Massive concerns

[darko2k7]

I wasn't buying in to this rumour at first, that the players were unfit with Paulo's new regime but look at the injuries we have already picked up. Vitor, Gallagher, Weale, Dyer and Fryatt all in quick succession. It just adds insult to injuries.

It is well to early to be this worried the fact you said you have had a few will make your argument a bit thin as we all know ppl talk some sh*t when under the influence ,

on to my main point on this injury's crap:

weale : He was in injured during the game making a brave save nothing to do with training or fitness.

Vitor : Got injured as soon as he arrived which is either bad luck or he was unfit when he got he also nothing to do with training or fitness.

Fryatt's : He as had this problem since 2007 so nothing to do with training or fitness its just a problem he will always have just like Owen as the same problem and is always injured , he has been at some of the best clubs in the world and still it happens .

So that puts it down to two injurys which im sure lower than average when you look around the clubs with big players recently being put out for most of the season chopra , maynard ect .

One patch of bad form and most fans seem to be nit picking every problem in the club and turning it into a massive thing when it not , if you take a step back and look at the bigger picture thing's are not that bad really compared to where we have been in the past

[Chrysalis]

Pearson got sacked?

more like was gently pushed out.

[seymour]

Football League Championship Grimsby 2-2 Leicester 23-12-1995

Football League Championship Millwall 1-1 Leicester 01-01-1996

English FA Cup Leicester 0-0 Man City 06-01-1996

Football League Championship Stoke 1-0 Leicester 13-01-1996

English FA Cup Man City 5-0 Leicester 17-01-1996

Football League Championship Leicester 0-0 Sunderland 21-01-1996

Football League Championship Leicester 1-1 Luton 03-02-1996

Football League Championship Portsmouth 2-1 Leicester 10-02-1996

Football League Championship Leicester 1-1 Port Vale 17-02-1996

My God why didn't we sack the manager!!

[Thracian]

Sousa deserved the flak he got for Saturday's shambles and there are some who won't like him cos he's not an "up and at em" kind of manager though Wellens seems to be putting it around more vigourously than ever.

But Pearson was so limited. Broadly speaking his methods were boring. In two of the three games I've seen so far City have started to look like a football team under Sousa. Last night at Leeds they were a joy to watch at times.

I've said from day one it will take 3 months to settle the side and get some real indication of where the new manager might take us. But at least with this guy there seems to be some chance of being the sort of team we were in the days when we really were to be reckoned with.

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Leeds but, under Pearson, ended up indifferent to the idea of ever wasting money watching City play away.

[leftsideoverhere]

Yup... people love misery though. You only have to look at this place after a good win, it's usually dead!! If we lose a game though it's full of people ready to chuck themselves from the nearest roof top.

Yeah, but they never do it, do they?

Hysterical rant...

I wasn't buying in to this rumour at first, that the players were unfit with Paulo's new regime but look at the injuries we have already picked up. Vitor, Gallagher, Weale, Dyer and Fryatt all in quick succession. It just adds insult to injuries.

Not that I agree with you, but presumably you really meant it adds injuries to insults?

[Babylon]

I've said from day one it will take 3 months to settle the side and get some real indication of where the new manager might take us.

Coming from the man who called for Rob Kellys head after one game (he didn't even go to) that's funny.

[Ric Flair]

I still stand by my concerns, i'm massively worried and it's not just about Sousa's capabilities but everyone associated with the club right now. It just feels 'weird'.

[dave_the_fox]

I still stand by my concerns, i'm massively worried and it's not just about Sousa's capabilities but everyone associated with the club right now. It just feels 'weird'.

Yeah yeah yeah.......CHANGE YOUR FRIGGIN SIG!

[Tommy G]

I still stand by my concerns, i'm massively worried and it's not just about Sousa's capabilities but everyone associated with the club right now. It just feels 'weird'.

Still after last night?

So we should of won our opening 3 games then?

It's been said a million times before, we played excellent 2nd half against palace, if it wasn't for a refereeing decision at boro we would have won it 1-0 or more hadn't we hit the woodwork etc. We had an off game against Burnley?

Does that mean it's a ''massive concern'' no it fvcking doesn't, why can't people give a new manager time? I wasn't at the game yesterday but we came back from a goal down (when we could of crumbled) and won it 2-1. Would that of happened last season under Pearson - probably not.

Roy Keane at Ipswich is enough said really, knee jerk bollocks by chairmans in football i why so many good managers get sacked way too early into the season. Assess after 10 or 15 games, simple as that

[Ric Flair]

Still after last night?

So we should of won our opening 3 games then?

It's been said a million times before, we played excellent 2nd half against palace, if it wasn't for a refereeing decision at boro we would have won it 1-0 or more hadn't we hit the woodwork etc. We had an off game against Burnley?

Does that mean it's a ''massive concern'' no it fvcking doesn't, why can't people give a new manager time? I wasn't at the game yesterday but we came back from a goal down (when we could of crumbled) and won it 2-1. Would that of happened last season under Pearson - probably not.

Roy Keane at Ipswich is enough said really, knee jerk bollocks by chairmans in football i why so many good managers get sacked way too early into the season. Assess after 10 or 15 games, simple as that

I appreciate my outburst is going to be be completely disregarded by most and that's fair enough. But, there's something murky going on at Leicester and I can't help but feel disgruntled. I didn't want Sousa in the first place and that has perhaps led to me spouting my mouth off early on. I'll try and refrain from any further drivel over the coming weeks, but this will end in tears under Mourinho Mark II.

[Tommy G]

I appreciate my outburst is going to be be completely disregarded by most and that's fair enough. But, there's something murky going on at Leicester and I can't help but feel disgruntled. I didn't want Sousa in the first place and that has perhaps led to me spouting my mouth off early on. I'll try and refrain from any further drivel over the coming weeks, but this will end in tears under Mourinho Mark II.

Why though? I don't understand the substance to this?

Surely you will agree we are likely to get better and not worse. IF he gets the chance, and as he is Mandy's pal then I reckon he will..

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Sousa deserved the flak he got for Saturday's shambles and there are some who won't like him cos he's not an "up and at em" kind of manager though Wellens seems to be putting it around more vigourously than ever.

But Pearson was so limited. Broadly speaking his methods were boring. In two of the three games I've seen so far City have started to look like a football team under Sousa. Last night at Leeds they were a joy to watch at times.

I've said from day one it will take 3 months to settle the side and get some real indication of where the new manager might take us. But at least with this guy there seems to be some chance of being the sort of team we were in the days when we really were to be reckoned with.

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Leeds but, under Pearson, ended up indifferent to the idea of ever wasting money watching City play away.

Wow, I totally agree, for once!

[Ric Flair]

Why though? I don't understand the substance to this?

Surely you will agree we are likely to get better and not worse. IF he gets the chance, and as he is Mandy's pal then I reckon he will..

It's just a hunch I have. His team selections from the squads he's had to pick from have so far been queer. His insistence on every signing being from overseas is a massive gamble at a lower level. If and when things go tit's up, we'll be lumbered with 5-10 players who haven't settled and we'll lose money on getting rid of them. Money we don't have in abundance, even with the new takeover. I just cannot have any confidence right now on how this club is being ran by Sousa and his coaches and whoever the fook is in charge above him.

[MC Prussian]

It's funny how quick and easy an away win at Leeds in the so-called "Mickey Mouse Cup" can pull the wool back over people's eyes...

Not saying it wasn't a great second half yesterday, but excuse me, just a couple of hours/days before the matchup, some of the folks that are cheering the team and Sousa now were totally indifferent to the League Cup.

And as mentioned before, wait until the end of September once we've put some results together.

[hackneyfox]

His insistence on every signing being from overseas is a massive gamble at a lower level.

Do you know he is insisting on this or are you assuming that because he is from 'overseas' that is the case.

Perhaps it is just a concidence?

[Corky]

Last night showed some character and bottle to come from behind away from home after a pasting three days earlier, which encourages me.

We need a league win soon though, the longer it goes on the tougher it will get. Great chance of gaining it on Saturday, more so after yesterday.

[Ric Flair]

Do you know he is insisting on this or are you assuming that because he is from 'overseas' that is the case.

Perhaps it is just a concidence?

I am basing this on who he has signed so far, who he signed for Swansea and QPR and who we've been linked with. It's fair to say he's always going to go dipping in to the foreign market at every opportunity. This may not be a problem if he get's it right, but there are strong concerns from his time at Swansea and here that his transfer record is patchy at best. When you are patchy and you take even bigger gambles on an influx of foreign players then you are heading for a disaster and who will be left to pick up the pieces? Us. Money lost from paying off wanky players and back to square one. There have been plenty of teams who have tried to get out of this division with a large number of overseas players, but very few have ever succeeded.

[Tommy G]

I am basing this on who he has signed so far, who he signed for Swansea and QPR and who we've been linked with. It's fair to say he's always going to go dipping in to the foreign market at every opportunity. This may not be a problem if he get's it right, but there are strong concerns from his time at Swansea and here that his transfer record is patchy at best. When you are patchy and you take even bigger gambles on an influx of foreign players then you are heading for a disaster and who will be left to pick up the pieces? Us. Money lost from paying off wanky players and back to square one. There have been plenty of teams who have tried to get out of this division with a large number of overseas players, but very few have ever succeeded.

Arsenal have a starting X1 of foreign players and they don't do so badly

[lcfcsnow]

We've had 1 good season in this league since we were relegated in 2004, our teams have mostly been made up of British players unable to pass a football.

It is also cheaper to get more quality in from abroad for reasonable prices, even free transfers as Sousa has done so far. I personally like the look of both Lamey and Moussa, both foreign, free, and look an improvement on Neilson and Oakley. Moreno I'm not sure of yet but its not like we've spent millions on him. If we're looking for British players in those positions I've no doubt it would cost more in both tranfer fee and wages, and personally I'm sick of seeing the usual uninspiring english players move around clubs every year that we would have purchased 3-4 years ago, without doubt.

[hackneyfox]

What he said, especially the first paragraph, although the australians and the canadian were even worse.

[Criggers]

What was it I read on Mirror Football earlier? Mourinho has signed Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil for the same price that Man City paid for James Milner. English prices are massively inflated, we know this. Only a few hours ago I posted how Le Fondre's asking price was going to be "silly money" £3million...

[maddog]

Would this thread be here had we taken a deserved point at Palace and got a goal against Boro Dyer could have had a hat trick another day.

Probably not, so the difference between fans calling for Sousa's head and saying we're going down, awful signings etc, to saying solid start is just 3 points in the first few games.

It's crazy.

We did everything right against Boro except score but we still outclassed one of the favourites and got a clean sheet. It was the first game of the season at Palace, our players started slowly and had everything to lose after a cracking season last year, and feel their place in the side under threat with a new manager/players/tactics coming in.

Palace didn't do great last season, were in admin, and the debutants and youngsters in their side, who Burley had shown faith in just picking them just went for it.

Thats not an excuse for our shambolic defending to go 3-0 down though, but Hobbs/Morrison don't become shit overnight. Dyer hit the woodwork in the first half and Fryatt missed a sitter. Then we battered them 2nd half when our players relaxed and felt like they had nothing to lose at 3-0 down. It's no exaggeration to say we could have won that game 5-3 or more just in the 2nd half.

If your being harsh on Burnley you could say if they didn't get that incredibly lucky deflection for the 1st goal things could have been different there.

Now we've come back from 1-0 down at Elland Road to win which any team in our League and a lot of the PL teams would be proud of.

Massive win for confidence and a 3rd round tie at Arsenal or Chelsea would just be a bonus.

So i'm not worried, i'd say we've played some nice stuff so far, and we will cruise to a win Saturday. Even Robbie Neilsen is playing well.

[Ric Flair]

Arsenal have a starting X1 of foreign players and they don't do so badly

As I said, there aren't many teams that have been successful in the lower leagues with squads made up of a bunch of foreigners. Plenty have tried mind you, but failed. Arsenal and the rest of the premiership is another story, but right now we're not at that level and I just think it's a huge gamble that will end in disaster for us. I hope i'm wrong.

[leftsideoverhere]

Ric, if you're going to continue to peddle the 'bunch of foreigners = failure' line, can I politely suggest you change your sig so it doesn't show a picture of a foreign football player?

[STUHILL]

As I said, there aren't many teams that have been successful in the lower leagues with squads made up of a bunch of foreigners. Plenty have tried mind you, but failed. Arsenal and the rest of the premiership is another story, but right now we're not at that level and I just think it's a huge gamble that will end in disaster for us. I hope i'm wrong.

I can understand some of your other concerns but this foreign players one is nonsense. We haven't exactly been chucking millions away on unknown foreigners! The ones he has bought in have been free or 300 k for Moreno and to be honest, I am more than happy with his signings so far! Lamey has looked a classy player and on a free that is good business. Ok Moreno didn't have a good game last week but no one did and I think if he is played in DM, then he will prove his worth, as many people have stated his quality and coolness on the ball. Vitor is also very highly rated and on a season long loan, so no risk there! Moussa is his latest and had a good game last night.

I just can't see where your concerns are coming from. We haven't spent much money at all and all the players he has brought in seem to be pretty good and a step-up from what we have

Does it really matter where these players come from as long as they do well for us??