Bony (Season long loan at Stoke - Official)

[bojinov29]

You are wrong wrong wrong, you a so so so so wrong... To the tune of any song you like. :)

Been saying forever now, we need wide attacking players who can score. Not another out and out striker to come seat behind Aguero or take up a position he is actually not very good at.

Thank God we now have Pep. I'm so on his wavelength :-)

We'll pal I hope your right because if so come the end of the season we might all be very happy !!!

 

[decmancity]

Hopefully they are still in the market, they have just paid 25/30mil for Bolasie so 17.5m left of the Stones deal would do for Bony!

 

[Dax777]

We should have known he wouldn't suit our style of play, it's been a bad move for both parties. He's never lacked for effort or fitness though bar injuries and you don't go from golden boot winner in the Eredivisie, top scorer in the PL 2014 calendar year(I've just double checked that because a lot of people seem to think he's won a golden boot but it seems not the case) to a donkey in a league that has Aguero, Suarez, Toure in his prime. He's very decent in the right setup, ours just wasn't for him and he looks short of confidence now due to the heavy criticism. £20-25m in this market if very reasonable if they can get him scoring 20+ goals in the right system that's a bargain.

He is going to be a bargain for someone. But was always a blunder for us. Someone shoulda listened to me :(

Thank God Pep I'd here now. I barely have anything to complain about :(

Well, if I'm being pedantic I can point to not going in harder for Peres as the one minor miss, and the inabilityto offload some old players. But the former is minor and the latter predates Pep.

I'm in happy mode right now :-) My time has finally come!!!!

 

[FantasyIreland]

Sun reporting Everton is close to Bony for 15 mill.

Has he missed a sitter since 1500hrs??

 

[SWP's back]

Pep calls all his attacking players forwards - that might confuse. The wingers, strikers and even attacking midfielders...

But City registered him in the forwards/strikers in the CL squad but not Sane, Sterling etc

 

[BlueMedic]

ok ... bayern have RL and TM and probably some reserve striker(s) plus lots of interchangeable attacking wingers /wide men... barca have there front 3 LS LM and Neymar plus wingers and again reserve strikers etc real have Benzema Morrata plus Ronaldo and Bale with the likes of wide man Vasquez ... only young I know but ... but IMO all of there leagues bar the Spanish a little ... do not have the speed or intensity of the English game . This is where IMO we need another striker ... not necessarily a high profile one but a real natural striker to assist with the demands of our league. Would hate to have either one of our real strikers injured leaving us very short .... but Pep knows best and maybe Noilito is the answer ... only time will tell.

Thomas mueller plays in the first 11 as a non-striker. "Probably some reserve striker" = no one, so we beat Bayern as Kelechi is a better back up than "probably some reserve striker".

Again you're just naming first team 11 players who can play at striker for Real/Barca rather than naming their back up strikers - so you're reinforcing my point. You don't need a £30m back up striker to sit on the bench, the best teams have a front 3/4 who can rotate & play at striker if their main striker misses a game. We are heading that way with players such as Sane, Jesus & Moreno who are all capable of playing at striker, this is a method I've advocated for a while.

 

[Metalartin]

He is going to be a bargain for someone. But was always a blunder for us. Someone shoulda listened to me :(

Thank God Pep I'd here now. I barely have anything to complain about :(

Well, if I'm being pedantic I can point to not going in harder for Peres as the one minor miss, and the inabilityto offload some old players. But the former is minor and the latter predates Pep.

I'm in happy mode right now :-) My time has finally come!!!!

Which Peres might that be?

 

[Andouble]

Bolasie to Everton sounds like it's going to happen now. He's more of a winger I know but hopefully that doesn't kill this rumour..

 

[SWP's back]

Thomas mueller plays in the first 11 as a non-striker. "Probably some reserve striker" = no one, so we beat Bayern as Kelechi is a better back up than "probably some reserve striker".

Again you're just naming first team 11 players who can play at striker for Real/Barca rather than naming their back up strikers - so you're reinforcing my point. You don't need a £30m back up striker to sit on the bench, the best teams have a front 3/4 who can rotate & play at striker if their main striker misses a game. We are heading that way with players such as Sane, Jesus & Moreno who are all capable of playing at striker, this is a method I've advocated for a while.

All of this, his reply simply backed you up and then he said the cliched "but this is the Prem..." angle which bears no scrutiny.

 

[Dax777]

We'll pal I hope your right because if so come the end of the season we might all be very happy !!!

I'm with you brother. We are not probably gonna start off well. But I think we'll finish with a flurry. It's gonna be an epic season.