- Aug 8, 2008
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The article was posted for discussion, I disagree with all of it and who am I? I'm a fan, like you. Is it the managers fault our (wantaway) star player coasted in a game he was sorely needed in? His fault Dzeko scored 4? His fault Nasri had a great debut? His fault our transfer negotiations have been so protracted we've no new blood of note in for 2 of the hardest games of the season? His fault Aguero, Hart, Nasri, Silva, Dzeko, Yaya Toure and Kompany would all walk on to our team?
I don't think it is.
Our best signing was their reject for fuck sake and he's on more than double our best players. They clicked, we were understrength and poor. You saw how Livermore looked? He tried, even despite looking out of his depth at OT, Luka didn't even try.
Disagree with some of your comments here Paolo, Team selection is down to Rednapp so if his selection was poor then yes it's down to him.
1. Modric, if he knew his head wasn't right he shouldn't have played him.
2. Dzeko scoring four and Nasri having a great debut was all down to a poor team selection, the players chosen couldn't to handle them.
I agree that City have got really good players that most teams would love to have but the whole thing that angers me over this result was the performance, they looked so much better than us, the gap in class looked frightening, same as Utd mid week, they should not have looked that much better than us simply because of the players we already have at the club they are not, neither City nor Utd should have been able to make thier victories look that easy.
There is of course the possibility that these were the best players available for HR to select from but even those on the pitch didn't seem all that fit nor did they give the impression that they even cared.