Player Topic: Kevin De Bruyne (2015/16)

[Wretched Vengeance]

We can do the same

Eye up la, thas a coupla reet wronguns on t'forum.

I aint no fooking scouser me old fruit bat.

So yer can stick that right up yer well fucked Kyber Pass!

 

[Neville Kneville]

Made a few nice cross-field passes but not much else.

I like the lad. He worked pretty hard. Probably not played in his best position.

He will continue to get better. Flogged to fuck this season so far with not much of a break.

That's what happened, earlier in the season when he was playing like a dream. Never been as good since. But still doing ok in a team playing like shit most weeks.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Sorry to anyone with Flemish or De Bruyne in your name, but how much more evidence do we need that we're a better, more balanced side without KDB in it?

We won the first 5 games playing football from the gods without conceding a goal. The pace of Navas and Sterling on the wing, and the guile of Silva in the middle picking them out.

We've played well for a whole 90 minutes once since we bought De Bruyne, Sevilla away, when he didn't play.

He's a hugely talented player, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your best players in order to have the best team. Italy didn't try to play Totti and Del Piero at the same time, and they won the World Cup.

De Bruyne's stats at City are really impressive. But a load of goals and assists in 5-0 routs at home to Newcastle or Bournmouth isn't going to win us the league. We need to get back to being a balanced football team with a clear structure, game plan and pattern of play. Just like we were in the first 5 games.

The last few months we are resembling the very worst of Real Madrid; playing our 11 biggest stars as opposed to the best, most balanced team.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Sorry to anyone with Flemish or De Bruyne in your name, but how much more evidence do we need that we're a better, more balanced side without KDB in it?

We won the first 5 games playing football from the gods without conceding a goal. The pace of Navas and Sterling on the wing, and the guile of Silva in the middle picking them out.

We've played well for a whole 90 minutes once since we bought De Bruyne, Sevilla away, when he didn't play.

He's a hugely talented player, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your best players in order to have the best team. Italy didn't try to play Totti and Del Piero at the same time, and they won the World Cup.

De Bruyne's stats at City are really impressive. But a load of goals and assists in 5-0 routs at home to Newcastle or Bournmouth isn't going to win us the league. We need to get back to being a balanced football team with a clear structure, game plan and pattern of play. Just like we were in the first 5 games.

The last few months we are resembling the very worst of Real Madrid; playing our 11 biggest stars as opposed to the best, most balanced team.

Spot on with that bit. But Pellegrini has always done that except when he decides it's rotation time, Sevilla is literally the only exception and every week i believe more and more that that was a fluke rather than an actual intelligent gameplan from him. There's a place for Kev in the team it's not going to be found until pep comes in,

I don't buy into the argument he's been overplayed though, imo the first half a dozen games he was electric because he played his natural game, then our dire tactics trained it out of him and left us with somebody who doesn't move until he's got the ball at his feet (just like everyone else) and hardly ever shoots unless he's in the box baring down at goal (like everyone else) It happens with all our players. Sterling would take people on and run in behind defenders looking for a through ball in pre-season and at the start of the season. Not done either of those since the first few games.

 

[almir]

I wouldn't pay too much attention on those few games on the start of the season when talking about him. That was when we had Kompany at back, and when Silva and Aguero were still not affected by injuries. Players were fresh, it was sunny (yeah, I genuinely think we play better in warmer months), all those pundits saying shit about City's chances fired some pride in them...

Paying bit attention - yes, might be, his coming definitely did have an effect on the way we played before it but there are many more factors and injuries are the most important one, they screwed most of stuff and we barely had a full team at disposal since then and I'm not talking about Nasri, Clichy, Delph and so but Kompany, Aguero, SIlva.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Sorry to anyone with Flemish or De Bruyne in your name, but how much more evidence do we need that we're a better, more balanced side without KDB in it?

We won the first 5 games playing football from the gods without conceding a goal. The pace of Navas and Sterling on the wing, and the guile of Silva in the middle picking them out.

We've played well for a whole 90 minutes once since we bought De Bruyne, Sevilla away, when he didn't play.

He's a hugely talented player, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your best players in order to have the best team. Italy didn't try to play Totti and Del Piero at the same time, and they won the World Cup.

De Bruyne's stats at City are really impressive. But a load of goals and assists in 5-0 routs at home to Newcastle or Bournmouth isn't going to win us the league. We need to get back to being a balanced football team with a clear structure, game plan and pattern of play. Just like we were in the first 5 games.

The last few months we are resembling the very worst of Real Madrid; playing our 11 biggest stars as opposed to the best, most balanced team.

He's a problem player for me. Effortlessly talented purring forward, but unbelievably lightweight defensively. He's upped the work rate a little in the last couple of weeks, but his default position is to jog towards opponents and as soon as they go past him, to then give up altogether. Plus he bottles tackles and goes missing way too often. He might toughen up the longer he plays in the PL, but in a team that already includes Ya Ya and Dave doing fuck all defensively, he's a luxury we can ill afford.
The other problem we have, and it's a wider one rather than one concerning KDB specifically, is that we've sold the overtly physical players (Barry, De Jong, Milner, even Garcia) that allowed our superstars the chance to breathe. Instead we've now got a midfield cast of thousands, all short arses, all fey when it comes to tackling or even just holding opponents off at arm's length, and who leave Aguero isolated at one end and the defence isolated at the other. Navas, Silva, Sterling, Silva, KDB, Nasri, Delph, even the magnificent Fernandinho, they're all 5ft 6' to 5ft 9' (bar KDB). If Pep does come in, then he's gonna have a huge fucking job on his hands, and we could do with some physically imposing workhorses rather than more Isco type playmakers

 

[City_Sean]

He should be the number ten. He offers us a goal threat, and again last night looked our most dangerous attacking player.

 

[Dribble]

Sorry to anyone with Flemish or De Bruyne in your name, but how much more evidence do we need that we're a better, more balanced side without KDB in it?

We won the first 5 games playing football from the gods without conceding a goal. The pace of Navas and Sterling on the wing, and the guile of Silva in the middle picking them out.

We've played well for a whole 90 minutes once since we bought De Bruyne, Sevilla away, when he didn't play.

He's a hugely talented player, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your best players in order to have the best team. Italy didn't try to play Totti and Del Piero at the same time, and they won the World Cup.

De Bruyne's stats at City are really impressive. But a load of goals and assists in 5-0 routs at home to Newcastle or Bournmouth isn't going to win us the league. We need to get back to being a balanced football team with a clear structure, game plan and pattern of play. Just like we were in the first 5 games.

The last few months we are resembling the very worst of Real Madrid; playing our 11 biggest stars as opposed to the best, most balanced team.

Spot the fuck on!

 

[BillyShears]

He should be the number ten. He offers us a goal threat, and again last night looked our most dangerous attacking player.

Yep. His quality is undoubted and it's actually worrying at present how much he's overshadowing Silva. It's almost as if Merlin doesn't like the competition and has decided to go hiding. Absolutely he needs to be given the number 10 role and Silva needs a little rest. Bottom line is KDB is the future and Silva is the past.

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Sorry to anyone with Flemish or De Bruyne in your name, but how much more evidence do we need that we're a better, more balanced side without KDB in it?

We won the first 5 games playing football from the gods without conceding a goal. The pace of Navas and Sterling on the wing, and the guile of Silva in the middle picking them out.

We've played well for a whole 90 minutes once since we bought De Bruyne, Sevilla away, when he didn't play.

He's a hugely talented player, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your best players in order to have the best team. Italy didn't try to play Totti and Del Piero at the same time, and they won the World Cup.

De Bruyne's stats at City are really impressive. But a load of goals and assists in 5-0 routs at home to Newcastle or Bournmouth isn't going to win us the league. We need to get back to being a balanced football team with a clear structure, game plan and pattern of play. Just like we were in the first 5 games.

The last few months we are resembling the very worst of Real Madrid; playing our 11 biggest stars as opposed to the best, most balanced team.

I'd add to that the fact that as a unit we look fractured and unsettled. Is he known to unsettle dressing rooms? I don't know I'm just asking but something is clearly wrong.