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[hellava_tough]

The one thing that struck a chord with me was in a recent interview when he described his arrival there...he said he looked around the dressing room and all he saw were winners.
I sometimes think that's what we lack, a seasoned player probably about 30yrs old now who has enjoyed success at the very top level. I don't know who but I'm sure the influence someone like that could have on players like Son and Alli prior to a big game would only be to the team's advantage.

Gareth Bale would be awesome for that

Difficult deal to do though

 

[nailsy]

The one thing that struck a chord with me was in a recent interview when he described his arrival there...he said he looked around the dressing room and all he saw were winners.
I sometimes think that's what we lack, a seasoned player probably about 30yrs old now who has enjoyed success at the very top level. I don't know who but I'm sure the influence someone like that could have on players like Son and Alli prior to a big game would only be to the team's advantage.

I know what you're saying, but Hugo was the captain who lifted the last world cup. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

 

[spursfan77]

The one thing that struck a chord with me was in a recent interview when he described his arrival there...he said he looked around the dressing room and all he saw were winners.
I sometimes think that's what we lack, a seasoned player probably about 30yrs old now who has enjoyed success at the very top level. I don't know who but I'm sure the influence someone like that could have on players like Son and Alli prior to a big game would only be to the team's advantage.

There’s a load of us who’ve banged on about getting that kind of player in every summer since poch has been here but he doesn’t seem to want one in. Ironically we now have a World Cup winning captain in lloris. But there aren’t that many Edgar Davids types out there nowadays

 

[hellava_tough]

There’s a load of us who’ve banged on about getting that kind of player in every summer since poch has been here but he doesn’t seem to want one in. Ironically we now have a World Cup winning captain in lloris. But there aren’t that many Edgar Davids types out there nowadays

I wanted Arjen Robben a couple of seasons ago when he was out of contract, for his experience

Probably couldn't have got him as he ended up resigning for Bayern, but I think he would have been a good signing

Incidentally, he's out of contract now and has said he's going to leave Bayern. Still got some pace left in him as well

Probably end up in America or Holland though

 

[Krule]

Like Llorente?

Yes but he doesn't strike me as very charismatic...need the outgoing personality to match

 

[Krule]

I know what you're saying, but Hugo was the captain who lifted the last world cup. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

Hugo just doesn't come over as having the persona to keep the dressing room alive to me. I always imagine it like being encouraged by Clouseau for some reason.

 

[Hakkz]

Yes but he doesn't strike me as very charismatic...need the outgoing personality to match

And he was too old, for the position he plays.

 

[nailsy]

Hugo just doesn't come over as having the persona to keep the dressing room alive to me. I always imagine it like being encouraged by Clouseau for some reason.

He's meant to be pretty influential, but he doesn't strike me as the shouty type. He can't exactly take the game by the scruff of the neck either.

That quote from Walker about just seeing winners in the Man City dressing room is a bit odd though. Most of them are winners because they're at Man City. A few of them had won things before moving there, but none of them were what I'd call serial winners. If you look through our squad a lot of our players have won stuff with other sides in other leagues. Maybe he's talking about leaders rather than winners? Although I can only think of Kompany, but maybe it's different in the dressing room?

 

['O Zio]

Hugo just doesn't come over as having the persona to keep the dressing room alive to me. I always imagine it like being encouraged by Clouseau for some reason.

By all accounts he's a really influential leader though. There's more than one way to skin a cat and the Roy Keane style of being a shouty aggressive bloke who pins teammates up against the wall by the throat whenever they have a bad game isn't necessarily the best way to go about it.

I remember reading a piece in the paper about this very topic once and one of Hugo's ex-coaches defended him being captain of the French team with the brilliant quote "It's not always about the guy who talks the most, it's about the guy who talks the most sense" or something along those lines.

Also let's not forget it's not just the captain who can talk to the players. I'm sure the likes of Kane speak up as well when they've got something to say. Just because Kane isn't captain on paper doesn't mean he isn't allowed to get people going. Didn't Rose say Kane came in and gave them all a kick up the arse at half time vs. Ajax?

If he wasn't a good captain he wouldn't be the captain of Spurs and his national team. Also after his drink driving thing it would've been the perfect oportunity for Poch to make someone else captain no questions asked, and yet he chose not to do that, so Hugo must be doing something right.

 

[Insomnia]

@KILLA_SIN you blaming tebas for barca and real being monopolies in spain is the same as us blaming poch for spurs being shit in the 90's.

And we all know that was because of Jenas

 

[Marty]

David Silva to leave City at the end of next season, after 10 years there. What a player he's been.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48767169

Also rules out playing against City for another team.

 

['O Zio]

David Silva to leave City at the end of next season, after 10 years there. What a player he's been.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48767169

Also rules out playing against City for another team.

RIdiculous. If another team is paying you fuck knows how many millions of quid to play for them, you'll play when they damn well tell you to play. I could half understand it if it was e.g. Totti saying he'd never play against Roma, but Silva had probably never even heard of Man City until they waved a cheque in front of his face when he was in his mid-20s so this faux-loyalty just comes across as pathetic IMO.

 

[Marty]

RIdiculous. If another team is paying you fuck knows how many millions of quid to play for them, you'll play when they damn well tell you to play. I could half understand it if it was e.g. Totti saying he'd never play against Roma, but Silva had probably never even heard of Man City until they waved a cheque in front of his face when he was in his mid-20s so this faux-loyalty just comes across as pathetic IMO.

You're well overthinking things (and my words were slightly misleading, apologies).

"Initially, City were talking about two years, but I decided to sign [for] another one, so I finished at 10 years.

"It completes the cycle. It's a nice round figure. I can never see myself playing against City for another team. So 10 years - that's it."

It isn't an absolute statement, it's the sort of guff anyone says when they've been at a club a long time. And whatever you write about why he joined, he's won four PL titles and a handful of the other domestic cups in a massively lucrative career that will have spanned a full decade when he leaves, you really don't think he's grown attached to the club in any sort of way?

I also take this also as him saying he doesn't think he'll continue in the PL or at top CL level, but that is reading probably too much into it.

 

[Lilbaz]

RIdiculous. If another team is paying you fuck knows how many millions of quid to play for them, you'll play when they damn well tell you to play. I could half understand it if it was e.g. Totti saying he'd never play against Roma, but Silva had probably never even heard of Man City until they waved a cheque in front of his face when he was in his mid-20s so this faux-loyalty just comes across as pathetic IMO.

It's contract negotiations if this is one of his stipulations. If the buying team don't want to agree to it, they don't buy him simples.

 

['O Zio]

You're well overthinking things (and my words were slightly misleading, apologies).

It isn't an absolute statement, it's the sort of guff anyone says when they've been at a club a long time. And whatever you write about why he joined, he's won four PL titles and a handful of the other domestic cups in a massively lucrative career that will have spanned a full decade when he leaves, you really don't think he's grown attached to the club in any sort of way?

I also take this also as him saying he doesn't think he'll continue in the PL or at top CL level, but that is reading probably too much into it.

Ah ok fair enough. I thought he'd come out and said he was refusing to play against them regardless of who he signed for. Never mind then. I stand by my point generally speaking, but I guess it doesn't actually apply to him in this case.

I get that he's spent a lot of time there, but I still think that kind of thing is overplayed. All ties in to the not celebrating goals things as well I suppose. Like I say I get it if you've grown up as a die-hard fan and played your whole career there etc. and are basically synonymous with the club itself alla Totti, but if you're some spanish bloke who joined City as an adult I just find it a bit "Playing to the gallery" so to speak if you try and act like it would be far too devastating to possibly play against City. As mentioned above though, it seems like I've misinterpreted it so that doesn't necessarily aply in this specific example anyway. My mistake.

It's contract negotiations if this is one of his stipulations. If the buying team don't want to agree to it, they don't buy him simples.

True, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a silly attitude for a player to have, unless they're some Totti-like figure IMO. That said, as discussed above, it seems like I've misinterpreted what he said anyway so my bad. I'll let him off

 

[ikky]

AC Milan excluded from EL due to breaching FFP, let’s hope the same happens to City in the CL.

 

[mark87]

AC Milan excluded from EL due to breaching FFP, let’s hope the same happens to City in the CL.

But wouldn't the scum get their spot?

 

[Insomnia]

AC Milan excluded from EL due to breaching FFP, let’s hope the same happens to City in the CL.

Bloke down the pub said Arsenil will take Citey's place if that happens, feck that shite

 

[carmeldevil]

City just spent £62m for Rodri

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48859841

 

[Lilbaz]

But wouldn't the scum get their spot?

By the time it gets through cas it will be the following season.