18 Jun 2025 21:28:58
Football365 excelling with their headlines….
“Man City win but Liverpool and Florian Wirtz win bigger because Rayan Cherki is balls“
I didn’t watch the game but apparently it was very much a debut to forget.
18 Jun 2025 21:38:11
Its like when people were writing off Caicedo due to an average season - his quality has shone through eventually, as will Cherki's.
18 Jun 2025 22:02:44
"Cherki is a Turkey", five year contract circa 42 million euro. Reinjders, ait nouri, have to ask the question would any of them get in our best eleven.
guardiola losing his marbles, his other signing khusanov the uzbekistan centre back makes Slabhead look like Franz Beckenbauer, no KDB to get him out of the mire, bum goalkeeper, no trophies last year only a shield on pens, no trophies this season coming, he will be toast, burnt toast!
18 Jun 2025 22:30:13
When did Caicedo’s quality shine through Vango? I must’ve missed that.
From what I’ve seen he’s exactly what I thought he was. An average Premier League midfield player.
{Ed025's Note - im with you Robbo..
18 Jun 2025 22:42:09
007, none of them will start in our team as things stand IMO.
19 Jun 2025 00:39:59
I’m with Robbo and 25.
Caicedo has been bang average.
19 Jun 2025 01:08:48
Watching the game now and Cherki is a diver too ?.
19 Jun 2025 02:39:30
Uhhhh caicedo has been brilliant most of the time this season, have you guys even seen him play?
19 Jun 2025 03:08:02
Caicedo is quite like Coutinho in the respect that I’m genuinely astonished that clubs would actually pay the money they did for them.
19 Jun 2025 05:03:05
Post on trent there and cherki here.
We should let go off Trent and talk about Frimpong.
Cherki is 21 and will be fine. No need to downplay him so soon.
very skillful with both legs and gives David Silva type vibes. (way too early to compare but we will see how he pans out this season)
19 Jun 2025 06:02:03
I think the Cherki signing for Guardiola is an odd one on two counts:
1) he’s a flair player and Pep doesn’t allow flair in his team (see Grealish as an example)
2) he apparently is a bit lazy which again Pep doesn’t tolerate
I just think if you’re a player who is extremely skillful and loves to rinse an opponent, Pep’s teams are a bad fit.
19 Jun 2025 07:05:27
I love your posts normally PatrikBurgher, but for me Caicedo has been bang average. I’ve not seen him play a single game where he shouldn’t have been sent off for at least 3 blatant yellow card offences; Sometimes as many as 5. He’s just a horrible little scumbag who runs around trying to leave one on his opponents. His ability with the ball is average at best. I’m so glad we missed out on him, I didn’t even want him at the time, but I feel increasingly vindicated every time I watch him for Chelsea. Mac Allister was the star at Brighton. He made Bissouma look good, then he made Caicedo look good. Spurs and Chelsea got mugged right off.
19 Jun 2025 07:19:29
Fully agree Shaq although im not sure Pep buys the players at city pretty sure they have people above who do that.
Nevertheless Cherki is a show pony and doesn't work off the ball he will be nothing more than a squad player who will show up one week in 5.
19 Jun 2025 07:32:26
I didn't think caicedo was a great player before he went to Chelsea and secretly prayed we wouldn't buy him.
For some reason people seem to think if you do a lot of running without achieving anything and look 'hard in the tackle' that you're world class.
All the world class DM players can also pass, carry the ball a little, and dictate tempo. Caicedo is a headless chicken, one with a lot of stamina but a chicken he is.
19 Jun 2025 07:36:14
WDW, if you’re referring to the Coutinho at Liverpool then you must have watched a different player. He was world class and the best in his world in that position at that point.
19 Jun 2025 09:12:30
You don't fancy Peps chances next season then @007 ?.
19 Jun 2025 09:21:59
Not disputing that @Frode - I agree for a while he was exceptional although he was a bit lightweight when it came to the defensive side of the game. The thing is that his fee was massively more than any previous fee and is still a record. It’s an anomaly like the East German women athletes who set world records that lasted 30 or 40 years. There has been / are a lot of excellent footballers but none have got near the money paid by Barcelona - I just think it’s weird.
19 Jun 2025 10:01:23
WDW the fee was set off by the magnitude of Neymar's fee to PSG.
It was like the money burnt a hole in Barca's pocket and Liverpool were more than willing to oblige in taking it from them.
In the same way I dare say if we don't receive the Couts money, you could have probably picked up Ali and Virg for a lower fee at that time (obviously now days they would be considerably more) .
Once the cat is out of the bag that a club received a large fee, or are well of the seller can demand more from them knowing it is affordable.
19 Jun 2025 10:06:14
Cherki is the French sancho.
19 Jun 2025 11:30:19
Fair point @RedQ.
19 Jun 2025 14:39:39
How do you all manage to become experts on every player? I barely have time to watch every LFC game let alone spend enough time watching footage of all the players in all the leagues. You guys are machines.