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Kompany/DeJong/Hughes
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Anonymous
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City Raider said:20 year marriages that end in divorce need less counselling
Quite. I don't know what it says about some City supporters that whilst we have the greatest team most of us have ever seen, whilst we're sitting pretty top of the league playing the best football some of us have ever seen, there's still such a desire to pour scorn and vitriol on people who really shouldn't even be an afterthought. That applies not only to Hughes, but all the players he signed who were subsequently discarded. Strikes me that some people only know how to show their support for Mancini by belittling castigating and generally abusing those who came before him...very sad IMO.
Freestyler
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who?
GStar
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coulsonblue said:It's often argued that Kompany and DeJong were signed by Hughes to give him credit.
1. They were spotted by scouts.
2. Kompany was played out of position in midfield.
3. Kompany played very rarely at the start of the 2009/10 season - since Mancini's first game, Kompany has played nearly every match and at CB.
Hughes played him out of position and clearly rated him behind toure and lescott, and even played onouha ahead of him at CB in one game against Spurs away (3-0 loss).
4. De Jong is very limited. He shields a back 4, and nothing more. Everyone is seeing Barry doing this and also getting forward/passing etc...
5. De Jong no longer is of the quality needed to play in our 1st choice team but is a good squad player.
6. Given his role as a sweeper-upper, his position in midfield with Kompany in a 4-4-2 was not correct.
7. Given essentially 6 defenders(back 4 + CM 2), how was Hughes so bad at getting us defensively prepared?
What point are you trying to make?