aaron bond wrote:It's already obvious (to everyone bar Pellegrini) that Demichelis is useless in his own right, but what makes it even worse is that he clearly makes the rest of the team uncomortable when he plays.
Kompany turns into a nervous wreck when he plays with Demichelis. He spends half the time worrying about what Demichelis will do.
Whilst team selection is the manager's responsibility, I firmly believe Kompany, in his role as captain, should address the issue with Pellegrini. Walking out onto the pitch each week with such a liability in the side is not acceptable for a side hoping to win the league.
The only player VK is comfortable playing next to, is Lescott. That has been the case since Mancini took over. Boateng, Kolo, Savic, Nastasic, Garcia & now Demichelis, have all been used in an attempt to get rid of Lescott, who was half of the best cb pairing in the Premier League & possibly even in Europe. If you put the pair of them in Barca or Bayern's teams, they would be better, not worse.
The destruction of that pairing by Mancini & now the Count applying the final death blows, is some of the most willfully stupid fucking management in the history of football.
Lescott isn't the kind of player you want v Barca & may struggle, but we haven't signed anyone else who can play that kind of game either, not in all the seasons since the takeover.
We should have a fast, covering defender who is great in 1v1s, to play alongside either VK or JL against the quick, tricky players, & a Lescott type player to play v centre forwards.
None of the defenders we have signed can do either job & none of them were/are especially good on the ball either.
Even if we had planned to keep Lescott, he is getting older & would get exposed in some games; we needed decent cb alternatives.
We got Boateng, Savic, Nastasic & Demichelis & worst of all, we played the fuckers in the team. Boateng almost cost us the FA Cup, Savic almost cost us the league, Nastasic (imo) did cost us the league, & Demichelis may cost us 3 competitions this season.