I see, so you don't care or know how to discuss points, you care to act like a middle school bully or troll. I don't appreciate your attempts to play me for a cheap joke.
Wack.
I challenge you to offer an actual response to my points, which I articulated in a mature, respectful manner instead of trying to cater to an audience who thinks this is a way to discuss things, by using memes meant to insult me (reminds me of the RealGM sport forums, where I don't waste my time on), which is odd given you don't even know me other than I said I want us to sign Yaya. That seems like an awfully small amount of info to take such a position towards someone else.
Lol, ok. The reason I responded as such is because you have only 5 posts prior to these recent ones, the last coming in August 2016, and all of a sudden, have gone on a YaYa tear, building him up to be some amazing world beater. If you think my post was insulting, then I apologize, wasn't meant to other than to point the above point out.
But if you want me to provide an actual response to your points, here goes....
Wait, Yaya is not a playmaker? Y'all got jokes, huh?
Yaya is the definition of playmaker.
Henry was a goal scorer, who could also create for others, where as Yaya is a playmaker who can also score (from free kicks and penalties he's amongst the best there is in the world - he has yet to miss one pen for Man City in his entire career, and in 2014 was single handedly carrying the team scoring 20 goals and many from free kicks, but he is also a threat to score from open play if you give him any space outside of the box)
You mention that Yaya is "the definition of a playmaker", which is a very bold statement for someone who going back the last 2.5 seasons has scored only 12 goals (3 being PKs) with 8 assists. This, on a team that consistently finishes at the top of the table within the Premier League and has one of the most prolific EPL goal scorers in Aguero to work with.
You say he can score from free kicks, going back through the 2014/2015 season, he has totaled 3 set piece goals (note that I'm not sure this means as a FK taker or a recipient) across all competitions where he has started in 98 matches.
You say he is one of the best PK takers in the world. I'm honestly not going to argue against this because I don't study PK takers enough to honestly dispute this with an argument that I am sure on. But we don't need to bring anyone in just so we have a solid PK taker. That's silly.
You say that YaYa can score if you give him any space outside the box in open play. Sure, kind of, I guess. He hasn't scored one from outside the box since the 2015/2016 season. Tommy McNamara has scored 5 in that same span.
He is a beast aka Man Not Machine (was his nickname) with the ball at his feet, using deft touches playing one-twos, incredible curling cross pitch passes, and generally just keeping the ball and creating for his teammates. He will score goals with his incredible power and technical ability, is a leader, and should be a significant upgrade on Pirlo this past season.
Correct in that his nickname WAS "Man not Machine". If you Google "YaYa Toure Nickname" now you will find "Grandpa" and "Uncle YaYa" as his nickname, coming from Pep and Sterling.
Everything else here I cannot dispute with objective evidence. However, I will dispute whether or not he creates for his teammates as much anymore. He has just two appearances this season in the EPL, and last year in 22 starts and 1,947 minutes had 0 assists. He averaged 0.8 key passes that season (Pirlo averaged 1.3 this last season in what was arguably his worst year in MLS)
Yaya is as a very passionate and firey player on the pitch from what I have seen, and heard, and in fact sometimes arguing with refs and standing up for his teammates. So this idea he is laid back is completely false. He's considered a great character and outspoken about global topics off the pitch, like Henry was, but some of his mistakes have been very focused upon off the pitch instead, of which one cannot deny he did do to himself.
His biggest question marks surrounding him is his effort and pace on the field and that is why people argue that he is laid back. Not because he occasionally argues with the ref on a call or confronts an opponent after a hard foul on a teammate. If we need that, we can just sign someone straight from the NHL.
I don't care what global topics he talks about off the pitch. Maybe others do.
I believe he would do very well for us and is 4 years younger than Pirlo, so I think we could get at least 2 years from him. Add him to the team this past season and I think we would have never been out of it after the first leg against Columbus.
He is currently 4 years younger than Pirlo, yes. We signed Pirlo 2.5 years ago off of a UEFA Champions League Final team and while he had a decent first year and a half with us, was never a massive difference maker on the field. There is no evidence to suggest that someone who has 29 minutes of playing time this year will be an improvement there.
The idea of being against DP's because of their age is mostly useless anyway, as you can't get this kind of quality younger. He'd be here to help us to get over the hump, and I have little doubt he could do it.
Ummm, yes you can. Giovinco, Allesandrini, Valeri, Lodeiro, Almiron, Villalba, etc., etc., etc. And those are just guys in the league. There are a ton of players out there that can be had that have more quality and are younger.
This is a ridiculous statement.
Vieira, like Yaya,is a francophone of African descent, and a widely respected manger/legendary player who by being black, and I say that because Yaya cares very much about racial equality issues, surely wants Vieira to succeed surrounding the huge issue regarding the lack of black managers at clubs, and top clubs in particular.
This post is completely subjective and is presumptuous and honestly frightening to a degree. To suggest that YaYa will play harder at NYCFC because PV is black and YaYa cares about racial equality issues is one of the most ridiculous things I've read on this board a while.
