cleavers said:I understand the comment "It will need 2 players", but we can't do that, assuming he's going, and I am assuming that, we need to find a different player to replace him, and use our other assets to adapt to his loss. We are not a one man team, we can win when he isn't playing, we'll adapt, that is what all great teams do when they lose a great player.yayas trusty right foot said:BillyShears said:As conflicted about Toure's potential departure as I was about Tevez's.
Personally I think we should offer him as much money as it takes to get him to stay. Will be the kind of loss which we won't truly feel until he's gone. And then it'll be too late to do anything about it.
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It will need 2 players to do the things he is capable of...
sir baconface said:Keep him or sell him, the Yaya of 2013/14 has already gone. This often seems to be overlooked.
Its a big ask isn't it ? We also need to reduce the age of it too. I don't know who is out there that can be brought in, lots of names, but getting the right ones, then getting them to gel, and gel with the rest of our team, though I'm confident that we will.BillyShears said:It's not an exaggeration to say that we need to rebuild our midfield entirely from the ground up if we're losing Toure, Nasri, and Milner.
BillyShears said:cleavers said:I understand the comment "It will need 2 players", but we can't do that, assuming he's going, and I am assuming that, we need to find a different player to replace him, and use our other assets to adapt to his loss. We are not a one man team, we can win when he isn't playing, we'll adapt, that is what all great teams do when they lose a great player.yayas trusty right foot said:Post of the day..
It will need 2 players to do the things he is capable of...
Spot on that Cleavers. What we will need to replace sooner rather than later is Toure's passing ability. It's the one thing which worries me about losing Toure and Nasri in the same summer, is that those two have been integral to our ball retention and our passing efficiency in the last four years.
It's not an exaggeration to say that we need to rebuild our midfield entirely from the ground up if we're losing Toure, Nasri, and Milner.
cleavers said:Its a big ask isn't it ? We also need to reduce the age of it too. I don't know who is out there that can be brought in, lots of names, but getting the right ones, then getting them to gel, and gel with the rest of our team, though I'm confident that we will.BillyShears said:It's not an exaggeration to say that we need to rebuild our midfield entirely from the ground up if we're losing Toure, Nasri, and Milner.
adrianr said:This is why I found Pellegrini's comments about not needing major surgery puzzling.
BillyShears said:adrianr said:This is why I found Pellegrini's comments about not needing major surgery puzzling.
Managers rarely say "yeah we're definitely going to sell loads of players and buy loads of new ones". His comments were just standard straight bat stuff. If for no other reason than we're going to want as much money as we can get for players like Dzeko, Nasri, and Jovetic if and when we come to sell them.
Fallingbostel Blue said:Yaya is staying according to his Agent too important to let go