BitByBit
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Except that he isn't. Also Pep gave him many chances but he blew them by playing halfarsed and just walking on the pitch.
Yaya Toure
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Except that he isn't. Also Pep gave him many chances but he blew them by playing halfarsed and just walking on the pitch.
Metaphysical
Bomb Dropper
Yes he is.
Busquets, I can somehow understand why he got to play. He is catalan and a youth product after all. He is in no way better than Yaya tho.
Keita... Why he got to play is because he is the greatest person Pep has ever met.
evilhita666
Barçapocalypse NOW!
Yes! Well said!
So, should we go and buy back every player from the treble season? Let's buy back Ronaldinho and Deco while we are at it...
EDIT: Yaya has nothing on Busquets as DM or even CM, he may have an edge at AM but then Busi doesn't play there... Busquets is clearly the better player without a shadow of a doubt, especially for the needs of our club...
Ryan_Cule
barça amor d mi alma
Yaya Toure genuinely said he wanted to leave Barca because he wants to stay and play together with Kolo Toure .
That was his reason .
Although pep tried on numerous occasions to keep him , I remember , Pep even personally called up Toure on his last days at practice session and had a long long chat with him and later on a press conference pep said to that media that he tried his best to keep him and now everything is in his hands. But apparently Toure left us and went to city for a huge salary .
And the present day comments do not suite with him at all. Suddenly I don't understand why he is not interested to play with his brother anymore ? He was very enthusiastic before . If that makes him a hypocrite , then maybe he is . May be not. But clearly conflicting comments .
That was his reason .
Although pep tried on numerous occasions to keep him , I remember , Pep even personally called up Toure on his last days at practice session and had a long long chat with him and later on a press conference pep said to that media that he tried his best to keep him and now everything is in his hands. But apparently Toure left us and went to city for a huge salary .
And the present day comments do not suite with him at all. Suddenly I don't understand why he is not interested to play with his brother anymore ? He was very enthusiastic before . If that makes him a hypocrite , then maybe he is . May be not. But clearly conflicting comments .
Theodore Evelyn Mosby
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I'd want him to be here, but are we really going to sure that he's going to keep it within the line?
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barcelonista
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Someone provide me with the Messi "WTF is this shit" picture, please.
diegomessi
Anxiously waiting for the next match
wow are you watching the same barca everyone else is... lol
MagIX
Senior Member
+1
for you..
Busquets is a FANTASTIC PLAYER and better than Yaya, no question, however different players.
Said that, i really like Yaya and i hope he come back.
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woobie
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I don't think he's necessarily interested in returning. As has been hypothesized a few posts back, the 'I love Barca' comments come at a time when contract negotiations generally happen (end of season, they won the league, lots of the guys will be re-doing their contracts). Personally, I read it as 'City, I want more money or maybe I'll go away' - especially since he's done something similar in the past.
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barcelonista
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People seem to be on the hype waggon because he possibly scored the league winning goals in the Premier League now. The thing is: Yaya is a bit of everything but no specialist at any position. He doesn't have the distribution, touch and game intelligence of Busquets in defensive midfield, he isn't a central playmaking metronome like Xavi and he is certainly no Iniesta in attacking midfield, albeit he can play all 3 positions and he can play them better than most other players in the world (well, except Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta). He wouldn't be starting material for us although he'd be the PERFECT backup because of his versatility. We surely could have done with his physicality and height against Chelsea. But we can't keep a € 30 million midfielder on the bench for the odd 2 or 3 games in the season where he might be the better option to start. And he himself obviously didn't want that either. So that was that and he left. Keite on the other hand accepted to be our Keite. 
I also put question marks on his character. How exactly do City fans feel now when they hear one of their players saying that he would love to go and retire somewhere else, albeit no one even linking him to Barcelona? Not even Cesc publicly said anything about wanting to leave Arsenal, despite being a Catalan youth product. He always kept quiet in the media and said that he's happy at Arsenal. So quiet that Gooners thought he'd be staying until the last day.
I also put question marks on his character. How exactly do City fans feel now when they hear one of their players saying that he would love to go and retire somewhere else, albeit no one even linking him to Barcelona? Not even Cesc publicly said anything about wanting to leave Arsenal, despite being a Catalan youth product. He always kept quiet in the media and said that he's happy at Arsenal. So quiet that Gooners thought he'd be staying until the last day.
FCBarca
Mike the Knife
I don't think Yaya is seriously angling for a return and perhaps I'm being naive that it's not a negotiating ploy for an improve contract at City - but, admittedly, it also could be the reason
It's an interesting point of contention among culés, I can see that now - the question of how an exited player's legacy lives on...Meta et al could be right, and Yaya was always about the money and gave the illusion he wanted to stay etc. or it not being about Kolo...but it could also be that it was a confluence of several mitigating factors...I think it's harsh to brand the player a gloryhunter or money whore because he gave great service here but took money to play elsewhere...If he were Pep or a Catalan cantera player, it's a different story...But an African player who never had a big payday?...I think it's excessive to lampoon praise for Yaya as a consequence
Nevermind that no one knows for certain the circumstances...It could also be that some of the facts already supported what he's already publicly said - that his precipitous drop from the starting XI coupled with a freeze out from Pep...Not being able to play regularly enough, that's not really a guess - it's backed up by the stats...Not wanting to take a backup role, that's his perogative, isn't it?...Plus, as strange as it sounds to all of us, we've already seen several examples of players having accused Pep of freezing them out (Ibra, Bojan and Samu) so why is that conclusion less likely than him using the club?...Did Yaya tank it at the club?...He didn't disparage the club, had praise for Tito, consistently praised the club but took a shot at Pep...I'm more inclined to see what the evidence supports combined with how the player has always carried himself...I mean is there anything about the way the player plays or acts off the pitch that screams money whore?...You can say that about a lot of footballers these days but I don't see it with Yaya
It's an interesting point of contention among culés, I can see that now - the question of how an exited player's legacy lives on...Meta et al could be right, and Yaya was always about the money and gave the illusion he wanted to stay etc. or it not being about Kolo...but it could also be that it was a confluence of several mitigating factors...I think it's harsh to brand the player a gloryhunter or money whore because he gave great service here but took money to play elsewhere...If he were Pep or a Catalan cantera player, it's a different story...But an African player who never had a big payday?...I think it's excessive to lampoon praise for Yaya as a consequence
Nevermind that no one knows for certain the circumstances...It could also be that some of the facts already supported what he's already publicly said - that his precipitous drop from the starting XI coupled with a freeze out from Pep...Not being able to play regularly enough, that's not really a guess - it's backed up by the stats...Not wanting to take a backup role, that's his perogative, isn't it?...Plus, as strange as it sounds to all of us, we've already seen several examples of players having accused Pep of freezing them out (Ibra, Bojan and Samu) so why is that conclusion less likely than him using the club?...Did Yaya tank it at the club?...He didn't disparage the club, had praise for Tito, consistently praised the club but took a shot at Pep...I'm more inclined to see what the evidence supports combined with how the player has always carried himself...I mean is there anything about the way the player plays or acts off the pitch that screams money whore?...You can say that about a lot of footballers these days but I don't see it with Yaya
Theodore Evelyn Mosby
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Wait, so there are people who actually are riding the "Sergio is better than Yaya" bus?
Maria
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The only area where Busi is inferior to Yaya is the goalscoring...also Yaya's best performances for City came with a DM behind him. Make of this info you want.
Because is a well known fact that Pep cancelled his vacation to convince him to stay..I didn't see him doing that for Ibra, Eto'o or Bojan. Yaya himself said at the time of his leaving that he wanted to be close to his brother..though saying that you left because you wanted to earn as much as Xavi wouldn't have looked as good for cules.
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