What Does Yaya Toure Actually Do?

[Tony P]

I've heard it's Puma.

[Rag_hater]

This bickering is incredibly tedious to read. Let it go all...

What would make it excting?

[carl_feedthegoat]

This bickering is incredibly tedious to read. Let it go all...

What would make it excting?

You not waking up again.

[MilnersJaw]

Don't give a fuck, eh. Shame I can't wind back the clock three years and show you what it was like here in this country at that time, you utter fucking cock. If I ever meet you, and pray to whatever fucking deity you call your own that I fucking don't, I will ram this fucking quote along with my fist so far down your pathetic little throat they will both will come out the soles of your fucking feet.

You have no fucking idea whatsoever.

I'd pay good money to see someone ram a quote down sometimes throat.

[Rag_hater]

This bickering is incredibly tedious to read. Let it go all...

What would make it excting?

You not waking up again.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

To get this discussion back on track. I think KK has a point. There's no doubting that when on form Yaya is unstoppable and one of the best in the world. However, how often does Yaya dominate a game from start to finish? I remember him doing it against the Rags at home in the title winning season but a lot of the time he'll suddenly wake up and play a blistering twenty minutes.

I suppose what makes Silva so good is that no matter what, he always seems to be involved, he always wants the ball from the first minute to the last and always looks interested and up for it. An example Yaya should follow imo.

Still a wonderful player who we're lucky to have though.

[Nigels Tackle]

stand by post from 2011
nothing more frustrating than yayaitis infecting the rest of the team when he has an off day

[Rag_hater]

Funny how he was African Footballer of the Year 2013 the year he was supposed to be so lazy.

[Nigels Tackle]

Funny how he was African Footballer of the Year 2013 the year he was supposed to be so lazy.

he'd be world player of the year and this thread wouldn't exist if he gave 100% in every game

case closed your honour

[Pretty Boy Lee]

he'd be world player of the year and this thread wouldn't exist if he gave 100% in every game case closed your honour

Nobody does. It's not what footballers do.

One of the things they showed us last week on the b license was the distance covered by teams at the 2010 World Cup. Some fun stats. The 4 teams covering the longest distance per match (including Australia) never made it out the group.

All 4 covered more space, higher low games than the tops 4's high games as well.

Running 100% all match isn't what world class players do guys. The comment earlier re silva is a funny one too. Silva is amazing, but even he can't dominate a game like yaya.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

he'd be world player of the year and this thread wouldn't exist if he gave 100% in every game case closed your honour

Nobody does. It's not what footballers do.

One of the things they showed us last week on the b license was the distance covered by teams at the 2010 World Cup. Some fun stats. The 4 teams covering the longest distance per match (including Australia) never made it out the group.

All 4 covered more space, higher low games than the tops 4's high games as well.

Running 100% all match isn't what world class players do guys. The comment earlier re silva is a funny one too. Silva is amazing, but even he can't dominate a game like yaya.

If anything Silva can dominate a game like few others in world football can and he can do it for ninety minutes.
I don't see why that's funny. Notice when we play well EVERYTHING goes through Silva. Look at his performance against Hull for example.
How often do you see Yaya dominate the majority of a game?
The point I was making is that Yaya's biggest flaw is his laziness and you can't dispute that, he's incredible when he can be bothered. Look at Silva though. He has flaws, but he always, always wants the ball. Something you don't always feel with Yaya.

[Original Dub]

If anything Silva can dominate a game like few others in world football can and he can do it for ninety minutes.
I don't see why that's funny. Notice when we play well EVERYTHING goes through Silva. Look at his performance against Hull for example.
How often do you see Yaya dominate the majority of a game?
The point I was making is that Yaya's biggest flaw is his laziness and you can't dispute that, he's incredible when he can be bothered. Look at Silva though. He has flaws, but he always, always wants the ball. Something you don't always feel with Yaya.

On the money

[Pretty Boy Lee]

If anything Silva can dominate a game like few others in world football can and he can do it for ninety minutes. I don't see why that's funny. Notice when we play well EVERYTHING goes through Silva. Look at his performance against Hull for example. How often do you see Yaya dominate the majority of a game? The point I was making is that Yaya's biggest flaw is his laziness and you can't dispute that, he's incredible when he can be bothered. Look at Silva though. He has flaws, but he always, always wants the ball. Something you don't always feel with Yaya.

Silva is involved all game and can be brilliant, but it's not often he does what yaya does and just blitzes a game. Completely different kind of player.

My point is that for the most part it isn't about going all game, it's about the quality of the actions.

[Socrates]

Yaya often only plays 15-20 minutes of a game.
Sometimes it's more (utd on Tuesday) sometimes it's less (yesterday) but I reckon the average is no more than 20 minutes per game.

When he does play he is phenomenal, which is why he features heavily in edited highlights of matches. If you only get to see the highlights it looks like he has been brilliant throughout the entire match, sadly this is actually rarely the case.

We are lucky to have the likes of Fernandinho, Silva and Nasri to pick up the slack during Yaya's downtime, however we can get found out against some of the better teams.

I think this post was worthy of a new thread...

[Ted Hughes]

Nobody is asking Yaya to leg it around for 90 mins, nor Silva, we know they can't. Yaya, if he was a natural in the position we play him in, could stand still for half the game percentage wise, then run like fuck for the other half (Rag hater won't understand that, he will think I mean literally 'stand still' for 45 mins, the run like fuck for 45, because he is fucking stupid).

But what he actually does is jog & jog & jog, then a quick sprint, then more jogging. He wastes loads of energy running in semi circles, having no effect. Then does something spectacular, or shit, then starts jogging around again.


Yaya and Silva are two of the world's best players, without a shadow of a doubt, but neither of them, nor Nasri, nor Fernandinho anyone in our midfield 'dominate' a game.

That's one of the resons we draw at Arsenal, rather than winning.

We don't have that player.

[dazby]

Nobody is asking Yaya to leg it around for 90 mins, nor Silva, we know they can't. Yaya, if he was a natural in the position we play him in, could stand still for half the game percentage wise, then run like fuck for the other half (Rag hater won't understand that, he will think I mean literally 'stand still' for 45 mins, the run like fuck for 45, because he is fucking stupid).

But what he actually does is jog & jog & jog, then a quick sprint, then more jogging. He wastes loads of energy running in semi circles, having no effect. Then does something spectacular, or shit, then starts jogging around again.


Yaya and Silva are two of the world's best players, without a shadow of a doubt, but neither of them, nor Nasri, nor Fernandinho anyone in our midfield 'dominate' a game.

That's one of the resons we draw at Arsenal, rather than winning.

We don't have that player.

We have 4 of those players Ted. You named them. Depending on their form, depending on the game, either of them can dominate (Nasri being least likely.) Such is the strength of the side they are not required to. However, if you were forced to say whom is most likely to be the dominator, it's Yaya.

[Rag_hater]

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/17667 ... ue?cc=5739


Bloody hell needs to stop watching highlights and talk to real City fans.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Paddy Vieira:

“ I have never seen a player who has everything like Yaya. He has the pure power of Thierry Henry.

“Physically, he is built a bit like me – but with more strength. And he can score goals like Paul Scholes used to at his peak.

“Yaya is the complete footballer – and he will get even better in the next few years as he realises just how good he is, and his ­importance to the team.”

[bayblue]

Paddy Vieira: “ I have never seen a player who has everything like Yaya. He has the pure power of Thierry Henry. “Physically, he is built a bit like me – but with more strength. And he can score goals like Paul Scholes used to at his peak. “Yaya is the complete footballer – and he will get even better in the next few years as he realises just how good he is, and his ­importance to the team.”

Great to see a quote and a post that focuses on what he can do, rather than what he cannot.....
YaYa is a marvel.

[Original Dub]

Paddy Vieira: “ I have never seen a player who has everything like Yaya. He has the pure power of Thierry Henry. “Physically, he is built a bit like me – but with more strength. And he can score goals like Paul Scholes used to at his peak. “Yaya is the complete footballer – and he will get even better in the next few years as he realises just how good he is, and his ­importance to the team.”

Great to see a quote and a post that focuses on what he can do, rather than what he cannot.....
YaYa is a marvel.

Indeed he is.

However, I don't see why some folk can't grasp that this is a discussion on a player's strengths and weaknesses.
The thread title is a dead give away...

Some seem to think it is a tribute thread and he should only be praised. They are wrong, not the ones who are giving balanced views.