You think gondogan is better than Kroos? Really?
I do too.You think gondogan is better than Kroos? Really?
You think gondogan is better than Kroos? Really?
Stop comparing Kroos and Gundogan. Totally different players. What Kroos is best at Gundogan can't bring. And the other way round. I try and see what a player can bring to our team and with no build up from our backline as it is now the introduction of Kroos is very important. If we can get him ...
I can't think of any team other than Real, who has a player like Kroos. Usually the players employed in that position are excellent defensively, & work hard to cover the back 4 not just making a token half hearted attempt. The only one I can think of is Pirlo, who was 10 times better as a footballer & an exception, but still someone the team had to be built around.
Pep has never stuck with a player like Kroos in front of the back 4. Nearest is Yaya, but he was much more than Kroos too.
Philip Lahm at Bayern and Busquets at Barca. With the knowledge that both teams actually had one or two players in the backline who were able to build up from the back.
You love to compare players don't you. You can only compare if the circumstances are equal. Never happened with Pirlo and Kroos. But yes, their style and function is pretty much similar.
More important to me, and it should be to you as well, can Pirlo make City better? No. Can Kroos? Definitely.
By a distance imo. He does most of what Kroos does apart from some of the long ball stuff, & works really hard closing down as well as carrying the ball at pace. Imo Kroos will need a minder if we sign him which takes up a position in the team. Gundogan takes care of himself.
I don't see Kroos making City 'better' personally. And I don't think he can lace Pirlo's boots. I'm sick of seeing teams legging it past our passey wassey type players & ripping up our defence. I want players who do both jobs not half a job.
Since the takeover, we have never had it right imo in midfield. We've either lacked pace, or stamina or goals or all 3 in different spells. We now have DeBruyne (goals assists) Fernandinho (great energy, ball carrying tackling heading) Silva (passing moving creating), Nasri (same) Yaya (bit of everything plus goals) Gundogan (passing creating ball carrying from deep & intercepting) Byrne (passing creating goalscoring). Add a Pogba type player who scores goals & also tracks back replacing Yaya & we have a superb mobile fluid midfield to choose from, with several players who fill that hole that Yaya leaves, without being forced to leave someone out.
Add Kroos & the hole returns but without the goals. So now we have a problem again of whether to play Fernando.
Kroos is and remains an excellent player and one of the few truly world class players that will improve our team. His reading of the game and positional sense are superb and he has a decent range of passing.By a distance imo. He does most of what Kroos does apart from some of the long ball stuff, & works really hard closing down as well as carrying the ball at pace. Imo Kroos will need a minder if we sign him which takes up a position in the team. Gundogan takes care of himself.
I'd argue the juve team actually does that for pogba.I can't think of any team other than Real, who has a player like Kroos. Usually the players employed in that position are excellent defensively, & work hard to cover the back 4 not just making a token half hearted attempt. The only one I can think of is Pirlo, who was 10 times better as a footballer & an exception, but still someone the team had to be built around.
Pep has never stuck with a player like Kroos in front of the back 4. Nearest is Yaya, but he was much more than Kroos too.
Kroos is and remains an excellent player and one of the few truly world class players that will improve our team. His reading of the game and positional sense are superb and he has a decent range of passing.
I'd argue the juve team actually does that for pogba.
Is Rakatic available? Prefer him myself.
Yeah wonderful player and unsung hero for Barcelona