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Since when has Silva been a central midfielder? Dembele and Wanyama are much better consistent central midfielders than Toure who is past it. He may have the odd good game but we all know you can't rely on him for a season. Eriksen's stats are much better than Silva's and have been all season. Silva's best days are gone. Eriksen's 8 assists this season are bettered only by De Bruyne. SO yes Eriksen would get in your side. Toure the greatest midfielder ever to grace the PL? You cannot be serious. Fantastic player in his day but those days have gone, and I know you are biased but there were many better CMs than him who did it for a decade or more.
Kane v Aguero let us see.
Since the start of 2015, the list of Premier League goalscorers reads as follows:
Harry Kane – 54
Sergio Aguero – 47
Romelu Lukaku – 34
Diego Costa – 33
Jamie Vardy – 33
Alexis Sanchez – 33
Olivier Giroud – 32
Jermain Defoe – 31
7 ahead of Aguero, and 20 ahead of any other player.
Yes I will take Kane on recent form thanks. And yes Kane has been injured at times too. Aguero is one of the best strikers in the world but on form over the last two years Kane is well ahead of the rest.
I am not coming on here to brag, it's just debate. We have won nothing for ages, I hope we do soon, but no guarantees as there are 5 other much wealthier clubs than us. As it stands we are well punching above our weight.
Anyway I can see many of you are wound up by me but happy to debate if anyone wants to.
How can I have a debate with someone who reveals himself as knowing fuck all in his first sentence! Since when has David Silva been a central midfielder? Since always you div! Where do you think he plays? Centre forward? Right wing? Left back? FFS! As for him being past his best, again you've clearly not watched him all season, because he's been in brilliant form and has probably been our best player. And, yes I'm perfectly serious about Ya Ya being the Premier League's greatest ever midfielder. He might have slowed down considerably the last couple of years, but in his first 4 seasons at the club he was just about unplayable. How many other 6ft 2' centre midfielders have there been, who could do the 100m in 11 seconds, who could score 20 goals a season, who ran virtually every game he played in, whose Opta passing stats are virtually off the scale, who scored in just about every key fixture we had, from the 2 at Newcastle to secure us the title, to the seminal cup semi final winner against United, to the winner in the final against Stoke, to the unbelievable 35 yarder in the LC final against Sunderland. Scholes, Lampard and Gerrard have probably been his equals, but certainly no better, and who else is there?
And I'll tell you something else we're not gonna do and that's pick arbitrary mid-season start points (when Kane suddenly went on a scoring spree I'm guessing) for any goals comparison. Since the start of the 2015/16 season (ie the 18 months you were banging on about) Kane has scored 43 times from 69 starts and Sergio 47 times from 66 starts. And if you want to go back a season further it becomes Kane 74 from 120 and Sergio 79 from 108, ie. Sergio has scored 5 more goals from 12 less starts. Truly only a Spurs fan would select Kane over Aguero. It's like that bloke from Decca records picking Brian Poole and the Tremeloes over the fucking Beatles!