Nacho could be starting ahead of Bony - Mooney
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Please sir stop posting only links
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Re: Nacho could be starting ahead of Bony - Mooney
This Arguero dude!!! Just after I saved up to purchase him, he got injured.
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Re: Nacho could be starting ahead of Bony - Mooney
You for do Wenger and move on but because he score 5 goals last week you rush.lolbalo wrote:This Arguero dude!!! Just after I saved up to purchase him, he got injured.
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I apologize. I thought it was preferable to posting the full text, and saves clutter on CE. No vex.opine wrote:Please sir stop posting only links
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The mods and admins are actually against just posting links.Polly wrote:I apologize. I thought it was preferable to posting the full text, and saves clutter on CE. No vex.opine wrote:Please sir stop posting only links
They can even lock your thread ,just because of that.
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Re: Nacho could be starting ahead of Bony - Mooney
Bony has played the role of typical African parvenu. Weighed down by wallets, as close to useless as possible. Bitterly disappointing. Had openly declared Bony the next African great. Pull ya frigging finger out.
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kajifu wrote:You for do Wenger and move on but because he score 5 goals last week you rush.lolbalo wrote:This Arguero dude!!! Just after I saved up to purchase him, he got injured.
Some funtasy players racked up over 80 points on Arguero alone. I wasn't about to Wenger on 80 freaking points.
If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies. -- Helen Castle
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Aguero injury gives Wilfried Bony a chance to impress at Manchester City
ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti and Stuart Holden reveal their picks for the Premier League top four this season.
It's going to be a crucial couple of weeks for Manchester City. With the news that Sergio Aguero will be absent through injury for around a month, the club have been left a little short on their striking options. Many questioned whether it was the right decision to go into the season with only two senior forwards, but manager Manuel Pellegrini was willing to put his trust in those available to him.
Behind the Argentine, he was confident that Wilfried Bony and youngster Kelechi Iheanacho would be able to step up and prove their worth to the team. In an absolute crisis, he's also got Raheem Sterling, who can fill in as the focal point of the attack.
It's been a problem that's plagued the club since the departure of Alvaro Negredo in the summer of 2014. Through the last Christmas period, following injuries to Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic, the Blues were forced to play a system without a recognised striker. James Milner worked hard, but it was clear he was a square peg in a round hole. Pellegrini decided he needed more options and moved for Bony that January.
With two forwards departing and none arriving last summer, and with only Iheanacho promoted from the Elite Development Squad to cover, City are again facing a predicament. When the club opted not to replace Dzeko or Jovetic, it was unforeseen that two months into the season Bony still wouldn't have found his feet.
How well Pellegrini's team cope with the absence of their star striker -- along with a number of other key players as an "injury crisis" takes hold -- will depend largely on whether the Ivorian can settle. He's surely got a run of games where he will start and has the opportunity to show the quality he did when departing Swansea.
In many ways, Bony has been unfortunate since arriving at the Etihad. He was never a panic buy in reaction to last winter's striker problem like some suspected, but rather a more considered choice. He was to come in as the fourth option, with a playing style different to what was already at the club.
It seems most likely that he was originally meant to partner Aguero in a 4-4-2 setup. However, City's continued poor form when he returned from international duty at the African Nations' Cup in Equatorial Guinea meant that Pellegrini changed styles fairly quickly. By the time Bony had recovered from playing an intensive schedule with Ivory Coast and he was ready to play more frequently, the manager had gone to one up front.
That's the system that's been employed this season too, and when Aguero is fit, there isn't anybody getting into the team ahead of him. In that respect, the fixtures against Bournemouth and Manchester United offer Bony a real chance to impress.
Players signed in the January transfer window can often find it difficult to settle in their new team. In the past, City haven't been particularly keen on making big-money moves in the winter, but it was so blindingly obvious that something needed to be done last Christmas that their hand was almost forced. There was rumoured interest in their target striker from other top-flight clubs and Bony was the Premier League's top scorer for the calendar year 2014.
International duty and an injury in the final few weeks of the last campaign pretty much wrote the Ivorian off, giving him two starts and a few brief substitute appearances. It was hoped that, with a preseason behind him, he would be able to kick on and build on his two City goals from 2014-15.
But it wouldn't work out that way. He was unlucky to contract an illness that kept him out of the club's tours of Australia and Vietnam. It meant that when he lined up to start against West Brom for the opening match, he basically had no preseason to work his way into fitness.
The Ivorian hasn't caught a break since arriving for an initial £25million ten months ago and his recent displays have shown it. In the 2-1 defeat to Juventus, he snatched at a couple of efforts that if he was still full of his Swansea confidence he would surely have at least hit the target with.
Pellegrini, knowing Bony needs to get off the mark for this season quickly, gave him 25 minutes in the 6-1 rout of Newcastle, but he didn't look close to scoring. Iheanacho, who was on the pitch half that time, was the complete opposite.
Whether it's a lack of game-time, injuries, international duty, illness or just bad luck, Bony needs to put it all behind him and take this opportunity with both hands. It would be a big setback if, in a few weeks' time, it's the youngster who is starting ahead of him once Aguero returns.
ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti and Stuart Holden reveal their picks for the Premier League top four this season.
It's going to be a crucial couple of weeks for Manchester City. With the news that Sergio Aguero will be absent through injury for around a month, the club have been left a little short on their striking options. Many questioned whether it was the right decision to go into the season with only two senior forwards, but manager Manuel Pellegrini was willing to put his trust in those available to him.
Behind the Argentine, he was confident that Wilfried Bony and youngster Kelechi Iheanacho would be able to step up and prove their worth to the team. In an absolute crisis, he's also got Raheem Sterling, who can fill in as the focal point of the attack.
It's been a problem that's plagued the club since the departure of Alvaro Negredo in the summer of 2014. Through the last Christmas period, following injuries to Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic, the Blues were forced to play a system without a recognised striker. James Milner worked hard, but it was clear he was a square peg in a round hole. Pellegrini decided he needed more options and moved for Bony that January.
With two forwards departing and none arriving last summer, and with only Iheanacho promoted from the Elite Development Squad to cover, City are again facing a predicament. When the club opted not to replace Dzeko or Jovetic, it was unforeseen that two months into the season Bony still wouldn't have found his feet.
How well Pellegrini's team cope with the absence of their star striker -- along with a number of other key players as an "injury crisis" takes hold -- will depend largely on whether the Ivorian can settle. He's surely got a run of games where he will start and has the opportunity to show the quality he did when departing Swansea.
In many ways, Bony has been unfortunate since arriving at the Etihad. He was never a panic buy in reaction to last winter's striker problem like some suspected, but rather a more considered choice. He was to come in as the fourth option, with a playing style different to what was already at the club.
It seems most likely that he was originally meant to partner Aguero in a 4-4-2 setup. However, City's continued poor form when he returned from international duty at the African Nations' Cup in Equatorial Guinea meant that Pellegrini changed styles fairly quickly. By the time Bony had recovered from playing an intensive schedule with Ivory Coast and he was ready to play more frequently, the manager had gone to one up front.
That's the system that's been employed this season too, and when Aguero is fit, there isn't anybody getting into the team ahead of him. In that respect, the fixtures against Bournemouth and Manchester United offer Bony a real chance to impress.
Players signed in the January transfer window can often find it difficult to settle in their new team. In the past, City haven't been particularly keen on making big-money moves in the winter, but it was so blindingly obvious that something needed to be done last Christmas that their hand was almost forced. There was rumoured interest in their target striker from other top-flight clubs and Bony was the Premier League's top scorer for the calendar year 2014.
International duty and an injury in the final few weeks of the last campaign pretty much wrote the Ivorian off, giving him two starts and a few brief substitute appearances. It was hoped that, with a preseason behind him, he would be able to kick on and build on his two City goals from 2014-15.
But it wouldn't work out that way. He was unlucky to contract an illness that kept him out of the club's tours of Australia and Vietnam. It meant that when he lined up to start against West Brom for the opening match, he basically had no preseason to work his way into fitness.
The Ivorian hasn't caught a break since arriving for an initial £25million ten months ago and his recent displays have shown it. In the 2-1 defeat to Juventus, he snatched at a couple of efforts that if he was still full of his Swansea confidence he would surely have at least hit the target with.
Pellegrini, knowing Bony needs to get off the mark for this season quickly, gave him 25 minutes in the 6-1 rout of Newcastle, but he didn't look close to scoring. Iheanacho, who was on the pitch half that time, was the complete opposite.
Whether it's a lack of game-time, injuries, international duty, illness or just bad luck, Bony needs to put it all behind him and take this opportunity with both hands. It would be a big setback if, in a few weeks' time, it's the youngster who is starting ahead of him once Aguero returns.
"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?“ --Chuck Coonradt