Comments on: MAN CITY 4 – 0 Aston Villa – PLAYER RATINGS

By: Eduardo Kanjkov

Eduardo Kanjkov — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:39:27 +0000

No disrespect to last 2 goals in the game but win was in a bag with Edin’s two goals scored earlier. Luckily Pelle has good understanding to what he may lose if Edin goes somewhere else.
And that is why he will try to convince him to stay.

By: Blue Bullet

Blue Bullet — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:33:59 +0000

I hope you’re not aiming that at me in anyway Jimski, as your comment is wildly inaccurate if you are.

By: Blue Bullet

Blue Bullet — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:28:39 +0000

Haha, I knew you’d know it word for word Alph

By: Alphie-Izzett

Alphie-Izzett — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:27:37 +0000

Agreed that Barry, at his best, was a more acomplished player than Garcia.

Aslo agree with your Winston Churchill (almost) quote.

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”

Substitute ‘Dzeko’ for ‘Russia’ and that probably sums up our Edin nicely. Perhaps the ‘key ‘ is that you have to have something a bit special about you to be there in just the right place, time after time, to score nearly one goal per two games, at the very highest level of football, and yet still be percieved by many to be a clumsy, lazy missfit!

By: Alphie-Izzett

Alphie-Izzett — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:18:02 +0000

When Garcia has a poor game you slate him VfaB, when he plays a really tight and important game for us you damn with these comments, which I have read so often I think you just cut and paste it! He was not superfluous, he was everything that he was supposed to be and simply doesn’t deserve the criticism.

As for Edin Dzeko, the best you can say is that he plodded on! There have been a few games when I have felt deeply disappointed in his contribution, but usually what I find is that I hold my head in anguish at the occasional trapped ball that travels further than I could have kicked it, the skied shot that comes down somewhere along Princess Street with icicles on it, or the soft topple to the deck followed by anguished waggling of his arms, but this is transitory. I simply know that he gets into great positions and I know that he always will. I know that he will fail to take a decent opportunity and then bag a great goal and what I know more than anything else is that he will be where he needs to be to tap it in. He knows where he wants the ball and we have the players; Yaya, Merlin, Zaba, Jesus, Jimmy, Aleks, who can put it there.

In the list of ‘minutes of play per goals’ scored in PL history he is in 6th place with a goal every 135 minutes. Kun heads that list, Teary Enry is second; Edin has scored 46 goals in 107 games for City, 9 in the last 10 PL games. In any other club in this land of ours he would be legendary, he is twice the player that the Goat was and does it at the highest level, something Shaun Goater never managed; all his great seasons were played in the second level getting us promoted but whenever he comes back to City he is lauded and rightly so.

As the youth of today might put it in their succinct ether-babble:

FFS what does Edin have to do to gain a bit of respect?

Alph