CityGer wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Wooders wrote:I do agree that silva is over-rated
10 million + RSC would be a fair price
you are not entirely wrong although 10m would not get his left sock. I'm slightly worried who he'd cope with physical nature of the game. He has pace and skill in abundance but he will not defend anymore than Petrov. If we buy him, we need to play him on the wing at least for the first few seasons.
Who would be your first choice signings this summer? I'm interested to know.
The reason being that I've yet to see you discuss one of our rumoured siging targets without a sense of negativity. Milner's average, Yaya doesn't do enough, Silva won't defend, Boateng can't defend etc etc etc.....
This isn't a dig, you obviously have other players in mind. So, in NQDP's perfect world, who would we buy?
Hmmmmmm...... think you have me down bit wrong mate. I'm more of pondering upsides and down sides of each transfer. All the players mentioned there are really really good players in certain roles.
Milner is fine jack-of-all-trades player. For me the problem is that in my opinion he is master of none meaning I can't figure out where he'd start regularily. The kind of transfer fee we would've had to pay for him (I think that deal is over now after Villa's ridiculous asking price) is something that is paid for "first name on the team sheet kind of players", not the ones who'd play where ever regulr starter is injured.
Yaya is brilliant holding midfielder. But is this really position of urgent need? Unless we are planning to play with two holding midfielders, I can't quite figure out this signing. Unless we are taking "if there's a quality player available, we'll buy him" approach. In which case I'd understand it well as he is definite improvement on De Jong and imo even better player than Barry.
Silva is fantastic and super skillfull player who I have enjoyed watching for Valencia for years. I'm actually really excited about the prospect of him joining if we are playing 4-2-3-1 next season and he has no defensive duties. Him on the left and Tevez on the right with both in free roles is actually mouth watering prospect. HOWEVER, I have been following City for a long time now and I already know what people are looking for in wingers. I could do thousand word essay about it but two words will explain it best. Those words are "Summerbee" and "Mike". David Silva is NOTHING like him. I fear that people may not fully appreciate him and when he has one of his off games, and he has one in about every three where he contributes nothing, people will/might turn against him. But personally I like the idea of Silva on the left.
Boateng. Like I said, he is just bit of a question mark. Very very similar to Micah in that he seems hugely talented but also has poor periods like most of the spring this season. I have never said that he can't defend but it remains to be seen whether he can step up. He has all the tools....... but then again, so does Micah.
Furthermore, my main concern is about the system we are going to use next season. I have been repeating for a year now that proper playmaker is what we need in my opinion. So far we have not signed one and it makes me slightly worried. I am firmly of opinion that 4-4-2 with two holdinbg midfielders and overlapping fullbacks is bullshit tactics. Especially as we don't have fullbacks who can do the job. Anyway, there are maybe six or seven fullbacks who can do that job in acceptable level and most of them already play in one of the very top clubs and will not join us. We would just end up giving up whole central area in attacking third and desperate, too slow, fullbacks trying to join the attack and leaving their spots in defence wide open hoping that central midfielders, who are the ones that should join attack, covering their positions. Absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.
Who the players we should sign are? There are numerous I'd quite like, like Ozil, Gourcuff etc. We have Marwood and to lesser extent Mancini to figure out these targets. I also have underlying fear that we might be falling to rabbit hole of Director of Football systm. Ie we are signing decent players but the kind that manager can't really use.
But we'll see it better when the season kicks off.
