Cocacolajojo wrote:The one thing I'd hold against Bony, is that I don't think that he is the type of player we need to win the CL under the current trends of high pressing and short passing play. The target man is too slow, to immobile and can't take part in the high pressing an entire game because of the weight he's carrying. Well Tevez is the exception but he always is. Barca's forward three is more like what you need nowadays. Big players have to be like Christiano Ronaldo for the time being, not like Zlatan Ibrahimovic. That can change of course but it doesn't seem like it will in the short term at least.
Was Dzeko really much better than he at fitting this mould?
MOTD showed how much Bony contributed and were praising his partnership with Sterling, as I was, and I am sure others. They were all drooling over his play. How can there be such discrepancy? This is not a disagreement about one play or a referee's decision this is about quality of performance. It does not make sense.
I'm still at a loss as to what the evidence is from yesterday as to why he was so poor. His pace getting to the pass that he flicked on to Sterling? Okay, but he made the play that led to the goal. Talk about nit picking. The quality of the opposition? Okay, but no one is saying he is our #1 striker. He's the backup. As they pointed to he gives us a completely different type of player instead of Kun. All this sounds like a personal grudge or something which is unfortunate, but it does not mean the debate needs to end.
carl and Doomie apparently want Nacho to play, but that's a lot to bank on someone who has just barely gotten first team football, and we are a top team that does not want to rely on such a move. Critics of the selection are also not perhaps considering the effects of dropping Bony already for Nacho on team morale and confidence in the manager. As a result, this just not going to happen at this point unless we start doing poorly with Bony for long enough while Kun is out. It's whinging when we full well know the change will not happen, nor would I suspect most top managers to do so either.
My main point is that if a striker is not scoring goals then what use are they if they don't do much else? That was the definition of Dzeko, and meanwhile this mythological striker that we could have other than Ieanacho is not easy to find in a world where such players come at a huge premium (see Martial's fee) as there are really not that many out there right now.
