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Re: Silva - best since Bell?

Jack74 I'm sure many have said it before But is Silva going balls deep in your wife? or are you infact Kinkladze and are upset that everyone's saying Silva is better than you.

Your probably the weirdest poster on here, your 1 or 2

1)a wum or a rag (bit strange you put MCFC OK ) after every post.

2) actually delusional and take medicine for it.

If your 2 I apologise for calling you weird.

MCFC OK!!!!!!!!!
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

Totally different players.
Silva is an AM. Bell was a box-to-box player.
The equivalent to Bell in the current City team is YaYa. Even so I'd still go with Bell - though it is close.
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

Jack74 said:
stonerblue said:
Unplayable yesterday and a joy to watch.

Ha ha u r having a laugh poor again ,how anyone can compare him 2 Bell is beyond some of u should b ashamed of yourselves

There was a man from ......

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Marvin said:
stonerblue said:
Unplayable yesterday and a joy to watch.
Until he got into the box and went for an extra pass instead of shooting...that was not a joy to watch. He didn't have a perfect game yesterday

I'm guessing you're a glass half empty kind of guy.
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

He would be if someone told him he's allowed to shoot
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

The problem with threads like these, generally comes with the older generation not wanting to let go of the thought/memories of Bell being our greatest player ever. I was never fortunate enough to see him play live, so it's virtually impossible for me to compare him with any of our current crop. I can only go off what people tell me about him, which while always being endless praise, I have to view some of that as a nostalgic view.

He was undoubtedly a very talented player, but for me, and this may be well wide of the mark, he was only "one of the greatest" among City fans. I've said it before on here, if we look back at lists of greatest players, European footballer of the year nominees and winners, World player of the year nominees and winners, he's nowhere to be seen. In future generations of football fans, when today's squad have long retired, I personally feel, that the likes of Yaya and Silva will have made a much more significant impression on football fans of all clubs, than Bell has done, which for me tells it's own story. They will most probably be remembered as two of the worlds elite footballers during their careers. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but they have both made shortlists for the Ballon d'or and been nominated for Fifa world team of the year?

I'm not using this as a stick to beat Bell with, just maybe to offer a more neutral view, rather than the cliched "blue tinted specs" As a previous poster said a few pages back "Colin Bell will always be our best player" if that is the mindset and it seems a commonly held view on here, how can it ever be fair to debate who is/was better player.

The view also that he was vastly superior to Gerrard is one I definitely struggle to comprehend, if it were to be true, he would surely receive much more praise and recognition than he does and before anyone tries angling towards a media bias, it would take one hell of biased view to erase a player of that caliber from the memories of ex players, pundits, journalists and fans, for him to not be up in all the lists ranked alongside the likes of Moore, Charlton, Banks, Greaves, Matthews, Gascoigne, Keegan etc....it certainly leaves me, a fan of the younger generation with an awful lot to ponder when considering our greatest ever player.
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

It was supposed to be more of an appreciation thread for David Silva.

Which is why I titled it best since Bell?

Not old enough to see him play but I believe he is the ultimate barometer in the years which have proceeded him.
 
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tolmie's hairdoo said:
It was supposed to be more of an appreciation thread for David Silva.

Which is why I titled it best since Bell?

Not old enough to see him play but I believe he is the ultimate barometer in the years which have proceeded him.

I noticed the title, but as always with threads like these, they turn into a "who was better" kinda thing.

Just following onto the thread hijack ;)
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

dan.j.mcfc said:
The view also that he was vastly superior to Gerrard is one I definitely struggle to comprehend, if it were to be true, he would surely receive much more praise and recognition than he does and before anyone tries angling towards a media bias, it would take one hell of biased view to erase a player of that caliber from the memories of ex players, pundits, journalists and fans, for him to not be up in all the lists ranked alongside the likes of Moore, Charlton, Banks, Greaves, Matthews, Gascoigne, Keegan etc....it certainly leaves me, a fan of the younger generation with an awful lot to ponder when considering our greatest ever player.
Colin Bell is not my favourite City player and never will be.

However if you've never seen him play how can you be so disparaging of him towards Stephen Gerrard
imo he shits all over Gerrard
Oakie said he was 25% better than the starfish, i think he is far too generous towards Gerrard

Bell had it all, scored fifteen or more goals regularly from midfield, without penalties

he was a class above everyone in his day but didn't play for a 'glamour' club and so the media, just like today, easily ignored his greatness

Bell is probably the only player who could seamlessly fit into today's team, and then we would stroll the league
 
Re: Silva - best since Bell?

Bobby Charlton wrote the foreword to Bell's book.

George Best regularly labelled Colin Bell the greatest English midfielder of all time.

He used to use it on his Best and Marsh roadshow.

Sure Rodney would share some of his best pal's thoughts if you ask him on Twitter.
 
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