Player topic : Yaya Toure (2015/16)

[markbmcfc]

But maybe that's cos they are just doing the roles they are told to perform? When we play a midfield 2 it's Dinho's job to mop up for Yaya and win the ball back and it's Yaya's job to get the ball forward and especially when we play a midfield 3 its the 2's job to win the ball and we expect Yaya to contribute more in attack. I'd fully back Dinho to be able to do Yaya's job if he was given the chance to as I have seen before how amazing he can be when he goes forward but it seems like he is told to stay back cos of Yaya's inability to close players down or chase after them.

Probably, but we all know there is more to the modern midfielder needed now than one job. If he sees that Yaya is having one of his "walking in tar" days, he has to take responsbility and move the ball. He doesn't. I can't believe he's directly told not to pass the ball forwards and only Yaya can do it.

He has to do more, so does Delph, and so does Fernando.

It's too easy to say, well, my job is to clean up, not my fault. He might find he's better at Yaya's job than Yaya now.

 

[forevermancity]

No different to the Watford game just no wonder goal to paper over another shite performance. We won't win anything if pelle doesn't sort the midfield out

 

[forever-and-counting]

Fucking useless, his legs have almost gone, he doesn't show up for games he only shows up for about 5 mins now. Obviously one of the best players to ever grace the city shirt but not what we need right now, why on earth is he the captain with his lazy attitude I dunno, maybe it's his clueless manager, fernandinho should be the vice captain IMO. It's time to sign Pogba come the summer as a replacement.

 

[Dax777]

Yep. All too fucking normal nowadays.

I swear, some of our fans sound worse than rags. A self righteous bunch of cry babies. Whinning before the first kick. Always looking for someone to blame. Like the other team came to the field for a City coronation.

I get it, today was poor, but fuk, shit happens. Support the team or get off the fykking train.

 

[malg]

Said it in the match thread, but he also needs Fernandinho and Delph to try and cross the half way line with the ball. He is the only one of the three who does it. Without him, Silva and De Bruyne don't get the ball.

He did get caught more than a few times, but he is the only player who is expected to operate close to both penalty areas and he appears to be the sole link between the backline and the front line, which is easy to stop with a double press.

Delph and Fernandinho spent an awful lot of time closing down space Without ever managing to get a grip on the opposition. Furthermore, they did very little with the ball, nor did they even attempt to.

Our attacking play is stifled because it all goes through 3 or 4 players, and neither De Bruyne (and to a lesser extent) Silva will consistently go deep enough to pick up the ball.

Of course its easier to blame it all on Toure. So with that in mind, if we take him out of the team, we should stroll to success...like we did last January when he was away.

Too many of our fans will not understand your post, or hide behind the shite 'fanboy' riposte. Once he's gone maybe they'll realise how important he is to us.

He was poor tonight though.......as was Silva......KdB wasn't much better.........as was Delph, and Fernandinho.........

 

[Jacob Smith]

Some of his lacklustre performances this season are tarnishing his legend status at the club and I have a feeling he won't be remembered as the likes of Sergio or Zaba or Vinny or Hart will be in 50 years time. The reason it's so frustrating and the reason he gets singled out is because we all know full well what he's capable of, yet he only delivers it for ten minutes when he feels like it.

Also, I have no idea why he's ever worn the captain's armband, especially when he's been chosen ahead of Zaba or Harty on numerous occasions. Tonight when he took that free kick off Kev, none of our players even bothered moving the other side of the wall because they all knew that ball was either going into row Z or not going past the wall.

Two seasons ago, there was no criticism for Yaya that he deserved, but now he deserves all the flack he gets IMO and needs to step up more often and boss games as we know he can with ease.

 

[The Blue]

His right knee seemed to be strapped up pretty heavily tonight & he certainly didn't look match fit.
I think with the midfield players we have we could have rested him, maybe starting Sterling or Navas and put De Bruyne or Silva more central.

 

[Marvin]

the rinse and repeat crowd. Always waiting for the first mistake to start whinning about.

If we lose, and play badly with this team something is wrong.

It was apparent very early on that the game was passing Toure by. He should have been used a sub late in the game when the high energy had drained from the game.

Appalling management from Pellegrini. Entirely predictable and what was worse was he left him on for the entire game, and put Demichelis on as well. I know Mangala was injured but Toure and Demichelis together in the centre of the team! barry would find space playing opponents like that. Put Sagna in the middle. Put Zabaleta on the bench. That was a recipe for disaster. We're very lucky to still be in this tie.

Toure is a squad player. We should be using him smartly. 30 minutes tonight, then an hour at Norwich. Now we've placed the League Cup semi at risk and Toure will be useless at Carrow Rd and will probably now be rested for a game that he should have taken control of

 

[RandomJ]

I swear, some of our fans sound worse than rags. A self righteous bunch of cry babies. Whinning before the first kick. Always looking for someone to blame. Like the other team came to the field for a City coronation.

I get it, today was poor, but fuk, shit happens. Support the team or get off the fykking train.

I really don't think you understand the point of an internet forum. This isn't happyclappers.com this is a man city forum to discuss the club and the players and their performances. People on here will post their opinions and guess what? Some of them you won't agree with. If you can't handle that then maybe this isn't the place for you?

 

[IWasHere]

I swear, some of our fans sound worse than rags. A self righteous bunch of cry babies. Whinning before the first kick. Always looking for someone to blame. Like the other team came to the field for a City coronation.

I get it, today was poor, but fuk, shit happens. Support the team or get off the fykking train.

This. Everyone was shite yet it's always yayas fault