Sky are running with Neymar to PSG this morning again, this time saying that he's '90% likely' to leave this summer.
The other 10% will be a pay rise.Originally Posted by Sky
Sky are running with Neymar to PSG this morning again, this time saying that he's '90% likely' to leave this summer.
The other 10% will be a pay rise.
Short of single-handedly winning PSG the Champions' League, you're not winning any individual awards playing in the French league.
£200m? What.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40691689
Another £50m defender for City.
You could have Paul Breitner and Antonio Valencia patrolling either flank and they wouldn't make up for John Stones.
That is obscene. We must be nearing the end game now.
Elsewhere, United still need a winger, and PSG have reportedly told Dire Maria he can leave...
Di Maria was quality for us the first few games, before his house got broken into and Lewis Van Garl started using a random number generator to determine his position each game.
Bring him back.
He should never be allowed in the country again.
It'd be worth it just for mahows seethe.
The Guardian sez that a SEETHING Chelsea will take fifty million for Nemanja Matic. Whatevs lads. Chump change. Also:
Heroic stuff. The Iranians will probably name a street after him.
Are City's back 5 now the most expensive of each position ever?
Or does David Luiz lol his way into that equation?
Someone posted it the other day and Luiz was there.
Woodward to go back to Spurs with a new offer of £39m for Dier next week then.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40686943
Another defender for City for only half the regular price!
£75m on right-backs in one window. Jesus christ.
From what I remember of when City played really well for those ten games last season, their SYSTEM relied on their full-backs being extremely disciplined, and, as past it and/or crap as their 2016/17 full-backs were, are their new ones more intelligent? They are obviously better on paper, but Kyle Walker is an idiot, and that Benjamin Mendy has probably never marked anyone or anything in his life, so building your SYSTEM on their ability to hold particular positions seems risky (and probably futile in a quicker league regardless).
At the start they were playing with both full backs as "inside full backs" tucked in alongside the holding midfielder (when in possession). A better idea when your full backs are Lahm and Alaba than two guys whose strength is running - Walker and Mendy - so they'll probably just do their usual thing and get up the wing.
In this market Dier (as an England international, homegrown player (or is he?) and proven Premier League performer, to a certain level, at a club that doesn't need to sell) is worth at least £60 million.
Wasn't that partly to protect their relatively light-weight spine? If their full-backs remain wide at all times, any likely central midfield combination (assuming they won't start Fernandinho and Ilkay Gundogan) seems susceptible to being overrun, thereby further exposing the losers in central defence.
You're turning into a tactic bore, Lewis.
Pep can't truly actualise his genius without £200m on full backs.
If Man City don't win something big - never mind top 4 - after all this then 'Pep' needs to go on the bonfire.
If he has another season that's anything like the last one then I'm afraid he'll have been found out.
I've just noticed we've loaned Kurt Zouma out to Stoke, and Mason Mount is heading to Vitesse.
One Englishman in the squad these days, which is captain Gazza Cahill.
I missed that zouma transfer. Also missed douglas costa joining juventus and assombalonga joining middlesbrough.
We could really do with sorting this VvD situation out. It's been clear for a few weeks that he won't be with us next season.
I'd rather sell him now then wait till the end of August to squeeze the extra couple of million out of whichever club.
Need a centre back to replace him and then some sort of marquee signing.
Have a feeling this will be a very long season, we where crap last season despite finishing 8th and we haven't really added anything.
Liverpool target keita - who ive never seen play, not even youtube highlights - managed to get the the leipzig training session called-off after an alleged savage tackle. Diego Demme had to leave the field on a stretcher with bandages on his knee caps.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...d-bust-up.html
Hopefully now they sign him and in 2 years time he pulls the same stunt on their star player so he can get a move to Spain
Just saw this on BBC website:
Well worth £52 million then.Who is Benjamin Mendy?
Born in Longjumeau - a suburb of Paris
Signed for Monaco in June 2016 for a reported £11m
Has made four appearances for senior side
Has represented France's youth sides (under-16, 17, 18, 19 and 21)
No mention of his Monaco season (which one would assume was pretty good). Reads like a bit of an agenda.
Keita is similar, although his fee last summer might have been a bit of a stitch up between Red Bull teams.
There have probably never been more 'scouts' in the game but fuck know what 99% of them do.
Maybe, but mainly to outnumber the opposition in midfield and make it more difficult for them to counterattack because their wingers were having to tuck in and try to make up the numbers. It also meant City's wingers had more space which is why they could play those quick balls out wide for Sterling/whoever to have a 1v1.
So now they can be counter-attacked more easily and have Kyle Walker defending for them. Win/win.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40669333
Hope he does well.
That's a proper bargain.
Love a bit of Hernandez.
He's only 29...?
Funny to think that if that was Jamie Vardy, 30, then the price would probably be at least double. And he'd still at best score 5 goals less than Chicharito will.
Just checked last years bundesliga. Leverkusen finished 12th.
The picture they've chosen for that Danilo article is quality. It looks like he's just leaving his man to run through.
There was a tweet yesterday which I enjoyed, saying that Man City have had a higher 'defence budget' this year than most countries.
Is City basically just planning on playing Stones and Otamendi in central defence all season then? I mean as Kompany invariably will get injured after two games.
Mangala and fernando are both still officially man city players.
Juventus are after Mangala to replace Bonucci.
Is Danilo the sort of full back who could drop into a back three? Pep must have his eye on a midfielder who cab drop into defence.Is City basically just planning on playing Stones and Otamendi in central defence all season then? I mean as Kompany invariably will get injured after two games.
Fernandinho.
Mbappe going to Real Madrid for £161 million. Excellent value.
Important to know.
Why bother? They're loaning him back for a year anyway, and realistically who else can (or would) pay a similar amount (whilst also representing a progression, thereby ruling PSG out)? It's not as if he will have ten clubs in for him next summer, so wait eighteen months and see if he doesn't flatline.
Where would he even play?
He's going to end up being a more expensive Odegaard.
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