Re: How can Man City strengthen (their XI) ?

by Mr Nick09 Mon May 12, 2014 9:29 pm

we would have to be real dumb to sell coentrao now

by urbaNRoots Mon May 12, 2014 10:45 pm

Which LB would be an improvement on Clichy/Kolarov? Not really hard to answer for example Monreal who is second choice at Arsenal would easily displace both of them. There are so many options if you're looking for someone who's only better than Kolarov/Clichy and not world class.

by Art Morte Mon May 12, 2014 10:51 pm

Damn, I had no idea people considered both Kolarov and Clichy this average... I thought especially Kolarov had a very good season. Played in 29 PL games, scored one goal and provided eight assists (according to Fantasy stats) and didn't look bad defensively, imo.

by chemicalboy99 Mon May 12, 2014 10:56 pm

urbaNRoots wrote:Which LB would be an improvement on Clichy/Kolarov? Not really hard to answer for example Monreal who is second choice at Arsenal would easily displace both of them.

Go on then........I'll bite....

What's the punchline?

by Swanhends Tue May 13, 2014 12:48 am

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:To answer your question Art.

Neither Clichy or Kolarov are good enough so they need a LB.

They need a DM because Fernandinho and Yaya are too poor defensively at CL level.

They need another AM because Nasri is not good enough to be a starter for a team that wants to win the CL.

For City they are the same stage at Juventus, they can stand still and win the league but that's not good enough they need to be in the latter stages of the CL.

To do this they need a ball winner like Javi Martinez, a quality LB, a CB worthy of being Kompany's partner lol and a quality playmaker to dovetail off Silva.

Don't agree with any of this lol

1) Nasri not good enough to be a starter for a CL team?.....Goran "I don't have a *bleep* twitter" Pandev won a CL as a starter Laughing

2) Fernandinho is fine defensively, he basically covers the whole middle alone (yaya: smoking

)
3) Clichy isn't great but he's good enough, see point #1 but replace Pandev with Cristian Chivu

by Ganso Tue May 13, 2014 12:50 am

---------------Hart-----------
Zabs---Kom--New CB-New LB
---------Yaya------Fer---------
-Silva-------------Nasri/new LW-
------Aguero----Dzeko---------

by Vibe Tue May 13, 2014 1:10 am

Anyone who thinks City need a new LB should start actually watching games.

by BarrileteCosmico Tue May 13, 2014 1:13 am

I watch City games and can attest that Clichy is sometimes retarded and Kolarov only provides the occasional godly cross. Neither is particularly boss and the LB is a weak link for the team.

Then again nearly every team's weak link is their LB so...

by BarcaLearning Tue May 13, 2014 8:26 am

I think Man C's left side is a bit weak going forward when its Clichy and not Kolarov playing, obviously they rotate a lot I guess Pelle want Clichy to be mroe defensive in some games, but I love Kolarov going forward hes awesome not to mention the set pieces. In the right they got Silva, Navas and Zabaleta so its all good. So I think one top left side player would be good since Nasri isnt always good there.

Not sure their CBs are that convincing still, another top CB would be ideal.

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