Georgi Kinkladze

80s Shorts said:
Ah, Maine Rd. You could stand in dog shit navigating the alleyways towards the stadium, safe in the knowledge you could wash it off in the pools of piss in the gents.

Loved Kinky.
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The bogs at the back of the kippax were not connected to the sewars, just a big sink away! True story!
 
Mahrez of last season constantly reminded me of Kinky. Fearless and a joy to watch. Makes me think what he could of done if he applied himself in a better team than ours. Genuinely had all the talent in the world but loyalty and laziness stopped him becoming a footballing god.

It's such a shame there's such a limited amount of clips around of him. Would love to see a few 90 minute re-runs of games, that Newcastle game in particularm they hadd the best defence around at the time and Kinky single-handedly ripped them apart
 
warringtonblue said:
that much of a genius he never played top flight football in a decent team. wouldn't get near the present team
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you're sort of missing the point of "genius", yes he had his flaws as a player, but the definition of genius makes no reference to hard work, tracking back, application etc, that's for the less gifted of us

"1. exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability."

Goal v Southampton still the best I've ever seen
 
Garrinchas---Dog said:
A bright light,at a dark time
Just glad i got to see him play for us
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Exactly stars do light up the darkest hours. Without him life as a Blue at that time would have been even worse. I will still remember some of his touches he made when I have long forgotten the undoubted efforts by made some of the players who have won a chestful of medals more recently.

People seem to forget (or never saw) some of the dismal players that surrounded him, let alone the turmoil of managers and chairmen that took us down, down, down in every way.
 
warringtonblue said:
No application or desire to back up his undoubted level of skill, turned it on 1 in every half dozen games, and was a part of a relegated team.

How many big clubs came knocking for him?
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Give it up will you, did he give your missus a good seeing too or something.

He was a joy to watch and was in the wrong team at that time.
 
Was recently in the company of Peter Beagrie and he was full of praise for the City side he was in with Kinky, reckons the best season he ever had and just a central defender short of being a good side but the chairman (Swales) would give the money for a defender. Was talking about the side and it was very good, TC, Curle,Kinky,Uwe,Nicky and Beags to name a few great times watching them happy memories now.
 
warringtonblue said:
that much of a genius he never played top flight football in a decent team. wouldn't get near the present team
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Ha ha you my friend know absolutely fuck all about football but don't worry you won't be on your own on this thread .

I know Silva played well against Hull away also
 
Most natural, skillful and football-intelligent player we've ever had IMO.

His weaknesses were just part of the package and part of the day. He was human. I loved him no matter what.

Who today is so unpredictable in the moment?

My constant hope is that we find someone with all the same attacking strengths. Especially when they could be coached by Pep.
 
If I could compare him to another player, it would be Tomas Brolin. Bags of talent but not enough of an all rounder to be truly great.
 
The Prestwich and Whitefield branch organised a trip over to Amsterdam to meet him .a weekend to remember lol
 
TonyM said:
Most natural, skillful and football-intelligent player we've ever had IMO.

His weaknesses were just part of the package and part of the day. He was human. I loved him no matter what.

Who today is so unpredictable in the moment?

My constant hope is that we find someone with all the same attacking strengths. Especially when they could be coached by Pep.
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Fair comment .
 
urmston said:
If Kinkladze had been the real deal a big club would have signed him.
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This is a common lazy football fans point of view. I remember when United fans said Fletcher was better than Modric because he had more goals and had won more titles.

Either way when Ajax signed him I'm pretty sure they had won their league and won the champions league a few years before that, they were still pretty huge before Dutch football became naff

Kinkladze was a magician, he still tore up premier league defences when he got the opportunity. He was similar in a way to a Gazza or Ginola who didn't need pace to beat a man, they just used their skill. I think in todays nutrition and a good head coach he would have thrived. He wasn't the cause of City going down, you just had a load of shite at the time. For every Rosler and Kinkladze you have five Nicky Summerbee's and Creany's
 
Chipmeister said:
Was recently in the company of Peter Beagrie and he was full of praise for the City side he was in with Kinky, reckons the best season he ever had and just a central defender short of being a good side but the chairman (Swales) would give the money for a defender. Was talking about the side and it was very good, TC, Curle,Kinky,Uwe,Nicky and Beags to name a few great times watching them happy memories now.
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Beagrie only played a possible 7 times with Kinky when we were in prem and 2 times in 1st division
also Franny Lee was the chairman at the time not PJS

He may have been mistaken for the 94-95 season under Horton where city at times were fantastic and he was right were short of a class centre back and maybe an experienced midfielder as we had lomas and flitcroft and a over the hill mcmahon
 
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