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MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
No he started 10 games, with 3 clean sheets and 12 conceded. I think the games you mention suited him because we defended a bit deeper to limit space in behind and he did well generally. He was less good in games against Watford and Brighton when there was more onus on us to push up the pitch. I have no idea how good Mina can be for us but I find the insistence by some people that he's absolutely amazing and we looked better with him playing last year to be weird. He was - at best - decent last year. He can be given plenty of leeway because he's quite young, new to the league and had injuries, but there was definitely plenty to be a little bit concerned about in his games last year.
It did, although I think the game he's talking about is actually when they got beat 5-4 by Levante.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Just googled it and it definitely didn't happen, but yeah that Levante one did.
Legend Barry Horne
Player Valuation: £6m
This seems bang on to me and completely agree with it
Could of sworn I remember reading about it him playing in a game Barca got tonked in, maybe it wasn't Villarreal then mate, saying that though, I have been known too be wrong on many an occasion.
Ah yeah, they beat Villarreal 5-1 the week before.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Irrational?. So in other words we're all wrong and you're right?
City away was his poorest game and he wasn't that great in it. But it seems to me that you are judging him based on that one game you saw him in, away from home against arguably the best club team in the world who frequently make a habit of dismantling teams defences. He was excellent in the away games against Liverpool and Chelsea.
He was injured for large parts of the season. I think he only started around 8 games on the bench and came on in 5 of those. In those games he was either returning from injury or was part of squad rotation over the Christmas period (interesting that you don't mention Spurs at home, a game he sat out). Do you think Silva should replace a partnership that had been doing well to bring and risk somebody returning from injury? No he shouldn't. Mina took Zouma's place for the Chelsea away game and didn't get his place back for 4 games when he was rested over the Xmas period.
I don't know about his time at Barca as I don't watch Spanish football.
Hopefully he will stay injury free and get more accustomed to the Premier league. We agree on that at least
Legend Barry Horne
Player Valuation: £6m
Believe you're thinking of the Levante game - more dodgy articles on the subject:
The Three Words That Help To Explain How Barcelona Managed To Make A $20M Profit On Yerry Mina
Trying to work out how Barcelona came to turn a profit of over $20m on a player - Yerry Mina - who was only signed in January? Mina only played 377 minutes last season for Barca and very few of them very well. How, by doing nothing this summer, Barcelona turned a potential loss into a huge profit.
www.forbes.com
Legend Barry Horne
Player Valuation: £6m
I'll refer you to Jimmy K's post above which is seeing reality in my view. Right - will step back now from this topic...Irrational?. So in other words we're all wrong and you're right?
City away was his poorest game and he wasn't that great in it. But it seems to me that you are judging him based on that one game you saw him in, away from home against arguably the best club team in the world who frequently make a habit of dismantling teams defences. He was excellent in the away games against Liverpool and Chelsea.
He was injured for large parts of the season. I think he only started around 8 games on the bench and came on in 5 of those. In those games he was either returning from injury or was part of squad rotation over the Christmas period (interesting that you don't mention Spurs at home, a game he sat out). Do you think Silva should replace a partnership that had been doing well to bring and risk somebody returning from injury? No he shouldn't. Mina took Zouma's place for the Chelsea away game and didn't get his place back for 4 games when he was rested over the Xmas period.
I don't know about his time at Barca as I don't watch Spanish football.
Hopefully he will stay injury free and get more accustomed to the Premier league. We agree on that at least
Believe you're thinking of the Levante game - more dodgy articles on the subject:
The Three Words That Help To Explain How Barcelona Managed To Make A $20M Profit On Yerry Mina
Trying to work out how Barcelona came to turn a profit of over $20m on a player - Yerry Mina - who was only signed in January? Mina only played 377 minutes last season for Barca and very few of them very well. How, by doing nothing this summer, Barcelona turned a potential loss into a huge profit.
Cheers mate, I knew there was one game where they had conceded a fair few that Mina played in, and he got a torrid time of the Barca fans.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
I don't have a problem with Mina being a regular starter. However I don't like the idea of anybody being a cast iron first choice because they need to be kept on their toes. So we need 3 quality CBs and a young back up. We need at least 4 quality attacking players for the 3 positions, and we need at least 4 quality midfielders for those 3 positions. Again with young back up players like Davies and DCL.
At the moment we're lacking a 3rd quality defender and a fourth quality forward player, preferably a left footed right winger. get those in and we're well set for the season ahead.
Nobody is saying that Mina has to be a guaranteed starter next season. The issue is, that article you linked, and by all accounts endorsed, was basically saying that mina had been found out by the premier, that we were now looking to offload him, and United were being praised for dodging a bullet. That's why you've had this reaction.
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