Yaya Toure

[Danamy]

He'll go down as an all time great but he'll be phased out next season, Pep wont carry any passengers

 

[HelloCity]

Brilliant post.

You can just about get away with carrying a lazy forward if he's getting you 20+ goals a season (e.g. The fake Ronaldo) because they're like rocking horse shit but not a central midfielder. As the saying goes "you're only as good as your biggest weakness" and Toure's lack of legs is ours and has been for years.

Trying to paper over the cracks by having Fernando and Fernandinho in midfield with Yaya still leaves you down to 10 men for large periods of the game but people are still clinging onto the hope that will transform him back to the Yaya that scored 24 goals in one season, it won't, the lad is finished as an effective player for anything more than 10-15 minute spells.

False.

The exact same problems in the team have existed when Yaya hasn't played.

Implying that Delph or Fernando should start over Yaya is laughable. The biggest cause of our fall is that we can't defend as a team, especially when Kompany doesn't play, and that's with or without Yaya in the side.

Any midfield two we can field currently isn't good enough anyway. We look poor with Fernandiho and Fernando as well. With this current team we always need to be playing a 3 and that 3 would always include Yaya without a doubt.

Also, what it is worth, Yaya has been better and contributed more than Silva all season, apart from the first 5 matches.

That 10-15 minute spell would be more than Silva has contributed for 6 months.

Is Yaya the player he was? No, but to replace him we'll need two top players to rework the midfield and not just one. That says it all.

 

[fatbloke]

False.

The exact same problems in the team have existed when Yaya hasn't played.

Implying that Delph or Fernando should start over Yaya is laughable. The biggest cause of our fall is that we can't defend as a team, especially when Kompany doesn't play, and that's with or without Yaya in the side.

Any midfield two we can field currently isn't good enough anyway. We look poor with Fernandiho and Fernando as well. With this current team we always need to be playing a 3 and that 3 would always include Yaya without a doubt.

Also, what it is worth, Yaya has been better and contributed more than Silva all season, apart from the first 5 matches.

That 10-15 minute spell would be more than Silva has contributed for 6 months.

Is Yaya the player he was? No, but to replace him we'll need two top players to rework the midfield and not just one. That says it all.

We can't defend as a team because we have a player less, Yaya. Trying to bring Silva into this is like bringing Maureen from No.36 up the road into it, completely irrelevant.

 

[Danamy]

We can't defend as a team because we have a player less, Yaya. Trying to bring Silva into this is like bringing Maureen from No.36 up the road into it, completely irrelevant.

Does Maureen not have an opinion on it?

 

[fatbloke]

Does Maureen not have an opinion on it?

Probably but her mouths full, just give me a couple of seconds and don't tell the missus.

Ps... She's only got a small mouth before anyone asks.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

He'll go down as an all time great but he'll be phased out next season, Pep wont carry any passengers

He best hire a double decker bus to ferry out the passengers we have!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We can't defend as a team because we have a player less, Yaya. Trying to bring Silva into this is like bringing Maureen from No.36 up the road into it, completely irrelevant.

What happened in the game yaya didn't play this season? Oh yes we were equally as shit if not worse!

They are all to blame this season but none more so than the idiot in charge.

 

[chesterbells]

The big man might be a bit older these days but before he reached the twilight of his career at the top level, he was an unbelieveable force for Manchester City.

Some say David Silva, but for me, every single season we have won a trophy, Yaya Toure has been the better of the two and that includes this season as well.

Silva may have been more pleasing on the eye but in the big games where Silva maybe didn't have his usual influence, it was so often Yaya who produced a mammoth of a performance to take us all the way to glory.

Quite simply, the best Manchester City player of the past 40 years. Give this a watch and just remember what he once was and what he helped us achieve. Brilliant

Yes, would agree with this, great call.

 

[HelloCity]

We can't defend as a team because we have a player less, Yaya. Trying to bring Silva into this is like bringing Maureen from No.36 up the road into it, completely irrelevant.

Incorrect. We've been even worse when he hasn't played.

We've actually underperformed because we're struggling to score goals, especially away from home. Silva's consistently poor performances are a huge factor in that.

 

[Bradleymcfc]

Can't see why there's all the slagging off of silva.

It's funny how when silva is shit city are. He makes us tick far more then yaya. Look at this season best performances were at the start of the season when silva was at his best and fully fit. He's not been fit since his return and suffered when he was out injured. Yaya as played most of the season so why aren't we so good as he's the best we've had according to many on here?