IF Yaya was to go

[birchwoodgingerste]

Kroos for me.

100 percent has to be barkley

 

[schfc6]

Add Fernando, if we can't get Kroos or Vidal who are both highly unlikely. Then a slight change in system. Use the money to Add Sanchez. Deploy Nasri in a attacking central role. He'd be class running from deep centrally. As is Fernandinho.

.......Hart.......
Zaba VK MDM/? AK.
Fernando......
Fernandinho Nasri
Sanchez. Silva
Sergio.

Job done, money left over and wages too.

 

[Marvin]

Play Milner in midfield and buy Alexis Sanchez

 

[NoahCity]

Add Fernando, if we can't get Kroos or Vidal who are both highly unlikely. Then a slight change in system. Use the money to Add Sanchez. Deploy Nasri in a attacking central role. He'd be class running from deep centrally. As is Fernandinho.

.......Hart.......
Zaba VK MDM/? AK.
Fernando......
Fernandinho Nasri
Sanchez. Silva
Sergio.

Job done, money left over and wages too.

no, we are walking a tightrope with this setup, this means that both would have to play for pretty much every single game.

 

[sam-caddick]

Play Milner in midfield and buy Alexis Sanchez

milner is a decent midfielder but to go from yaya toure to james milner would be a massive step down,

we need a world class replacement if yaya goes.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Play Milner in midfield and buy Alexis Sanchez

Marv's been on the glue again.

 

[stony]

Not if, when. He won't play for City again.

 

[Jack Wills]

Schweinsteiger? Busquets? Barkley?

If only we'd signed Fabregas.

 

[LoveCity]

I would not mess around replacing Yaya. Certainly no high cost + high risk investment like Barkley who cannot come close to dictating a game like Yaya can. If we don't replace Yaya properly, our possession game could suffer and we could lose the control we have over most games.

But what would we be looking for? My dream signing for City has been Vidal for a long time, but I don't think he'd be what City would look for because he isn't the passer that Yaya is and we'd probably want a great and persistent passer of the ball with good vision. The player who receives the ball constantly and is moving it around. For that reason, trying to tempt Bayern with a mega-offer for Kroos would be a good idea, but I'm not sure if they'd sell him. We'd lose the physical presence of Yaya (but Fernando might make up for that), but Kroos is about the only semi-realistic signing out that who can match the passing ability Yaya has.

Here's a list of average passes/pass accuracy per game and why I think Kroos could be the right replacement if we sold Yaya:

Yaya: 71/90%

Kroos: 76/92%
Vidal: 46/84%
Koke: 44/81%
Pogba: 42/84%
Barkley: 36/85%

(Busquets: 77/93% - but he won't move)

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Play Milner in midfield

Gave me a good laugh.