Our best ever player

[Tevez City]

Heart with Carlos Tevez & Bernardo

Mind with Yaya & KDB

 

[Dr Jacoby]

David Silva but peak Yaya was something else.

 

[City of Troy]

Kev

 

[Matt Diablo]

George Weah

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I’m of the age where I grew up watching the Bell, Lee, Summerbee team. I always held firm to the view that Colin Bell was the best player I ever saw in a City shirt but in recent years I’ve started to question that. He’s still in my top 3 but nowadays I think KDB just shades it and Merlin is pushing for a top two spot.

Rodri is an absolutely brilliant player and thoroughly deserving of his Ballon D’Or but is he better than a prime Fernandinho? I’m not sure.

Whether Fernandinho's is better than Rodri is debatable, both world class. I think one of Pep's biggest mistakes was leaving Fernandinho out of the European Cup final v Chelsea. I'm sure we would have beaten them with him playing.

 

[Dazzle84]

Best v favourite is probably an apt distinction here.
Best - not sure there's ever been a player for us who's been the best in the world in their position* before, never mind overall. So has to be Rodri

Favourite - Silva and probably will be until I die

*Kevin maybe a couple of years back

 

[Dazzle84]

He’s not even the best holding midfielder we’ve had. Yaya Toure was stronger, quicker and scored more goals than Rodders. Yaya had everything and you’ll have to go a long way to find anybody who is better. Yaya was just a monster.

Yaya didn't really play holding midfield for us did he, always had a minder to do the dirty work

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

We're really privileged that these types of discussions are now a genuine debate with multiple really strong and deserving candidates.

When I was a kid, despite having never seen Colin Bell play I just readily accepted he was our greatest ever player and for years there wasn't anyone who looked like changing that. My Dad and his mates all to a man are still adamant the answer is still Colin Bell, which they're obviously entitled to believe.

I'm torn between a few players Aguero, KDB, Yaya and could make a case for another few. Rodri, in partcular now has a very, very strong case. If I had to choose one I would go for David Silva. He had some incredible moments for us, but he wasn't particularly a moments player. He dictated the pace of play, had time on the ball and rarely lost it. He was just a wonderful player to watch aesthetically. That might not be something which is fair to judge a title like this on, but the debates are always going to be subjective and it's fairy hard to look at while someone is still playing. We're just very lucky to have seen these wonderful players, with hopefully more to come. Watch it and drink it in.

 

[Phil1]

Way too subjective to answer who’s been the best when we’ve been so lucky with an abundance of absolutely exceptional players.

My favourite is easy though. Spanish Dave.

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

I really can't choose, however, reading through the thread, and thinking of other players, I am so unbelievably proud and honoured to support a club that came from the depths of oblivion to be able to list the calibre of players mentioned. Not forgetting about the players from before we were shit too!