David Silva signs one year contract extension(p33)

A great Premier League servant, and one of City's most valued assets, but too many underwhelming performances in the Champions League, to be considered a truly great player, in the Messi-Ronaldo mould.

That isn’t a criticism. Just a reflection of City’s overall contribution to the highest standard of world football.
 
Turkis newspaper said Silva confirmed Fenerbahce's offer. is it right ?
Does anybody have information ?
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
A great Premier League servant, and one of City's most valued assets, but too many underwhelming performances in the Champions League, to be considered a truly great player, in the Messi-Ronaldo mould.

That isn’t a criticism. Just a reflection of City’s overall contribution to the highest standard of world football.
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Personally I don't consider a 6 game knock out cup competition the highest standard of world football?

Champion league is the biggest bullshit comp of modern football, a cash cow for certain clubs and eufa, where tge first 3 games are geared for the usual suspects to qualify for the rest.
The old format where it was champ only was better.

being consistently great in a full league season is where standards are set
 


Make the most of him boys and girls. He's off. Actually, anyone fancy forming a crew and standing around outside his house to, er, persuade him to stay?
 
urban genie said:
Champion league is the biggest bullshit comp of modern football, a cash cow for certain clubs and eufa, where tge first 3 games are geared for the usual suspects to qualify for the rest.
The old format where it was champ only was better.
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I'm sorry mate, but by what possible reasoning would a competition that restricted itself to playing likes of the Champions of Spain against the Champions of Iceland be a worthwhile European spectacle? Did you see some of the teams Forest beat to get to the European Cup Final in 1980? This notion that it should be restricted to the Champions of each League in Europe, fails to even take into account boundary changes since the late 80's. Why should Montenogro be entitled to the same number of places as Yugoslavia were? By that reasoning, shouldn't Vatican City be as entitled to a place as any other territory?

The present system, give or take, as best as is possible, presents the best 32 teams in Europe against each other. It might be an unsavoury competition, the seeding might be a bit iffy, and UEFA might be bent as fuck, but there's no way that the previous format, if it was played today, be anything other than a shit spectacle for at least 75% of the time.
 
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