Kevin de Bruyne

[Essien19 1,415]

13 minutes ago, MCM4PR3Z said:

This terrible player has 17 PL assists this season so far, despite being pulled a row behind his normal spot by Pep in favour of Silva. De Bruyne has the best passing game in the world and is clearly a class above Silva, although Pep clearly likes Silva more, as he is his only #10. But I understand the decision if you wanna play both players, Silva just waits for the ball to do something, while De Bruyne runs his arse off all game long. So De Bruyne fits better as CM than Silva. But both are CAM.

De Bruyne is the best crosser in the league atm, his deliveries into the box annoy the fuck out of me, Aguero is so good with his timed runs and Jesus just looks like he continues where Aguero's regressed. Guardiola is the reason why City have fallen off a cliff...

[nyikolajevics 2,572]

23 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

 Guardiola is the reason why City have fallen off a cliff...

 

I don't think so. They have an old, weakened squad, especially their defensive players: Sagna, Kompany, Zabaleta, Clichy, Kolarov, Yaya, Fernandinho are all over 32 and most of them have suffered several injuries in their carrers. They need a couple of new fullbacks, centre backs and defensive midfielders. Their attacking style with Sané, Sterling, De Bruyne and Gabi Jesus looks fresh, fast and hungry, with a better defense City will be a tough opponent next year.

[Essien19 1,415]

16 minutes ago, nyikolajevics said:

 

I don't think so. They have an old, weakened squad, especially their defensive players: Sagna, Kompany, Zabaleta, Clichy, Kolarov, Yaya, Fernandinho are all over 32 and most of them have suffered several injuries in their carrers. They need a couple of new fullbacks, centre backs and defensive midfielders. Their attacking style with Sané, Sterling, De Bruyne and Gabi Jesus looks fresh, fast and hungry, with a better defense City will be a tough opponent next year.

They played the semis in the Champions-League before Guardiola came and worked his magic with the ~150 mil. he spent. Most of Guardiola's buys have been huge failures, just take a look at that poor excuse of a goalie. Guardiola is too arrogant to be a bit more pragmatic, he can't defend, even if his life would depend on it. Don't forget, this season they will be trophieless, last season Pellegrino won them a cup. Monaco took them out with ease and when taking City as a whole into account, it really shouldn't have happened.

Of course he's not a bad coach, he's just the opposite extreme of Mourinho. No doubt that Guardiola will go big again in the transfer market and they will end up being more competitive. But i doubt that he'll win them the Premiership or even the Champions-League.

Agree to disagree!

[nyikolajevics 2,572]

4 hours ago, Essien19 said:

They played the semis in the Champions-League before Guardiola came and worked his magic with the ~150 mil. he spent. Most of Guardiola's buys have been huge failures, just take a look at that poor excuse of a goalie. Guardiola is too arrogant to be a bit more pragmatic, he can't defend, even if his life would depend on it. Don't forget, this season they will be trophieless, last season Pellegrino won them a cup. Monaco took them out with ease and when taking City as a whole into account, it really shouldn't have happened.

Of course he's not a bad coach, he's just the opposite extreme of Mourinho. No doubt that Guardiola will go big again in the transfer market and they will end up being more competitive. But i doubt that he'll win them the Premiership or even the Champions-League.

Agree to disagree!

What Guardiola started is not a one year project. This year he made the foundation of the new Manchester City: he signed some gifted young players(Gabriel Jesus, Sané, Stones) and build them in the starting eleven and he tried several different formations and tried many players in many positions. This summer he will get rid of players he doesn't need and sign other younger ones. They didn't win anything this season, but if Pep keeps on building this team they can be one of the best clubs in Europe. 
 
Between 2008 and 2016, City have never been really good. They won two PL-titles and Fa-cups, League Cup aswell but no one ever thought that they are really good. Guardiola can change that. He didn't made an instant impact but with so many old and bad players like Jesus Navas or Clichy it takes time.

[Thor 2,392]

He would be perfect for us right now. Provides the physicality Cesc doesn't, and matches him in the passing and skills area. 

[Adnane 1,101]

Which physicality ? He almost systematically loses the ball under pressure. 

His strength is his vision and passing accuracy/weight, maybe the best in the world at that, when he plays one two touches of the ball he is great, if he needs to retain the ball for his team he's systematically useless.

Plus De Bruyne on a double pivot would be suicide. 

[Special Juan 27,419]

Circle seated dressing room, double mirrored tunnel, fans taking selfies when the players cant see and Pep losing the fucking plot.

Fuck off City.

[Tautvix 1,321]

Say whatever you want but De Bruyne is nowhere near level some people imagine he is.

[ja1 1,166]

What level is he at then? He's a very good if not world class AM/midfielder, who even last season (imo not at his best) had the joint second most amount of assists in a PL season ever.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

5 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Circle seated dressing room, double mirrored tunnel, fans taking selfies when the players cant see and Pep losing the fucking plot.

Fuck off City.

LOL?

[Special Juan 27,419]

Just now, xPetrCechx said:

LOL?

Double reflective glass. The fans can see the players, yet on the other side the players can only see themselves in the mirror.

[Yeboii 1,844]

21 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Double reflective glass. The fans can see the players, yet on the other side the players can only see themselves in the mirror.

That is just creepy.

[grotenbees 15]

very quiet here

[Yeboii 1,844]

5 hours ago, grotenbees said:

very quiet here

As it should be.

Nobody cares about him anymore here. It is a pity we sold him for peanuts, but we still have 2 prems after he left and he hasn't won anything.
Really good player. However, there are plenty of them around.

[Weckerz 3,781]

14 hours ago, Yeboii said:

As it should be.

Nobody cares about him anymore here. It is a pity we sold him for peanuts, but we still have 2 prems after he left and he hasn't won anything.
Really good player. However, there are plenty of them around.

He's more than a good player, he's the best striker of the ball in the Prem since Beckham. His ceiling is as high as Hazards.

Fuck-up of the decade selling him really. Pointless comment from the guy you quoted though, true

[MCM4PR3Z 411]

De Bruyne is at the same level as Aaron Ramsey, Jordan Henderson, Danny Drinkwater, Schneiderlin, Davy Klaassen, Barkley, etc.

We have many better players than him. Fabregas>De Bruyne, Kanté>De Bruyne, Bakayoko>De Bruyne. Oh no, he wouldn't even start in the team here. Good thing he moved too a weaker team for playing time.

[Leif 6,006]

You find players like Hazard once every 10 years. You find players like De Bruyne once every 20. 

But, I'd rather have Hazard, even if De Bruyne's rarer. It's like I'd rather have a Mewtwo card, even if a shiny Charizard's rarer. 

[LDN Blue 7,903]

16 hours ago, MCM4PR3Z said:

De Bruyne is at the same level as Aaron Ramsey, Jordan Henderson, Danny Drinkwater, Schneiderlin, Davy Klaassen, Barkley, etc.

 

I want whatever you're smoking bruh!