edit: oops, wrong icon. subtle milan vibes via Balotelli, clearly.
Oh yes, Balotelli, absolutely. If he stays in England, it would be great to see him become one of those major talismanic figures, and as you say, he deserves a break. OTOH I care about Serie A a lot more than the EPL so if he wants to move back their eventually, as he's indicated before, I'd be happy to see him go to Milan and stick it to the haters. As it were. (Though this could also be accomplished via the NT, or the Champions' League.)
Anyway, back to David Silva (shhh), I started following a couple Man City blogs at the beginning of the season for research purposes and now they're all SO IN LOVE WITH HIM, it's absolutely hilarious. And kind of cute. Needless to say this does a lot to ingratiate the Man City fanbase to me. That, and the adorable Japanese fangirl whose Engrish-heavy tumblr I stalk ahaha.
Thing is, I'm not entirely sure if he'll be able to - to fulfill his potential or not, in terms of being able to play the type of game that he's best at. And I want him to fulfill his potential. I'm not even thinking entirely of the difference overall between the EPL and La Liga - I'm thinking of depends how City develops (or doesn't) as a team and where Mancini (or another manager) takes them tactically. It's not that he wouldn't be good still, but there's a difference.
For the moment, I basically agree with you on Spain, though I think that, like David Villa, he did get plenty of recognition within Spain while at Valencia - just very little out of it. Except by Sid Lowe and select LJ-ers, of course. XD And the only way out of that is the Big Two and without getting into my massive tl;dr thoughts on the future of Real Madrid, let's just say I don't think it's the right match, and Barcelona doesn't need another player like Silva. (Yet.*) If anyone league needs an independent billionaire to come along and adopt a team to shower with cash it's La Liga, just to put a serious crack in the Madrelona hegemony and open up rights distribution and okay this is a tangent isn't it.
Uh, anyway, the point of that paragraph I'm okay with Silva sticking around for a couple years, possibly even the whole contract - depends on the aforementioned caveats.
*one fic theory about a viable future involves him and Cesc becoming the new Iniesta and Xavi around three or four years in the future. despite the copious personal angst this would involve for me. XD
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Date: 2011-01-06 10:45 pm (UTC)Oh yes, Balotelli, absolutely. If he stays in England, it would be great to see him become one of those major talismanic figures, and as you say, he deserves a break. OTOH I care about Serie A a lot more than the EPL so if he wants to move back their eventually, as he's indicated before, I'd be happy to see him go to Milan and stick it to the haters. As it were. (Though this could also be accomplished via the NT, or the Champions' League.)
Anyway, back to David Silva (shhh), I started following a couple Man City blogs at the beginning of the season for research purposes and now they're all SO IN LOVE WITH HIM, it's absolutely hilarious. And kind of cute. Needless to say this does a lot to ingratiate the Man City fanbase to me. That, and the adorable Japanese fangirl whose Engrish-heavy tumblr I stalk ahaha.
Thing is, I'm not entirely sure if he'll be able to - to fulfill his potential or not, in terms of being able to play the type of game that he's best at. And I want him to fulfill his potential. I'm not even thinking entirely of the difference overall between the EPL and La Liga - I'm thinking of depends how City develops (or doesn't) as a team and where Mancini (or another manager) takes them tactically. It's not that he wouldn't be good still, but there's a difference.
For the moment, I basically agree with you on Spain, though I think that, like David Villa, he did get plenty of recognition within Spain while at Valencia - just very little out of it. Except by Sid Lowe and select LJ-ers, of course. XD And the only way out of that is the Big Two and without getting into my massive tl;dr thoughts on the future of Real Madrid, let's just say I don't think it's the right match, and Barcelona doesn't need another player like Silva. (Yet.*) If anyone league needs an independent billionaire to come along and adopt a team to shower with cash it's La Liga, just to put a serious crack in the Madrelona hegemony and open up rights distribution and okay this is a tangent isn't it.
Uh, anyway, the point of that paragraph I'm okay with Silva sticking around for a couple years, possibly even the whole contract - depends on the aforementioned caveats.
*one
fictheory about a viable future involves him and Cesc becoming the new Iniesta and Xavi around three or four years in the future. despite the copious personal angst this would involve for me. XD