SVEN OUT !
I can't believe that the "Sven Out" campaign has started - what are some people like ?
It can't be real City fans on the phone-ins this evening- they must have been Reds taking the p*ss. Thankfully there were only a few.
Can't deny it though, we were well and truly hammered today at the Bridge. I wasn't there to witness it in the flesh, but listening to the Radio commentary and the post match reaction on GMR, it sounds like Chelsea were simply irresistible this afternoon and City just had one of those days; Chelsea would probably have demolished whoever had been put in front of them.
It was on the cards that Chelsea were sooner or later going to thump someone under the new Avram Grant regime and it with City's normal luck, it was bound to be us on the end of it.... and it was !
When ever this sort of humiliation happens to your team (nobody enjoys losing 6 - 0), you have no option but to look for some positives, which this evening is made even harder by the fact that United beat 'Boro and are now (hopefully only until tomorrow) on top of the table.
In a way, it's good this happened now, i.e before the January transfer window and this temporary blip in City's magnificent season so far has for me confirmed the following:
1) Samaras has probably had his last chance - pity for him though that he didn't have an easier game to try to resurrect his City career, but I guess that's just tough, but he's blown all his previous chances too.
2) We do need a world class striker. Having spent £9m on Bianchi, Sven ought to do him the courtesy of playing him now and again. He may well be this missing top striker people are talking about, but nobody really knows. Can't understand how Samaras got the nod today whilst Bianchi sat on the bench.
3) We need a top 'keeper. Hart has got enormous potential, but he's still a young kid and we need a bit more experience between the sticks. Maybe Isaksson can establish himself with a decent run, but Sven hasn't shown much confidence in him so far.
4) Ireland needs a long rest to get his life back together.
Now that we've had this rather predictable setback, it will be a good test for Sven and the players. Our next games are against Bolton and Sunderland. The outcome of these two matches will show just how far City have come in the Shinawatra / Eriksson era.
13 comments:
I was at the match and I thought Ireland had a good game (easy miss aside). Lay off the boy!
I agree about Ireland although I still think he has bags of potential and I am sure a rest for a few matches will do him the world of good.
It's a pity that Bojinov will not be ready before the transfer window opens, however another world class striker would not go amiss.
The two matches next week are ideal test for the team to see if they have the resilience to come back firing on all cyliders
tempory blipppppppppp not worth mentioning
The game or his cock ?
ireland- simply not good enough,
we can replace
I was at the game today result aside most had a bad day at the office But at least Give bianchi his chance get rid of ireland for as much as we can get and surely samaras did his chances no good why did we bring on vessel and not geovanni.hopefully thats it all gone in one humilliating match.Bring on scumderland and bolton
SVE takes this as a wake up call and we defended badly but move on.
He and us needed a water mark on our progress, at last he has seen us play badly.
Glad this is out of the way, now where is my " I'm going to Wembley"
Flag.
See you at Bolton Wenesday when we put the wheels back on the wagon
No Big Deal.
3rd in the league. Good games next up to bounce back.
But drop Ireland.
i really like stevie ireland but agree that he should take some time out, the he'll be back stronger.
Saying that though he was one of our best players today.
The commentary must have been spot on then mate because thats exactly how it was, Chelsea would have dicked anyone with the way they played.
mcfc ok
Yeah.... I think it was a case of wrong place, wrong time.
City have got the quality to get over this, but there's a bit of fine tuning yet to do with team. Surely Bianchi and Geovanni must feature more in the next few games
....and Etuhu...can we get Miller back from the 'Baggies' EIGHT goals already..
The usual idiots starting again, not good enought were sitting third compared to last season. It was the 11 players that gave away 6 goals at the weekend, not Sven. Were was the idiots when we have been winning, not to much to say of course. Go and catch a grap and support Utd if your so worried about it, Sven is building a good team and the start of the season has been brill. Good work Sven keep it up.
Lots of grinning red faces this morning - as you would expect...
Some of the players did fall asleep at the wheel. Sven isn't blameless either. He'd begun to believe all the hype, and played the attacking options all over the pitch. When the attack faltered, we were left wide open and were punished.
Hopefully lessons leaened all round.
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