David Silva...

[OB1]

Spanish Dave's performance at WHL was sublime. Is there a better creative player than him at the moment?

As with Aguero, it is entirely conceivable that Barca or Real would want to sign him and these stories will keep popping up; just as the price to buy them will still be going up.

So long as the players are happy, we have little to worry about and, at this moment, any first team regular wanting to leave City would be mad.

 

[HolisticJim]

Spanish Dave's performance at WHL was sublime. Is there a better creative player than him at the moment?

As with Aguero, it is entirely conceivable that Barca or Real would want to sign him and these stories will keep popping up; just as the price to buy them will still be going up.

So long as the players are happy, we have little to worry about and, at this moment, any first team regular wanting to leave City would be mad.

Think if we knock Barca out of the CL and make it to the latter stages - semi or even the final - we will be able to keep our players without much of a problem.
Get beat by Barca and don't win the title and we may have problems.

 

[dctid]

Spanish Dave's performance at WHL was sublime. Is there a better creative player than him at the moment?

As with Aguero, it is entirely conceivable that Barca or Real would want to sign him and these stories will keep popping up; just as the price to buy them will still be going up.

So long as the players are happy, we have little to worry about and, at this moment, any first team regular wanting to leave City would be mad.

Think if we knock Barca out of the CL and make it to the latter stages - semi or even the final - we will be able to keep our players without much of a problem.
Get beat by Barca and don't win the title and we may have problems.

We will naturally loose players thats life personally i think we can cope as long as we can identify decent replacememts and get top top dollar for any players sold - Silva satarts at £50M

Best managers can do this and to be honest i have seen very little wrong with our transfer dealings recently

 

[Vienna_70]

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if anything on this has already been posted, but Merlin's pass to Sergio for the first on Wednesday was absolutely sublime.

The weight of the pass was perfect and made it almost impossible for Kun to miss.

 

[Cityinmyheart]

While we prepare for Chelsea clash ,,,,,,,,,,Silva is shooting for an Indian film

 

[Deleted member 58678]

At White Hart Lane, David Silva perfectly adjusted his game to fit the actual match situation
In the first half he was spacefinder- general as wave after wave of attacks opened Tottenham up.He was so effective doing this that Sherwood sent on Capoue seemingly with one instruction-take Silva out if you can, at least batter him !
But Capoue's stamp on his foot failed to do that. david's faced up to those tactics ever since he was a nipper in short pants playing in the alley with the rag ball his nan made for him. He took on boys twice his age and the only way they could get the ball off him was by kicking him. So he developed a hard streak himself and, against Arsenal for example, , he dashed in and ruthlessly brought down ramsey to stop him starting a dangerous counter.
Against tottenham, he didn't waste mental energy by complaining about Capoue getting off with it. He'd long since sussed Marriner for a complete tool.

But, in the penalty incident, he was the first to confront the ref and demand Rose's dismissal.Then he sized up the situation. Spurs were fired up with indignation , we had only one goal to show for first half dominance, Kun was off injured, the beast not there and Dzeko's radar malfunctioning.
So he needed to be right at the centre of the goalmouth action. And he was the one who clinched the third goal with a change of feet, jump lead acceleration and power shot which left Dawson on the deck, Eriksen running the wrong way and Lloris sprawled to open up the gap for Edin's shot. This was the strike which broke Spurs hearts- even though they scrambled a goal.
Finally, he orchestrated Pellegrini's instructions for the keepball session which tortured tiring Tottenham and paved the way for the last two goals.

Indeed!

 

[silvasleftleg]

Not surprised that Barcelona are interested in David Silva.

Players like Silva, are priceless, they have no price. Barcelona can jog on.

 

[silvasleftleg]

Silva is just irreplaceable tbh.

Indeed.

Valencia's original asking price for Silva (+Villa) was £135 million.

Eventually they sold him to us for £24 million, probably because they needed the money.

 

[newenglandblue]

Dave's age, like Sergio means this will always be talked about. The next 18 months is the time for his last big move (Sergio probably has at least double that) and that people talk about them being wanted is only a postitive. I really hope they both stay, and for what it is worth think they will. And if they dont, the numbers really will be eye opening - City making a profit on someone - surely not - we always overpay in a market that had no value according to GPC. Silva 50+? Sergio 70+?

 

[jollylescott]

Another magical game from the little maestro tonight.

I thought he defended very well and pulled off some great tackles. His attacking play was of course sublime.

He is going to turn it up to the max against Barca. With he and Samir working in tandem they are going to give the Barca defence some awful problems.