Player Topic: Kevin De Bruyne (2015/16)

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dennishasdoneit said:
if KDB was signed by the rags he would be THE most important football player on the planet.
ive watched him at the etihad do things which take my breath away,....then returned home to watch MOTD and his name hasn,t even been mentioned by the pundits.
i know a player when i see one,i also know the media agenda is to keep City down and out of the news,dont interfere with the utd/klopp wankfest...
Possibly ,only when you have played the game of football ,you can really appreciate the touch ,control and vision which fires this lad, and maybe you understand that class can be shown in a blink of an eye....the attempted killer pass that didn,t come off that nobody else has even seen anyway......its easy to comment on what you saw, but if you didn,t even knew it existed...this is getting messy,and ive had a drink.kdb is basically one step ahead of the game.every time.
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I totally agree. I also played football for a long time. When i see KDB play, i want to be him.
 
I think he's better playing out wide...put him inside and we lose his insane crossing ability from which a lot of his created chances come. We lack a target man who almost always sits on the opposing CBs (Bony always drops deep) to take advantage though. I think Dzeko would have benefited hugely from having De Bruyne in our team.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
De Bruyne is not a winger and he seems to get shoved out onto the wings. We've got talented players but trying to get the right balance isn't working. All the early form everyone had is gone now, it's like we've reverted to April last year. Really not looking forward to Saturday.
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I really don't undrstand why MP refuses to play KDB centrally. He can play as a winger but is clearly at his best when he can dictate the game from midfield. Sterling - kdb - navas with aguero up front is still an offense to be feared.

KDB is a great backup for Silva, just seems crazy not to make use of that.
 
Sentinell said:
I really don't undrstand why MP refuses to play KDB centrally. He can play as a winger but is clearly at his best when he can dictate the game from midfield. Sterling - kdb - navas with aguero up front is still an offense to be feared.

KDB is a great backup for Silva, just seems crazy not to make use of that.
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Cos he won't try a run of games without Yaya, if you have Silva as the pivot you can have De Bruyne in behind the striker and have the wingers either side.
 
Sentinell said:
I really don't undrstand why MP refuses to play KDB centrally. He can play as a winger but is clearly at his best when he can dictate the game from midfield. Sterling - kdb - navas with aguero up front is still an offense to be feared.

KDB is a great backup for Silva, just seems crazy not to make use of that.
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Not being argumentative mate, but which games do you think De Bruyne has dictated play in? I don't think dictating play is his game at all. He gives the ball away an awful lot and he always looks for the early, direct ball. It's kind of the opposite of dictating play.
 
jay_mcfc said:
Rubbish that is. What he needs is movement and players who can play his style. The last month or so with Bony in front of him and Navas and Sterling alongside him, he's been wasted. He needs Aguero and Silva fit then you'll see the best of all three of them. Sterling and Navas just don't suit that style.
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We will see then won't we. I stand by the fact he is much better in transition than he is in a controlled possession based team. Time will tell I suppose, but the majority of his assists last season came on the counter and it looks like the same this season.
 
BillyShears said:
Yeah, it's a side to his game he really needs to work on. You can see his instinct is to find a difficult ball even if there isn't an obvious 'difficult' ball if that makes sense. Occasionally simplifying his own game wouldn't be a bad thing. He'll get there though. An absolute beast of a player already and but for Pellegrini shoehorning Toure into KDB's best position, I think we'd already be seeing more from him.
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This. After a phenomenal season for Wolfsburg playing in the middle position Silva usually occupies, why not play him there? It doesn't make sense to me at all to not play a player in his best position. When Silva is fit then OK but when he's not definitely not Toure - and especially not in his current form.
 
nico1 said:
This. After a phenomenal season for Wolfsburg playing in the middle position Silva usually occupies, why not play him there? It doesn't make sense to me at all to not play a player in his best position. When Silva is fit then OK but when he's not definitely not Toure - and especially not in his current form.
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Yeah, the good thing is that De Bruyne is naturally so talented that wherever you stick him on the pitch, inevitably he's going to be the most effective creative player in our XI, especially when Silva's not playing.

Even in the Liverpool game, where we were woeful to a man, if you actually look at KDB's stats, you'd be forgiven for thinking he dominated the game such is his efficiency in terms of making key passes and crosses.
 
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