Yaya Toure - 2016/17 performances

[malg]

I was watching a bit on the BBC website 'everybody's talking about Yaya'. Just a little bit showing BBC reactions to him scoring. The guys on the Final Score studio were all clapping and laughing when he scored.

 

[kaz7]

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

There'll be a lot of managers around the league shitting themselves after his performance yesterday.

Knowing we now have a plan b if and when we need it, and that plan b is the most dominating goal scoring midfielder of the past decade.

He'll turn 8 or more games for us this year with goals and that's something Kev doesn't seem to do much, Silva never has and even Kun can't be relied upon.

What an option to have and allow rest for Gundogan and Fernandinho when needed. It also hopefully shunts Fernando down the pecking order.

So you think "he'll turn 8 or more games for us this year with goals"? I think your expectations are too high there mate.

He scored 8 times last season including 2 penalties from his 47 appearances. Of those you could argue he turned the game twice - so 2 times from 47 games.

The last couple of seasons 14/15 and 15/16 he has only scored a couple more than Silva in the league.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

So you think "he'll turn 8 or more games for us this year with goals"? I think your expectations are too high there mate.

He scored 8 times last season including 2 penalties from his 47 appearances. Of those you could argue he turned the game twice - so 2 times from 47 games.

The last couple of seasons 14/15 and 15/16 he has only scored a couple more than Silva in the league.

Last season was such an anomaly that if we're giving clean slates to Kun, Kev & the rest, then we have to afford the same to Yaya.

If he can come off the bench 8 times and swing games, that will be phenomenal for us.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

A world beater when he's in the mood, a lot like Nasri and Balotelli in that respect. Fucking shit when not up for it. Stroking it round yesterday like a conductor.

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Last season was such an anomaly that if we're giving clean slates to Kun, Kev & the rest, then we have to afford the same to Yaya.

If he can come off the bench 8 times and swing games, that will be phenomenal for us.

You've changed your tune and are now saying something completely different. You were talking about turning games with goals before and he has hardly done that at all since he came back from ANC in 2014/2015.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

You've changed your tune and are now saying something completely different. You were talking about turning games with goals before and he has hardly done that at all since he came back from ANC in 2014/2015.

Maybe you are reading it wrongly, but what I've said in both posts is consistent.

Let's see how it goes.

 

[yayas trusty right foot]

So you think "he'll turn 8 or more games for us this year with goals"? I think your expectations are too high there mate.

He scored 8 times last season including 2 penalties from his 47 appearances. Of those you could argue he turned the game twice - so 2 times from 47 games.

The last couple of seasons 14/15 and 15/16 he has only scored a couple more than Silva in the league.

worst post of the day..

 

[ojeme]

Points to note; make of these whatever you wish:

1. Yaya Toure's form declined primarily because he was being played in most games last season. I personally remember the cup match against Everton where even a blind man could tell he was knackered
2. Pep has absolute control over his team and this will definitely help to ensure
that nobody including KDB and Sergio play all games regardless of any circumstances
3. Lately we had been playing nicely but finishing poorly
4. It was highly unlikely that anyone else bar Aguero would've scored so basically we were looking likely to have another
Everton/Boro/Saints match repeat
5. I never expected him to get any credit from many of our fans. When he was playing well last season, he still got slated so when his form dipped criticizing him became a no-brainer. And because a) people usually remember the more recent events better than older one and b) we got told day in day out, Yaya is finished, lazy, useless, etc by some fans, it seemed like Yaya had done nothing all season to the extent that people began to blame Yaya for every wrong Hart, Sagna, Kolarov, Ferns, Delph, Silva, KDB, Sterling, Aguero, Navas did
6. I trust Pep to use Yaya optimally in a way that would bring the best out of the team

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Points to note; make of these whatever you wish:

1. Yaya Toure's form declined primarily because he was being played in most games last season. I personally remember the cup match against Everton where even a b Nolind man could tell he was knackered
2. Pep has absolute control over his team and this will definitely help to ensure that nobody including KDB and Sergio play all games regardless of any circumstances
3. Lately we had been playing nicely but finishing poorly
4. It was highly unlikely that anyone else bar Aguero would've scored so basically we were looking likely to have another Everton/Boro/Saints match repeat
5. I trust Pep to use Yaya optimally in a way that would bring the best out of the team

Yaya scores just, er, Yaya-type goals. Whenever we needed a goal up would pop Yaya and there was a goal of some individuality.