Kevin De Bruyne | Appreciation thread

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I am a 78 year old woman and have supported City since I was 9 years old. I don't live in Manchester and never have but this team captured me in the 1956 Cup Final. When I lived in London I became a season ticket holder and over years have seen all the greats. I sadly can no longer afford a season ticket.
Kevin is best I have ever seen in our glorious blue shirt. He is the type of player who takes your breathe away.
I played for QPR women's team back in the 70's and recently, we as a team, were invited to the Football Museum in Manchester and I mentioned that I had followed City all my life and that Kevin was my all time favourite.
Someone must have said something to the club because I recieved a video message from Kevin.
I will always be grateful he took the time to do that. He will never know what that means to me.
Wherever you go Kevin, I wish you nothing but the best. We will never see your like again but I am so happy I was around to see you in City Blue. Thank you. Now win that cup.
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Love this post CR :)
 
A true gentleman aswell.
A little story of old. My youngest met KDB, Foden and Walker at his football christmas do about 5 years ago. A real gent. He sat down with my youngest, asked him about his football, family etc but the best thing he did was take him to the ice cream stall on his own and treated him to the biggest ice cream I have ever seen. Top man he was. My lad never forgets that.
Walker tried to finger blast my Mrs when I wasn't looking....dirty twat.
 
All good things must come to an end, I guess.

I'll never forget being in the stands when we beat Stoke 7-2. He was operating in another dimension to us mere mortals. I love Dave, Vinnie and Sergio equally for the good times they gave us, but I've never seen a player who has it all and has won it all like Kevin De Bruyne. I'll forever think of him as the beating heart of the greatest time in English football league history.
 
Been central to my best spell of being a blue. What amazing memories we have as City fans of him and his time at City.

Was not hugely resilient physically and usually took a while to get up to speed after an injury, but when he got there he was unquestionably the best footballer I’ve seen play for City and one of the best I’ve ever seen.

It’s been an absolute pleasure.

And all the best, Kev.
 
I accept it, but I've been thinking about it all day, so I suppose part of me does not quite accept it. Thirty-three seems like not very much these days, for a world class midfielder. It shows, I suppose, that he really did give his all.

And, to be fair, he had a style as a midfielder that included a ferocious turn of pace that would catch opposition defenders out. He'd get the ball rolled or kicked out to him from Ed, it would catch him up just about our side of the halfway line. He always seemed to know if he had space in front of him without even looking, so he wouldn't take a touch on the ball, he'd just use its own momentum and let it roll past him. Then he'd suddenly propel it forward and accelerate viciously. The opposition defenders were backpedalling in panic as our front men, and especially Sergio, found space between them. Then the mercilessly accurate ball released to the foot of Sergio, Raz, Gaby, Erling. He no longer had that capacity this season, and it was painfully visible.
But I don't know, the way he was haring around against Bournemouth the other day, I thought, “Oh, maybe he's still got some left in the tank”.
Pep sees them all week, and was a player himself. So he knew.
I think we, as fans, have massively underestimated the toll on the core players' bodies of playing twice a week, pretty much from September onwards — League Cup + PL, then into CL + PL, then back to League Cup mixed with F.A. Cup mixed with PL, going deep into three, four competitions — at the highest level… for seven solid years.
 
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