Man City - League cup final

[Megadrive Man]

Coutinho is one of those players that's good but takes on an aura among the fans purely because the rest is a Normandy landings worth of shite. Think Kinkladze et al.

 

Kinkladze who scored 4 premier league goals in his entire Man City career?

 

I think we have lots of talented players here, but we have almost 0 leaders/winners in the team.

[KMD7]

I love Garcia but to be honest I don't think he was anywhere near as good a player as Coutinho is.

[Lee909]

He scored more and important goal did Luis

[Jairzinho]

He played under a manager, and with a team, capable of being in big matches. And he was a forward.

 

Coutinho is a much better footballer than Garcia was.

[Lee909]

Not saying he isnt. Coutinho needs to get more consistency and score more in big games though

[Jairzinho]

Well, he did just score in a cup final!

 

We aren't in many big games. We've been an embarrassment in Europe for several years, and even big league games are often dead rubbers by about December.

 

What Coutinho needs are some mobile forwards ahead of him. Then no-one would care about how many goals he scores because he'd finish every season with 25 assists.

[Soleilrouge]

Coutinho loses possession far too often for my liking

[Em City]

He scored more and important goal did Luis

 

How many big games do we actually play anymore though? Here are some of the big games over the last couple of seasons:

 

FA Cup Semi-Final v Aston Villa: he scored the opening goal and the whole team proceeded to shit the bed.

 

Home v Man City 14/15: scored a spectacular winner in a game that took on huge importance, but didn't matter as the team fell apart in the home stretch.

 

Away v Southampton 14/15: scored another scorcher early in the game after we were getting battered, got us the win in a long unbeaten stretch which ended up amounting to nothing as, you guessed it, the team shat their collective pants.

 

Home v Man City 13/14: quite simply the most important Premier League game the club had ever had until that point (the biggest if you discount the Chelsea game) and Phil scored the winner. 

 

His final ball might be a bit frustrating and he can be invisible at times, but he's hardly one to disappear on the big stage.

[Harry Squatter]

Someone on here said about Lovren "the positional sense of Stevie Wonder on a Wurlitzer" I think Moreno must go to the same funfair as him.

[magicrat]

Arguing about whether Coutinho is better than Garcia ?

No doubt in my mind he's our best player and would walk into into most other teams. Something none of our other players would. 

[mouse1989]

If Coutinho starts scoring 10-15 league goals he will be off to Barca that summer

[Pan77]

 

Origi has serious talent. I think this is the first time in a long time we've plucked for a relatively unknown striker and it's worked. He's got all the tools to be a very good striker for us, just needs consistent games similar to Can.

I must be missing something here but where is Origi hiding this serious talent? Is it in the shape of N'Gog?

[Frankenhooker]

I must be missing something here but where is Origi hiding this serious talent? Is it in the shape of N'Gog?

He's twenty. Personally I've already seen enough to think there's a player there. 5 goals in 9 starts isn't bad for a kid playing his first season in England (he's come off the bench 12 times).

 

His movement is good, he's strong and has a bit of pace about him. Promising player in my opinion.

[Tony Moanero]

I'm sorry to hear this. I've never seen the cunt play but had my fingers crossed that he would turn out to be fucking shit.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

I must be missing something here but where is Origi hiding this serious talent? Is it in the shape of N'Gog?

They are alike, one has pace to burn excellent movement and will only get better. The other is Ngog.