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Lets just get behind him. Its clear he is going to play so all the bitching and moaning is not going to change it. We really need to get behind the whole team in the run in. Some huge games coming our way starting Wednesday.

Tim777 wrote:

Blue Since 76 wrote:
Sell him? Who's going to buy him? Henshaw's?

I'm sure Moyes has his beady eyes on him as a replacement for Vidic.

Moyes' eyes aren't beady - they're Glazed.

OK, I'll leave quietly. . .

Goaters 103 wrote:Managers fave.

I don't think he's manager's fave but more that manager doesn't rate Lescott (and possibly Nasti?) leaving him with Demi as least worst option to play alongside Vinny.

We will hopefully sign a big CB in the summer and a decent understudy for the medium - long term

Lovely bloke gash player.

I think Kompany has also been a bit of a liability this season. He constantly gives the ball away when he tries one of those runs with the ball and this season always looks like he has a mistake in him.
He's become a bit more cynical with his tackling also.

Apart from Kolarov and Zabs, all our defenders are struggling.

I actually thought he's been better in the last few games but has had a couple of stupid high profile errors which have ended up costing us games. I like the Komps/Lescott partnership but Lescott has played so few games they look like strangers when he gets picked.

Well quite a few City fans on twitter are saying if Peller's keeps playing Demichellis he will end up getting him sacked.

Chinners wrote:I actually thought he's been better in the last few games but has had a couple of stupid high profile errors which have ended up costing us games. I like the Komps/Lescott partnership but Lescott has played so few games they look like strangers when he gets picked.

That's the trouble.

We had a bit of a title hangover at the start of last season & Mancini used it as an excuse to bring in Nastasic, who absolutely didn't deserve picking, especially after a performance v Aston Villa in the League Cup which would have embarrassed Stephen Jordan.

What should have happened, & would have happened under a better manager, is loads of hard work with that pairing, getting them back to 100%, giving them confidence & showing Nastasic what he needs to do when called upon. Instead, Mancini set about publicly humilliating Lescott, such as when he took him straight off after one marking mistake v Ajax & effectively threw the game away by completely fucking up the defence.

Since then, it has appeared that both managers have favoured almost any pairing other than those two, & their partnership is not what it was, due to lack of regular time together. But, you can see parts of it start to happen again as they get used to playing together. If they'd played most of this season when available, I recon they would be solid by now.

Don't fancy Lescott v Barca at all, but if he does play a blinder we all know that Demichelis will be back for the Hull game anyway.

So as SOF says, we have to back him at the games & try to give him confidence, we need the results.

Is this a real question anymore?

He should do the decent thing and feign injury for the remainder of the campaign.If he continues playing we wont be catching Chelsea thats for sure.

We need players like him. We need players like him so we can point our fuckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy.'

So say good night to the bad guy! Come on.

Him and Garcia have come into their own this back end of the season. Would have been better earlier on but at least they doing what they get paid for now.

He might have the turning circle of a bus and fuck up due to lack of pace but his experience is starting to shine through.

Who the fuck we going to slag off if they continue on this form?

Another great game by Demichelis.

He did play well today - and has played well in several games lately.

The reality is he's cost us on so many occasions this season, I'm not sure he can do much to make up for all the shit he's sent our way. However, as we're stuck with him now until the end of the season, at least we're mildly comforted by the fact his form has improved.

He has been fantastic over the last month or so .

He did play well today - and has played well in several games lately.

The reality is he's cost us on so many occasions this season, I'm not sure he can do much to make up for all the shit he's sent our way. However, as we're stuck with him now until the end of the season, at least we're mildly comforted by the fact his form has improved.

Superb. Again. As he has been for two months. We are seeing the player Pellegrini envisaged. Lescott who?

nottsblue wrote:Superb. Again. As he has been for two months. We are seeing the player Pellegrini envisaged. Lescott who?

Yeh...so good that Pellegrini chose not to sign him for free in the summer, but waited until we were depleted by injuries, after he had signed for another club, and then we paid £3.5m for him.

Let's not pretend Demichelis was anything but a panic signing. He's taken a long time to adjust and is a huge factor in dropping points in the league, plus exiting the FA Cup and Champions League. To me, that's poor management from Pellegrini.

However, we've had to suffer for many months but he has finally improved - and incredibly we're still in the title race. We're looking far more solid defensively now, although the reality is it has come at a considerable cost this season in earlier games.

Today is a good day though, and I think his form is good enough to see us through these final 3 games.

aaron bond wrote:He did play well today - and has played well in several games lately.

The reality is he's cost us on so many occasions this season, I'm not sure he can do much to make up for all the shit he's sent our way. However, as we're stuck with him now until the end of the season, at least we're mildly comforted by the fact his form has improved.

Have to disagree here.

On paper, Vinnie made more decisive mistakes, than Demichelis. Whole season.