YaYa Toure

[Beeks]

Another gripe is the guys a giant yet seems to be bundled off the ball by players half his size and couldn't win a header if his life depended on it ffs

[BlueMoonAwoken]

watch the game again and see how many times he doesnt even bother closing down a ball thats 3yards away from him,watch how many times hes spotted strolling back from an attack that has broke down,by the time we have won it back and we go on the attack,the ball has bypassed him and hes out of the game again.
credit to him for making his pointless runs that we all knew he was goin to take to much out of and lose.
how many times did he sit on the ground with his hands in the air looking for a free while the game was still on?
i could go on...but if you cant see these blatant things then theres not much point in me saying anymore about him

i saw what you said in the 2nd half when he was busy chasing round the ball truing to get it off the rags defence and then trying to come back and help the midfield as well i was tired watching him.

You watch the game again and watch how much running he did not as fast as tevez but once again i REPEAT he is NOT i repeat NOT a center forward he is a defensive midfielder who likes to set up attacks but MANCINI didnt play any players that are born to attack apart from tevez and even him is not a direct player.



So the only way he could set up attacks was lung bursting 40/50 yeard runs!

you must be watching a completely different game to me then.
he offered nothing,nothing in attack,nothing in defence.
doesnt look interested and this is supposed to be from one of our "main" players,our engine in midfield!
this is not just tonight,not 1 game, this has been since he came.

I know mate i agree but mancini played him as a center forward he was trying to do 2 jobs , he is a beast of a man but to play a striker and support tevez as well as break up united attacks is stupidity beyond belief its like playing de jong as a center forward mancini did that you would all call for his head to be cut clean off.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

Another gripe is the guys a giant yet seems to be bundled off the ball by players half his size and couldn't win a header if his life depended on it ffs

Only time i seen him get knocked off the ball was when vidic and oshea doubled up on him when he was too far up the pitch with no support, i wish he was superman too.

[Ted Hughes]

Yaya did ok v West Brom but hasn't got the legs to play 2 Prem Lg games in a week imo, hence tonight's struggle. He was clearly struggling & particularly late on but Bob is obviously scared to death of Utd & was probably worried that removing a player from the middle, even an ineffective one, would release Scholes to win them the game again. He may have been right as even a weakened, 2nd rate, rags attack, seem to have far more idea going forward as a team than we do in a tight game.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

i wont dissagree he played shit but it wasnt his fault is all im saying, mancini playing him as a center forward and expecting him to break up united attacks is stupid and risky. I would of left barry on the bench and had yaya in the middle and put ade up with tevez.

[gaudy]

watch the game again and see how many times he doesnt even bother closing down a ball thats 3yards away from him,watch how many times hes spotted strolling back from an attack that has broke down,by the time we have won it back and we go on the attack,the ball has bypassed him and hes out of the game again.
credit to him for making his pointless runs that we all knew he was goin to take to much out of and lose.
how many times did he sit on the ground with his hands in the air looking for a free while the game was still on?
i could go on...but if you cant see these blatant things then theres not much point in me saying anymore about him

i saw what you said in the 2nd half when he was busy chasing round the ball truing to get it off the rags defence and then trying to come back and help the midfield as well i was tired watching him.

You watch the game again and watch how much running he did not as fast as tevez but once again i REPEAT he is NOT i repeat NOT a center forward he is a defensive midfielder who likes to set up attacks but MANCINI didnt play any players that are born to attack apart from tevez and even him is not a direct player.



So the only way he could set up attacks was lung bursting 40/50 yeard runs!

you must be watching a completely different game to me then.
he offered nothing,nothing in attack,nothing in defence.
doesnt look interested and this is supposed to be from one of our "main" players,our engine in midfield!
this is not just tonight,not 1 game, this has been since he came.

I know mate i agree but mancini played him as a center forward he was trying to do 2 jobs , he is a beast of a man but to play a striker and support tevez as well as break up united attacks is stupidity beyond belief its like playing de jong as a center forward mancini did that you would all call for his head to be cut clean off.

just have to agree to disagree me thinks mate!
def not putting all the blame on him,far from it as there was many below par tonite but i guess i just find yaya so f**kin fustrating.expecting so much from a player and getting so little has just ticked me off and it came to a head tonite.
mancini does make some strange decisions,im not disagreeing with you on that one.

[Blue Since 76]

I thought this guy was supposed to be dynamic and high energy?!

He is the laziest, most sluggish player ive ever seen! How the hell did he cost 25 mill?!

Absolutely USELESS!!!!!!!!!!

where ever you heard that from was bollox!

For barca he played de jong's role never leaving his half moving sideways and giving the ball to xavi, inesta and messi. I dont know where this idea came from that he is like a lampard or gerrard ill never know.

He did at Barca, but I'm sure his purchase was defended as not being a defensive midfielder, if you looked at his time pre-Barca (monaco?) where he was more attacking.

At times, he can clearly pick a pass, but he's just too slow

For Yaya to be effective you need movement and attacking players, also you need him to be playing in midfield moving sideways across the pitch covering the attackers. We have milner on the right wing and silva on the left wing they both have no pace and silva likes to come inside. milner is about as a attacking as a teddybear we had no players running in behind so how can he pick a pass. He has no clue how to play center forward thats why it looks like he is running around not giving a fuck, i think you all are looking for some one to blame or just dont want to slag mancini for his negative tactics that hindered all our players from playing football.

I'm happy to slag Mancini and the tactics, but this is the Yaya slagging thread.

I don't get the 'he was playing centre forward' bit. If he was, how come everytime Tevez got the ball, there was no one up in support, let alone in front of him?

I'd say we had barry and nige deep, silva and milner wider/supposed to be supporting tevez, with yaya sort of in the hole. But he was never there and if he was, perhaps he could have stopped scholes doing what he wanted

[The Original Special One]

Garbage tonight

Beeks (Still on a fucking bus into town)

He seems to believe he's our Steven Gerrard/Frank Lampard, with his rampaging bursts on goal.

Its fair to say that he disrupted Tevez and Silva, who were always better placed.
Because he always ended up being surrounded by three United players.

He'll learn.

[Alioune DVToure]

Here's how I rated proceedings from where I was sat. I was pretty pissed by kick-off so don't be too harsh on my assessments. As the whole game was a complete non-event, it's hard to be either critical or positive. What I will say is that Milner looked lost, Tevez looked unfit and Yaya looked knackered by the hour mark. Least competitive derby of my lifetime.

My Ratings:

Hart - N/A
Boateng - N/A
Toure - N/A
Kompany - N/A
Zabaleta - N/A
Barry - N/A
Milner - Crap
Yaya - Crap
De Jong - N/A
Silva - N/A
Tevez - Crap.

Ade should've been on for Tevez at the hour mark. FACT

[carl_feedthegoat]

Yaya is the real mercenary in our team...I could have smashed my Plasma today with his fucking crap performance..apart from walking around and getting dispossesed time and time again he was also a greedy cunt and Tevez had a right pop at him for being a greedy cunt.

He should be dropped till he can actually be bothered.

[petrov]

you don't get anything off the Rags if your carrying passengers. Yaya did ok tonight, not great but not nearly as awful as some would like to make out. He got about, did alot of chasing down. He wasn't great on the ball but neither was any of our up top players because the game was just too congested, as much as we nulified the Rags, they did the same too us, only better. Yaya was no better or worse than anyone on the pitch, except Boateng (who is taking a while to settle in.)

[hyper]

Silva didnt have a good game either....Shall we make a another thread calling him wank as well?

you're off your fucking tree mate..I thought Silva was one of the best players on the pitch tonight..which to be honest..wasn't hard

How anyone could pick Silva out for having a bad game I'll never know. Some of the most overblown overreactions on this board I've seen in a long time, and fuck me there's been some bad ones!

[CityGer]

Praised him on Sunday for what I thought was his best performance for us but he was diabolical last night and he was just as bad against Wolves. Lethargic, slow, no desire to win the ball, selish when he did have it and appeared to me that he didn't give a fuck about the outcome of the game.

Getting very worried about his attitude and apparent lack of desire.

[Crossie]

Id love Yaya to come and live at my house for a week, I'd show him what a normal persons life is like, and give him 7 days of earache for being a fucking waste of wanky dangley space.

Its even more annoying because we have seen him play well, dominate the midfield, maybe once or twice but he CAN do it. He just has no motivation what so ever.

He needs to come face to face with a few fans in the next few days who can give him abit of a [strike]fucking roasing[/strike] pep talk.

[Dubaimancityfan]

i thought boateng was worse than him tonight but hey ho.

He was, but at least you didnt make a thread to attack him

Silva didnt have a good game either....Shall we make a another thread calling him wank as well?

Apart from Barry and Kolo..IMO no one else played much better than Yaya tonight...Mancini set the stall out not to lose this game.

I think this says it all. Absolutely no reason to single Yaya out. He had a great match against WBA and maybe he's does not have the stamina to play 2 high tempo matches in 4 days.
Blame Mancini for keeping him on for 90 minutes. I would have liked to see Ade brought on in the last 15-20 minutes and if Manc was too chicken to do that, then Paddy should have come on. We know he can steady the midfield and he can always find the penetrating pass forward that can result in something.

[Wooders]

he must have got frustrated when he did those gut busting runs into the UTD area and found absolutely no-one to pass to
He's used to having messi, xavi and iniesta getting forward and supporting him

[Lees Alter Ego]

On the ball he comes to life. Love it when he goes on one of this runs as people cant get near it. Off the ball he doesnt put enough effort in. Mancini obv recognises this as he took him off against Arsenal when we had 10 men which, if he was this superb defensive mid player (or box to box, what ever you want to call him), would be a stupid decision. Milner got frustrated at him that day and made his thoughts clear and rightly so. The lad is clearly talented, we have seen glimpses of this at West Brom and a few early season games, but his effort on the pitch is a joke. Cant just put effort in when you get the ball and do fuck all when you don't have it. He wasnt unfit last night, he didnt brake sweat!

[gaudy]

he must have got frustrated when he did those gut busting runs into the UTD area and found absolutely no-one to pass to
He's used to having messi, xavi and iniesta getting forward and supporting him

thats funny because he had plenty of chances to pass the ball on one of his pointless runs but desided it would be better to take more out of it and lose it,hence the bollicking he got of the players........guess you missed that!
please dont say his shit performance is because city arent the barca he used to play with!

[Wooders]

you think the rest of the players put on a barca like display and its toures problem alone that we didn't hammer them ?

[gaudy]

you think the rest of the players put on a barca like display and its toures problem alone that we didn't hammer them ?

where did i say it was toures problem alone we didnt hammer them?