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Yes, the guys you've mentioned are good players, and yes we have a good squad; but are any of those players you mentioned top for their positions in the league? Be surprised if you think yes (other than Zab; but this season that's clearly not true either). I was saying our "star" players don't...

Best players, but best squad logistically? No, not really. Most would say our best players are Kompany, Silva, De Bruyne, Aguero & Toure, you could throw Sterling in there too given his expected future & good form most of the season; which are their favoured positions? You could argue Silva...

Indeed, and what was the common theme of that match? We actually played a 4-3-3 with a natural DM (Fernando) at DM, 2 natural CM's (Yaya/Dinho) at CM, 2 wingers (Sterling/Navas) on the wings & a striker (Bony) at striker. Everyone was in their favoured positions & everyone performed, hardly...

I won't bother explaining the first bit again. But yes, I suppose it depends on how you look at it; I'm basing my point of view off of current form & current expectations. We are simply not playing well enough to go and dominate away to title rivals (or even teams like Everton) even if I'd love...

No one is saying he's a world beater, I was the one who posted those stats earlier. My point was that we should play round pegs in round holes, Navas is a winger, KdB/Silva are not wingers. Statistically we have performed far better with Navas & Sterling out wide. Navas is simply not a better...

I didn't misread, you seemingly unintentionally repeated my original post back to me. So as it turns out we're in agreement about the general idea; get a CAM at CAM & put wingers on the wings. We're in disagreement over how good KdB is. Yes statistics are misleading, Silva for me has been...

Fernando isn't a CM for me as he just doesn't have the legs. He's only looked good in a 3 as the DM behind Yaya + Dinho. So my vote would go for Delph + Dinho combo instead, both can run enough to give us the legs needed for that role. Yaya/Nando don't cut it in a 2 (good example being the...

I think you're totally misreading my posts then if you're reading what I've put as suggesting we play KdB in an unbalanced team. In fact I quite literally stated I'd drop him or Silva to field Navas so that we would have a balanced team. And in fact I am one of those posters who has been saying...

Indeed he was & he usually is. KdB has shown how good he is though, for me him or Silva would be plenty good enough in the central role with 2 wingers either side of them.

Feels like we have too many "star" players that he wants to shoehorn into one team even if it's leaving us unbalanced in defence & unbalanced in attack. Sooner or later we'll have to accept that playing Yaya, Silva, KdB, Aguero all in one team just isn't doing it. Especially when you play 3 of...

Has to start for me. We are far better with width in the team. We look so stunted with these 4-4-2 with Sterling up top & Silva/KdB out wide, or 4-2-3-1 with Yaya in the middle & Silva/KdB out wide. Those 2 are not wingers & Yaya isn't an CAM (certainly not a better one than Silva or KdB..). If...

He's a mess unfortunately. All our very poor matches where we could have shipped 5+ easily (Liverpool, Stoke, Spurs) had him playing 90 minutes. He came on against Hull at something like 4-0 up & made a mistake to cost us a goal. Was poor again today, people just knock the ball past him, he...

Exactly this. Say anything other than Yaya should play 90 minutes twice a week for 100% of our games on here & some try to kill you for it.

Your suggested formation was used against Leiecester was it not, we essentially had a 442 with Silva & KdB on the wings if I remember (definitely seen us use it recently). Personally hate it, means almost all our players play out of position & provides even less protection to the defence. Silva...

Just to clarify, he's going to be at LB & Isco at CB correct?

Sounds like a crap idea if it's even being considered. Sure he's not suited to us, but statistically he's been doing fine; last 8 games he's had 4 starts, played 395 minutes (less than 4.5 games) & contributed 4 goals 2 assists. If Aguero can stay fit now, he'll be a good option to have from...

Yaya.

If we are indeed in for him & close as many suggest then I don't see it making much difference whether he comes in January or the summer. He doesn't solve current problems so if we're forced to wait until summer then so be it IMO, great asset for the future but in the formation we currently...

I don't disagree with that first point, we'd be far better off with fullbacks who can play, but for me you need a blend; sure Marcelo might help us going forward but he wouldn't drastically improve us as we'd still be just as crap at the back, and great at attacking or not he's not going to add...

We need fullbacks who can attack & defend. Like it or not they are defenders first & foremost. Teams aren't just sitting back against like they used to, our possession isn't at 70%, usually like 55% to 45% in our favour which means we have our fair share of defending to do too.