoming a joke now. The wins have not been convincing. The draw against Dynamo Kiev just showed a good defensive performance but where was the attacking signs? No where. Hazard 0 goals. Costa only 3 goals against shit teams. Fabregas only has about 2 assists and the worse part we have conceded the most amount of goals this season IIRC and we are the champions. This is crisis!

Back to square one once again. We really never are going to string 2 league wins together.

Solanke had to go out on loan tbh. He is getting valuable first team experience. Better than being 3rd choice here. He outgrown the reserve football too. No better place for him right now than Vitesse.

Arsenal and Liverpool fans probably said the same thing and lost. Cannot underestimate them. Very good team.

Wickham injured, Chamakh injured, Gayle suspended. Does Bamford start? No. Frazier Campbell Sooner this loan ends, the better. Sadly was right about this loan never going to work.

Him also being 20 years of age contributed towards it because they know he can contribute something now and is also a huge long term investment. If you don't rate him as much as others do that is fine but come on, he is 20 and you have to take into consideration that he will improve on his current level of ability. Already at his age he is a regular with England and the best team in England and is playing alongside world class players. That will help him too. He obviously is not world class yet as he is very inconsistent but how many young players are there who actually are consistent? He might lack some things but he also possesses a lot of things. Excellent dribbler, excellent balance, despite his finishing needing to improve he scores a fair amount of goals every season tbh. And while you are stating he was playing for a team that struggled to get into Europe, let's not forget that at the age of 19 he was part of the team that finished above us and so nearly won the league. Yes, Suarez was the main cause but he was excellent that season. There are probably players you rate around the age of 25 or 26 who probably were as inconsistent as Sterling was if not more at the same age. And yeah, the thread might get overhyped when he scores. I don't remember anyone actually coming here and posting anything when he scored against Watford or Sunderland because they were nothing great about it. However scoring a hattrick in one half is an excellent achievement and people naturally praised him for it.

Strawberry blonde.

I don't. I think people see the current situation we are in and how clueless we look in creating chances and obviously when a player we had on our hands goes and makes an impact at a inferior club like Wolfbsurg is one thing. But when he makes such an impact at the same time at a club like City, it just annoys people of how we let such a quality player go. This is a world class player we are talking about and people are obviously pissed because no other manager but Mourinho would have shipped him on and it frustrates the shit out of us. Obviously there is a lot more talk about KDB right now because of the way we are underperforming but it is a forum and we discuss things and I don't see what is bad about that. I have these chats about KDB and our players with fellow fans and other rival fans on a regular basis in person so I don't really see the problem doing so on here.

There is negativity due to how the team is performing. No one is threatening to go to Mourinho's house and assasinate him are they? Members are discussing their concerns about Mourinho and the team and that is totally fine. It is a forum. of course when we have better days it will be more of a cheerful forum but everything I have seen so far has been fine. It seems the only people who are complaining about negativity are the ones who can't find a fault in Mourinho. As with old members. people like Lionsden are being banned for simply being over-critical which I think was very harsh as he was an excellent contributor and rarely if ever offended anyone. If we are going to start deleting comments and so on for people being critical over Mourinho then that is just as worse as members getting sacked for having a constant negative attitude. I was looking back and all the comments that have been against Mourinho have been well argued and the reasons are valid.