really, would rather see these guys going to utd or arsenal, but fuck it, aguero every week is still good news
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
How about something like
Toure Johnson Silva / / / Aguero X /
Johnson Silva / / / Aguero X /
― boxall, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
De Jong too far back in his own half to make it into the picture there.
― boxall, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
johnson getting games tho? I thought he'd dropped off the radar somewhat.
Tevez still v likely to be x, but wouldn't mind seeing either of dzeko/balotelli in there, could get behind that lineup.
Unfortunately, mancini more likely to play two of the above in a 32311 formation
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
the city project is so boring that it's difficult to feel hate for it, stockpiling TALENT to vaguely prettify dwindling oil satrapy
they've even managed to shove blinky psycho garry cook into some dim corner of 'the etihad' to further diminish any possibility of content
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's all the easier to hate it, tbh. Balotelli should be crashing cars into wenger's living room and scoring 40 a season. Dzeko could have gotten us 4th or higher. Silva could have, well ok, sat on the bench while barca destroyed utd but u see the point
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Sub in Milner if you must, or find room for Gareth Barry. I was going for a slightly overoptimistic but still plausible formation.
― boxall, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
Milner de jong barry yaya scrappy doo
Milner de jong barry
yaya
scrappy doo
Mancini mid/att
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
time was city's commitment to boredom was expressed in inflated tranfers for shite like milner and lescott rather depriving the 'white hart lane faithful' of edin dzeko's sliderule finishes
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
tragedy is a personal phenomenon imo
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
The period of Shevchenko I mostly missed was Dynamo and his first couple seasons with Milan, so it's possible my idea of him as a player is less dynamic than he really was. Also he didn't invite comparisons to Inzaghi so much when played alongside Inzaghi iykwim.
― boxall, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
How long do we reckon Balotelli's going to last now? Move to AC in January?
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
The son-in-law of God appeared in Manchester on Wednesday
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sergio Aguero has claimed that he is "the Che Guevara of modern football" and hopes to start what he believes will be a revolution when he joins Manchester City.There has been talk about the Argentina international being Diego Maradona's son-in-law, and the Atletico Madrid man insists that it is unlikely any player will emulate the legendary former forward.However, he believes that his ability and skill can bring about a revolution in football."No one will ever be exactly like Maradona again but I really think that every so often there is a total revolution in football and someone needs to be the revolutionary who starts things off. That's me,"
There has been talk about the Argentina international being Diego Maradona's son-in-law, and the Atletico Madrid man insists that it is unlikely any player will emulate the legendary former forward.
However, he believes that his ability and skill can bring about a revolution in football.
"No one will ever be exactly like Maradona again but I really think that every so often there is a total revolution in football and someone needs to be the revolutionary who starts things off. That's me,"
;_;
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
Kid's got a right foothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FZ1twJU9k
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
sid lowe's article on this kid is incoherent at times
― nh (cozen), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit hyperbolic, all this. How come it's been all Messi the last few years?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen anyone put him in the same bracket as Messi.
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
Still thinking that City aren't good enough out wide to win the title, but the spine of that team is amazing now, assuming that Joe Hart saves all his big fuckups for England.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
nasri silva clichy/kolarov richards/zabaleta
p good really, assuming
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
pretty second rate, tbh. Spurs level players.
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
"I really think that every so often there is a total revolution in football and someone needs to be the revolutionary who starts things off. That's me. Maradona made some 'noise' in his day and I want to roar a bit in my day - now."I like tricks, I like to dazzle, I like to be able to score a goal with one leg bent round the other so that you smack the ball into the net with your wrong foot. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for."If I achieve what I want to then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."
"I like tricks, I like to dazzle, I like to be able to score a goal with one leg bent round the other so that you smack the ball into the net with your wrong foot. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for.
"If I achieve what I want to then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."
These papers just make up whatever the fuck they want and put quotes around it.
― boxall, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
nasri/silva are better than ynahtid and chelsea's wingers
fullbacks aren't quite there but still better than liverpool and tottenham
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nasri and Silva aren't wingers though really
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
A bit disturbing, to me, that City now have more players I actually like than any other team in the Prem. Wonder if this means I'll be rooting for them to win the title? Dzeko, Kun, YaYa, Silva, Super Mario, Kompany all total bros.
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
there's that
And then there's the point that utd's and chelsea's wingers, and tottenham's fullbacks, are below standard for clubs of that level/aspiration
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
pandemic- wait til we see how mancini plays them before jumpin into anythin imo
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, what? You can put Nasri and Silva on some sort of purist pedestal, but i'll take the season Nani had last year over either of their's
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
nasri was better than nani last season, tho i rate nani above valencia/young
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol i didn't even check to see if i agreed with the statement
You're right, as wingers go valencia and nani over silva and nasri, apologies.
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 18:30 (6 minutes ago)
then the standard has been lowered
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Whatever dude. Nani was in a class of his own in terms of wing play last season xxpost
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
dunno has the standard been lowered but i rescind the point about utd's wingers, and submit that chelsea's lack of width would be commonly pointed out as a major failing
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Valencia has fucked up his ankle again anyway, not that he was ever all that. Malouda's still really good.
― boxall, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Malouda was pretty underwhelming last year from what i saw of him. Valencia has his limits but he was pretty damn good in the one full season he's had at Utd. Sad that he's injured again.
― Number None, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
kun put on his twitter that he's had no interviews since getting to engerland. so some cunt just made all that up, which is quite amusing really, in a way.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
was it johann hari's byline?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah if nothing else with 'one leg bent round the other so that you smack the ball into the net with your wrong foot' is a dead giveaway - I'm sure Aguero would know the word rabona, which is Spanish and was first used in Argentina.
― boxall, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
i thought of one- veron
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Robinho. There's a pattern here.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
tbph never really figured robinho to be all that myself
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Were Zola, Gullit, and Vialli all well on the downslide when they came here?
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
thought to be (wrongly), yeah, yeah
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah Veron a good shout. He's a fucking great player and youse are all idiots.
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
What if City had managed to spend that £90m on kaka?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
veron was a fucking great player, i think i'd forgotten how good when he moved to ynahtid
probably about the same level as aguero
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Close call that. Like Barca missing out on Beckham and settling for Ronaldinho(if that's what happened)xp to ismael
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Eventually one of these great players will have a reasonable career in England.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Tevez, though he's done everything possible to obscure the fact.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
first time the epl has bought a legit world superstar?
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:43 (2 days ago)
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2009/5/25/1243266973958/Juan-Sebastian-Veron-Manc-001.jpg
Overmars, Kluivert, Shevchenko, Gullit, Yaya, Barthez all CL winning superstars. Klinsmann, Robinho and Silva had played in a WC winning team, Gullit/Klinsmann/Pires/Silva/Schmiechal in a Euro winning team. Shevchenko had won Ballon D'Or. Ok he didn't have a great season before he left AC but it was still Shevchenko and people were still going ape shit. Also Crespo and Ballack not to be frowned upon. Most of these names didn't have great times in the Premiership, and may actually be a large part of the 'foreigners don't adapt well' myth but they were all legit world superstars.
But yeah super excited to watch this dude. Shame he had to go to a Mancini side but when he is fired in November and they hopefully get a manager whose tactics are worth watching, a team with him as the spearhead has real potential.
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Friday, 29 July 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
Good luck any of 'em matching their current contracts elsewhere. Off you go.
― pandemic, Friday, 29 July 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
amen
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Friday, 29 July 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Valencia is apparently going to be fit for the start of the season btw. Which is nice
― Number None, Friday, 29 July 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
De Jong, a star performer in manager Roberto Mancini’s midfield last season alongside Yaya Toure, who earns £200,000 a week, was believed to have been offered £80,000 a week.
Kompany and Richards also feel undervalued by their big-spending club.
Richards has been offered a five-year deal worth £65,000 a week while Kompany has been told to expect a four-year deal worth £80,000 a week. However, the pair are mulling over the offers.
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
richards and de jong are cunts but kompany is probably the second or third best cb in the league
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Micah Richards is basically kept around as some link-to-the-past John Prescott figure by now isn't he?
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
agreed, at citeh he's prob undervalued at less than 100k, i like the other two but at that money they're doing well.
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Friday, 29 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
the best foreign player to arrive in england....none of bergkamp, henry, c ronaldo, rvn, drogba, torres etc were this good when they were sold to english sides
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:28 (2 years ago)
ozil is probably at a slightly higher level now than aguero was when he joined city, but only because he is two years older
rn they are at about the same level
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
He hasn't had quite the impact on the epl like those players you mention did. There's time yet though.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
none of those were as good as aguero at 25, except ronaldo who had left england at that point
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
thierry henry going into 02/03 was probably about the same
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
aguero forcing his way past big defenders is one of the great sights of the epl
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Aguero tore EPL defences to pieces and won City the title two years ago. His lack of impact last season was mostly down to injury and Mancini being a cretin. He's on nine goals this season. Only Suarez is more dangerous right now.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
aguero is a better player than suarez
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
he should be the best player in the epl and he needs to show it
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18CVpTbuRU
at 19 he was better than every current player apart from messi
also worth watching those highlights for ronaldinho's last moment of glory at barcelona
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0KUOeCCYAAQgq8.png
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
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― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
his average goals/min is comfortably the best since the epl began despite him suffering from recurrent hamstring injuries for most of that time
― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
neat summary of epl 2k11, latin prodge escorted by bluetoothed UAE securigoons through sea of dickensian scamps while tubby fanboy reaches out yet can't bring himself to confirm that the apparition has assumed corporeality
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:04 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
miss this guy
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link