St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:
GX Blue said:
BINGO! Whisper that though as if you dont say the whole team is fantastic you're not a true fan.
May I also agree with gx and bob
Kolarov..dzeko and garcia are fucking average at best..if people think these 3 are gonna get us to where we want to be then they need to wake up..distinctly average.i am happy with the signings but still feel we aren't dining at the top top table when it comes to purchases..sorry for being negative but jovetic..negredo are not better than tevez and mario imo...hope to be proven wrong.
Kolarov, Garcia and (to a slightly lesser extent) Dzeko have been average since they joined City - I'll agree with that - but all have been good at previous Clubs, therefore its possible that Pellegrini thinks he can get something out of them. I like a Manager who feels he can actually improve players at his disposal rather than always taking the easy option and trying to buy a replacement.
Re: our (likely) current strikeforce vs our old, that's very much an 'on paper' comparison, and anyone knows games aren't won on paper. It rarely works having four top class strikers vying for two (or, more often than not, one) position in the team. If you look at the actual composition of most of the groups of strikers at the top clubs, they aren't four stellar names - they are a team of strikers who have different roles, and compliment each other.
Look at Bayern, who swept all aside last season. They had Mandzukic, Gomez and a 34 year old Claudio Pizarro as their strikeforce. Would you genuinely have been excited about buying any of those?
Even the Rags had two star names in van Persie and Rooney, and two much lesser strikers in Wellbeck and Hernandez. Barca had Messi, Villa (who was out for most of the season) and Pedro. Juventus had a right gaggle of oddities, including Anelka, Bendtner, Giovinco and Quagliarella, headed up by their only genuinely first class striker in Vucinic.
In reality, having four big names - and big egos - doesn't work, and it didn't work for us last season, as neither Dzeko or Balotelli performed to their abilities because they were both pissed off with their roles in the team. We essentially managed two star strikers in Aguero and Tevez, and pissed the other two off - with negative repercussions on the whole team.
I see what we are doing here as building a properly functioning team, rather than a load of names which look good on paper. Aguero, Dzeko and Negredo as our out and out strikers, with Jovetic, Nasri and Silva as our supports, looks far better balanced than what we had last year.
