Conan

They weren't their first choice centre-back pairing, their first choice defenders.

But that isn't accurate because even in that game against Sunderland, even against Forest, when they did have those players in place, they just got turned so easy from deep balls, from full-back, just long balls.

And it's something now that,

I think that Pep's looked at it now in a scenario, when he first came into the Premier League, do you remember he won 10 games on the spin?

And I'd done the game at Tottenham where they were just a young, vibrant team under Pochettino.

They blew them away athletically.

And Pep straight away just made the conclusion in my mind that Zabaleta, Kolarov can't cope with that intensity.

I think he's going to make that decision now on Vardy.

On Diaz, he's captain either.

And I don't think that Gery coming in is necessarily just to come in and fill in the injuries.

I think they've identified that they need a centre-half who can defend high and who can defend the box because these defenders at City just cannot do it.

He does look tired.

We think about him taking that sabbatical when...

you know, when he was after Bayern and Barcelona.

And when you look back at it, he was only there two, three years at both clubs.

He's been there so long at City now.

And he does, because he's like the, I mean, I don't mean this disrespectfully, he's like the mad professor in the intern, always trying to find the new way of playing football.

And he does look tired.

And I genuinely thought that when Semenyo came in and when Gueye came in as well, it might re-energise him.

And,