De Bruyne?

Lee the Blue said:
No it is true. Where's the TOP quality we desperately need? Where's the new left back to replace the substandard pair we currently have? Sterling may turn in to a decent player - emphasis on May - Delph is quota job, tops. A jobber player who fills
In as and where needed but will hardly push us over the top against the big boys.

I see nothing new in our squad that will get us to the business end of the CL, or indeed overhaul Chelsea. We were told top quality would arrive but it hasn't so far. The wait goes on, hence the original point is valid.

Shout it down all you want but we remain a million miles away from the likes of Real, Barca, Bayern et Al.
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I didn't shout it down, & what you are posting now is not what I replied to.

I think your other post claiming DeBruyne wouldn't have played etc, was a load of bollocks. This one is a different kind of bollocks. We have had a great transfer window SO FAR.
 
TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
Hi Neville, I agree mate.....feel sorry for anyone thats got to control the deep(holding) areas, as our wide open play put so much pressure on that position! cheers mate!
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Hi @TRUE BLUE NO1 ... I would love to have what you're taking. What a refreshing change to have a respectful poster on here. Let me congratulate you on becoming one of my favourite posters in this thread. :)
 
franksinatra said:
It probably would be to the benefit of Fernando but a massive detriment to the team. To accommodate a three we would have to lose an attacking player. I think the fact we have only three strikers currently and there is talk of Dzeko leaving highlights we will play a 4-2-3-1 next year if we capture De Bruyne. That in itself should make us more solid than when playing two out and out strikers. If
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I'd say it's the opposite. I think having a solid base in midfield will help us both with and without the ball. With the ball, we'd have more of a solid midfield and should be able to keep the ball better against better opposition and against the teams that press us high up, (we're currently awful at keeping possession against teams that press us, especially when our entire game is built around keeping possession). Without the ball we get absolutely ripped apart by not just the best teams but average teams too. It's just fortunate that in the league we're generally the best possession team there is so we don't lose the ball much and therefore the huge defensive weaknesses in our system aren't exploited as much as they otherwise would. Then we get to the champions league where suddenly we don't have 70% possession because we can't keep the ball against better teams and we look lost and sometimes amateurish. Unless we reach Barcelona's standard we'll never win the champions league with the current system imo.


Neville Kneville said:
I think he can do it but he seems to be a yard of pace off where he needs to be imo. Yet there was a period last season where he seemed to have that pace. Whether he fits in to this City team or not, Fernando is not some kind of fucking mug, like some City fans are making him out to be.

I think he would be fine in a lot of decent teams. It's the wide open style we are trying to learn which is the problem. It's not easy at all.
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You;re right about both. regarding his pace. he occasionally looks like nobody can sprint past him then 2 minutes later the very same player will practically walk passed him. It's an odd one, i'm still not sure whether he's quick or not. And the system is going to make anybody who's main purpose in the team is to offer a defensive contribution look a lot worse than they are. The players are (almost) all there, to win the league anyway, it's the system that's letting us down.
 
Kippax. said:
Hi @TRUE BLUE NO1 ... I would love to have what you're taking. What a refreshing change to have a respectful poster on here. Let me congratulate you on becoming one of my favourite posters in this thread. :)
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Yeah
Kippax. said:
Hi @TRUE BLUE NO1 ... I would love to have what you're taking. What a refreshing change to have a respectful poster on here. Let me congratulate you on becoming one of my favourite posters in this thread. :)
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yeah I agree,one of mine aswell,TB no1 for Mod.
 
TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
Hi Neville, I agree mate.....feel sorry for anyone thats got to control the deep(holding) areas, as our wide open play put so much pressure on that position! cheers mate!
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Not just the holding role either imo. I think the whole of our midfield is a tough job, requiring a tremendous amount of hard work, but the holding guys are the ones who get more obviously shown up when it goes wrong. When Nasri suddenly went missing with a challenge v Real, everyone looked at Kolarov, Denayer, Sagna, even Hart but it was that one little bit of 'easy' allowing Real to attack our box, which resulted in a goal. It wasn't terrible from Nasri, it just wasn't quite good enough.

Such a fine line at that level. Every piece of the jigsaw has to fit. We have the quality imo, but not the balance.
 
A lot of good points made about our central midfield. A lot of issues boil down to inconsistencies between individuals. Some seem to press while others don't and that causes so many problems as it leaves space for the opposition. A high pressing game needs every outfield player committed, not a few, not half, all of them.

Fernando looked fine with delph in there doing a lot of work as well. City will be a lot better with delph fernandinho and Fernando for the central positions. A lot of energy and work there. From what I have seen of yaya pre season he shouldn't be playing in central midfield without two of those three.
 
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