FantasyIreland said:
There is a reason Yaya has been playing so well prior to today - Fernandinho.
He allows Yaya the freedom to dictate play without the concern for whats happening behind him.
Losing Fernandinho effectively loses us Yaya as we have no one else capable of providing the energy,industry and defensive mobility that's required to compliment his game.
Spot on.
This is why we need another DM of Fernandinho's class or higher, because the drop off from him to the other players in that position is huge. You need at least 2 top players for deep roles if you want to be top club in Europe and at the moment we only have one.
Garcia
should've been that player. Instead, he is just all sorts of terrible. We got robbed of 16 million for a guy that's only worth 5-6 and should be playing or a team like Stoke. Whatever happens, I don't want any rash or panic buys from management again. We're now paying for the mistake of last season's window badly. If we buy, we buy proven quality regardless of what the price tag is - that's your Martinez's, Vidal's, Gundogan's, Pogba's, Bender's etc of the world.