Karim Rekik

As mentioned Jason Denayer is a hell of a talent, within 2 years he will be close knocking on the door. With the nucleus of him, Kompany, Rekik and Nasty we have 4 hugely talented players who could be competing for places for the next 10 years. Rekik has his flaws and maybe a loan next year to a Premiership team will do him the World of good but he has a good chance of making it with us, Denayer is a certainty to make it though.
 
Goaters said:
As mentioned Jason Denayer is a hell of a talent, within 2 years he will be close knocking on the door. With the nucleus of him, Kompany, Rekik and Nasty we have 4 hugely talented players who could be competing for places for the next 10 years. Rekik has his flaws and maybe a loan next year to a Premiership team will do him the World of good but he has a good chance of making it with us, Denayer is a certainty to make it though.
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How good is Jason Denayer? i have never seen him play, only know he is at the club because of Football Manager haha
 
Interesting to read that report on Rekik, I've not seen many of his games this year so im pleased to hear he has been playing a lot. The way they desribe him brings comparassions to Maldini, in the way he's not a defender that needs to tackle, although I'm not suggesting he will ever be as good as Maldini as he's the greatest ever defender in my opinion.

Would love to see him in a city shirt sometime soon, maybe they will assess him more in preseason but I agree a loan move to a solid prem club next year could be a good move and he takes MDM place after that. Hopefully we don't shell out on Mangala as he's also a left footed CB which would leave us with Nasty or Rekik maybe getting passed over.

I can't wait for the next few years as we also have Denayer, Bossaerts and Angelino coming up through the ranks too.
 
I have to confess I have been an admirer of this lad from the little we saw of him last season.
Good to hear he is doing so well in the Dutch league.
I am certain if he had been at a less affluent club in the prem rather than with us he would have been a regular pick this season.
I sincerely hope we see him back at the Etihad soon.
Very good young player, just the sort we should be looking to for the future.
 
With the Mangala deal not materialising, maybe there's an outside chance this lad will get some action with us next season. I like to see our own lads at least given an opportunity and he'd be a hell of a lot cheaper!
 
He was made captain of PSV for a game recently!

Only watched him against Milan in the CL qualifier earlier in the season and he was excellent apart from not closing down a couple of shots. He kicked the shit out of Balotelli (within the spirit of what is supposed to be a physical contact sport played by men, unfortunately Balotelli isn't one and was rolling around on the floor and crying to the ref about it and the ref gave too many fouls for what were just strong physical challenges on the soft cünt).

I'm glad we didn't sign Mangala. I really rate Nastasić anyway and want to see how good Rekik can be. What's the fucking point in signing these lads if we aren't going to see how good they're going to be?!

<a class="postlink" href="http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1892138-a-progress-report-on-manchester-citys-psv-eindhoven-loanee-karim-rekik" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/18 ... arim-rekik</a>

Rekik is being thrown into the deep end by Cocu, who inadvertently has made the 19-year-old the leader at the back instead of Bruma, the Dutch Titus Bramble.

Bruma, once seen as the successor to John Terry at Chelsea, has been bailed out ad nauseum by Rekik.

Rekik is a world-class prospect, but he is not superman.

He will perform substantially better if he plays alongside an elite centre-back.
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The full report there says his defending has been shoddy though, and theres a few clips with him putting weak challenges in and looking soft at times, unwilling to put his body on the line. Could learn a lot from vinnie
 
KippaxCitizen said:
He was made captain of PSV for a game recently!

Only watched him against Milan in the CL qualifier earlier in the season and he was excellent apart from not closing down a couple of shots. He kicked the shit out of Balotelli (within the spirit of what is supposed to be a physical contact sport played by men, unfortunately Balotelli isn't one and was rolling around on the floor and crying to the ref about it and the ref gave too many fouls for what were just strong physical challenges on the soft cünt).

I'm glad we didn't sign Mangala. I really rate Nastasić anyway and want to see how good Rekik can be. What's the fucking point in signing these lads if we aren't going to see how good they're going to be?!

<a class="postlink" href="http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1892138-a-progress-report-on-manchester-citys-psv-eindhoven-loanee-karim-rekik" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/18 ... arim-rekik</a>

Rekik is being thrown into the deep end by Cocu, who inadvertently has made the 19-year-old the leader at the back instead of Bruma, the Dutch Titus Bramble.

Bruma, once seen as the successor to John Terry at Chelsea, has been bailed out ad nauseum by Rekik.

Rekik is a world-class prospect, but he is not superman.

He will perform substantially better if he plays alongside an elite centre-back.
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I agree about Bruma, but v Milan he was miles better than Rekik, who had a nightmare & it was Bruma who constantly had to bail him out rather than the other way around.

I really hope Rekik dumbfounds me with his improvement if he does come back, & is the player some people see (which I have absolutely no idea what it is they actually see in him) because what I've seen of him personally, I wouldn't play him in our reserve team.

If I had to choose between him & Boyata, I'd pick Boyata by some distance.

I recon that if we use him as our fouth cb & the first two get injured or suspended, we will lose or draw every single game that he & Nastasic play together. That's not an exaggeration, that's a genuine opinion. Lose or draw every single game. I also recon we'd lose a fair few if he played next to Vincent Kompany, some by a big margin.

If Lescott goes, we need to sign a centre back. Desperately.

Luckily, the management know this & will do it. Then if Rekik does come back, he can challenge Nastasic for fourth cb spot. He will almost certainly lose.
 
BillyShears said:
I'm sure this had been posted before but well worth a read for anyone who's interested in how the first half of his season has gone.

<a class="postlink" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1892138-a-progress-report-on-manchester-citys-psv-eindhoven-loanee-karim-rekik" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1892 ... arim-rekik</a>
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Very accurate and well balanced article.

Rekik should be brought back for next season as competition for Nastasic. He is good enough and playing alongside Kompany will only enhance is development as well as protect his mistakes (look at how Nasties mistakes go unnoticed with Vinnie's brilliance) That is not to say Nastie is a good prospect, but I think Karim could be a world beater.
 
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