Stevan Jovetic (part 2)

[lost_n_spaced]

By all accounts Cavani wasn't interested in coming to City and paying the price PSG have is beyond crazy.

He is a fantastic player but I think the club realised that he wasn't interested in signing so why both pursuing him.

We have no one like Jovetic, for all of the technical ability of Nasri and Silva they don't provide a cutting edge playing behind a striker or on the wing. Jovetic will give us this.

Nasri and Silva generate a lot of assists. I wouldn't bother with Jovetic myself. He's not an out and out goal scorer. What we lacked last season, was not chances, but someone to finish them

My opinion, and it may be just mine, is that playing tippy tappy through the middle like we did, we were not missing chances or - indeed finishers - but quality of chances.

We were far too predictable, so our strikers often had to snatch at shots under pressure, rather than having the benefit of an overload that Utd often have.

IMO, two of the main problems have been addressed (that's a defensive mid partner for Yaya who, unlike Barry, can shoot) & a tricky, pacy right-sided player. Get another striker & a player who can operate on the left (I think we can all agree that - whilst we'd like to see Nasri come good - we shouldnt be pinning our title hopes on it, the same as bringing in Fernandinho even though we have Rodwell) and we're good attacking-wise.

 

[adrianr]

By all accounts Cavani wasn't interested in coming to City and paying the price PSG have is beyond crazy.

He is a fantastic player but I think the club realised that he wasn't interested in signing so why both pursuing him.

We have no one like Jovetic, for all of the technical ability of Nasri and Silva they don't provide a cutting edge playing behind a striker or on the wing. Jovetic will give us this.

Nasri and Silva generate a lot of assists. I wouldn't bother with Jovetic myself. He's not an out and out goal scorer. What we lacked last season, was not chances, but someone to finish them

My opinion, and it may be just mine, is that playing tippy tappy through the middle like we did, we were not missing chances or - indeed finishers - but quality of chances.

We were far too predictable, so our strikers often had to snatch at shots under pressure, rather than having the benefit of an overload that Utd often have.

IMO, two of the main problems have been addressed (that's a defensive mid partner for Yaya who, unlike Barry, can shoot) & a tricky, pacy right-sided player. Get another striker & a player who can operate on the left (I think we can all agree that - whilst we'd like to see Nasri come good - we shouldnt be pinning our title hopes on it, the same as bringing in Fernandinho even though we have Rodwell) and we're good attacking-wise.

Not just yours pal that's my view to a T. Thats also why I didn't think adding Cavani was a guaranteed winner and that our front line should have and still should be built around Aguero, with more purposeful attacking midfielders bought in behind him. For all the chances we supposedly created last season I still remember an awful lot of games of nearly balls and poor penetration.

 

[Marvin]

The style worked in our title-winning season.

We lost some variation from the sale of AJ, and the decline of Tevez, sale of mario and injury to Aguero meant that All our strikers last season under-performed

We don't need to change our style of play, or tactics. We just need forwards to do their job.

Navas will rip defences apart next season if used as an impact sub in the last 30 mins.

One addition, Negredo to play alongside Aguero is all that's required.

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

I agree as well....lots of chances but all down the middle and too easy to defend against....2 wide men like Navas and Jovetic would make our attacking alot better...

Kind regards

Nasri and Silva generate a lot of assists. I wouldn't bother with Jovetic myself. He's not an out and out goal scorer. What we lacked last season, was not chances, but someone to finish them

My opinion, and it may be just mine, is that playing tippy tappy through the middle like we did, we were not missing chances or - indeed finishers - but quality of chances.

We were far too predictable, so our strikers often had to snatch at shots under pressure, rather than having the benefit of an overload that Utd often have.

IMO, two of the main problems have been addressed (that's a defensive mid partner for Yaya who, unlike Barry, can shoot) & a tricky, pacy right-sided player. Get another striker & a player who can operate on the left (I think we can all agree that - whilst we'd like to see Nasri come good - we shouldnt be pinning our title hopes on it, the same as bringing in Fernandinho even though we have Rodwell) and we're good attacking-wise.

Not just yours pal that's my view to a T. Thats also why I didn't think adding Cavani was a guaranteed winner and that our front line should have and still should be built around Aguero, with more purposeful attacking midfielders bought in behind him. For all the chances we supposedly created last season I still remember an awful lot of games of nearly balls and poor penetration.

 

[NipHolmes]

By all accounts Cavani wasn't interested in coming to City and paying the price PSG have is beyond crazy.

He is a fantastic player but I think the club realised that he wasn't interested in signing so why both pursuing him.

We have no one like Jovetic, for all of the technical ability of Nasri and Silva they don't provide a cutting edge playing behind a striker or on the wing. Jovetic will give us this.

Nasri and Silva generate a lot of assists. I wouldn't bother with Jovetic myself. He's not an out and out goal scorer. What we lacked last season, was not chances, but someone to finish them

You have the wrong end of the stick.

Isco alternative is Jovetic. Cavani alternative is Negredo.

You shouldn't compare Jovetic to Cavani because he's not coming here to play that role. Aguero, Dzeko and Negredo will.

 

[allan harper]

The style worked in our title-winning season.

We lost some variation from the sale of AJ, and the decline of Tevez, sale of mario and injury to Aguero meant that All our strikers last season under-performed

We don't need to change our style of play, or tactics. We just need forwards to do their job.

Navas will rip defences apart next season if used as an impact sub in the last 30 mins.

One addition, Negredo to play alongside Aguero is all that's required.

Do you think we made Navas one of our main summer targets to use him as a super sub?

 

[Bill]

I agree mate....I think Jovetic gives us someone that could play behind the striker, as a striker or out wide...Jovetic is more direct and quicker than Nasir or Silva so would give us more firepower from that wide position. As he can fill a number of positions I think he'd be worth every penny....

Kind regards

Jovetic is not an alternative to Cavani, he is an alternative to Isco. Different style but very similar role in the team. More versatile than Isco though.

Cavani whinging should be done in one of the striker threads.

feel better if this is indeed the case.

 

[Joehannes]

A gem of a player for me . Haven't been this excited about a potential signing since Kun.

Me too ,don't think he will blow us away immediately but feel he will keep improving every year.I'll be proper chuffed if we sign him and easily worth €30 million.Bit silly of some people compring him too Cavani,different player altogether.

cavani should have been our main target and we are silly to let him go by.we have players like jovetic so don't really need him, we were never going to sign both. also in terms of commercial gain cavani pisses all over him.

nowt against the lad but I know I would have put the 30m towards cavanis fee. he ripped us in naples .

There is almost zero evidence to support this.

 

[Marvin]

The style worked in our title-winning season.

We lost some variation from the sale of AJ, and the decline of Tevez, sale of mario and injury to Aguero meant that All our strikers last season under-performed

We don't need to change our style of play, or tactics. We just need forwards to do their job.

Navas will rip defences apart next season if used as an impact sub in the last 30 mins.

One addition, Negredo to play alongside Aguero is all that's required.

Do you think we made Navas one of our main summer targets to use him as a super sub?

Yes. I expect he will get around 15 starts - like AJ

 

[Bill]

Me too ,don't think he will blow us away immediately but feel he will keep improving every year.I'll be proper chuffed if we sign him and easily worth €30 million.Bit silly of some people compring him too Cavani,different player altogether.

cavani should have been our main target and we are silly to let him go by.we have players like jovetic so don't really need him, we were never going to sign both. also in terms of commercial gain cavani pisses all over him.

nowt against the lad but I know I would have put the 30m towards cavanis fee. he ripped us in naples .

There is almost zero evidence to support this.

Cavani is a big name player known all over the world. Jovetic up to a month ago wasn't a big name on here.