Do we miss Barry ?

Well that is a question we can start to answer after a third of a season.

I have no doubt that the Gareth Barry of last season is certainly not missed, he did not contribute much last season and was one of the reasons I would use for our slump. So far for Manchester City this season in the games I have seen he has been unimpressive and in many ways his game has gone backwards. He is being asked to play further forward and because of his lack of pace I feel that is not suited to him.

However we miss the Barry of the 2007-08 season, he was excellent that season, Ashley Young for certain benefited immensely from his presence and the ability to deliver accurate pin point passes for Young to run onto. If you placed that Barry into this season’s team then I believe the relatively poor results at Blackburn & West Ham may not have happened.

He would give us the balance to the team we need and especially with the ability to get quick balls to the wing where we are very strong. However I feel that after looking at the way he has started at Man City that maybe we picked the right time to sell him and we may have had the best years of Barry and for that (despite what I think of the way he acted) we should consider ourselves lucky.