Wishlist Yaya Toure

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Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, 32, will turn down a move to Inter Milan this summer, because he wants to stay in the Premier League.(Mirror)

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Rather have another belgian than him.

You'll regret saying that once they open their mouth. [emoji1]

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Only if the deal would include a time machine.

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15 hours ago, Robguima said:

Only if the deal would include a time machine.

So we can go back and get Maka & Essien to show this clown how it's done?  

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9 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

So we can go back and get Maka & Essien to show this clown how it's done?  

Fuck yeah!

Although maka was indeed a beast back then, not sure he'd have a place in the modern game.

Essien, however, is the very epitome of the modern game - prob my fav Chelsea player before his sad injuries...

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11 hours ago, LDN Blue said:

So we can go back and get Maka & Essien to show this clown how it's done?  

Haha, was about to say that they could keep Toure and just give us the time machine.

Prime Essien and prime Drogba. That's all we would have needed to squash the rest of the league

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20 hours ago, Robguima said:

Although maka was indeed a beast back then, not sure he'd have a place in the modern game.

 

Interesting.. Can I ask why? In comparison to Yaya's effect (to keep it on topic lol)

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On April 7, 2016 at 6:40 AM, LDN Blue said:

Interesting.. Can I ask why? In comparison to Yaya's effect (to keep it on topic lol)

Heh this goes back to my arg against mikel... Maka was obviously different from mikel, but their roles were similarly limited. Their range of passing in particular was very similar. Maka defended 10x better though.

yaya is more similar to essien, but not as complete as essien was. It's difficult to find something essien was poor at-perhaps aerial duels?

i just don't see the top teams employing limited players anymore - a pure defensive dm as maka was.

plenty of rounded essiens though.