bigblue wrote:Slim wrote:Is that it?
You are aware how that point disproves itself right? In order for you to know I haven't posted anything interesting in near 30,000 posts you'd have to have read all 30,000 posts. Anyone who does that obviously finds me fascinating.
And of course my reply to you was probably something similar to back then, I still don't care. I find it amusing that you criticise someone for having a lot of posts like that's a point. Maybe we should look at your join date and compare that with when the bandwagon started to fill up. But I'd never question someone's support of this club or this website, I'll leave that to lesser minds with glib replies. You're up.
Once again, your lack of reading comprehension lets you down. I'm not criticizing you for making a lot of posts. I'm pointing out the remarkable lack of substance and personality in practically every one that I've read. I've never questioned your support for City either, so I don't know where you are getting that from.
Your inability to respond to the actual words in a post is nothing new though. For example:
1. Those who write off Yaya will be proven wrong almost every time.
Yaya is the only reason? 4 at the back might be a reason, in fact most people might think that the major reason.
2. Yaya was always in Pep's plans for this season.
I'm sure Pep's plan was to go 6 matches without a win, plans change.
3. Pep knows the proper way to use an incredible player like Yaya.
By selling him once at Barcelona and trying to sell him again this Summer?
1. What on earth does us playing 4 at the back have to do with fans or Pep writing off Yaya? I don't even know how that's related, yet alone the main reason.
2. If Pep left the invitation for Yaya to return, then he was always in his plans. Maybe not in his planned starting lineup, but Yaya was definitely in Pep's plans for the season or else he wouldn't be in the squad (see Joe, Nasri, Bony, Mangeler, Denayer...). Us losing 6 games has less to do with Yaya starting, than does injuries and Yaya's current form. As I've said before, they get along very well in any video that I've seen from CityTV. It's obvious that Pep respects Yaya very much and trusts him to help the team carry out his tactics on the field.
3. What does Pep selling Yaya at Barcelona have to do with the price of beans? Because he prefers another player (Sergio Biscuits), it means he doesn't know how to play Yaya? The same Yaya who played 40 times in 08-09 to win the treble and started at CB in the champs league final? Yeah, Pep really doesn't know how to use him...
That's like saying because I sold my sports car for a electric car (to better fit my daily commute), that I don't know how to drive the sports car. Like most of your points, it's just unrelated half-thoughts and nonsense.
Wow, you really are twisting aren't you?
I didn't say you were criticizing my support of the club, I was alluding to yours being after we got flush. You can't really say I don't comprehend your posts in the very next sentence when you've failed to comprehend mine. That's just sad.
And then the points you said you were going to ignore which you then didn't and now bring them up again, you're not very good at "skipping" are you? But let me walk you to a conclusion, I honestly thought you were smarter than this but stop licking that window for a second and try to follow.
1. Yaya only got a shot this season when we play 4 at the back, he started matches against Steaua, Palace, Burnley, Watford and Arsenal we started with 4 at the back, matches against Chelsea and Leicester where we started with 3 at the back he wasn't subbed on until after we abandoned that and went with 4 at the back. Pep wants to play 3 at the back, being forced into a four at the back system allows Yaya the opportunity to play. Pep has written him off under the system he actually wants to play because a high pressing 3-4-1-1/3-6-0/3-5-2 or whatever the system is he wants doesn't allow for a Yaya Toure.
2. We didn't lose 6 matches, we went 6 matches without a win.(Reading Comprehension again?) Anyways, us losing 6 in a row, which we didn't do, had nothing to do with Yaya or injuries, or suspensions. It was the square peg syndrome. That wasn't the point though, you said he was always in Pep's plans, my point was that plans change. If we were still playing 3 at the back, which was Pep's plan...where would Yaya be? In his plans? Do you know for sure? Because he hasn't stepped foot on the pitch while we've had 3 at the back yet. And everyone currently at the club is in the Premier League squad, however not everyone is in the CL squad...Is Yaya in the CL squad? No doubt he'll be getting the best out of him against Monaco. Also I believe his "invitation to return" was less about Pep & Yaya and more about Pep & Seluk and Pep setting down a marker than this club would not be run by it's players and certainly not by its players' agents. That being said, Pep already buckled on this saying Yaya wouldn't be brought in from the cold until both he and Seluk apologised. Has Seluk apologised?
3. You said Pep knew how to get the best out of Yaya, he sold him once and tried to sell him twice, how does that equate to getting the best out of the player? In Pep's plan A, his way of getting the best out of the player is to get money for him and for him to no longer be at the club. As for the CL final, it wasn't a masterstroke from Pep. Milito, Abidal and Marquez were all unavailable and they literally had Toure or a five foot nothing Caceres, Cacaeres? Eh, whatever. They had a tiny fullback or Toure. Looking at the options and going "He's bigger, play him there" hardly seems like getting the best out of a player, nor should it be cited as a stroke of Pep genius. BTW, Puyol also played in that final, funny how he didn't play a taller fullback(which he was at the time) in that role. This is a tenuous point but as we currently play a taller fullback as a centrehalf, wonder why Pep hasn't considered playing Yaya there instead.
Oh, and BTW. We've never played Yaya in Busquets role and quite obviously from the amazing performances we've had from him, it's obvious that his better role was in the Xavi role and even in Iniesta's. His complaint when leaving Barcelona was that he was being played too deep and that role didn't suit him.
'When I was at Barcelona I was more someone that was there to hold, to organise, because it was about concentration on the ball. Here I have a free-role: I can go where I want and do what I want. I can join the attack or drop into the defence. While at Barcelona I was limited and couldn't leave the middle but here I can go all over, so I am in my groove. Wherever the ball goes I will go.'
Sounds like someone wasn't getting the best out of him.
Feel free to make some half baked point after this, you're boring me now and if you don't get at least a little interesting in your next post, I'll be showing you how to deal with boring posts. But hey, you'll get the last word and I'm sure that's all you really want.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:09 pm