Foreverinbluedreams wrote:carl_feedthegoat wrote:At the end of the day , hes utter shit right now.
Cannot get pass a player.
Refuses to take players on more often than not - passes backwards.
Gets pushed off the ball far too easy.
Touch of a rapist.
The above isnt an opinion...its a fuckign fact.
Should be nowhere near wednesdays team...not even on the bench imo as he is currently offering us FUCKALL.
Completely agree apart from the bench bit.
That doesn't justify completely writing him off though.
Something is amiss, but we have to see what he will do under Pep to really judge him properly. I do not think he is anywhere near as bad as he showed us, and I know we are upset right now, but something has been wrong within the team for a while this season, and arguably last. We cleared out some players, and the rumours about Pep might have been making some impact, but once it was made official the team's form plunged.
Sterling is 21, Kolarov is 30. That's a vast difference in years when it comes to maturity, and one has just come back from injury and another has not. One has been the target of insane amounts of venom from an entire nation of fans, another not. One knows they will likely be here next year under Pep and another knows they are gone.
Sterling absolutely needs to do better, but his form in August was very good until he picked up a hamstring injury that seemed to keep him a step slower, taking on players much less. We also then added KDB in his first game out, which threw the unity of the team off, arguably. He finally seemed to recover in the first Gladbach game, but then had a poor first half against Newcastle and got taken off at halftime. Next game he nets a hat trick against Bournemouth. Does okay in the first win against Sevilla, but and then sits against Norwich, where he comes on in the 2nd half. The next game is his excellent game against Sevilla. Form dips then, including the Liverpool thumping. Then good against Southampton, but then poor in the loss to Stoke, but then his MOTM performance against MB that wins us 1st place in our CL group.
One could go on, but what I see is inconsistency, not utter dross, plus a few injuries and lack of consistent play that could impact performance.
We shall see next season, and perhaps even the rest of this one, but I think a switch in manager is going to tell us who he really is going to become. Until then I am withholding judgement.