Which City player are you?

Alan Harper's Tash said:
He was in the Hatem Ben Arfa, Dmitri Payet mould. Could do amazing things individually with the ball, but not enough for top teams to entertain his lack of team ethic.
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It was when Warnock was at QPR and had to manage Adel Taarabt. He was their best player by a mile and would get them up.

If your heart isn’t in it then c’est la vie.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I think it was a Keith Curle quote from Neil Warnock’s second book but apparently he was a disgrace in training. However, in matches, you just gave Kinky the ball.

I loved him and stuff but you need to look at the bigger picture.
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The guy who could not leave a sinking ship quick enough and chucked a few insults about City on his way out or the guy who stayed to try and help us back up. I know which one I prefer.
 
franksinatra said:
The guy who could not leave a sinking ship quick enough and chucked a few insults about City on his way out or the guy who stayed to try and help us back up. I know which one I prefer.
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Found it:
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That kind of player is going to be detrimental to morale. I think that’s why Bellamy never stayed anywhere. No tact. No diplomacy.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
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That kind of player is going to be detrimental to morale. I think that’s why Bellamy never stayed anywhere. No tact. No diplomacy.
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Im not saying its ideal, by any stretch, but Lampard, from memory, said the same about Aguero and Tevez was notorious for being a bad trainer.

Out of interest who was Derry saying that about, im guessing the winger who used to be at Spurs, Adel Taarabt? From hearing about him on a few podcasts he was not just a bad trainer, but quite arrogant and not liked by his teammates, which was different to Kinkladze.
 
franksinatra said:
Out of interest who was Derry saying that about, im guessing the winger who used to be at Spurs, Adel Taarabt? From hearing about him on a few podcasts he was not just a bad trainer, but quite arrogant and not liked by his teammates, which was different to Kinkladze.
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You guess right. I thought Warnock’s second book would be interesting because it’s more about being a manager than him. How Palace went in to admin, other clubs making him offers once he left QPR and managing Leeds whilst they were being taken over.

He said Adel Taarabt would never normally get anywhere near his teams but he was an immense player who could win you matches. They went up as champions that season so he was proved right.

I’ve Googled it and he’s in the UAE now. What a waste of a talent.
 
Ithryn Luin said:
Kazimierz Deyna.

This was given my parents were Polish and he was one of the first foreign imports after he and Poland did well in both the 1974 and 1978 World Cup finals.

My dad was chuffed to see them get 3rd place in 1974, two years before he died in August 1976 from heart and lung issues from working down Agecroft Coal pit until 1970 and smoking too many cigs as blokes used to do in those days.

Seeing Kaz in a City shirt from 1978 to 1981 brought a smile to my face, but sadly he passed away at 41 year old in a car accident in California.
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The goal Denya scored v European champions Nottingham Forest at Maine rd in 1980(?) is still one of the proudest days of my life.
1nil City, a result no one saw coming at the time.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
The goal Denya scored v European champions Nottingham Forest at Maine rd in 1980(?) is still one of the proudest days of my life.
1nil City, a result no one saw coming at the time.
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It was October 79. Was nine at the time. I remember because I was on holiday with my mum and brother in north east Spain (not Barcelona) that week. But I read the match report over and over when the English papers turned up a day or so later. So wish I’d been there. Atmosphere must have been amazing.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
It was October 79. Was nine at the time. I remember because I was on holiday with my mum and brother in north east Spain (not Barcelona) that week. But I read the match report over and over when the English papers turned up a day or so later. So wish I’d been there. Atmosphere must have been amazing.
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I've still got a match report cutting from the Sunday people I think with a picture of Tommy Caton challenging for a City corner in front of Platt Lane.all arms and legs
It must have been Denya's finest hour in football...apart from the 1974 and 78 world cups..and his outstanding 106 cap international career with Poland ; )
 
dennishasdoneit said:
I've still got a match report cutting from the Sunday people I think with a picture of Tommy Caton challenging for a City corner in front of Platt Lane.all arms and legs
It must have been Denya's finest hour in football...apart from the 1974 and 78 world cups..and his outstanding 106 cap international career with Poland ; )
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Before the takeover, Deyna was one of the finest players this club ever had, but he was past his best when he came here.

Not saying he wasn’t still a very good player. It’s just that you looked at a 25 year old version of him and saw world class. He wasn’t world class when he was at City.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Before the takeover, Deyna was one of the finest players this club ever had, but he was past his best when he came here.

Not saying he wasn’t still a very good player. It’s just that you looked at a 25 year old version of him and saw world class. He wasn’t world class when he was at City.
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Surely his performances were partly due to the dross he was playing with at the time ..
Paul Futcher Bobby Shinton Colin Viljoen and Barry Silkman...it would be hard to look good amongst that lot.
Think he was injured a lot too...I've heard reports that he was on a different wavelength to his City team mates at the time.
 
Clive Allen, I had a lovely finish on me but was a bit lazy and definitely injury prone when I got older. Scored a fucking screamer once in a game than nobody who was there has ever forgotten.
 
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