Hazy2 wrote:Lets be clear I like Jesus, he is still work in progress and shows his potential on a regular basis. The goals we lose the chances we do not take is my concern.
carl_feedthegoat wrote:Hazy2 wrote:Lets be clear I like Jesus, he is still work in progress and shows his potential on a regular basis. The goals we lose the chances we do not take is my concern.
He doesn’t have a forwards football brain - that’s the problem .
Yesterday he should have squared the ball TWICE and we would have scored from it but he decided to be a greedy cunt .
Hazy2 wrote:carl_feedthegoat wrote:Hazy2 wrote:Lets be clear I like Jesus, he is still work in progress and shows his potential on a regular basis. The goals we lose the chances we do not take is my concern.
He doesn’t have a forwards football brain - that’s the problem .
Yesterday he should have squared the ball TWICE and we would have scored from it but he decided to be a greedy cunt .
I agree but ... he does have something no doubt, but yes brain-fart is an issue off sides are a joke, and pretty sure KDB gets well fucked off with him, Razza was is the same at times, From Jesus first touch I thought not having him tonight, he got worse as the night went on. Despite we should have had 9/10. Foden as you have said fair play.
dazby wrote:Don't replace Sane. Get another central striker and use Gab more on the left. He's great there.
nottsblue wrote:Few points to add to this debate
Jesus is never going to be a direct replacement for Aguero. Do we actually need a direct replacement is the next question I would ask? We regularly score 130+ goals in all competitions a season and Kun gets 30 of them. Seems to me we still have a lot of goals in the team. You can already see that Foden if he plays 40/50 games a season will get 10/15 more goals than Silva would get for example. KDB is now getting on the scoresheet more often. Mahrez will get 15+ goals.
Don’t misunderstand me, we need a striker to replace a striker, but I don’t think it will be that detrimental to our overall game if Agueros replacement gets say, 20 goals instead of the 30 Aguero would be relied upon, as there are now more goals in our midfield and wide players.
I mentioned in a thread in the early part of the season, I can see many games where we simply have a front three without a designated “striker”, instead having say a perm of Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez, Silva, Foden who rotate their roles up front as it were throughout the game which would give any defence a major headache as they wouldn’t know who to mark or where to position themselves. The “floating forward” then has license to roam and drop wide/deep as the game progresses or to simply go through the middle.
If we have to buy a forward as a big name player, then the man is Mbappe. But he would cost the earth and it looks like Madrid is his destination. Jesus has his faults, but it’s up to Pep and his team to iron them out and make him a better player. He deffo has the potential to be a 25/30 goal a year forward, albeit in maybe a different formation than we currently adopt, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
mr_nool wrote:nottsblue wrote:Few points to add to this debate
Jesus is never going to be a direct replacement for Aguero. Do we actually need a direct replacement is the next question I would ask? We regularly score 130+ goals in all competitions a season and Kun gets 30 of them. Seems to me we still have a lot of goals in the team. You can already see that Foden if he plays 40/50 games a season will get 10/15 more goals than Silva would get for example. KDB is now getting on the scoresheet more often. Mahrez will get 15+ goals.
Don’t misunderstand me, we need a striker to replace a striker, but I don’t think it will be that detrimental to our overall game if Agueros replacement gets say, 20 goals instead of the 30 Aguero would be relied upon, as there are now more goals in our midfield and wide players.
I mentioned in a thread in the early part of the season, I can see many games where we simply have a front three without a designated “striker”, instead having say a perm of Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez, Silva, Foden who rotate their roles up front as it were throughout the game which would give any defence a major headache as they wouldn’t know who to mark or where to position themselves. The “floating forward” then has license to roam and drop wide/deep as the game progresses or to simply go through the middle.
If we have to buy a forward as a big name player, then the man is Mbappe. But he would cost the earth and it looks like Madrid is his destination. Jesus has his faults, but it’s up to Pep and his team to iron them out and make him a better player. He deffo has the potential to be a 25/30 goal a year forward, albeit in maybe a different formation than we currently adopt, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
I think this is spot on. We just need to teach Raz, Mahrez, Bernardo, etc. to get to the end of Mendy's low crosses across the 6 yard box. He's put in a lot of decent balls over the last couple of games and there should have been somone at the other end of them to make them count.
salford city wrote:Mbappe is the only one who would come close to sergio's stats. Failing him, we will adapt with three up top. Kane would get us a fair few goals but would not give us the work rate and would be a ridiculous price that is not worth paying. I'd take Son from Spurs we would get his overpriced price tag back in shirt sales alone
Mase wrote:mr_nool wrote:nottsblue wrote:Few points to add to this debate
Jesus is never going to be a direct replacement for Aguero. Do we actually need a direct replacement is the next question I would ask? We regularly score 130+ goals in all competitions a season and Kun gets 30 of them. Seems to me we still have a lot of goals in the team. You can already see that Foden if he plays 40/50 games a season will get 10/15 more goals than Silva would get for example. KDB is now getting on the scoresheet more often. Mahrez will get 15+ goals.
Don’t misunderstand me, we need a striker to replace a striker, but I don’t think it will be that detrimental to our overall game if Agueros replacement gets say, 20 goals instead of the 30 Aguero would be relied upon, as there are now more goals in our midfield and wide players.
I mentioned in a thread in the early part of the season, I can see many games where we simply have a front three without a designated “striker”, instead having say a perm of Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez, Silva, Foden who rotate their roles up front as it were throughout the game which would give any defence a major headache as they wouldn’t know who to mark or where to position themselves. The “floating forward” then has license to roam and drop wide/deep as the game progresses or to simply go through the middle.
If we have to buy a forward as a big name player, then the man is Mbappe. But he would cost the earth and it looks like Madrid is his destination. Jesus has his faults, but it’s up to Pep and his team to iron them out and make him a better player. He deffo has the potential to be a 25/30 goal a year forward, albeit in maybe a different formation than we currently adopt, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
I think this is spot on. We just need to teach Raz, Mahrez, Bernardo, etc. to get to the end of Mendy's low crosses across the 6 yard box. He's put in a lot of decent balls over the last couple of games and there should have been somone at the other end of them to make them count.
The same balls Kolarov used to get accused of “just smashing” across the box. They’re very dangerous crosses and it only takes a Nick off a defender to go in.
City64 wrote:A player totally lost and bereft of conference last night , a total passenger.
sheblue wrote:With Sergio aging I would certainly keep him.
We will need a replacement for Serg. It will be hard enough replacing one of them, but both would be near on impossible.
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