Gio....

[Goats left knee]

i loved him but my dad always said he was " an ornament "
if he was THAT good why did a top English side not buy him when we went tumbling

 

[m27]

How many goals did he score from open play in his City career?

I've forgotten now, but once worked it out from mancity stats. If poor team mates were the reason for his team's poor form at City, what were the excuses at Ajax and Derby?

I loved him at first, but in the end I knew he was no good for us.

I don't understand your first comment. Are you saying he was some kind of dead ball specialist who rarely scored from open play? To be frank mate, that's bollocks.

However, I do take your point on board regarding Ajax. I went over there on holiday his first season and spoke to an Ajax lad who thought he was the worst player he'd ever seen. Now that I can't explain.

 

[Marvin]

How many goals did he score from open play in his City career?

I've forgotten now, but once worked it out from mancity stats. If poor team mates were the reason for his team's poor form at City, what were the excuses at Ajax and Derby?

I loved him at first, but in the end I knew he was no good for us.

I don't understand your first comment. Are you saying he was some kind of dead ball specialist who rarely scored from open play? To be frank mate, that's bollocks.

However, I do take your point on board regarding Ajax. I went over there on holiday his first season and spoke to an Ajax lad who thought he was the worst player he'd ever seen. Now that I can't explain.

A lot of his goals were penalties. If he was a good a player as is claimed he would have had more impact on the games.

 

[Marvin]

Just checked his stats. Scored about 20 goals in 3 seasons, and half were pens and free-kicks.

So he could take a good penalty, and he scored a very few fantastic goals, but most of the managers had City's players running around for him with very little end product. It should have been the other way around, or not at all.

 

[m27]

Just checked his stats. Scored about 20 goals in 3 seasons, and half were pens and free-kicks.

So he could take a good penalty, and he scored a very few fantastic goals, but most of the managers had City's players running around for him with very little end product. It should have been the other way around, or not at all.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

If it wasn't for Gio, the most desperate of footballing times at City would have been totally unbearable. Gio made it bearable for me.

I'm not going to analyse that with stats. It's how I felt, and I know I wasn't on my own.

 

[Anonymous]

Absouloute legend. Saved this club in more ways that one.

I won't have a bad word said against him, anyone who does is a clueless fuckwit.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

my one and only ever regret watching City - as I was away in the USA for the duration of his tenure with us and I never got to see him play live (or for that matter 'live' on the box, as there wasn't the coverage there is now, especially in the lower divisions).

all I can say from what the televised archives show is that he seems like one of those incredible 'once-in-a-lifetime' uniquely gifted players who entertain.

of course there are holes you might pick in any player's arsenal, but all that aside, it's nice just to be to appreciate the finer points for what they are, and Kinkladze had them in abundance; he was a magician with a football and could weave spells around opposition players leaving them trailing in his wake... glorious to behold; legendary to reflect.

too many people on this site come on and bad-mouth our players (not about Gio; the debate is a little more technical with him I think) which I never do. True, players can make some clangers and be rightly criticised for such, but that doesn't make them worthy of the sort of abusive remarks and downright disgusting tripe I see some posters putting up on here.

enough said though, this post was about one of our supremely gifted players from a time when the team overall was anything but... I envy all of you who were able to see him play in person, whilst I was labouring over here in ignorance.

 

[OJ Blue]

He was at a Premiere at the Trafford Centre after he moved to Ajax, I wondered over and said hello (yes, his Mrs was rocket fit). Was gutted when he *blanked me.


























*maybe it was because he was having a piss at the time

 

[lancs blue]

Just checked his stats. Scored about 20 goals in 3 seasons, and half were pens and free-kicks.

So he could take a good penalty, and he scored a very few fantastic goals, but most of the managers had City's players running around for him with very little end product. It should have been the other way around, or not at all.

What about all the assists? What about the simple chances laid on a plate for incompetent teammates who fluffed them - there are a few shown on those vids?

Lee thought one man could make the team, what we needed as well was a player with the vision to find Kinkladze in the space he ran into time and again.

 

[Kinky by name]

How many goals did he score from open play in his City career?

I've forgotten now, but once worked it out from mancity stats.

...and David May has a Champions League medal... there's another pointless stat for you.