JonnyAsh wrote:Rodwell must be wondering what on earth he has to do to get some minutes on the pitch....apart from staying injury free, of course, and Gaz Baz, must be starring in disbelief...
I know you mean staring, but he's starring alright, for bloody Everton, they think he's one of their best players this season.
Aguero, Negredo, Zabaleta, fantastic, but it does seem that there's a Spanish-speaking obsession now... by the law of averages we're going to have some good ones, but to base a whole team around it seems to be the bosses' ideal, but the bad ones really are bad.
I looked up 'panic buy' in the dictionary and the definition was Demichelis. I'm not enthusiastic reading about the supposed new, 32-year old goalkeeper, or indeed Otamendi. Otamendi was playing in the Argentine league relatively recently, have you seen any of the games in that league? The standard is piss poor, has declined to virtually League 1 standard since Aguero, Zab and Tevez were playing in it, some of the crowds in the top division aren't even 10,000. Now he's playing in the Portuguese league because it's the weakest of the European leagues, and not as big a leap from Argentina. Garcia played in Portugal too... I see a pattern emerging.
Obviously Mancini had Balotelli, but he was never so Italo-centric as Pellegrini (and his 2 bosses) about Spanish and Latin American players. This is why Garcia gets so much time, clearly - it's holistic.
