Savic looks like a player we would have bought pre Abu Dhabi

[spiny]

I think he's good on the ball, dangerous in the opposition box, needs to do some work on positioning though but I'm sure Mancini will sort that out.
Look forward to this thread being dragged up in a few years for us all to laugh at.

I agree. He also gets caught out sometimes because he tries to play the ball out. He has much to learn but is a level of skill above the likes of Boyata.

We play possession football where there is an interchange of positions and everyone needs to be comfortable on the ball. No reason why Savic cannot come good. Too may preconceived ideas here about his role. If Mancini was not happy he wouldn't play him. Last season he was thrust into the deep end, mainly with Kolo who would not have been the preferred partner in a back four. Savic is more suited to a back three because of his mobility and where he has experienced cover around him.

Older City fans will remember Ian Bowyer who debuted for us in 1970 during our successful Mercer/Allison period. The boo boys decided he was not good enough to play for us but eventually he did more than ok with Forest under Clough as a key member of their Champions League winning side.

More recently, Diego Forlan has done well well after being branded a flop at the rags.

 

[Paul11/12]

Hey maybe I'm wrong about Savic, but he's a 21 year old CB(19 when we bought him, so he doesn't improve week in week out), thats right CB, not an attacking forward or striker, so if he fucks up it's a goal against and every1 knows about it! I'm just interested to hear any1 come up with any better CB's who don't play every week, and I don't mean some championship kid that managed to stop a "has been" or never "was/will be" scoring! Maybe some1 could tell me about a great Brazilian/Italian/Spanish 21 year old that is emerging? And then tell me we can get them for £6 mill!

 

[spam1967]

Hey maybe I'm wrong about Savic, but he's a 21 year old CB(19 when we bought him, so he doesn't improve week in week out), thats right CB, not an attacking forward or striker, so if he fucks up it's a goal against and every1 knows about it! I'm just interested to hear any1 come up with any better CB's who don't play every week, and I don't mean some championship kid that managed to stop a "has been" or never "was/will be" scoring! Maybe some1 could tell me about a great Brazilian/Italian/Spanish 21 year old that is emerging? And then tell me we can get them for £6 mill!

i've never seen any potential for him to be any good?

 

[FeedTheGoat10]

I like him, but I think he's just too reckless. I'd honestly love to be wrong but I can't see him having much of a future here.

 

[Neville Kneville]

It's strange that when people see a 21 year old player who plays like a 16 year old & comment honestly on what they have seen, some people accuse them of being unfair.

The lad has been shite. If you watch him closely, just him & ignore everyone else, he's even worse than if you just watch him as one of 11 players. He is absolutely awful. His so called quality distribution is only good when it comes off. Under pressure, he miskicks the ball as badly or worse than any of our defenders.

Defensively, he is rubbish at every single aspect. Almost every player who runs at him runs past him, even Andy Carroll. He misses most crucial headers & just tends to win the easy ones. His positioning stinks. He lacks pace. He turns like the QE2. He comes running out of formation & either commits a foul or gets left for dead, ending up with a player on the ball in the space he's just vacated. There is NOTHING this lad does, which deserves any kind of recognition & he cetainly doesn't deserve the honour of wearing a Manchester City shirt.

Kit Symons was a better player than Savic is, or will be & Kit Symons was shite.

Mancini will either bin him now, or bin him after he's cost us several trophies & been booed off.

 

[FeedTheGoat10]

It's strange that when people see a 21 year old player who plays like a 16 year old & comment honestly on what they have seen, some people accuse them of being unfair.

The lad has been shite. If you watch him closely, just him & ignore everyone else, he's even worse than if you just watch him as one of 11 players. He is absolutely awful. His so called quality distribution is only good when it comes off. Under pressure, he miskicks the ball as badly or worse than any of our defenders.

Defensively, he is rubbish at every single aspect. Almost every player who runs at him runs past him, even Andy Carroll. He misses most crucial headers & just tends to win the easy ones. His positioning stinks. He lacks pace. He turns like the QE2. He comes running out of formation & either commits a foul or gets left for dead, ending up with a player on the ball in the space he's just vacated. There is NOTHING this lad does, which deserves any kind of recognition & he cetainly doesn't deserve the honour of wearing a Manchester City shirt.

Kit Symons was a better player than Savic is, or will be & Kit Symons was shite.

Mancini will either bin him now, or bin him after he's cost us several trophies & been booed off.

Fucking hell Kolo, is this a side effect of the drugs? (To be fair I do agree with a lot of what you're saying)