Player Topic: Kevin De Bruyne (2015/16)

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Dax777 said:
Wasn't great. Yet he was the architect of our most likely opportunity of stealing the game.
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You see, the way he played on Sunday is pretty indicative of how I think he's played for us in the other games, particularly Sevilla. The difference is he scored a goal against Sevilla. The winning goal. In the last minute. That kind of clouds people's judgement on what a player has done for the rest of the game.

I'm not a De Bruyne boo boy, I think he's a great player with incredible potential. I'm delighted we've got him. He's going to come up with some huge moments at decisive times for us. But his general play has a lot of room for improvement.

And to even mention him as possibly our best ever player at this stage is absolute lunacy.
 
Shaelumstash said:
You see, the way he played on Sunday is pretty indicative of how I think he's played for us in the other games, particularly Sevilla. The difference is he scored a goal against Sevilla. The winning goal. In the last minute. That kind of clouds people's judgement on what a player has done for the rest of the game.

I'm not a De Bruyne boo boy, I think he's a great player with incredible potential. I'm delighted we've got him. He's going to come up with some huge moments at decisive times for us. But his general play has a lot of room for improvement.

And to even mention him as possibly our best ever player at this stage is absolute lunacy.
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Again, I never mentioned him as possibly our best ever player. You just read that into what I said. Second, this he was considerably worse in this game: The normal consequence of playing mid week, and our players being poor in possession overall ( including Kev). But he was far superior against Sevilla before the goal, and had he not been, that goal ( which wasn't your routine tap in) makes his performance even better.

And just for the record, I claimed he had had the 'best start' to his City career.
 
Dax777 said:
Again, I never mentioned him as possibly our best ever player. You just read that into what I said. Second, this he was considerably worse in this game: The normal consequence of playing mid week, and our players being poor in possession overall ( including Kev). But he was far superior against Sevilla before the goal, and had he not been, that goal ( which wasn't your routine tap in) makes his performance even better.

And just for the record, I claimed he had had the 'best start' to his City career.
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Other than the second half against Newcastle where he was absolutely phenomenal, his performance at Old Trafford was fairly typical of his all round performances so far.

Assists and goals can cloud people's judgement of an all round performance. The fact he got no assists or goals on Sunday meant people could analyse his performance with a clearer view.

I actually think Sunday will be good for him, it will tempur people's expectations to be more realistic. "Reminds me of Colin Bell" "Future Balon D'Or winner" "Better than Silva" "Best ever start to a City career" "Going to be the best City player in history". Just some of the hyperbole on these pages over the last couple of weeks.

A more realistic appraisal is a player with huge potential, a match winner with plenty of room for improvement in his all round game. That's been my view all along, and Sunday only confirmed it further.
 
It didn't help that 3 others had poorish games (YaYa, Sterling, Bony). I think he was better than OK to be honest.
 
Shaelumstash said:
Other than the second half against Newcastle where he was absolutely phenomenal, his performance at Old Trafford was fairly typical of his all round performances so far.

Assists and goals can cloud people's judgement of an all round performance. The fact he got no assists or goals on Sunday meant people could analyse his performance with a clearer view.

I actually think Sunday will be good for him, it will tempur people's expectations to be more realistic. "Reminds me of Colin Bell" "Future Balon D'Or winner" "Better than Silva" "Best ever start to a City career" "Going to be the best City player in history". Just some of the hyperbole on these pages over the last couple of weeks.

A more realistic appraisal is a player with huge potential, a match winner with plenty of room for improvement in his all round game. That's been my view all along, and Sunday only confirmed it further.
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No way man. He was at his absolute worse against United. Almost no completed passes and forced thing way too much. Look at his chances created in previous matches. Certainly not a typical preformance.

Against Sevilla, he was definitely not as poor as he was against united. Other than 2 bad crosses and a bad corner, he was pretty good in that game compared to the rest of the team even without his goal.
 
According to Kev's manager (Patrick De Koster), De Bruyne's father manages his finances and Kev only receives 10% of his wage for his daily life. Looks like he has a good entourage ;)
 
Shaelumstash said:
Other than the second half against Newcastle where he was absolutely phenomenal, his performance at Old Trafford was fairly typical of his all round performances so far.

Assists and goals can cloud people's judgement of an all round performance. The fact he got no assists or goals on Sunday meant people could analyse his performance with a clearer view.

I actually think Sunday will be good for him, it will tempur people's expectations to be more realistic. "Reminds me of Colin Bell" "Future Balon D'Or winner" "Better than Silva" "Best ever start to a City career" "Going to be the best City player in history". Just some of the hyperbole on these pages over the last couple of weeks.

A more realistic appraisal is a player with huge potential, a match winner with plenty of room for improvement in his all round game. That's been my view all along, and Sunday only confirmed it further.
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Bet you was dying for him to have an off day so you could still keep going on about someone saying he has had a better start to his City career than Silva.
 
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