What do you mean 'one game'? In Warnock's autobiography he says he was the most trouble he's ever had in a single player and his teammates regularly wanted to smash his face in.
Well that's what most City fans will be basing their opinion on, I'm not sure everybody will have read Warnock's autobiography.
Compare Balottelli/Taraabt http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/adel taarabt http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...aughing-Mario-Balotelli-tweets-time-road.html
Bev originally asked "Would you turn down Balotelli?" - the obvious implication, given his previous remarks, being that he wouldn't turn him down. You then defended Balotelli in the belief that you were disagreeing with Bev. In reality you were agreeing with him all along.
You've just got to weigh up whether the amount of sulks and non-performances which you KNOW you will get from an oddball like Taarabt, are sufficiently offset by the good things he does. Has he at any point in his career lived up the hype? For more than one game? Is he the kind of player you want when you're fighting to stay up? Does he have the stomach for it? We'll never know for sure, but the clues are there for us to make a reasonable assumption. I don't think he does enough, and I don't care for his attitude. Think some people can be blinded by step-overs and a prominence in the media. He's talked about less for his ability than he is for his sulks. Which says it all, I think.
Your last point is very true, but I wouldn't have thought Bruce would want to bring him in unless he knew that he was getting a player up for a relegation scrap. SB wouldn't take any **** from him and he'd soon be put in his place.
I agree, I already mentioned Bendtner might me a bad influence on the dressing room and this kid might also, though at least there is an Egyptian to talk to.
By saying 'would you turn down Balotelli?' Bev implied he was a trouble causer. He then said Mario wasn't bad in his last year. It made no sense. If he doesn't think Mario is a trouble causer then it was completely pointless to compare Taarabt and Mario.
His point was perfectly clear - he was saying that if a player is that good, he's worth taking a chance on despite any character issues. You're just off on one of your stubborn tangents and I'm leaving you to it - time to watch the cricket.
This^ And who the **** would turn Balottelli down anyway ? He's one of best strikers in the world. Taarabt...um isn't !
I saw enough in that one game thankyou. Demanding to be substituted because a team mate won't let you take a free kick shows him to be the worst type of unstable egocentric tart it's possible to be. Get to **** Taraabt.
I know - PRECISELY!!! But then he said Balotelli wasn't actually trouble in his last year at City. He completely contradicted himself and that was what I didn't get. Jesus Christ, can people actually read on here?!?
His mentality is just too wrong, it's why he didn't leave qpr after being in the prem and just got relegated, he has the raw talent but u don't think he would be an effective signing, plus when qpr got promoted, tarrabt smashed a ceiling panel in an away dressing room - disgraceful
He might be going to Marseille if they put a bid in. See link http://www1.skysports.com/football/...dfielder-Adel-Taarabt-welcomes-Marseille-link
Agree with all this. I especially enjoyed the bit where they all condemned a 16 year old for being involved in a gang rape 10 years ago then eulogised Ray Harvey and Les Hilton, career criminals, for being great blokes.
It's laughable really. I love the righteousness on here. "don't want him at my club" types. Yet it's more than likely that there are a couple rapists, dozen criminals, robbers and hundreds of obnoxious petulant inbreds that go watch city and possibly sit right next to them... but of course that's fine. I'm sure Bruce can handle someone like Taraabt (who probably won't come anyways so it's a non issue) and his petulance was not to blame for them going down, their ****e defence and general lack of team ethic cost them. Not just one player.
