Bluestones
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Not a patch on Gareth Barry lol...
JohnMaddocksAxe said:Only ever seen 3 players with that sort of close control and acceleration, whilst keeping the ball so close to their feet.
Maradona, Kinky and Messi.
People think you are taking the piss when you say that, due to him not reaching anywhere near the heights they hit/are hitting.
But they didn't watch him every week and get their views from the hackneyed media and their cliches.
I love Silva and he will go down in the annuls of history as a far superior footballer. But he isn't more talented. He is more committed, more achieving and benefits from a more focused upbringing in the game. But Kinky's talent was easily equal.
Silva is head and shoulders above most Premier League players at present. But Kinky had the same skills and passing range, plus the ridiculous, very, very, very rarely found Messi/Maradona esque dribbling ability.
The lad obviously had a problem upstairs because he wasn't picked up by the bigger clubs before he got to City, despite opportunities and possessing this ridiculous talent. And the fact that he buggered it all up after he left here and never really looked the same player again would back that up.
But he was absolute class. That day against Newcastle, he took the best team in the country apart on his own, a one man band, in a way that no-one else ever really has in this country. Players like Cantona and Bergkamp were being lauded at that time (and still are) for producing the goods in top teams - and they did - but they never put in one man shows like that. And as good as they were, I don't think they possessed the dribbling and speed that would allow such a dominating, everywhere on the pitch performance that Kinky did that day (and on some others).
Spare me the bollocks about him not doing it often enough. Who does in a shite team like that.
What a fecking player. What a fecking waste.
No-one here since then comes close to creating the excitement he created when he got on the ball as the crowd had the knowledge that it was possible that he just might beat 4 men and create a goal from nothing.
Anyone who has heard a player create a roar of anticipation (a realistic one, not a hopeful one) when he got possession since certainly hasn't been watching this club - no matter how brilliant Tevez and Silva have been and no matter how good Bernarbia and Berkovic were in the team they played in.
A lot of the stuff on that video simply could not be replicated by 99.99999% of professional footballers throughout history and by 99.99999% of international footballers now. Unfortunately, Kinky couldn't replicate their determination to succeed and drive to make the most of their talent that a lot of them possess.
mcfcnorthstand said:Enjoy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BuNzATQsw[/youtube]
inchy14 said:back to back relegation with him in the team,back to back promotion when he left.
what does that tell you?
cinnamon blue said:where did he go after ajax , whats he doing now ? is he still a pal of nicky summerbee ?