Javi Garcia

[Zardon132]

Waste of money. Should have kept De Jong.

 

[BlueCityfan]

It's not De Jong we are missing. He wasn't really any better than Javi has been so far last season. It's Gareth Barry....and he is 31 already and might have his best days behind him.

 

[bluefandk]

It's not De Jong we are missing. he wasn't really any better than Javi has been so far last season. It's Gareth Barry....and he is 31 already and he might have his best days behind him.

Spot on about Barry, but I also think Rodwell should get a run of games, I think he has been better than Garcia.

 

[super_city_si]

I prefer Rodwell in that position to partner Yaya. Hopefully its just a case of Garcia catching up to the pace of the league but a lot of the games pass him by.

 

[Anonymous]

All i seem to see lately is Garcia getting booked !

 

[Blue Haze]

This was the problem with our transfer window. We didn't improve our starting 11. We replaced De Jong with someone who is similar and spent 16m to do it.

It was a terrible mistake. I'm not writing him off, but he isn't the deep passer who would help us in games like this and Madrid. Same is true for Sinclair and Rodwell. We're getting loaded up with midfielders who all have the same limitations. We paid 18m for Milner and he won't even make the bench now.

 

[Anonymous]

how anyone can write off a player after 3 games in a new league and team is beyond me.

 

[SebastianBlue]

From what I have seen so far I honestly think Rodwell is a better player than Garcia, I thought Rodwell did extremely well when he came on today.

A combination of observational and confirmation bias. People hear said he was not having a good match so toward the end people started to look at him and see that he was not moving about quickly like Rodwell, which came on after 45 minutes. You started half way through the game and only saw the mistakes.

He did not play that well, to be sure, but toward the end he was just tired and doing his best to keep up with play after running back to track their very, very paced fullbacks, Gervinho and Carzola.

He had no preseason and is just getting into the team. Yaya and Kompany both looked similar when they first came. Thank god our management did not judge them on three performances.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I'm hoping it's just a fitness issue because this fella is beyond slow and has very limited mobility,his awareness is also poor but that is probably down to adjustment/familiarity which will hopefully also improve with time.
Another 10m or Milner would have got us Fellaini,proven prem class.....

 

[Keith Moon]

Great performance tonight, he's work without the ball was 10 out of 10.