Carl
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Oh yeh forgot they signed this guy. Has he even played yet?
Oh yeh forgot they signed this guy. Has he even played yet?
Displaced by the yet to play Wilfried Bony in City's Champions League squad. Surely the writing is on the wall for him?
That's a surprising call, he's played quite well when he gets the chance.
Another highly rated Serie A starlet who failed to make the grade. Injuries were a pretty large part of it but he never looked good enough, really.
Bony's just replacing him for no reason, then?He's not failed at all, he's played well when he's not been injured.
Bony's just replacing him for no reason, then?
Not a patch on McCarthy, tbf.Herrera isn't starting for you for no reason, then?
It's because you can't rely on him being fit for more then 2 weeks. His injury problems are Hargreaves-esque.Bony's just replacing him for no reason, then?
Another highly rated Serie A starlet who failed to make the grade. Injuries were a pretty large part of it but he never looked good enough, really.
I still don't think he's good enough. I've seen a few City fans on other forums mention it too, and he's being replaced by a better player in Bony. Simple enough, really.It's because you can't rely on him being fit for more then 2 weeks. His injury problems are Hargreaves-esque.
Absolute idiot signing for City, I don't know why players don't learn their lesson watching other players sign for clubs and never playing
His best time in a City shirt was in pre-season & early season against us when it looked like he had revived his form from fiorentina, but then he just faded instantly again and his injuries are a huge problem. Most likely be gone in the summer to Juve or Inter.
is it worth it for these players to just throw their career away when they're not getting the game time? I guess most of them are pretty deluded. Some would say 'hey jack rodwell is back playing for a premiership team' but what a player he might have been if brought up rightYeah, what an idiot for signing for a better team playing Champions League football offering him higher wages.
He didn't fade instantly, he got injured again. I'm surprised at the comments on here saying he played well for City though. He's done OK but he really hasn't impressed me to any great extent in his time here. Shown glimpses of his potential but not enough to suggest he's going to develop into a big player for us.
He didn't fade instantly, he got injured again. I'm surprised at the comments on here saying he played well for City though. He's done OK but he really hasn't impressed me to any great extent in his time here. Shown glimpses of his potential but not enough to suggest he's going to develop into a big player for us.
I know he got injured, what I meant was he's not had the same impact since early season when a lot of people thought he would be a big player for City this season.
is it worth it for these players to just throw their career away when they're not getting the game time? I guess most of them are pretty deluded. Some would say 'hey jack rodwell is back playing for a premiership team' but what a player he might have been if brought up right
Wasn't a good move to get rid of Negredo and get this guy.
Wasn't a good move to get rid of Negredo and get this guy.
Very surprising, City just cant seem to decide whether they want to play Aguero alone or with a partner, and can only buy certain quality to sit on the bench while they make that decision, I personally thought the Aguero/Tevez parnership was best with Dzeko as backup, why they keep changing it every year i dont know
The Aguero/Tevez duo was poor to be honest. Apart from a couple of games like the 6-1 away to Norwich they never really clicked and whenever they started together most of the time one of them was subbed off before we scored. The best partnership was Aguero/Negredo for their first few months together. Absolutely unreal for a short period of time, shame how it ended though.
Yeah they should. That's why it surprised me they decided to sign for City instead! biteIs it worth it for these players to waste their careers at average teams and have no ambition to sign for a top team?
Another highly rated Serie A starlet who failed to make the grade. Injuries were a pretty large part of it but he never looked good enough, really.
Serie A is bad.
The Serie A is the pauper of the top leagues. There are richer clubs even in France these days. To make matters worse the clubs infrastructure is pretty poor. Most of the top clubs have no stadium of their own, they lack a solid merchandizing system, most of the staff employed are the owners pets and they still rely mostly on the owner's money, the latter being hit terribly by recession.
Some decisions being made are good. For example Juventus had invested money on a stadium of their own and by the looks of it AC Milan will soon follow them. New Inter's owner Thorir had brought some interesting staff at the club including former United Michael Bolingbroke who is meant to export United's financial model to Inter.
Nevertheless some poor decisions were made throughout the years. For example signing EPL washed up players (Torres, Van Ginkel, Essien, Vidic and Evra) and insisting in employing ex players as coaches to keep costs down. AC Milan management in particular is a parody between Silvio Berlusconi who still utilize AC Milan for his political purposes and expect them to win without him spending a penny, Old guard Galliani who had shown that he's only good when he's got unlimited funds to burn and Barbara Berlusconi, whose a chip of the old block and wants to bring 'change' while shagging players and staff as a hobby (ex Pato's GF and there's rumors that she tackled Inzaghi too)
Honestly think there's some risk involved when bringing player's over from Serie A nowadays, it's a second rate league...