Barcon
Well-Known Member
wireblue said:Didsbury Dave said:Some of the comments I've just read about Silva on this thread ram home the point that a fair proportion of football fans know absolutely nothing about the game.
He's our most important player bar none. Out of all of those you listed he's the one that our whole game is based around. We are not the same team without him in it. Everything good we do comes through him. Our momentum, penetration and rhythm is all based around him.
Hart, Kompany, Ageuro and Ya Ya are our other key players, and I'd even lump Barry and Clichy in there at a push too. But Silva opens defences. There aren't many players in the world who can do that.
Agree to an extent but Yaya is the one our team is based around. He is the biggest cog and without him we just don't function. Backed up by the fact he is never, ever, under any circumstances rotated
Silva would never be rotated if he was as able to defend against set pieces as well as Yaya.