OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 With the turn of the year coming up he has very little time to prove himself again. His tactics are getting found out and we aren't winning games we should be. Peps lurking too and we all know Roman wants him so I expect talks to begin in January unless Roman's delighted with RDM... so its up to him to stay in a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidator 5,176 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 This thread should be locked for 1 day after every match for the sake of embarrassing knee-jerk reactions from certain members... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgiannutt 3,201 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I don't think it really matters what system we play. It's the personnel we employ. Today we played with 2 holding midfielders and it showed. Passing the ball was fine untill we reached the half way line. Then they just didn't know what to do.Hazard was playing on the nr 10 position but barely received any balls on that position. He constantly had to drop deep to receive the ball. If you want to get the best of Hazard when he's playing on the 10 you need to play him between the lines. Not have him drop deep and distribute the ball. After half an hour he was put back on the wing so he could finally receive some decent balls in a forward area.With Mata and Oscar we looked a little bit better but i still didn't see any sort of recognisable system.They just seem to run everywhere. There's just no line in our way of play. There's nothing on which our players can get their bearings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamiCFC9 258 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Imo Pep can't come soon enough.And imo RDM should've went with Drogba, after 1-2 months of shit (and no doubt it's coming) he won't be even as loved as he was at the end of last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klopfzeichen 78 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 You people are embarrasing. Worse than little kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray 9,441 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I don't think it really matters what system we play. It's the personnel we employ. Today we played with 2 holding midfielders and it showed. Passing the ball was fine untill we reached the half way line. Then they just didn't know what to do.Hazard was playing on the nr 10 position but barely received any balls on that position. He constantly had to drop deep to receive the ball. If you want to get the best of Hazard when he's playing on the 10 you need to play him between the lines. Not have him drop deep and distribute the ball. After half an hour he was put back on the wing so he could finally receive some decent balls in a forward area.With Mata and Oscar we looked a little bit better but i still didn't see any sort of recognisable system.They just seem to run everywhere. There's just no line in our way of play. There's nothing on which our players can get their bearings.True. Very frustrating indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 We shall see..testing times and hope he can turn it around.And should ever Pep come lets hope he never has a bad patch..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamiCFC9 258 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 If RDM was trying to implement an offensive style of play, that suits our new players, I would've been the first guy to defend him after a bad spell but the guy isn't doing anything and is hopeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray 9,441 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 *adjusts his perspective. Long term growth mode activated* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I am fully behind RDM, but as far as his long term future is concerned i am going to trust Roman to make that decision. Jose aside he hasn't got any wrong so far.I was up in arms when Carlo and AVB got the chop, both turned out to be the right decision's so i have learned to trust Roman, after all he loves the club just like we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 this question will have a definite answer on Tuesday against juve. does he have enough gts to drop torres n do what is best for the team or just do what is best for a sulking bitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrique 9,133 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Imo Pep can't come soon enough.And imo RDM should've went with Drogba, after 1-2 months of shit (and no doubt it's coming) he won't be even as loved as he was at the end of last season.Well, You should respect RDM a lot more. He was the best option for that moment, I still believe he is the best option right now, and he is doing at least a decent job. Not sure if I would let Guardiola scape, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I find it really difficult to judge RDM when he doesn't have a world class striker...lots of times we play well, crosses are there, passes are there and shots are there, but goals are not...goalkeepers also tend to have storming matches against us...if Sturridge scored today when he went 1on1 I'm pretty sure we would have won. There were also a few chances against Liverpool where we could've simply won the game and also killed it of early but yet again, we failed to find the back of the net...I won't blame Robbie for that because we know that he club wanted to bring another striker before this season. There were approaches for Higuain, Lewandowski, Cavani, Shurrle and Falcao, yet we didn't manage to bring anyone in probably due to the board refusing to let clubs pull our titties again which I applaud.I'm really anxious to see what will happen in January and who will lead our front line in the 2nd half of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitasrp 2 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 I really can't understand why people blame RDM for playing two holding midfielders in the double pivot. If Ramires was tired and wasn't able to play 90 minutes, then how many options did we have? We have three central midfielders, one was tired, so RDM really had to play Mikel with Romeu, because we have no depth at that position. And believe me, even Guardiola can't do miracles with three central midfielders at the moment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamiCFC9 258 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 I really can't understand why people blame RDM for playing two holding midfielders in the double pivot. If Ramires was tired and wasn't able to play 90 minutes, then how many options did we have? We have three central midfielders, one was tired, so RDM really had to play Mikel with Romeu, because we have no depth at that position. And believe me, even Guardiola can't do miracles with three central midfielders at the moment..And who loaned KDB, Josh ?The thing is if that was Pep he would've kept atleast 1 of them and make him world beater like Busquets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitasrp 2 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 And who loaned KDB, Josh ?The thing is if that was Pep he would've kept atleast 1 of them and make him world beater like Busquets.Of course, because Pep is magician and he turns average players into one of the best in the world during four months. That's ridiculous.I have to say that we could keep on of these guys, but I'm not so sure it would help them. Josh really wasn't ready to play for CFC yet, he needed that loan at Boro where he is doing very well by the way. The same can be said about De Bruyne - he was obviously in better position in the summer, but.. The question is.. Would he play enough? Because I understand our strategy - we loan our youngsters, because they will play much more somwhere else, that will help them to be better players and then, after the season, they could come back as much better players. I'm not sure we will give them same amount of playing time, so they will not make progres.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamiCFC9 258 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Of course, because Pep is magician and he turns average players into one of the best in the world during four months. That's ridiculous.I have to say that we could keep on of these guys, but I'm not so sure it would help them. Josh really wasn't ready to play for CFC yet, he needed that loan at Boro where he is doing very well by the way. The same can be said about De Bruyne - he was obviously in better position in the summer, but.. The question is.. Would he play enough? Because I understand our strategy - we loan our youngsters, because they will play much more somwhere else, that will help them to be better players and then, after the season, they could come back as much better players. I'm not sure we will give them same amount of playing time, so they will not make progres..Pep is no magician but has balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitasrp 2 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Pep is no magician but has balls.I can say exactly the same about Di Matteo. Do you remember the Champions League final and his decision to start Ryan Bertrand? That was really, really brave.But it's hard to talk about our coach with somebody who hates him for some unknown reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 One thing is certain, if Pep comes, defensive problems wont be solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jernej93 569 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 One thing is certain, if Pep comes, defensive problems wont be solved.Actually ... maybe we shouldn't blame only defenders for this bad goal conceding ratio. Last year we had guys like Kalou infront and they were comfortable with playing defensive roles and style with deep defensive line was suited to us. But this year we have Hazard, Oscar, Marin, Mata, Sturridge and Moses. This players don't have high defensive work rate and they can't reach their full potential with this tactic. Our best defense with this team is attack! We should play "sexy" football with some best players in the world, but even WBA outplayed us yesterday with 79% possesion in first 15 minutes of second half.I don't like Italian managers, because of their defensive mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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