It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[Woody135]

We havent signed a lb because our hierarchy would blow another £50m-£60m on an attacking threat that cant defend and we’d be no better off than we are now.

They cant understand that a lb should cost £10m-£20m max. in this market and we’d have that if we sold our 5th choice cb to barca. We have it now anyway.

Our best lb in the last 5 years has been Delph and even he got found out positionally fairly regularly.

All your lb needs to do is defend well and be able to pass to the midfield. For the most part delph did that and he was a regular in our best team in recent memory. Get back to that.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

Well I do live 5 minutes from Valencia's training ground but that's beside the point. Sane was a superstar with balon d'or potential. I like Torres and he played well on Saturday but he won't be near Sane's quality for a few years and even then his ceiling isn't close.

Shame Sane was lazy as fuck then

 

[jay_mcfc]

Think he will be better than Sane, better than Sane's potential maybe not, but don't think Sane reached his potential enough or will.

You're aware of how shit we've been since Sane was injured/left? Replacing a player to fill a shirt isn't the same as replacing the quality of a player.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Well I do live 5 minutes from Valencia's training ground but that's beside the point. Sane was a superstar with balon d'or potential. I like Torres and he played well on Saturday but he won't be near Sane's quality for a few years and even then his ceiling isn't close.

I can't argue with that if you live in Valencia. I respectfully hope you are wrong, however.

 

[blueparrot]

You're aware of how shit we've been since Sane was injured/left? Replacing a player to fill a shirt isn't the same as replacing the quality of a player.

You seem completely unaware how little Sane played the year we won a domestic clean sweep and got 98 points, and completely unaware how highly rated Torres is, and the player he could become.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

You're aware of how shit we've been since Sane was injured/left? Replacing a player to fill a shirt isn't the same as replacing the quality of a player.

Oh come off it Sane isn’t the reason we’re not good anymore. Lack of Vinny is one problem and the loss of Dinho’s legs in midfield contribute. I don’t doubt Sane is good but seriously

 

[jay_mcfc]

I think Torres will be a superior player to Leroy, who I loved.
Leroy was devastating with space in behind and he could really finish. With the best will in the world, he was not the same player for us after the first seasons due to injury and then, seemingly, a reluctance to stick to the brief he had been given: I watched him fail to track back on numerous occasions leaving the left-back exposed. In our system, it is essential that the wingers apply pressure, pushing the opposition wingers back and providing doubling up against the opponent's flank players. For whatever reason, Leroy had stopped doing that and looked as if he had lost interest. I speak as someone who genuinely believed that he was a potential worldy.
Ferran is a different kind of player - less athletic but cleverer and with better feet, both of them. I believe that he is a better crosser and passer of the ball and that he will create and score many goals. If I am right, he will be brilliant for us, especially against solid banks of four that we seem to face most weeks.

So many things wrong in here it's hard to know where to start. To think that Torres is anywhere near Sane is just fan boy stuff.

 

[oldius]

Ffs of course if Dias gets injured we’re in the shit. What we gonna do buy another fucking centre back? Jesus wept man

Point nailed. No team in history repeatedly buy players just in case others get injured.

Regarding Kompany, we have bought Dias and Ake. If either is injured, we have Stones, THB, Garcia, Mendy and Zinchenko as cover. You may not like them, but there is no other team in the PL with that quality of back up.

Regarding the replacement of Silva, you could argue that he is irreplaceable as one of the world's greatest midfielders of the last decade. Equally, you could argue that in Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva, we have excellent players of potential world-class, ready to occupy his position.

Regarding Leroy, I believe that Ferran will prove to be his equal, at least. It's a matter of opinion and time whether that proves to be the case.

 

[jay_mcfc]

You seem completely unaware how little Sane played the year we won a domestic clean sweep and got 98 points, and completely unaware how highly rated Torres is, and the player he could become.

31 games 10 goals?

 

[oldius]

So many things wrong in here it's hard to know where to start. To think that Torres is anywhere near Sane is just fan boy stuff.

I don't know you Jay_mcfc but your point marks you out as presumptuous and rude.

I am 52, born in Moss Side and have been a City fan from then, as are all my family. I am a fan of Leroy, I made that clear, but I believe, having watched Ferran since he was 17, that he has equal, if not superior, potential. That you disagree does not give you the right to lower yourself to 'fan-boy' criticisms, you just have a different opinion.