Sergio Agüero

can see mancini doing just about well enough to avoid being fired while generally misusing aguero

yeah the worst result to the whole endeavour, really.

Can see them beating arsenal spurs and liverpool, obviously, can't really see them troubling utd over a season, chelsea hmm maybe but i think not.

really, would rather see these guys going to utd or arsenal, but fuck it, aguero every week is still good news

How about something like

              Toure               
 Johnson               Silva      
                        /        
                       /          
                          /      
                       Aguero     
          X              /    

De Jong too far back in his own half to make it into the picture there.

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

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

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

Sub in Milner if you must, or find room for Gareth Barry. I was going for a slightly overoptimistic but still plausible formation.

Milner   de jong   barry
        yaya
                      scrappy doo

Mancini mid/att

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

tragedy is a personal phenomenon imo

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.

How long do we reckon Balotelli's going to last now? Move to AC in January?

The son-in-law of God appeared in Manchester on Wednesday

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,"

;_;

Kid's got a right foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FZ1twJU9k

sid lowe's article on this kid is incoherent at times

It's a bit hyperbolic, all this. How come it's been all Messi the last few years?

I haven't seen anyone put him in the same bracket as Messi.

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.

nasri silva clichy/kolarov richards/zabaleta

p good really, assuming

pretty second rate, tbh. Spurs level players.

"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."

These papers just make up whatever the fuck they want and put quotes around it.

nasri/silva are better than ynahtid and chelsea's wingers

fullbacks aren't quite there but still better than liverpool and tottenham

Nasri and Silva aren't wingers though really

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.

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

pandemic- wait til we see how mancini plays them before jumpin into anythin imo

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

nasri was better than nani last season, tho i rate nani above valencia/young

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.

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 18:30 (6 minutes ago)

then the standard has been lowered

Whatever dude. Nani was in a class of his own in terms of wing play last season xxpost

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

Valencia has fucked up his ankle again anyway, not that he was ever all that. Malouda's still really good.

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.

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.

was it johann hari's byline?

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.

i thought of one- veron

Robinho. There's a pattern here.

tbph never really figured robinho to be all that myself

Were Zola, Gullit, and Vialli all well on the downslide when they came here?

thought to be (wrongly), yeah, yeah

But yeah Veron a good shout. He's a fucking great player and youse are all idiots.

What if City had managed to spend that £90m on kaka?

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

Close call that. Like Barca missing out on Beckham and settling for Ronaldinho(if that's what happened)
xp to ismael

Eventually one of these great players will have a reasonable career in England.

haha Can see the headline now "KUN SMANGS IT!!"

de jong, kompany, and micah richards(!) apparently not happy about Kun's contract. maybe this team will collapse before they even play a game.

Good luck any of 'em matching their current contracts elsewhere. Off you go.

amen

Valencia is apparently going to be fit for the start of the season btw. Which is nice

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.

richards and de jong are cunts but kompany is probably the second or third best cb in the league

Micah Richards is basically kept around as some link-to-the-past John Prescott figure by now isn't he?

agreed, at citeh he's prob undervalued at less than 100k, i like the other two but at that money they're doing well.

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

He hasn't had quite the impact on the epl like those players you mention did. There's time yet though.

none of those were as good as aguero at 25, except ronaldo who had left england at that point

thierry henry going into 02/03 was probably about the same

aguero forcing his way past big defenders is one of the great sights of the epl

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.

aguero is a better player than suarez

he should be the best player in the epl and he needs to show it

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0KUOeCCYAAQgq8.png

http://i.imgur.com/W7axafQ.jpg

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his average goals/min is comfortably the best since the epl began despite him suffering from recurrent hamstring injuries for most of that time

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