Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
I find the Ozil situation bizarre. I don't know if they've had a falling out or if Emery simply doesn't rate him, either way we don't have the options to replace him at this moment. He will have to be sold now because you can't keep expensive deadwood like this, it's just haemorrhaging money. The Ramsey thing I have some sympathy for because that was out of his hands and now he's reluctant to use him. I agree both should be playing because without them we lose a lot from our midfield in terms of forward play.

I can't be bothered to dissect this game because even if we had gone with the best players/tactics etc the chances are we still would have been beaten easily. City have better players than us in every position and have been competing for the top prizes for years. We are so far behind right now.

The jury is very much out on Emery but he needs to be backed in the summer, otherwise it will be the same old story. You could be Pep in charge of this squad and results wouldn't be much better.
It is bizarred, but as MAC said it's not the 1st time he's struggled with players with egos, sometime you have to put your pride aside for the good of the team, right now he's cutting off his nose to spite his face, the squad is rubbish and yet he's intent on cutting out one of our most creative players because he doesn't get on with him, that's fine if you have other options but not in this case, he'll probably end up costing us points and as you said Ozil is on 350k a week which is just being wasted at the moment, by all means sell him in the summer but use him until then.

As for Ramsey the way I see it Emery brought it on himself a bit, last summer he should have said I need him to sign by a certain date and if he doesn't we should sell and invest the money, instead he waited and now Ramsey is going for free, he's not entirely innocent in this, I'm sure he was involved and this scenario is all a bit amateurish (again).

Whilst I see why he doesn't want to play him, he's been happy to play him a fair amount since it was decided he'd move on, so not sure what's changed, I can understand why you wouldn't want to play him more than the Ozil situation however.

City lost to Newcastle and Palace recently, if you try your best there's always a shot, but you need to get the lineup/tactics right, Emery just didn't, we've now accepted we're going to get a pasting from the big teams, even the likes of Palace don't so that shouldn't be the case.

I agree about backing him, if he makes many more the Suarez type signings however I'm not going to be particularly please, these aren't the kind of players we need, they're small time squad fillers with very limited talent, signing those kind of players won't get us anywhere, we need to be signings players in their mid 20s or young players with lots and lots of potential much like Spurs have done when building their team.