Georgi Kinkladze

[Keeper!]

Maybe she's only followed us since the takeover?

Saying he's unheard of outside of Manchester is a bit of a stretch. That's if we're even entertaining the idea that global recognition would be a decent way of measuring the talents of any player who played for us in those times.

I watched this guy play home and away for the whole of his City career, there were some good days, not many but there were a lot of days when he did not turn up.

I wished Kinky would have put as much effort on a Saturday afternoon as he did with his late night/ early morning visits to casino's and Manchester's finest entertainment venues. He and Master Sumerbee were inseparable, much to the dismay of our Chainman at the time

As people have already stated, great players, are great players every season, great players don't go to sign for Ajax.

Great players win titles, Kinky was relegated twice.

 

[route46]

I honestly believe if it was a fresh faced 20 year old Kinkladze walking through the doors at city today he would go on to be a true great.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I watched this guy play home and away for the whole of his City career, there were some good days, not many but there were a lot of days when he did not turn up.

I wished Kinky would have put as much effort on a Saturday afternoon as he did with his late night/ early morning visits to casino's and Manchester's finest entertainment venues. He and Master Sumerbee were inseparable, much to the dismay of our Chainman at the time

As people have already stated, great players, are great players every season, great players don't go to sign for Ajax.

Great players win titles, Kinky was relegated twice.

I'd classify David Silva as a great player, but if you'd plonked him in the 1997 City team I'm pretty sure we'd still have been relegated. Soundbites like that are meaningless without a bit of context

 

[jimharri]

I watched this guy play home and away for the whole of his City career, there were some good days, not many but there were a lot of days when he did not turn up.

I wished Kinky would have put as much effort on a Saturday afternoon as he did with his late night/ early morning visits to casino's and Manchester's finest entertainment venues. He and Master Sumerbee were inseparable, much to the dismay of our Chainman at the time

As people have already stated, great players, are great players every season, great players don't go to sign for Ajax.

Great players win titles, Kinky was relegated twice.

If a certain poster on here reads that, you'd better make sure your BUPA payments are up to date.

 

[Keeper!]

I'd classify David Silva as a great player, but if you'd plonked him in the 1997 City team I'm pretty sure we'd still have been relegated. Soundbites like that are meaningless without a bit of context

So would suggesting that David Silva or any other player of that quality would have ever considered signing for us in 1997.

Bernarbia and Berkovic in my opinion were far better players and although not at the club for long, were greater legends than Kinky ever was.

 

[route46]

The mistake Kinkladze made was staying after the first season.......he put loyalty before his own career, who knows what he would have gone on to achieve

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

So would suggesting that David Silva or any other player of that quality would have ever considered signing for us in 1997.

Bernarbia and Berkovic in my opinion were far better players and although not at the club for long, were greater legends than Kinky ever was.

Kinkladze signed for us in 95 when we were in the Prem and there were plenty of other good players in the team at that point, but that aside, no, of course a player like Silva wouldn't have considered signing for us then. The point I'm making is that getting relegated and being a good player are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The club sold Quinn, Beagrie, Filtcroft, Curle, Lomas and Rosler during Kinky's time at the club and we had two terrible managers in Alan Ball and Frank Clark, and IMO that is a far more reliable indicator of why we found ourselves in League One than the perceived shortcomings of Georgi Kinkladze

 

[shadygiz]

still one of my all time city players, if somewhat a flawed genius

 

[flb]

I honestly believe if it was a fresh faced 20 year old Kinkladze walking through the doors at city today he would go on to be a true great.

I'm of the same opinion, he had everything to be a truly special player in the right team, he was extremely loyal to City when he could have left a lot earlier than he did , pace, balance , two footed , could pass the ball like Silva and he scored great goals.

He didn't have enough quality players around him- he became a one man team with the pressure of that on his shoulders .

 

[HelloCity]

So would suggesting that David Silva or any other player of that quality would have ever considered signing for us in 1997.

Bernarbia and Berkovic in my opinion were far better players and although not at the club for long, were greater legends than Kinky ever was.

Benarbia had a good season in the Championship.