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David Silva statue will be built at Etihad stadium
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
People thought I was going overboard when I said he’s getting a lot of recognition for leaving now they building him a bloody statue.
CityYou shouldn't be building statues right when the chap's time at your club has ended FFS. He's hardly a SAF type figure for them.
Also, he's a very good player, but Aguero was better so I guess he can expect one too. Madness.
If they win the CL this year it's warranted.
Are they still in it?
Are they still in it?
We didn't even have one for Ronaldo arguably the greatest player ever to play the game
Ok...can you imagine we did this ? Nicky Butt would have a statue.....also wtf did you include ‘Shields’ ?
He has 2 in his mid 30s!Statue for David Silva
He wouldn’t get a statue at many
Not a good time for Spanish statues these days, that's all I'm saying
They can start offering statues in contracts to beat others for major signings.
To go along with the one of Colin Bell?Pep Drug Testing Centre
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David Silva statue
Geez, what's next?
They could name a stand the Silver Bellend
By definition is not small time or am I misunderstanding the term?
A bigger club with bigger legends would have a higher threshold for giving out statues than a smaller club with a smaller-scale legends. Big clubs are 'big time clubs' with big time achievements and bigger legends of the game than smaller ones who are therefore kind of small time comparatively speaking.
Nope. I don't care for their bitter and twisted agenda obsessed fanbase but I think David Silva was a wonderful player. One of the greatest imports in the PL era easily.
Maybe if they give him massive sideburns and Victorian garb, smoking a pipe or something, then people will think its a really old player who was part of their long history and not someone from after 2008.
Richard Dunne in the downstairs bathroom? They could name a urinal after Micah Richards
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David Silva statue
Geez, what's next?
Yeah but you don't (or shouldn't) put statues up for that
Another? What's my other 'moment' then? Please do tell.
I'm just not bitter and twisted. David Silva was a genius player and a pleasure to watch.
Robinho next
That's why they're not. They're putting one up because he was that and because he is one of 4? (Yaya, him, Aguero, Kompany) players that have defined the best decade the club has ever achieved.
I'm also in the camp that he was a tad overrated as a player. He was good, but no Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso or Busquets - and don't see Barca erecting some statues anytime soon. But City is a really small club so par for the course I guess.
Says who? He's won 4 league titles and numerous cups. Not like he's come along and just won the odd thing is it? Why be bitter about it. Silva is one of the greatest players to ever play for them.
Still shocked we don't have one for Eric to be honest. Tad extreme but he was a great player for them.
I'm not bitter I just find it small time and humorous, typical little City
You don’t see the difference between marking the achievements of a manager of 25 years of success unparalleled, and a player who in the grand scheme of things had a career success equivalent to Nicky Butt?
Fair enough......I have always liked him. Classy on the pitch and off it too. Never hear a bad thing said about a lot of their players it has to be said. Can't stand their fans but I can appreciate world class talent.I'm not bitter I just find it small time and humorous, typical little City
But without disrespect, they aren't a proper elite club(if you mean old successful club), they are an old club with new money and some of their recent players genuinely marked a decade of their history, in their context it's a fair criteria. Now I assume that many will use United as reference and it's true that for United it would make no sense because the Holy Trinity symbolizes three Ballon d'Or winners in the same decade who are also among United first CL winners, by that criteria only Ronaldo should get a statue among all players since the trinity. But I'm pretty sure that a few players could get a statue with no one laughing.
Is David Silva really such a special player in the grand scheme of things? He's no academy player of theirs, wasn't their captain (I think?). His CL stats are actually outright pathetic. If you had to pick between prime de Bruyne and prime D. Silva would you waste thought on the latter? To me as an outsider Kompany and Agüero are at least as much an icon of their success, maybe even Yaya.
Silva is a wonderful player, there's no debating that. But a statue? Bit much.
I separated the Shields from the Cups because people get precious over them. Apparently some people are just precious regardless.
Comparing Nicky Butt to David Silva is a bit daft, he’s been a world class, key component to the most successful time in their history. I’ve already said it’s a bit daft making a statue so soon, the quote you have quoted is me saying that for City, with such limited success in their history, Silva qualifies.
Well if we'd erected statues for Giggs, Rooney or Carrick before they retired i think you'd have a point.
A statue for a man who has managed the same club for 25 years and a player who has played for one for 10 aren't really comparable. Especially considering Ferguson was obviously going to retire shortly after the statue was erected (turned out only a few months later) and it's not like Ferguson was ever going to manage another team after United.
I have no problem with City building a statue for Silva if they want to, but it seems weird to do it while he's playing for another club.
The only one who deserves a statue for City - so far - is Raheem Sterling for the miss of the century. That should be celebrated eternally.
Silva was a great player but for statues you need to be legendary and Silva was not, even by City's low legend standards.
Maybe a cardboard cutout would have been a sensible compromise.
Maybe a cardboard cutout would have been a sensible compromise.
That's all fine, and I don't disagree. But there's a context to the appropriateness of statues just like there's a context to everything else.
A king or queen wears a crown, but it shouldn't be worn by a CEO. A pope wears a mitre, but it shouldn't be worn by a school headmaster. A statue represents a memorable history, but it shouldn't represent a recently passed present.
Silva has definitely done enough to earn a statue, but now is too early to build one.
It's like your little old brother wanting to have his own cake because he's jealous you have one on your birthday. It silly and childish. He'll get his turn when it's time. Blowing out a candle doesn't make him any more mature today. Your mum will probably let him do it, mind you, but that doesn't mean you can't laugh at him for it for how pathetic he's being.
By the same token, people are laughing at City for how small time it is to adopt the trappings of history without having gone through it yet.
I think if I was Silva or Kompany, espically the latter I would be well miffed about that. They should of followed our example of Best - Law - Charlton. Much as I hate saying it from the noisy neighbors point of view it makes more sence. However, since when do those feckers do sence
Small time is relative and in that case for City, it's not. It would be small-time for United, someone like David Silva would have to do a lot more to be a legend at United but again we are not talking about United. In some clubs it's barely a thing, how many players have a status at Real Madrid, Di Stefano?
PS: I don't really like the idea of status in general but clubs have vastly different histories and criteria, at least there is some sense in that one, unlike the Bellingham shenanigans.
If it's actual size, will it be the first statue that people have to look down at?
Yaya Toure exploding with rage, no doubt.