Most Overrated Player to Play for City

jimharri said:
This should be VERY interesting!
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Ha. Believe it or not, I'm not wumming with this.

I think we all got caught up in the Kinky worship back in the day. Probably due to a combination of us being utter shite at the time, with Gio looking like peak Pele compared to those around him, as well as him being a highlight reel kind of player (Southampton and Newcastle are the obvious examples). Unfortunately, those highlight moments were far too few.

I've always said that if we'd snagged Ali B when he was 5/6 years younger, we'd now be talking about him in the same glowing terms as Merlin.
 
BlueTG said:
A big part of his game was lacking.

Yes he had some MOTM performances, but he was talked up as some sort of impenetrable midfield maestro.

I thought he was about average, with elements of his game I actively disliked. In my opinion, because of his full throttle level of dedication, fans loved him and overrated him massively.
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You’re doing De Jong a disservice. He was far better than average. He was a new signing under the Sheikh Mansour era and a vital one too. These kind of midfielders are unsung heroes.

I know so many Blues who loved him. I’ve never heard this level of criticism before.
 
Roy Munson said:
Ha. Believe it or not, I'm not wumming with this.

I think we all got caught up in the Kinky worship back in the day. Probably due to a combination of us being utter shite at the time, with Gio looking like peak Pele compared to those around him, as well as him being a highlight reel kind of player (Southampton and Newcastle are the obvious examples). Unfortunately, those highlight moments were far too few.

I've always said that if we'd snagged Ali B when he was 5/6 years younger, we'd now be talking about him in the same glowing terms as Merlin.
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I'm actually with you on this. There's a thread going about players who you wish had stayed longer; I named Bernarbia. But there's a hell of a lot on here who will strongly disagree with you about Kinky.
 
Kinky was a disgrace in training by all accounts. The instruction on match day seemed to give him the ball and let him create something.

A flawed genius?
 
jimharri said:
I'm actually with you on this. There's a thread going about players who you wish had stayed longer; I named Bernarbia. But there's a hell of a lot on here who will strongly disagree with you about Kinky.
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Just read your post on the other thread. Spot on.

Unfortunately, we would have had absolutely no chance of signing a peak Ali, but we can dream!
 
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