Is This Mad Citeh Squad The World's Strongest?

Jerome Boateng is a centre back, but typical Mancini who has a habit of playing players out of position, ie Adam Johnson a left footer on the right, and James Milner a right footed central midfielder on the left against Liverpool last season at Anfield had Boateng playing left back.

 

Adam Johnson is a winger though, and it's common place to swap the positions of wingers these days.

 

Ze Liverbird.
I know that, but Mancini had a tendency to be static, in other words his players had to stay where he started them. Less static managers ie Kenny will tell his forward 5 to move about, and confuse the opposition as much as possible, I don't expect you to end up where you started.

 

It is far easier for a right winger to get a shot at goal coming in from the left as as heruns in the goal opens up for him so enabling him to have more of the goal to aim at. As for J. Boateng he will soon find out if he has made the biggest mistake of his life by not staying at the Etihad Stadium, when City play bayern in Sept.

 

Those are some odd examples.
Adam Johnson has been playing on the right since Middlesborough and James Milner is famously flexible and has played on both wings and even at fullback under a variety of managers. In that game Meireles was also a CM playing left wing and he was fine.

 

After today, I think the debate as to whether City have the strongest squad domestically is put to bed.

Anyone starting to change their view on the assertion that they have the strongest squad in world football?

 

Real Madrid???

 

All it means is we were stronger on the day against 10 men it doesn't mean we have the strongest squad domestically, you obviously didn't see the first half.

 

How unfortunate...

 

Bayern Munich showed they are still ordinary compared to the best teams in the world. City have a long way to go to prove anything! Fantastic start to the season and scoring tons of goals so hats off in that respect! Utd will come back from this as they always do

 

The only mugs in the transfer market recently are your sorry bunch! All that money spent and our 'poor' squad made you look like a championship team lol

 

City in my opinion have plenty of cover in the positions you mention. Nasri can step into Silva's role easily and if Aguero get's injured they still have 2 class acts in Dzecko and Balotelli. Or they can can play one up front and have Nasri in the hole. From a defensive midfield point of view they have plenty too, Toure, De Jong, Barry (when realistically they only need to play one of them). Also I see people are knocking Milner - he was class today and has been one their best players this season, the system suits him perfectly.

I also think defensively they have plenty with the other Toure back now.

In my opinion they have the best squad in the EPL by far. And if everyone is fit their first 11 is a country mile ahead of any other team in our league.

 

I'm looking forward to our match against MC! It will be the right kind of test. We had a wierd day today that only happens once in a blue moon. On the other hand for all the quality start they have had this year, I dont think any MC fan could have expected the kind of result they had today! Enjoy it ! It wont be like that every week!

 

Wouldn't say the best in the world, perhaps in England. But they got taken apart against Bayern

 

Had they played like they did today against Bayern they would have wiped the floor with them.

 

Real and Barca would take them to shreds, but in England im inclined to answer yes.

 

I think they have the ability to do better than United against Barca, its not like they could do a whole lot worse considering the capitulation on two occasions.

 

You could apply that to anything. If we played like we did 2 months ago we would never have lost 6-1.

City have been **** in europe and United haven't done much better. Calls into question the quality of the league for me.

 

Agree with this.