Garcia

[Plain Speaking]

Maybe offer him in part exchange for the player from Benfica we are after?
IMO DDR would offer more flexibility than Garcia for a midfielder capable of playing at cb.

 

[ell]

Im happy to give him another season

 

[bluethai]

His passing game from the back was a lot better than Kompany and Nastasic yesterday.

 

[zeven]

Im happy to give him another season

I agree, he did good at CB

 

[SebastianBlue]

I wonder if any of the BM's that keep saying what a great player he is have employment at mcfc?

I receive only nominal compensation.

 

[blinkblue]

Not had a bad game at CB that I can remember. Don't see any reason why we can't give him a chance as back up to Vinny.

 

[TonyM]

If he goes and he should and if Sinclair goes and he should then I wonder if Mancini who went and he should have gone complains that he shouldn't have gone as they shouldn't have come in and he'd be right and wrong.

 

[SebastianBlue]

If he goes and he should and if Sinclair goes and he should then I wonder if Mancini who went and he should have gone complains that he shouldn't have gone as they shouldn't have come in and he'd be right and wrong.

Yes and no.

 

[LHarper]

I think his positional awareness is a lot better than people give him credit for.

Just because he doesn't tackle like Nigel de Jong doesn't make him a bad player. Xabi Alonso said a while ago that he doesn't understand the British obsession with tackling.

In Spain tackling should be seen as a last resort and the fact you have to make a tackle can be indication of doing something wrong rather than something right with regards to reading the game. One of the best defenders of all time Paolo Maldini only made 1 tackle every couple of games.

Because there's a bias between what is obvious visually (e.g. a tackle) and what is harder to see (slight movements and blocking passing channels, for example), players such as Garcia can be castigated.

The problem is when he does get things wrong tactically occasionally (like away at Wigan in one of his first starts for us) then that will be ingrained in people's minds and the good stuff gets ignored.

I believe he will be very useful for us next season. Maybe I'm wrong, we shall see.

 

[BigOscar]

In all seriousness, he hasn't been played in his actual position even once for City. Busquets or Javi Martinez would look crap aswell if they were used like Garcia was last season. They are specialist players, you can't just lob them in central midfield and expect them to be box to box midfielders or Nige style destroyers, that's not their game