PrezIke wrote:i am guessing that when people say the signing allows either fernandinho or yaya to move forward we mean with one of the other on the bench, or subbed late for in matches (taking garcia's place)?
'cause most games it does not seem we have played 3 centre midfielders...
unless we are looking to fully incorporate a 4-3-3 formation, with nasri, aguero and silva as had been mentioned by tixi when he came in.
it certainly awards us more flexibility to do so even if we stay with a 4-4-2 mostly.
it certainly does help when yaya heads off for the african nations again this year.
That's not what I mean when I've said it. I'm talking about Yaya as an attacking mid or No10 & those two doing the central mid job.
Actually in the end of season discussion on Sky, Souness etc were saying we should play Yaya further forward, as he's such a handful & also that we will will HAVE to do that before long, because otherwise his career will come to a premature end, as he's too old to continue doing the job we currently ask him to, year in year out. They recon it will finish him.
Fernandinho is also a more attacking player than we see for City. At Shakhtar, he had a DeJong/Barry type geezer sitting behind him whilst he built attacks & ran forward at pace. He fucked up Chelsea playing like that.
We could have Fernando looking after the defence, then let both Yaya & Fernandinho go forward to join any combination of front 3.
Doubt we'd do that v Norwich, but v Chelsea, Arse etc, it gives us a very powerful, quick, moblile attacking and defending midfield.