Player Topic: Wilfried Bony (2015/16)

[flb]

Never a City player, shocking in the second half, paceless, atrocious passer of the ball.

Kelechi should have been on after 60 minutes with his pace and willingness to actually run at a CB.

He offers nothing to the team

 

[flb]

His hold up play and ability to win a header is good, unfortunately we don't have anyone running on to them.

Running onto flick ons is championship football

 

[sir baconface]

Not writing him off but he's had a bit of a run, hasn't hit form and is currently looking a misfit. Would prefer to see Kelechi get a bigger slice of game time until one or other of them grabs the initiative.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

It's pace, forcefulness and mobility that suits our system rather than a target man that you get with Bony. So I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if moves were being planned for his replacement but that also gives us a huge problem. Kun is obviously the main man, but where are we going to find someone with similar ability yet who is also prepared to find his best friend to be the bench?

 

[01cravend]

probably cos he is piss poor,not half as good a Dzeko

Same Dzeko that has 1 goal this season and Roma recently dropped and have had Gervinho play upfront instead?

 

[flb]

It's pace, forcefulness and mobility that suits our system rather than a target man that you get with Bony. So I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if moves were being planned for his replacement but that also gives us a huge problem. Kun is obviously the main man, but where are we going to find someone with similar ability yet who is also prepared to find his best friend to be the bench?

Kelechi deserves more minutes, suits our system a damn site more than Bony

 

[itisrising]

Well he has scored 2 & assisted 3 in the last few matches, so it's certainly not all he does.

He'll do fine when we're dominant as shown in the few matches he's had - and will be able to provide a different option Aguero doesn't have with his heading ability.
His problem is in matches like this where he doesn't get much service, he doesn't have the ability to score from nothing that Aguero provides - thus he can look useless.

For me Iheanacho would have been better suited for the match today, playing on the counter we need pace rather than hold up play. Doesn't mean Bony can't be of use to us in certain scenarios though.

Stats can be deceiving. Him missing an open goal counts as an assists and I think it would've been harder not to score against B'mouth. His movement is an issue and he won't be much of an asset unles he can make dangerous runs. He doesn't which causes defenders to maintain their shape which makes it hard on the rest of the side to do much. Aguero's movement helped alot to create space for the rest of our team and that's why Silva and co thrive.

 

[bluemoon27]

Same Dzeko that has 1 goal this season and Roma recently dropped and have had Gervinho play upfront instead?

I'm on about the Dzeko at city ,couldn't give a toss what he does now at Roma,i know its all about opinions but I find it hard to believe anyone can rate Bony at City,he is so out of his depth

 

[argyle]

Running onto flick ons is championship football

I agree. That's the way he plays and how he did so well at Swansea. Like I've said before he therefore doesn't fit our team. He's a target man and we don't play that way.

 

[bondsman]

Both him and sterling were vastly over priced and we are starting to see just how much we have over paid. Bony's work rate is the most frustrating part of his game.