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I love Yaya
But I just hope the club do not do any knee jerk contractual deals until 4th spot is secured . THEN if he has performed to the standard to which we are accustomed by all means give him the necessary to stay at the club .maybe not for 3 years but 2 perhaps He's been a good servant . However no club would be able to accept his huge wage demand per week over 3 years IMO .
So Yaya get a grip. Get your high intensity boots on for these last games up to May and in particular shine on Sunday !
 
bluemoon risin' said:
Let's not get sentimental here on how good Yaya HAS been, it's time for him to go in the summer. 10 minute cameos (in games where he can be arsed) and the odd wonder goal is not enough! Adios Yaya.
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He's probably been our best player for the last month. In the two games he hasn't played, we haven't scored and we have looked woefully shite.
 
Ive had a rethink given recent performances.Offer him 12 months with the option of a further 12,explain his diluted role and offer him an average wage.
 
jpargo said:
Biggest Yaya backer on the board, and I thought he played well on Tuesday, but from the praises coming to him I think majority on this board don't understand his main role on the team. On Tuesday team was playing behind the ball, and counter attacking which they don't do 99% of the time (mostly possession based team). Yaya role was to play behind Aguero and spearhead the counter attack. He did that well, but for all the praises coming to him for he wasn't that effective in the end because team didn't score. He had more sprints and more action in the final 3rd giving the appearance of effectiveness, but I don't think there were that many clear cut chances.

Majority of the time Yaya is initiating the play from deep and linking D to forwards. So if all is going to plan, he is laying the ball at the feet of the likes of Silva, Sterling, etc to make the final move to Aguero. He is not going to get credit if it comes off. If team is chasing goals, he will go forward more often and take more risks, and it will appear like "he is trying harder" but really he is playing a different role. Most fans don't recognize this and slag him with lazy tag.
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Brilliant post and is exactly what a lot of Yaya fans on here have been saying for ages.

Furthermore i think people fail to understand his role even more so when he drops deep to pick up the ball. In reality he is only doing this because neither Fernando, Fernando or Delph can really do it. So then, if he doesn't track back to his own penalty area when we lose the ball, people accuse of him being a defensive liability, when his actual role isn't to defend, and the only reason he is anywhere near our penalty box to being with is to cover over the fact that we don't have a defensively positioned player who can try and dictate the game from deep. He's actually doing the roles of two players, and because of a shortfall in ability within the team, he is having to contribute to too many phases of play.

A week later, he plays further forward has a less effective game, but visually rides away from a few challenges, completes a few more sprints and makes a few tackles and people think he has risen again. I think it is an English things to appreciate the more visually obvious things. That's why in England we cheer tackles, clearances and work rate.
 
ono said:
He tries, he just doesn't have that much technical ability around him so it is easy for the opposition to press him, knowing that we have to filter everything through him.
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That's not true though is it?

We've seen it on multiple occasions when he clearly hasn't put in 100%, even his loyalist supporters surely can't dispute that. And saying Fernandinho, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling, Aguero etc. don't have the technical ability around him is just fucking nonsense. I don't know how any other team in the world wins without him, maybe that's why he's always so tired and just ambles about 2-3 seconds after the ball has gone?
 
fatbloke said:
That's not true though is it?

We've seen it on multiple occasions when he clearly hasn't put in 100%, even his loyalist supporters surely can't dispute that. And saying Fernandinho, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling, Aguero etc. don't have the technical ability around him is just fucking nonsense. I don't know how any other team in the world wins without him, maybe that's why he's always so tired and just ambles about 2-3 seconds after the ball has gone?
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Sorry, i mean in a defensive position this season he has been surrounded in the majority by Sagna, Kolarov, Clichy, Otamendi, Demichellis, Mangala, Delph, Fernando and Fernandinho. This is the area of the pitch that he has to drop into because none of the above are good enough with the ball to allow us to play possession football from the back. The technical ability is at the other end of the pitch, but even then, Silva has struggled badly this season, Sterling doesn't really have a reliable touch, De Bruyne and Nasri have missed big chunks, Navas is ridiculously one-footed.

I don't get why you are so bothered about him ambling around for 2-3 seconds after we lose the ball. So does Aguero, so does Silva, so does De Bruyne, so does Nasri. The only attacking minded players who don't are probably Sterling and Navas and the only reason they get on their bike is because they have an opposing full back to track. So long as Toure doesn't allow the opposing centre back or defensive midfielder to amble past him, it's irrelevant and it is such a ridiculous point to attack him on.

I could totally understand your dislike of him if we had better options in the squad, but we quite clearly don't - as Liverpool away and Norwich away have recently shown.
 
He knows he's going. His agent knows he's going. They're just doing damage limitation now to save face and make the club look like the bad guys.
Once he's gone, you can expect so much crap to come from him about us that it'd make BBC sport look like a City fanzine.
 
2sheikhs said:
He knows he's going. His agent knows he's going. They're just doing damage limitation now to save face and make the club look like the bad guys.
Once he's gone, you can expect so much crap to come from him about us that it'd make BBC sport look like a City fanzine.
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Crap coming from him. Is it any worse than the " Crap" that's being said on here.
 
We will look back at YaYa and recognise that he was THE best player from the last 30 years to don a City shirt. I know Silva is mustard, Aguero is a peach of a player, but YaYa stands top of the pile. He has been the key player when we’ve needed the biggest wins - FA cup semi, cup final, Newcastle away, Palace away, Everton away, League cup finals etc. He gets slaughtered on here and elsewhere by people who can never have played the game and who really don’t have a clue about what separates the very best from the middle/top tier. He is a colossus of a player.
 
Well we might as well say that balotelli won us the league with his pass to Aguero, therefore, he's a City legend.
To me, a City legend is someone that takes the club to their heart. Some players have been here and behaved like we should be grateful that they've graced us with their presence.
 
2sheikhs said:
Well we might as well say that balotelli won us the league with his pass to Aguero, therefore, he's a City legend.
To me, a City legend is someone that takes the club to their heart. Some players have been here and behaved like we should be grateful that they've graced us with their presence.
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Give over... Dickov or yaya???

You know the answer...
 
2sheikhs said:
Well we might as well say that balotelli won us the league with his pass to Aguero, therefore, he's a City legend.
To me, a City legend is someone that takes the club to their heart. Some players have been here and behaved like we should be grateful that they've graced us with their presence.
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give me someone who actually does the important stuff over a badge kisser anyday ,
 
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