Influential Players

[DenTyler]

Watching the city game v Villa today and watching the continued decline since Rodri was injured made me think of how badly we were once affected by the loss of a single player.

I think of us unable win when Wilf was not available.

The decline of the fabulous ‘91’ team when Wright left

And most recently the incredibly bad start we had this season with the loss of Olise.

That said the decline of city is really quite spectacular… and hilarious 🤣

 

[EagleinSF]

I think for us missing Wharton is huge. I expect a big upturn in results when he's back and fit.

 

[doombear]

Watching the city game v Villa today and watching the continued decline since Rodri was injured made me think of how badly we were once affected by the loss of a single player.

I think of us unable win when Wilf was not available.

The decline of the fabulous ‘91’ team when Wright left

And most recently the incredibly bad start we had this season with the loss of Olise.

That said the decline of city is really quite spectacular… and hilarious 🤣

Whilst we certainly miss Olise, I don't see his departure as the reason we had such a poor start to the season. Twelve of our squad didn't have a pre-season including 7 first choice players away on International duty and 2 more who joined on transfer deadline day. Quite simply our first team weren't fit enough or sufficiently in tune with Glasner's system to perform at the right level in those first two and a half months.

 

[silvertop]

Wharton is our equivalent.