Who's better, who's worse since last season

[AG7]

Hart - worse Zabba- worse Nasty - worse Vinny- same Clichy - worse Kola - better Garcia- ffs Yaya - better (free kicks) Milner- underused Silva- better (mojo back) Dzeko - same Nasri - better Aguero - better (see Silva) The common theme seems to be forwards are playing better and defenders worse. Sort it out Pellers and the Prem is ours

Brilliant!

[dick dastardley]

would be nice to see dzeko actually give a fuck when he aint got the ball, i.e chase down defenders and generally run around looking for the ball.
clichy worries me because his pace has slowed
zabba peaked last season and this season it will be hard for him to get to that point but he has a fantastic attitude and i think he will be back to his usual solid performances soon.
nasri looks a different player under pelle, so well done to him.
hart is a great keeper but seems to have took his eye off the ball a bit because of his no1 jersey for england and never being dropped at city, now hes been dropped hopefully he will knuckle down and get back to tottingham performances from a couple of seasons ago.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

interesting that mancini (an attacker in his playing days) got the best out of the defence and pellers (a centre half i believe) is getting the best out of our attack...

Bizarre.

I've often thought that this has been a recurring theme throughout football; brilliant forwards go into Management and build sides that are strong defensively and defenders try to build sides that attack in ways that they, as players, were not able to do.

Brian Clough always built sides on a strong defence. He once stated he acquired this frame of mind when, as a player, he was involved in a 6-6 draw [can't remember who the sides were now] but this infuriated him so much, he vowed he would never let this happen if he went into Management.

Glen Hoddle never neglected the defensive aspect of the game but the prime example could well be George Graham. He was often seen as being a skilful, gifted, lazy (his nickname was 'Stroller') attacking individual but, as a Manager, he built sides on a strong defence and where work rate was paramount. They were also awful to watch.

Anothe example is Malcolm Allison who was a defender and, as a Manager, he favoured his sides playing great attacking football.

Mind you, there are exceptions to every rule, Jack Charlton being one of them....Uuuuggghh.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

Does that mean that Big Sam was known for his quick passing game as a player? :-)

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Does that mean that Big Sam was known for his quick passing game as a player? :-)

I did say there were exceptions to the rule.......

[nottsblue]

There's some merit to the "like player,like manager" theory.

Gollum was a shit player

[Twobob]

There's some merit to the "like player,like manager" theory.

Gollum was a shit player

Sadly, Wenger wasn't much good at playing either ...

[DoomMerchant]

There's some merit to the "like player,like manager" theory.

Gollum was a shit player

Sadly, Wenger wasn't much good at playing either ...

The Count fucking sucked.....


Blood.

cheers

[Duckman]

the thing about Kola, in my opinion, is that he might be a lazy bastard, and he is in his third year of the contract, so he upped his game a bit just to get a new contract, hopefully elsewhere.

[sheblue]

Nasri and aguero miles better than last season. I suppose in fairness to aguero he had a bad injury in the first game last season and didn't really get back on track after that.

[Sideshow Bob]

nasri has made missing out on isco a non-event.

[Slim]

nasri has made missing out on isco a non-event.

Has to be up there for most improved this season, he has been the Arsenal player we saw and not the bag of French shite that was delivered to Vieira's office.