Sergio Aguero is the best striker in the league. Maybe the best striker in the world. Olden Days striker. 

Edited February 26, 20188 yr by Famous CFC

Lol anyone seen Jack Wilshere’s Instagram post? Having a go at the ref yesterday, thinks Mustafi was fouled for the first goal. Is he f**king serious? 

Napoli play some lovely football. Won 0-5 away to cagliari tonight. 

17 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

Sergio Aguero is the best striker in the league. Maybe the best striker in the world. Olden Days striker. 

Investing in Torres instead of Aguero has to be the most stupid decision the club made during Roman's tenure.

Just now, charierre said:

Investing in Torres instead of Aguero has to be the most stupid decision the club made during Roman's tenure.

Absolute pure class. If we got the Torres from Liverpool in his hey day we'd have been laughing our socks off. Don't think people realise how great Aguero is. Maybe the best pure striker in the world. Ahead of the likes of Suarez and Neymar. 

dries mertens has a release clause of £25m apparently. madness if true, would be a bargain to pick him up. i know he's 30, but a quality little player. 

16 hours ago, charierre said:

Investing in Torres instead of Aguero has to be the most stupid decision the club made during Roman's tenure.

We were chasing him for years that's the thing, I remember how hyped up we were in his final 2 years for Atletico. Ridiculous how we f**ked that up. 

15 hours ago, Famous CFC said:

Absolute pure class. If we got the Torres from Liverpool in his hey day we'd have been laughing our socks off. Don't think people realise how great Aguero is. Maybe the best pure striker in the world. Ahead of the likes of Suarez and Neymar. 

He's not ahead of Suarez, injuries have set him back a bit, he's still a fantastic striker but he doesn't have that cutting edge he did in his first two seasons for City. He used to be able to run at players all the time now he relies on more assistance and drops back a lot more. Aguero has never had a season Suarez did in the Premier League, injuries were the reason for that. If you watch Aguero when he first went to City he looked immortal, truly untouchable, then he couldn't handle the physicality of the Premier League for quite some time, I would say he's starting to regain that old form but he's still quite a distance away from the player he could have been. 

Suarez is still a level ahead for me, in La Liga you're expected to score as many goals Suarez has so there is less hype. Neymar I might give you that but not Suarez, still the best striker in the world.  

Edited February 27, 20188 yr by Slojo

Been watching the Football Writers Podcast on BT Sport. I really think the media are getting carried away with City. They have been great this season and deservedly are going to win the league at a canter. But I don’t think they will dominate for years to come. Man U aren’t gonna sit still, Liverpool and Spurs are improving too. Also we know how poor City were last season and they’ve never defended a title. Why do the media continue to get carried away like this? They did it with us too. It’s like they don’t think about what’s happened before.

3 hours ago, Slojo said:

We were chasing him for years that's the thing, I remember how hyped up we were in his final 2 years for Atletico. Ridiculous how we f**ked that up. 

I remember us being interested in Aguero when we played his Atletico Madrid side in the Champions League, there was loads of talk at the time of us being interested in him, it must have went on for 4 or 5 transfer windows. I don't know why we held back, everybody could see how good he was, i don't know why we thought Torres was the better choice, especially at the time of us signing him. Torres was showing signs that something wasn't right with him in the world cup, then he couldn't get back up to his previous levels with Liverpool, then we signed him for £50m.

I wasn't on the forum when we signed Torres, so i don't know what the reaction on here was like, but i never wanted us to sign him, it just seemed too risky. As soon as the rumours started about us being interested in Aguero, he was the one i wanted us to sign, we just never went in for him though.

2 hours ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

Been watching the Football Writers Podcast on BT Sport. I really think the media are getting carried away with City. They have been great this season and deservedly are going to win the league at a canter. But I don’t think they will dominate for years to come. Man U aren’t gonna sit still, Liverpool and Spurs are improving too. Also we know how poor City were last season and they’ve never defended a title. Why do the media continue to get carried away like this? They did it with us too. It’s like they don’t think about what’s happened before.

The only thing that frightens me about PED Guardiola and his City team is their corrupt owners and bypassing FFP regulations, they'll get away with murder for years. 

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

I remember us being interested in Aguero when we played his Atletico Madrid side in the Champions League, there was loads of talk at the time of us being interested in him, it must have went on for 4 or 5 transfer windows. I don't know why we held back, everybody could see how good he was, i don't know why we thought Torres was the better choice, especially at the time of us signing him. Torres was showing signs that something wasn't right with him in the world cup, then he couldn't get back up to his previous levels with Liverpool, then we signed him for £50m.

I wasn't on the forum when we signed Torres, so i don't know what the reaction on here was like, but i never wanted us to sign him, it just seemed too risky. As soon as the rumours started about us being interested in Aguero, he was the one i wanted us to sign, we just never went in for him though.

I don't think we did believe Torres Was The better choice,  as far as I remember it we pulled out of the Aguero deal as he was demanding ridiculous wages,  £250k+ I think,  and we pulled out. 

For Liverpool his was genuinely world class. Even up until he left he was still unplayable when on his game. The game he played against Chelsea the season he left showed that. Nobody had a clue at the time that Torres would falter at Chelsea. If he'd have produced the displays at Chelsea as he did at liverpool, we'd have been near unstoppable. Just one of those things unfortunately. 

An out of form Torres ripping Chelsea. 

 

9 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

For Liverpool his was genuinely world class. Even up until he left he was still unplayable when on his game. The game he played against Chelsea the season he left showed that. Nobody had a clue at the time that Torres would falter at Chelsea. If he'd have produced the displays at Chelsea as he did at liverpool, we'd have been near unstoppable. Just one of those things unfortunately. 

An out of form Torres ripping Chelsea. 

 

We were piss poor then, so was Torres, we were just worse at that time. Don't forget we were losing 3-0 to Sunderland at home and 1-0 to Birmingham away during that time period. 

5 minutes ago, Slojo said:

We were piss poor then, so was Torres, we were just worse at that time. Don't forget we were losing 3-0 to Sunderland at home and 1-0 to Birmingham away during that time period. 

So piss poor they were top of the table, 2 points ahead of Manchester United with a game in hand before the loss to Liverpool. 

7 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

So piss poor they were top of the table, 2 points ahead of Manchester United with a game in hand before the loss to Liverpool. 

Are you actually denying we weren't piss poor when we were losing 3-0 to Sunderland at home? That Premier League season was probably one of the weakest Premier League seasons I've known in my whole lifetime of watching football. Chelsea were awful and still managed to finish 2nd, if we had that team now we would finish about 15th. 

Context matters, we struggled massively. At the start of the season we were good, throughout the whole middle of it we were sh*te, November-February, we pulled it all back afterwards and managed a 2nd place finish. 

 

Chelsea and Torres been piss poor is an overreaction. Not really that interested on what the quality level was or wasn't that year. Torres tormented the league leaders that day and proved he was still when fully fit a quality operator. I believe the game at home to Sunderland was when Chelsea were missing a trio of important players, plus Sunderland were in decent form with a lively attack. In football these things happen. 

22 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

Chelsea and Torres been piss poor is an overreaction. Not really that interested on what the quality level was or wasn't that year. Torres tormented the league leaders that day and proved he was still when fully fit a quality operator. I believe the game at home to Sunderland was when Chelsea were missing a trio of important players, plus Sunderland were in decent form with a lively attack. In football these things happen. 

If I also remember correctly we didn't win 1 game in November that year, Torres was on bad form before we signed him, besides that one game he didn't have any others that were good. And again we were piss poor, not an overreaction, what is an overreaction is highly rating the Sunderland team and phasing it off as a normal result. 

12 minutes ago, Slojo said:

If I also remember correctly we didn't win 1 game in November that year, Torres was on bad form before we signed him, besides that one game he didn't have any others that were good. And again we were piss poor, not an overreaction, what is an overreaction is highly rating the Sunderland team and phasing it off as a normal result. 

Sounds like the last 2 months.

Sunderland in decent form with a lively attack(Gyan was playing some good, quick direct football at the time.) isn't an overreaction, it's realistic. Chelsea been piss poor is a tad over the top to say the least. Piss poor team still came second, piss poor teams don't do that. Piss poor teams don't contain the players who played that season for Chelsea. Anyways each to their own. Be here all day talking sh*te for the sake of it. 

2 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Sounds like the last 2 months.

Piss poor team.

8 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

Sunderland in decent form with a lively attack(Gyan was playing some good, quick direct football at the time.) isn't an overreaction, it's realistic. Chelsea been piss poor is a tad over the top to say the least. Piss poor team still came second, piss poor teams don't do that. Piss poor teams don't contain the players who played that season for Chelsea. Anyways each to their own. Be here all day talking sh*te for the sake of it. 

They definitely do when the league was very bad at the time, but you're clearly not interested in that as you put it, despite the convenience. 

I know you have a fetish for opposition players but Torres was crap for the August-December of 2010, and so were we for the most part of it. 

Edited February 27, 20188 yr by Slojo

Apparently Barcelona have reached agreement with Griezmann and will pay his €100m release clause

3 minutes ago, enigma said:

Apparently Barcelona have reached agreement with Griezmann and will pay his €100m release clause

It's surprised me how Barcelona have never seemed to be interested in Hazard, he would suit them far more than Real Madrid. 

4 minutes ago, Slojo said:

They definitely do when the league was very bad at the time, but you're clearly not interested in that as you put it, despite the convenience. 

I know you have a fetish for opposition players but Torres was crap for the August-December of 2010, and so were we for the most part of it. 

I have a fetish for quality players.