Fernandinho

[totalfootball]

with gotze or Silva playing as the false no 9, maybe, with messi, it doesn't, its about the personnel as much as the formation. plus, in the guardiola formation, the two central midfielders (in your graphic Milner and dinho, have massively different roles and responsibilities e.g. iniesta played up besides messi and villa as much as he did beside xavi, so its a lot different from the diamond midfield you seemed to be referring to in your earlier post, the mourinho one, where there was a noticeable gap between lampard and the strikers

are you seriously saying that barcelona don't play with a diamond in midfield ? or atleast used to (i dont know how they play now).

ah I'm not gonna get sucked into an argument over this, barca have triangles all over the park, not diamonds, diamond midfield in England has always meant (since 2005 anyway) mourinhos diamonds and you were on about diamonds when all you needed to say was 4-3-3 with a false no.9, which is what everyone else in the world calls that formation.

don't argue with me about it. argue with johan cruyff, the man brought the tiki taka tactics to barcelona.

 

[Man City nz]

Beautiful Brazilian man who plays beautiful football.

 

[City_Sean]

I think once rodwell is fit we could definitely switch to a 4-3-3

Hart

Zaba Kompany Nasty Clichy

Fernandinho
Yaya Rodwell

Silva/Navas Aguero/Negredo Nasri/Jovetic

Rodwell is not the answer !

why isn't he, hes young, powerful, good on the ball, and will only get better.

 

[It could have been 10]

I think once rodwell is fit we could definitely switch to a 4-3-3

Hart

Zaba Kompany Nasty Clichy

Fernandinho
Yaya Rodwell

Silva/Navas Aguero/Negredo Nasri/Jovetic

Rodwell is not the answer !

why isn't he, hes young, powerful, good on the ball, and will only get better.

Because his name is Rodwell & not Rodwellihno

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Needs to play a blinder v arsenal this weekend.

Stop their midfield and we stop them.

He'll be the difference I reckon

They tore us apart last year when we had Garcia in the middle. Very lucky to get a point in the end mainly due to Gervinhos finishing.

 

[Jutt]

I think once rodwell is fit we could definitely switch to a 4-3-3

Hart

Zaba Kompany Nasty Clichy

Fernandinho
Yaya Rodwell

Silva/Navas Aguero/Negredo Nasri/Jovetic

Rodwell is not the answer !

why isn't he, hes young, powerful, good on the ball, and will only get better.

Because he's never fit

 

[kunaguero10]

Fernandinho has a season's worth of highlights in that video, he's only been here 4 months! he's already become so so important to our team (dare I saw almost as important as Yaya?)

fantastic player

 

[jollylescott]

the long awaited season review:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_H0z6CxLc[/youtube]

What can be said about this player that City fans don't already know. He is one of the best midfielders in the world. Of that I have no doubt.

What a player!

 

[r.soleofsalford]

the long awaited season review:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_H0z6CxLc[/youtube]

What can be said about this player that City fans don't already know. He is one of the best midfielders in the world. Of that I have no doubt.

What a player!

i have to be honest, i thought 30 mil for a 28 year old was far too much for a player i`ve never really heard a lot of,

i`m warming to this lad and quickly. he helps breakdown opponents attacks and is great for ours because he releases the ball early.

once he`s settled in he may even be half as good as Sir Thomas of Cleverley

 

[BurningHart]

Wish we had 2 fernandinhos

 

[aguero93:20]

Rodwell is not the answer !

why isn't he, hes young, powerful, good on the ball, and will only get better.

Because his name is Rodwell & not Rodwellihno

doesn't exactly roll off the tongue in Beijing...

 

[Deleted member 58678]

He's steadily improving all the time. I think he's the best central midfielder in the Prem. He's got the "must keep the ball at all costs" attitude of de Jong and reads the game like Barry but has more pace than both of them.

What a player!

[To the tune of "Mas que Nada"]
"Wooooooooooh Fernandiiiiiinho (umpa umpa umpa)
WoooooOaOaOaOh Fernandiiiiinho (umpa umpa umpa)"

 

[conormcfc]

@Mammutly: Your thoughts on Fernandinho?

 

[dannyirishblue]

out of this world tonight again......unbelievable player.

 

[conormcfc]

I'll stick by what I said the day we signed him. The best player we've signed since Aguero and possibly our most important player at the moment.

 

[davymcfc]

Fern for Brazil!

 

[Blue Haze]

Heroic today. Held the midfield together almost by himself at times. Every move and pass was intelligent.

My MOTM contender today along with James.

 

[CitizenTID]

Best midfielder on the pitch tonight. Dominated the central midfield area.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Im officially a Fernandinho fanboy

Crazy if Paulinho gets the nod over him in the world cup. Would be sad for football really as Fern is one of the best midfielders in the world at the moment imo.

 

[Bruun]

I absolutely love him! BUT, how does he get away with all those tackles? He makes a lot of "dirty" tackles, but the referee never seem to see them, i don't mind it tho. Just shows Fernandinhos professionalism :)