He was by far our best and most exciting young player but Reid sold him for peanuts and replaced him with the fucking useless Alfons Groenendijk.Agreed, he was a really good prospect and already held his own in the team.
Gareth Barry in the last decade, wonderful, class act.
I was about to say the same thing..... that run at the end of the season of 2012 no matter what Hart did(and this isn't a dig at him) the second person with the ball always seemed to be Barry either as an outlet ball from the back four or NDJ or from a tackle if we had lost the ball and pretty much no one mentions him in that run in at all.Gareth Barry in the last decade, wonderful, class act.
..........and the next time he touched the ball was for City(I think he ended up being our top scorer the following season, might be wrong on that).Gordon Smith.
Blues could only think about "...and Smith must score..." v the rags in the last minute of the FA Cup, when he didn't score, so had a downer on him.
Yet he was very stylish and cultured and was top scorer from midfield in the 84 / 85 promotion season
A great player, solid and dependable. My everlasting memory is when he went between the sticks when Bert was sent off against West Ham. Where have the years gone?Alan Oakes - never thought he got the credit he deserved, absolute monster of a player
Can you imagine him in a Pep side, what a playerTevez. I know he was rated but he is often left out of conversations about our best ever players (probably because of his off field antics). But, for 2 seasons he was unbelievable. For me, 2010/2011 Tevez is in the same bracket as Aguero/Silva/Toure.