The Best Centre-Back Pairing

[aaron bond]

I think that we can safely say that most City Fans want a Kompany / Nasty Partnership with Ripley as back up for when Nasty gets injured of rested.

Quite sensible.

I have no problem with that so long as we keep a tight, solid back 4 who look happy & organised & win big games like we did last season. Imo we haven't done much of that so far this season.

I think he will sell Lescott & I'm not sure who he will replace him with.

He will sign another one this summer , if hes still here.

That's fine as well, so long as it works.

But when you look back to how we played v the rags for example last season & in the cup semi, imo we had the best defence & the best cb pairing in the league. Now we look like teams can get at us, & they do.

I can't see any good reason for chucking away what we had. It all reminds me of Arsenal.

Nigel, is missed in that stopped it in it's tracks role, little foul here and there, and holding up the breaks like we saw in the Derby, you have to agree the bedding in of Garcia, Madrid away was self inflicted bollocks as Barry chased a third to see the whole RM Midfield had cheated and not tracked back. NDJ would have kicked Yaya and Barry's head in for that.

Jesus Christ will you stop going on about De Jong in every post you make! Do you realise he started 11 league games last year? Yes 11!!!

We didn't miss him last year never mind this year.

I admit, I Iiked De Jong and would have kept him as a squad player but you go on about him like he's the messiah in all your posts. He was extremely one dimensional and was a regular for us 2 years ago.

Get over it.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

We haven't yet signed the player who would, together with VK, constitute our best centre-back pairing.

Much as I like Nasti, that pairing would have to be VK and Neven Subotic.

[Beefymcfc]

I wonder who we'll bring in to back-up/takeover from Kompany?

[zuricity]

I think that we can safely say that most City Fans want a Kompany / Nasty Partnership with Ripley as back up for when Nasty gets injured of rested.

Quite sensible.

i think a while ago i disagreed with you on one point CFG, but your right here.

I am quiite convinced young Nasti is going to be a top , top player and a great asset to City . He reads the game excellently , his anticipation of the play is good and he goes about his work very well.

[Ted Hughes]

I think that we can safely say that most City Fans want a Kompany / Nasty Partnership with Ripley as back up for when Nasty gets injured of rested.

Quite sensible.

I have no problem with that so long as we keep a tight, solid back 4 who look happy & organised & win big games like we did last season. Imo we haven't done much of that so far this season.

I think he will sell Lescott & I'm not sure who he will replace him with.

He will sign another one this summer , if hes still here.

That's fine as well, so long as it works.

But when you look back to how we played v the rags for example last season & in the cup semi, imo we had the best defence & the best cb pairing in the league. Now we look like teams can get at us, & they do.

I can't see any good reason for chucking away what we had. It all reminds me of Arsenal.

We had that last year , this year that pairing was shite and was a shadow of last years partnership performance, teams already got at us and were fucking us for fun at the back , which is why Mancini put in Nasty.

Lescott will be sold as he will not want to be second choice.

Imo we farted about with new tactics pre season & didn't do enough work with last season's team repeating what it does well.

Mancini jumped on the chance to blame Lescott when things were a bit shit but Vinny was actually worse. Neither Lescott nor Vinny are the same players they were as last season, as they are a partnership & they benefitted from the hard work Bob put in early doors & the understanding they gained playing together. Nasti & Vinny have no understanding whatsoever. Garcia has no understanding with them, we lack athletes & workrate further up the field.

Arsenal almost became the best side in Europe because George Graham built an old school Brit style defence & Wenger attached France to it. As soon as Wenger changed from that & started signing 'footballers' as defenders, they disappeared.

What Bob has been building this season, imo, is what we see from Arsenal tonight.

[Hazy2]

As daft as it sound I also think we miss NDJ, no only arsing about Aaron. We have not been settled at the back all yr.

[Wooders]

I wonder who we'll bring in to back-up/takeover from Kompany?

who's saying that anywhere in this thread?

[Beefymcfc]

I wonder who we'll bring in to back-up/takeover from Kompany?

who's saying that anywhere in this thread?

Me?

[Wooders]

i don't understand what you are asking

replace vinnie?

[Original Dub]

We haven't yet signed the player who would, together with VK, constitute our best centre-back pairing.

Much as I like Nasti, that pairing would have to be VK and Neven Subotic.

This whole subotic thing you have going on got weird a long time ago mate. Wtf??

[Original Dub]

Me?

I think you started taking drugs in the last year beefy.

Your posts are all over the place mate. Hard to tell where you stand in any debate.

Bring back the beefy with marbles. This beefy has lost them.

[Beefymcfc]

Me?

I think you started taking drugs in the last year beefy.

Your posts are all over the place mate. Hard to tell where you stand in any debate.

Bring back the beefy with marbles. This beefy has lost them.

How can I keep my marbles when all around are losing theirs.

It's a honest question, who do we bring in as back-up or to takeover Vinnie? Who do you see at the moment, young or old? At least with Joleon/Nasti we have somebody in place but who's there for the future of Vince?

Well, is that wrong to ask?

PS. I know where you're coming from but trust me, our kid ;-)

[Moonchesteri]

Best world war 3 starter?

I saw Kolarov in Arndale on Monday, even there he looked like he wants to start a ww3!

[HeyMark]

In a few years time, providing he stayed fit, our best CB pairing could be Rodwell and Kompnay.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

We haven't yet signed the player who would, together with VK, constitute our best centre-back pairing.

Much as I like Nasti, that pairing would have to be VK and Neven Subotic.

This whole subotic thing you have going on got weird a long time ago mate. Wtf??

Please define, in this context, "weird".

[Cocacolajojo1]

I voted Nasty and Kompany because I do think that Nastacic is a much better centre back than he looks. He plays it pretty cool most of the time and doesn't do anything dramatic but he gets the job done. In a way he's our new Charlie (which I still miss by the way). WIth the proper management and advice he can definitely turn out to be one of the great centre backs of the league.

That's a big if though. Because at the same time he sometimes seems to be doing much better than he really is. He can become pretty arrogant at times. Sometimes he'll leave a gap, have it exposed by the opposition and will thus have created a pretty bad situation. He more than often gets helped out though, so no worries. But because he didn't really break a sweat trying to fix the problem he first created, he gives the impression that it was all part of his plan. In this aspect he's also our new Charlie.

However, I think LEscott has peaked. He's not a player for the future and he has peaked, although after less than one season it's probably too early to say. He was tremendous last season and at the end of the one before that (but who was that centre back who gave away the ball to Cissé at our last game of the season last season? Who was he? I can't seem to remeber...). This season I don't trust him as much. Mind you, he hasn't been given a fair deal by Mancini who's been looking to replace him for quite some time (often without success). It seems that Mancini has gotten things his way this time. Nastacic is a capable replacement.

But he's not as good as Lescott was last season. That Lescott was one hell of a centre back. If he'd been as good this season it would have been a no-brainer and we'd still be first in the league.

[Original Dub]

Please define, in this context, "weird".

You have mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned another player in the whole time I've been a member on this board.

Everytime I see your name I expect to see Subotic mentioned at this stage. I thought of that as weird.

No offence pal!

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Please define, in this context, "weird".

You have mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned another player in the whole time I've been a member on this board.

Everytime I see your name I expect to see Subotic mentioned at this stage. I thought of that as weird.

No offence pal!

Thanks for your reply - and no offence taken whatsoever.

Unfortunately, I just happen to think Neven Subotic is the best centre back in Europe and I'm aching to see him in a City shirt. However, if this enthusiasm oversteps the bounds of acceptability, I can only apologise although, in all fairness, the Poll did provide for other, non-specified, options to be offered and asked for clarification of these in the posts submitted. This I duly did.

If I have actually "mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned any other player" (Palus and Edin Dzeko included ??), I'll certainly have to be more wary in my relevant posts in the future, as I wouldn't want to be categorised as weird.

[Original Dub]

Thanks for your reply - and no offence taken whatsoever.

Unfortunately, I just happen to think Neven Subotic is the best centre back in Europe and I'm aching to see him in a City shirt. However, if this enthusiasm oversteps the bounds of acceptability, I can only apologise although, in all fairness, the Poll did provide for other, non-specified, options to be offered and asked for clarification of these in the posts submitted. This I duly did.

If I have actually "mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned any other player" (Palus and Edin Dzeko included ??), I'll certainly have to be more wary in my relevant posts in the future, as I wouldn't want to be categorised as weird.

No mate, no need to think of a Palus situation...

I meant "other player" as in a player from another club. I suppose I shouldn't have used the word "weird".

For the record, I'd like to see him here too.

[Alioune DVToure]

Please define, in this context, "weird".

You have mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned another player in the whole time I've been a member on this board.

Everytime I see your name I expect to see Subotic mentioned at this stage. I thought of that as weird.

No offence pal!

Thanks for your reply - and no offence taken whatsoever.

Unfortunately, I just happen to think Neven Subotic is the best centre back in Europe and I'm aching to see him in a City shirt. However, if this enthusiasm oversteps the bounds of acceptability, I can only apologise although, in all fairness, the Poll did provide for other, non-specified, options to be offered and asked for clarification of these in the posts submitted. This I duly did.

If I have actually "mentioned him more times than anyone else has mentioned any other player" (Palus and Edin Dzeko included ??), I'll certainly have to be more wary in my relevant posts in the future, as I wouldn't want to be categorised as weird.

Given that he's already tagged you, that might be a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Or, as you might put it, proceeding to rectify the aperture of the stable's front entrance in spite of the very fact that one's hiterto domesticised equine companion has long since made its opportunistic departure.

Not seen much of Subotic, but wikipedia tells me he was raised in the US. Maybe he'd fancy it then. Serbia knock out some decent defenders.