MOTD

[citytilidie]

hansen has already written dzeko off

[Mark (Blue Army)]

hansen has already written dzeko off

The guys a twat, Dzeko's played one game FFS

[Crossie]

Good, less pressure.

[Chinners]

Ha ha, as soon as he had his 30 second opinion I was thinking of here.

[Sheikhermaker]

Just got in, missed it thankfully. Hate Hansen.

I thought Edin played very well, although he lost a lot of headers there was always someone piggybacking, and the ref certainly didn't help with that. Signs are very very encouraging. Anyone who criticises him should recognise it was his first performance in a new league, against a team who have a reputation for being good in the air. I think the treatment Wolves dished him in his first game here was a compliment.

Hansens on his man period because of his beloved Liverpool looking for their parachute cord. Fuckin diddums you little bitch.

[gillie]

Shearer said that guy will score loads in that team at Hansen's comment.Nuff said.

[CitizenYank]

Alan Hansen is a sack of shit. Full Stop.

[Kladze]

Hansen was rooting his opinion purely on the premise that a striker in the prem needs blistering pace. While there is a degree of truth in that, Dzeko is an intelligent player who will lose defenders ......... he will, of course, then need the right ball played to him by his team mates and that includes Carlos.

[zuricity]

I missed it last night , so will watch the tosser hanson in 10 mins.

However I couldn't help noticing that all last night and even now , the BBC football web page highlights Arsenal "Brush Poor Hammers aside", whilst on the bbc , even the weather man told us to expect rain during the London derby today at 16.15. ( which by the way was also advertised for five live). No mention that there are three other important derbies today.

So I ask myself, why do the BBC always highlight united and arsenal.

If you didn't notice, City moved to the top of the league yesterday !

A golden and (missed) opportunity for the BBC to tell us that moneybags city , ruining football, prove we're ruining the game by scraping by wolves to go top !

[DaveyHaughton]

Strange he slagged of edin for lack of pace and movement yet all the pundits cream over carroll, who in comparison is slower,less mobile,no first touch and is just an enthusiastic donkey.

[ayrshireblue]

Top scorers in the Premier League at the moment are Berbatov and Tevez. In my opinion neither of these have "blistering pace". They are fast because of their movement and change of direction. While pace is a great asset, if that is all you have then your career will be over as soon as your hamstrings take the first injury. See the likes of Owen compared to Sheringham for evidence of this.

[Ted Hughes]

Top scorers in the Premier League at the moment are Berbatov and Tevez. In my opinion neither of these have "blistering pace". They are fast because of their movement and change of direction. While pace is a great asset, if that is all you have then your career will be over as soon as your hamstrings take the first injury. See the likes of Owen compared to Sheringham for evidence of this.

Very true but I wish we had a striker with blistering pace in the squad as an option. It scare defenders & makes them change their set up.

[Blue Since 76]

Top scorers in the Premier League at the moment are Berbatov and Tevez. In my opinion neither of these have "blistering pace". They are fast because of their movement and change of direction. While pace is a great asset, if that is all you have then your career will be over as soon as your hamstrings take the first injury. See the likes of Owen compared to Sheringham for evidence of this.

Very true but I wish we had a striker with blistering pace in the squad as an option. It scare defenders & makes them change their set up.

We have got one - Balotelli. Just need him fit

As for hansen, if edin had made that debut for liverpool, he'd have been creaming himself and claiming liverpool could get back in the title race.

As for strikers without blistering pace in the premier league, how about:
Tevez, shrek, berbaflop, adebayor, crouch, elmander, carew, sheringham, shearer plus lots of others I can't think of.
Strikers with blistering pace: Owen (ruined by injury), torres (ruined by injury), walcott (headless chicken).

[Dameerto]

Shearer said that guy will score loads in that team at Hansen's comment.Nuff said.

He is very likely to top the assists chart at the club too, if that one game is any indication. I think Hansen is suffering from senile dementia.

[Im_Spartacus]

Hansen was rooting his opinion purely on the premise that a striker in the prem needs blistering pace. While there is a degree of truth in that, Dzeko is an intelligent player who will lose defenders ......... he will, of course, then need the right ball played to him by his team mates and that includes Carlos.

Yeah, he suffered from a huge lack of pace when he played 1 / 2s all from inside our own half to the edge of their box with Tevez before playing a beautiful ball in for Toure to score, criminal how slow he is!!

You all must have missed it, but degenerate crackhead Merson said before the game on soccer saturday that he couldn't understand why City had signed Dzeko, given that they go away from home and defend, then try to score one goal on the break. Obv still sore about the Arsenal game, but equally obvious he hasnt seen our other away games this season, eg, all the games which gives us the best away record in the league.

Pinnochio basically told him not to be a dick which I thought was funny

Carry on haters.......

[CitizenYank]

I would think intelligence, first touch and ability to see the field might be just as important. Hmmm??

[shawzy]

MOTD City v Wolves
http://videos.sportyall.com/league/manc ... 28b27.html

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Top scorers in the Premier League at the moment are Berbatov and Tevez. In my opinion neither of these have "blistering pace". They are fast because of their movement and change of direction. While pace is a great asset, if that is all you have then your career will be over as soon as your hamstrings take the first injury. See the likes of Owen compared to Sheringham for evidence of this.

IMHO these are excellent and perceptive comments, ayreshire blue.

To add to what you say, in the 1980s we had a player in Steve Kinsey who had "blistering pace" and we used to refer to him as 'Speedboat' i.e. his pace was all in a straight line and if he turned quickly, he capsized. His other attributes also fell far short of his "blistering pace".

Anyway, players such as Zinedine Zidane seemed to get along just fine, without being international sprinters.

[brite blu sky]

Top scorers in the Premier League at the moment are Berbatov and Tevez. In my opinion neither of these have "blistering pace". They are fast because of their movement and change of direction. While pace is a great asset, if that is all you have then your career will be over as soon as your hamstrings take the first injury. See the likes of Owen compared to Sheringham for evidence of this.

Very true but I wish we had a striker with blistering pace in the squad as an option. It scare defenders & makes them change their set up.

While believing that is true I would still come down on the side of vision and passing ability over out and out pace. There are plenty of pace merchants and yet hardly any of them seem to have vision or an end product. My honest opinion is that pacey players are exciting to watch and as a result get a lot of leeway, as soon as you talk about end product the list gets very short.. currently the only really fast player with consistent delivery would be Bale. He stands out a mile for that reason.

So basically even if we had an out and out pace merchant unless the package came with an all round game personally i wouldn't put him in the team, i'd have him as a sub, and the way our game is going i dont believe they would get in the team under Bob either.

[Slim]

I think Shearer missed a golden opportunity here to shut Hansen up. He could cite himself as a player without a great deal of pace who scored buckets.