Re: Yaya - World class
johnmc said:
If he is the closest thing to Yaya why would we go and buy him? Wold you go and buy the closest player to Aguero or Silva? No. You need players to compliment each other not the best player in a position and a £30m pretender.
Closest thing to Yaya (i.e. as a dominant Central midfielder)- And he does compliment him beautifully. Unless you missed it, he is strong in everything Yaya is weak and Yaya is strong in every area in which he is weak. How is that not complimentary? And they are both dominant forces. Together on City, they would have eat midfields for dinner. Yaya bombing forward and curling goals, while Felliani was winning every header, nodding in goals and laying the wood.
Getting Felliani would have given us the most physically dominant midfield in Europe. We missed a big one on that. And as for getting the closest player to our superstars
Silva--> Nasri was the closest thing in the league, and we got him.
Tevez-> Aguero was the closest thing in Europe, and we got him. So buying closest things is not something we are new to. We've been doing it for a while.
As a matter of fact, the purchase of Rodwell I believe was in view of him possibly becoming the next Yaya. As Yaya was the next Viera (who we also got before getting Yaya. Albeit in his old age.)
So 3 points here:
1) Felliani does compliments Yaya
2) Feliani and Yaya are the 2 closest in terms of physically dominating Central midfielders in the league.
3) City has a history of buying similar players.
So on all fronts you might be wrong.