I started a thread the other day about Besic replacing Barry, but, err, maybe it should've been, "Which Attacking Midfielder Should Play Alongside Barry And Besic".
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GlosBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
Can't help thinking the BBC put this as a major story on their website as a bit of a joke at our manager's expense? He is good though obviously...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35247911
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35247911
Lots of smart passing yesterday. And he's been quite solid most of this season in my opinion. I seem to remember reading he consistently tops the charts for distance run per game, week after week.
That's where the argument "his legs have gone" falls down. His pace may lack, but he was never the fastest anyway was he?
All in all, still decent.
As much as I distrust media, I wouldn't read too much into that other than praise for GB.
His defensive stats for the festive period where he played the full 90 minutes in 4 games within 12 days
city - tackles 2, interceptions 2, clearances 2
spurs - tackles 4, interceptions 2, clearances 4, blocked shots 3
Stoke - tackles 4, interceptions 1, clearances 1, blocked shots 2
Newcastle - tackles 5, interceptions 1, clearances 2
Not bad for a guy about to turn 35 especially as he managed a glorious assist as well.
city - tackles 2, interceptions 2, clearances 2
spurs - tackles 4, interceptions 2, clearances 4, blocked shots 3
Stoke - tackles 4, interceptions 1, clearances 1, blocked shots 2
Newcastle - tackles 5, interceptions 1, clearances 2
Not bad for a guy about to turn 35 especially as he managed a glorious assist as well.
Sennott Street
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Gough and Durham taking the mickey out of the manager for this.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
All is well with the world then....because if that pair of
flip-flops told me today was Thursday, I'd buy a newspaper just to be sure. Clueless wum and the dopiest sounding presenter on the station.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
When Barry signed for us I spoke to a couple of City supporting mates ( well, people I know anyway ) and they were gutted that City were letting him go.
I was a bit surpruised at that at the time, but was told that you only appreciate him when you see him week in, week out and even then, not everyone gets how good he is because he's not flashy and doesn't have a fancy foreign name.
I spoke to one of them today, and he's still gutted. Happy days.
I was a bit surpruised at that at the time, but was told that you only appreciate him when you see him week in, week out and even then, not everyone gets how good he is because he's not flashy and doesn't have a fancy foreign name.
I spoke to one of them today, and he's still gutted. Happy days.
Guardian seems to think that Martinez was a touch effusive in his praise 
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/07/the-fiver-everton-gareth-barry
When, at the peak of his career, Barry signed for City, his new boss, Mark Hughes, claimed that he was “widely acknowledged as one of the top midfielders in the Premier League”, which was perhaps a little enthusiastic but not downright ridiculous. Hughes’s successor, Roberto Mancini, went with: “He’s a good man, a clever man, both on and off the pitch.” This raises the possibility of attributes being in some way geographically-restricted – as if someone might have unusually fine eyesight but only when in kitchens, or be extraordinarily good at ballroom dancing, though only when not in ballrooms – but otherwise seems effusive without toppling into lunatic excess.
Indeed a couple of years ago Martínez got it about right when he said of Barry that “at the moment I don’t think there is another English midfielder of his type who brings what he brings”. Sadly he has since decided to cut the vital phrases “at the moment”, “midfielder of his type” and “brings what he brings”, and replace them with “in the entire history of all humanity”, “footballer of any kind” and “is anywhere near as good”, respectively.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/07/the-fiver-everton-gareth-barry
When, at the peak of his career, Barry signed for City, his new boss, Mark Hughes, claimed that he was “widely acknowledged as one of the top midfielders in the Premier League”, which was perhaps a little enthusiastic but not downright ridiculous. Hughes’s successor, Roberto Mancini, went with: “He’s a good man, a clever man, both on and off the pitch.” This raises the possibility of attributes being in some way geographically-restricted – as if someone might have unusually fine eyesight but only when in kitchens, or be extraordinarily good at ballroom dancing, though only when not in ballrooms – but otherwise seems effusive without toppling into lunatic excess.
Indeed a couple of years ago Martínez got it about right when he said of Barry that “at the moment I don’t think there is another English midfielder of his type who brings what he brings”. Sadly he has since decided to cut the vital phrases “at the moment”, “midfielder of his type” and “brings what he brings”, and replace them with “in the entire history of all humanity”, “footballer of any kind” and “is anywhere near as good”, respectively.
Honestly thought last season was a season too far for him.....hope he continues to prove me wrong.
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