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What more than a good footballer do you see?
Do you think he would get into our team nowadays?
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Is Rodri better than Yaya ?
- Thread starter pride in battle
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Do you think he would get into our team nowadays?
JGL07
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No, he is too old!What more than a good footballer do you see?
Do you think he would get into our team nowadays?
Yep.Yaya stopped the clock. That alone should put him above every 21st century City player in the hearts of genuine Mancunian Blues.
The Champions League obviously comes with more prestige and Rodri will forever be a City legend because of that special goal in Istanbul alone. I cried a lot that night. But the combo of Yaya's goals in the FA Cup semi-final against United, and in the final against Stoke in 2011, still put him above everyone for me, except maybe Kevin (I go back and forth). He took 34 dismal years of this club's history and put his foot through it - twice. 'Typical City' towered over us and not one player or manager who came through our doors between 1977 and 2010 knew what to do in the face of it - except Yaya. With the money behind us, and with Fergie on the brink of retiring, it probably would have happened anyway. But after three decades of City being 'the genuine soap opera club' Yaya was the man who finally changed the fucking record.
Being in Wembley that day is an occasion I'll never forget, even when my memory starts going - I still can't believe I was there for Yaya vs United and Stoke and Aguero vs QPR. After the celebrations died down and we were waiting while Stoke collected their medals, I remember looking out across 30,000 City fans at Wembley and seeing lots of grown men on the brink of tears and collapsing into their seats for a moment. They were all doing one thing: reflecting. An entire generation had come and gone between Tueart's overhead and Yaya's bullet and every single City fan in the ground that day (of a certain age) were thinking of the lads and lasses who had lived through Allison's "second coming", Swales Out, the relegations in 1996 and 1998, and 10 goals at home, but tragically hadn't made it to see the good times come again.
Yaya took it all on his shoulders that day, whether he knew it or not, and did that to 30,000 people. His two goals at Wembley that spring are still the two most powerful goals ever scored by a City player. Then he did it again up at Newcastle in 2012, and again at Wembley in 2014, then again at Wembley in 2016. Yeah, Aguero vs QPR was insane and just as special, as were all the big goals that came after from Kompany, Gundogan, Jesus, etc. But Yaya between 2011 and 2014 is still the King to me because he put us up at the very top and made sure we were going to stay there. That we were going to have good times again and that they weren't going to be a flash in the pan either. He defined the club just as much as Peter Swales but to the most opposite extreme.
JGL07
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Pep used him as a central defender at Barcelona.He started as a holding midfielder, just like Rodri, THEN moved further forward.
That is the reverse of many players who start out in midfield and move to central defence when in their 30s.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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That's like who can play better music - a pianist or a guitarist?But the question wasn't about them playing in the same side, it's whose the BETTER player.
Yaya was a beast and carried us at times.
Unbelievably important goals for us as well.
Rodri is almost immaculate and carries us all the time. Again Unbelievably important goals from him.
How do you separate these 2 legends?
For a bit of fun I'll say penalties.
How cool was Yaya at them, and his record of not missing one for us was outstanding.
2 brilliant players who shouldn't really be judged against each other because we were/are so lucky to have had them
Unbelievably important goals for us as well.
Rodri is almost immaculate and carries us all the time. Again Unbelievably important goals from him.
How do you separate these 2 legends?
For a bit of fun I'll say penalties.
How cool was Yaya at them, and his record of not missing one for us was outstanding.
2 brilliant players who shouldn't really be judged against each other because we were/are so lucky to have had them
You know what is mental?
In between (and in amongst) these two great players, we have had in that 6-8 position in that time :
Barry, DeJong, Hargreaves, Javi Garia, Rodwell, Pizzaro, Fernandinho, Lampard, Zuicilini, Fernando, Delph, Sandler, Gundo, Phillips, Kovacic, Nunes.
16 different players, trying that role. That's not even including the 'flexible' ones like Danilo, Zinchenko, Stones etc.
In between (and in amongst) these two great players, we have had in that 6-8 position in that time :
Barry, DeJong, Hargreaves, Javi Garia, Rodwell, Pizzaro, Fernandinho, Lampard, Zuicilini, Fernando, Delph, Sandler, Gundo, Phillips, Kovacic, Nunes.
16 different players, trying that role. That's not even including the 'flexible' ones like Danilo, Zinchenko, Stones etc.
pride in battle
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In his prime Yaya would walk into our team.What more than a good footballer do you see?
Do you think he would get into our team nowadays?