LondonBlue

Stats can tell all sorts of stories. Like silverware.... Premier League: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 FA Cup: 2019, 2023 LG Cup: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Community Shield: 2018, 2019 UEFA Champions League: 2021 UEFA Super Cup: 2023 England U17 FIFA World Cup: 2017 and Individual Awards... UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball: 2017 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year: 2017 UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2021 Premier League Young Player of the Season: 2021, 2022 PFA Young Player of the Year: 2021, 2022 a go to player for Pep Guardiola, one of the greatest coaches of modern times. But you don't rate him because Opta Joe tells you some misleading stat ( I'm sure the rest of the england squad had great stats ). Is it accompanied by how much of the ball foden got, where he was on the pitch, kane and other player performances? no? so i'll go with the record books thank you. right off to enjoy the football.

oh dear

and foden to wander in search of the ball as no one passes to him on the left again. bellingham to try to do it all himself again and misplace passes. mainoo to get caught forward looking to make a name for himself. and no service for kane. can't wait.

i used to try doing the transfer + wages + depreciation maths but in the end decided it was best just to trust the club and enjoy the football (i have a maths degree too, not that it matters)

any players in your academy that you care to do a "fair value" swap with one of ours for?

i'd be one of the quickest from the top of a tall building

might well be true. i just searched for the fastest and saw an article saying nunez and that table.

strike 3 ain't ake and if Walker isn't the quickest at City then he's nowhere near the quickest in the PL. Of course the table could be bollox

strike 2. quick but not the quickest one there is. one more guess before i spill the beans. ps i assume Gordon is the fastest you guys have?

Not saying we definitely should have taken Jack Grealish but...

strike 1. not the fastest at City, nope

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I see you have Saka as the only one of the front 4 with genuine pace. At the last world cup Saka was clocked at 33.2 km/h, a little slower than englands third fastest player Foden who clocked 33.6 km/h. ( Walker was fastest at 34.4 and Gashford second at 34.2) tbf not many realise just how quick foden is. More recently Foden was clocked as Englands second quickest in the opening week (after Walker oc) euro 2024 link Having said that Walker isn't the fastest player in Citys squad. Can you guess without looking it up? Gordon is obviously quicker but will he get the chance to show it. Fodens having to go hunt the ball as he isn't getting it wide left. Not really fair, but life isn't

is that a clip of Temuri Ketsbaia in a geordie nightclub?

he had a few issues early on. think he partied a little too hard after the treble (did i mention that we won the treble?) then he had a few niggling injuries (his calves i think but not sure) but prior to each new injury he looked good. and yes he was competing with doku. think in the run in he was fit but doku had the spot and was playing well. i thought jack looked good when he came on for england in the second last friendly ~(the ball over the top that Terrible Anal Arsehole volleyed in)

especially if the bellend realised how good foden is at wall passes. pass to foden mid surge, keep going and foden will find you with an instant return find a way for those two to link and that is a devastating pair

sterling would have no chance

partially agree. but i think foden should still play. bias obviously but he undoubtedly has the talent. think i'd go with ------------prickford------------ walks---stones---gay----gomez ---------foden-----rice--------- sakha----bellend-----gordon ------------kane--------------- in possession - push stones alongside rice, freeing foden pace on both wings when out of possession i think jack should be there and playing on the left. a major fuck up by GS

assumed he was injured, but looks like i was wrong. just not called up. madness.

the usual stuff that $#nts do, diving complaining, just being a general cheating, um, so and so.

quite possibly, but i don't think so. but it's hard to separate i guess. it was his antics in the games between city and dortmund then real madrid then made me not like him. took me a few years to warm to kyle walker as i couldn't stand him at spurs.

it wouldn't matter as the bellend wouldn't pass to them anyway. he just runs with ti until he loses the ball or scores. play the bellend in place of kane then the team can function behind him

We all see things differently. That's fair. But to say not agreeing with those heatmaps means you don't understand football is just not correct. There is more to football than heatmaps. so pretty much what i said earlier. he starts out wide but not as much as he used to. a comparison of the heatmaps shows that. he drifts inside. his 2024 heatmap shows that, his average ratings are higher when he plays inside. And to quote Guardiola this month... Having yet to deploy Foden there in his career, Guardiola claimed the midfielder has the potential to flourish in a deeper role. That is despite the 24-year-old scoring 27 goals last season and largely being seen as an attacker, either through the middle or on the wings. "When Phil plays as a right-winger, he can do it," said Guardiola. "In the beginning when he played as a left-winger, he played well. In the middle he can play right, left, in the pockets - no problem. "What I would like in the end is that he plays as a holding midfielder, or one of two holding midfielders. For that, he needs to understand the game as a whole, in everything, not just 'me'. "But at the same time, he has this instinct, natural, like the big talents, in the final third. I’m not going to stop him. I’m not going to step in and say, 'Don’t do that!' Because he’s unique." Discussing the prospect of Foden moving further back in midfield, Guardiola added: "Sometimes it is the step one has to gain as a football player, playing in that position which carries some duties for the team." Right i best get back to earning a living developing software.

you got more than a glimpse of his personality when he "bumped" that serbian guy