1961_vintage
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city2 said:
Can't agree with that. He is a proven premier league goalscorer in a team with a playing style not dissimilar to our own.
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Can't agree with that. He is a proven premier league goalscorer in a team with a playing style not dissimilar to our own.
blue b4 the moon
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1961_vintage said:city2 said:Bony is not good enough for where we want to be.
Can't agree with that. He is a proven premier league goalscorer in a team with a playing style not dissimilar to our own.
Rumours are that if signed he'll not be in the CL squad thus, allowing us to rest Kun for European games.
Not a logic I like as we have little or no chance of winning the CL with UEFA sanctions etc.
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1961_vintage said:city2 said:Bony is not good enough for where we want to be.
Can't agree with that. He is a proven premier league goalscorer in a team with a playing style not dissimilar to our own.
He's plenty good enough to be an option for us,add our supply to his armoury and his game will raise to a level.
We don't have a player that puts himself about up front,Bony ruffles feathers and has the ability to match his physicality.He could be great foil for Kun and I can see him fitting in as equally as Negredo did.
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blue b4 the moon said:1961_vintage said:city2 said:Bony is not good enough for where we want to be.
Can't agree with that. He is a proven premier league goalscorer in a team with a playing style not dissimilar to our own.
Rumours are that if signed he'll not be in the CL squad thus, allowing us to rest Kun for European games.
Not a logic I like as we have little or no chance of winning the CL with UEFA sanctions etc.
Lets be honest,only more than our fair share of Chelsea style luck was ever going to see us lift that trophy this year.A decent run,raise our coefficient further,and we aim big next season.
Hamann Pineapple
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Bony made it clear he's staying at Swansea in his celebration after his goal against Spurs
OB1
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tolmie's hairdoo said:I see the Ivory Coast training camp is in Abu Dhabi this month.
I have been banging the drum for Bony for quite a few months and would be really excited to see what he could offer in a City shirt.
He's got all the tools and as a club, we could offer him the belief that takes him to the very top level.
Still believe this could be Dzeko's last season, along with Kolarov, despite signing recent renewals.
Perhaps City feel the need to advance certain transfer targets, although Bony and AFCON still doesn't make sense.
The perfect foil for Sergio, however.
No, what does not make sense is buying for the short-term when paying the sort of money Bony would command.
It's a squad game and 3 strikers isn't enough when 2 of them are injury prone. Although Bony's price is very steep and with him playing in the AFCON it seems plain daft, after the tournament he can do a great job in our team and will take off some of the pressure Aguero. The alternative is to pick up an unknown striker for peanuts which is also a too risky strategy as sticking to what we have got at this stage of the season imho.
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I'd have him at City in a flash and I've come on here to see if there's any concrete on this. Maybe not.
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OB1 said:tolmie's hairdoo said:I see the Ivory Coast training camp is in Abu Dhabi this month.
I have been banging the drum for Bony for quite a few months and would be really excited to see what he could offer in a City shirt.
He's got all the tools and as a club, we could offer him the belief that takes him to the very top level.
Still believe this could be Dzeko's last season, along with Kolarov, despite signing recent renewals.
Perhaps City feel the need to advance certain transfer targets, although Bony and AFCON still doesn't make sense.
The perfect foil for Sergio, however.
No, what does not make sense is buying for the short-term when paying the sort of money Bony would command.
Why do you see it as short-term?
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I clearly saw how well Negredo worked in our team last season (prior to his injury).
Bony is a very similar player (physical, powerful, determined, gritty, good in the air) and on a similar level technically to Negredo (Bony can play).
It worked then, it'd work now.
He's just turned 26 so has 3 or 4 'peak' years in front of him.
I'd really welcome this signing.
Bony is a very similar player (physical, powerful, determined, gritty, good in the air) and on a similar level technically to Negredo (Bony can play).
It worked then, it'd work now.
He's just turned 26 so has 3 or 4 'peak' years in front of him.
I'd really welcome this signing.
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I was impressed when Bony played for Swansea against City earlier this season and on the other occasions I've seen. His hold up play was as good as I've seen and when I saw him holding off Kompany and indeed putting him on his arse he looked a player to me with a good eye for a goal.
I'd still be surprised as I didn't think we'd have the budget but think he'd be a good addition to our squad.
I'd still be surprised as I didn't think we'd have the budget but think he'd be a good addition to our squad.
For £30mill he is overpriced although he is a great player, I'm not sure it would be sensible to buy him in January and lose him for 2 months straight away, also why sign someone and not play him in the champs league seems a little to much like paper talk to me.
Just realized he is going to ACON. It loos bit less likely now. If we are going to buy him than it's either we know one of Aguero/Dzeko is going to be sideline longer than we publicly said or one of Jovetic/Dzeko will be sold in the summer so we want to buy him before some other club does.
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I like him as a player, strong as fuck and an eye for goal but concerned if its a jan deal with him away to the AFCON.
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£30m???? For bony? Wtf?
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richards30 said:£30m???? For bony? Wtf?
well we cant have messi/pogba/koke for 30m can we? :)
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Bony allows us to play the Aguero alone upfront system (which has been our best system) ALL season long, and to interchange in case of / to avoid injury.
So you don't NOT recruit the best players (or people in normal roles) if they are the ideal person for the job, just because they are not available for 1 initial month.
What you get out of it long-term is well worth the short-term blow.
So you don't NOT recruit the best players (or people in normal roles) if they are the ideal person for the job, just because they are not available for 1 initial month.
What you get out of it long-term is well worth the short-term blow.
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richards30 said:£30m???? For bony? Wtf?
Considering we paid £27 million for fucking Dzeko, I'd say its a good deal as Wilfried is 100 x the player Edin is.
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