Fans, Top and Sven, patience is needed

[ivarti]

To see Leicester again being defeated by Reading at home, makes everything dark, after a great away start against Coventry. But to be honest, this is not just a walk in the park, collecting three points everytime you set your foot on green grass. It's one of the most unpredictable and hardest leagues in the World to get out of and the same time you have to play 46 games against quality oppostion in every game. A number of clubs will struggle and to be honest I have earlier said that the signings City have done in front of the season are good, but they are not players that are a lot better than what others have and they have been signed for fees that are inflated and the sallaries offered will give this squad a great problem.

What Sven has done over the summer and during last season is risky and if he can't get it right, he will be punished everytime he fields a new team and makes changes. The squad Sven has now, is not settled, and there are a lot of new faces that has to adapt and settle in both on and off the field. Some of them brillaint footballers, but at the moment there are difficulties to see what is our best team, since almost 17 to 22 players are of the same callibre. An ideal scenario to have if you look for full cover, but at the same time difficult to see what your best team is.

Most of the teams that play in the Championship can field a good starting 11, and to see that Southampton and Brighton are in the top is no surprise. Both clubs have good managers and people that can compose a good 11 and be able to put out a unit able to battle for points, this might be the problem for City with a type of football played that at it's best looks fantastic, but at the same time maybe a bit naive when it comes to the fact that we are fighting for promotion and cannot afford losing 2-0 at home to Reading, seeing our gameplan teared apart by great individual players in the oppositions team.

The squad has almost what it takes to get a promotion, but with the change of systems and constantly taking players out of their positions, not playing last years captain Andy King and not finding the right way forward, it could be difficult. To get out of the Championship is not easy and the way it has been done over the last 10 years, is to build a team over a period of 2 to 3 seasons, getting solid and then getting promoted. Other teams have gone up and down like Newcastle and WBA, keeping most of their players and doing just a few changes and only Sunderland can be described as a team who has bought their way up, under Robbie Keane, and changed almost everything, but Mr Keane was a totally different carachter than Sven is, but hopefully we will manage to get things right and be able to compete, without expectations and pressure being too much to handle and that this will take focus away from bringing forward a strong and hard working unit that not only can play great football but also have the desire to battle hard when needed and grab points on a bad day.

[Tommy G]

Good post