Man City away Sunday 9th Nov 430pm

[BootRoom]

Meh.

[Slinky Skills]

I'd be ****ting my pants if I were Slot. That was a ****ing awful performance from every single player on that pitch, we look ****ing terrible and clueless. Lazy, tired, dopey. The list could go on. That was so bad to watch and terrifying at times.

He appears to have no plan b either which is a concern.

[danperkins]

Thank **** that's over. Don't really know what to say to that tripe.

[kemm1]

It's absolutely maddening. But at least we're 3-0 down so we haven't bothered with the 1-2-1-7 formation at the end again.

I heard Scholes and others been saying he's not been performing for years, it's just goals and I agree. The goals have dried up, so now he's no use to us.

[Tatterdemalion]

I assume the inexplicable reason that salah stays on despite having an overall negative impact on our shape and attack, is because Slot feels he needs senior allies.

I worry that there is something in his contract about no. of games. Surely we wouldn't be that stupid. Anyway, his time has come - he tracked back against Madrid and we played a lot better. Unless I'm blind I didn't see him tracking back much in this game, and it's a problem. That said, we have more than a few problems at the moment. Salah is only one of them.

[Kenneth]

I assume the inexplicable reason that salah stays on despite having an overall negative impact on our shape and attack, is because Slot feels he needs senior allies.

"It'll take a strong manager to make this work"; me on Salah's new contract. I'm not sure we have that. Clearly a good manager, but maybe not someone with enough in the bank and enough buy in to impose his will around the club and make the big decisions that need making.

[kemm1]

Can we get Diaz back?

[kemm1]

I worry that there is something in his contract about no. of games. Surely we wouldn't be that stupid. Anyway, his time has come - he tracked back against Madrid and we played a lot better. Unless I'm blind I didn't see him tracking back much in this game, and it's a problem. That said, we have more than a few problems at the moment. Salah is only one of them.

He's aged and he's done. We need to try snd sell him in January. We need two quality wide players in January, urgently.

[baitman]

They put more effort in going around the city players for hugs and handshakes than they did during the match.
Slot really needs to be more ruthless and cut out the dead wood.

[danperkins]

Funny thing is, I don't think City are even that good.

[Rich]

The worry is our shape, tactics and energy don’t look right at all.

Sure Klopp got spanked a few times at the Etihad but as a team we had a defined way of playing.

I’d have said we had that last season but it’s evaporated this season.

Slot is really, really struggling with getting a proper, working system which incorporates the ‘best’ players.

[Exiled_red]

That was dire, they were the better side we were ****, but they got lucky with the first two goals. Also the ref was **** too. Not sure why a ref from Greater Manchester is allowed to ref manc sides.

[Buzzo]

Funny thing is, I don't think City are even that good.

Yeah - they beat us in second gear imo. They didn’t even need to be any good.

[Tatterdemalion]

It's all very well playing with inside out wingers, but if neither of them can use their other foot all you have is 2 inside forwards, which given we have a centre forward and a high central midfielder means we have four players all looking for the same space, which is not there because our opponents can see it. I'm encouraged that we've been linked to Semenyo as that suggests we understand the issues - but given how much we've just spent - why didn't we see it before? I'm a little confused. It looks like we signed players opportunistically because they became available, without thinking about what that meant for the team - but that doesn't add up either because we clearly blew out for a couple of them.

[Fierce]

2x lucky goals, but they shouldn't have been able to get those shots off in the first place. Robertson basically giving their RB a free cross, then Konate letting Doku get past him

Our disallowed goal is a farce, but none of this papers over what look like massive cracks