It is far too easy to blame Yaya for all of our poor performances.
People need to accept that Yaya has a laboured style of play. That does not mean he is lazy and not hard working, however the fact he is 6ft odd and around 15+ stone shows that he is not the most mobile player.
Yaya is/was impossible to stop once he got going but it was his acceleration that has always hindered him. Expecting him to keep up with quicker, smaller, agile and more mobile players such as Coutinho and Lallana is practically impossible. Especially in this day and age when you cannot even fart without giving away a free kick.
That doesn't mean he has been strolling round the pitch doing nothing. IMO, Yaya looks the same player when he plays well as when he plays poor. The only difference being the result. People have rarely ever judged him as a 7 out of 10 player. With Toure he is either brilliant or shit and that seems to depend on if City win or not.
He gets a lot of unfair criticism. However, in the past few seasons bang average players like Puncheon and Mason have run rings past him, solely due to the fact that they are more energetic and quicker. It seems Pellegrini is hanging him out to dry by putting him in a midfield two against energetic players.
I think we have by far the strongest first team and squad in the Premier League, Chelsea first team is close, followed by Arse as a squad.
Counter question, when did you realise that Yaya was shit in a midfield two? I like many blues realised this around 2 years ago, it has also been noted by several pundits.
So if Pellegini is a great manager, why does he KEEP making the same mistakes OVER and OVER again?
The fernando and yaya 2 has never worked,if mp had looked at how klopp sets up his teams it would have been as obvious what we all said would happen.He arrogantly doesn't change our game to take into account the other side,that is what fucking annoys meTo answer your question. Firstly, I wouldn,t use the term shit. Inefective probably better describes him in that scenario and I too saw that some time ago. I cannot answer the second part, nor can anyone else on here I suspect, but I genuinely believe he is not as stupid as many are portraying, and he would have had his reasons for the selection on Sat. Because we do or do not agree with whatever team a manager puts out, they make their selection based on many things that we are not privy to.
It is far too easy to blame Yaya for all of our poor performances.
People need to accept that Yaya has a laboured style of play. That does not mean he is lazy and not hard working, however the fact he is 6ft odd and around 15+ stone shows that he is not the most mobile player.
Yaya is/was impossible to stop once he got going but it was his acceleration that has always hindered him. Expecting him to keep up with quicker, smaller, agile and more mobile players such as Coutinho and Lallana is practically impossible. Especially in this day and age when you cannot even fart without giving away a free kick.
That doesn't mean he has been strolling round the pitch doing nothing. IMO, Yaya looks the same player when he plays well as when he plays poor. The only difference being the result. People have rarely ever judged him as a 7 out of 10 player. With Toure he is either brilliant or shit and that seems to depend on if City win or not.
He gets a lot of unfair criticism. However, in the past few seasons bang average players like Puncheon and Mason have run rings past him, solely due to the fact that they are more energetic and quicker. It seems Pellegrini is hanging him out to dry by putting him in a midfield two against energetic players.
To answer your question. Firstly, I wouldn,t use the term shit. Inefective probably better describes him in that scenario and I too saw that some time ago. I cannot answer the second part, nor can anyone else on here I suspect, but I genuinely believe he is not as stupid as many are portraying, and he would have had his reasons for the selection on Sat. Because we do or do not agree with whatever team a manager puts out, they make their selection based on many things that we are not privy to.
Yaya has never been able to chase players or mark players. Mancini used to make exactly the same mistake in europe by trusting Yaya to defend certain areas/runners. It cost us over & over & over again & that was even sometimes with Barry DeJong & Milner in the team. He was the bloke 'marking' Cavani at the corner all those years ago.
He can't be trusted to do a job defensively. He is a great footballer, still.
Pellegrini is a fucking dickhead for asking him to do stuff he couldn't be relied upon to do five years ago.
That,s your take on it. Have you thought there might be other interpretations of thatAnd when given hindsight after the game he says "I would pick the same team AGAIN". Placing the blame solely with the players.
I still like the idea of de Boer but I have not played close attention to how he is doing at the moment; other than having Ajax on top of the league.
There's a number of options, I think Emery has been mentioned in dispatches and I rate him and like the fact that he is apparently obsessive about detailed preparation.
Low has also been mentioned and he would be interesting.
Closer to home, also mentioned, there's Pinocchio or Koeman but can't see the former leaving Spurs at the end of the season.
I just want Pep though and not too interested in other options until he is not an option.
That,s your take on it. Have you thought there might be other interpretations of that
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