BadKompany wrote:Original Dub wrote:
Hold on a second there mate. Surely you have seen this before?
When a team have so many highly rated players that look out of sorts, it COULD have to do with how the manager is using them and the pholosophy being instilled.
Do you remember Spurs under Ramos? do you remember the amount of players that came highly rated but looked absolute garbage? Do you remember that Gareth Bale was the on going joke in that he was there over a year before he was actually in a side that won?
Yaya Toure is a class player but he doesn't look it now. That much I definitely agree with. But Pep Guardiola was very sad to see him go and said we had just signed a fantastic player. I've watched him loads of times and he looked absolutely class - just like he has done for us on several occasions, but I honestly don't think our manager understands this league and the importance of balancing power with pace. There is a massive imbalance in this city side and quite a few players are suffering because of it.
Lets say youre right and it's purely a balance issue.Please tell me how that lack of team balance prevents him from putting any effort in for 85mins?
You think he didn't put ANY effort in today? I think he did. I thought he had a shite game, but he put effort in. He looks tired and should have been rested more often for starters.
But back to the imbalance thing - if he had pace around him instead of Barry and De Jong, he could easily turn defence into attack, but more times than not he has to burst forward himself which is not his strength at all. He is capable of doing it of course and has scored a few goals for us by doing just that, but that should be something he does from time to time rather than being told to do it the whole time.. just like Vieira used to do THE ODD TIME for Arsenal. Vieira had pace around him. Hell, Yaya had pace around him at Barca and looked absolutely IMMENSE.
He's a cracking player but is another one who suffers because of a total imbalance. We have NO pace and that is suicide in the Premier League.
Please can we get Bellamy back for the run in. PLEASE???!!! Not the answer outright to my above point, but we can address that in the summer once we achieve top four, which we are in danger of losing... and all because we have NO PACE WHATSOEVER.
Ridiculous.