Marco Veratti

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LoveCity said:
Blue Haze said:
That sumer was a disaster. We spent 15m in Roswell when Verratti went for 10m and Pogba went for free.

Sickening

Our club has shown a terrible inability to see beyond the near future, with lots of short-term thinking. Pogba and Verratti would not have been instant world superstars, but would have been good young rotation players and developed into what they are. And now with the squad aging, players of this profile would be taking the reigns and becoming our new leaders. We may not have been able to get those two anyway, but there have been other examples and no one can convince me we couldn't have signed at least a couple of these brilliant emerging talents.

Every week you hear of City scouting some excellent young talents. And come summer it's nearly always the same... they end at at Juve, Dortmund, Chelsea, PSG. The recent exception being Mangala, but we still managed to pay one of the biggest fees of all time for a defender while most good young talents (Zouma a good comparison) go at more reasonable prices.

This club needs to utilise its scouting system (which by all accounts is very good) better and show some foresight. Rather than a predictable and one dimensional transfer policy... ie. "We aren't scoring goals so let's sign Bony even though he'll be available after 3 strikers are back from injury!". The academy looks good but you can't gamble too much on an academy... the failure rate of even the BEST academies for creating first teamers is incredibly high. We may rave about our U18s, U19s, U21s but history has shown that many of them will not adjust to the men's game well enough that they're good enough for City. So we need to also buy great young players.

How is it that a more primitive club managed to nab a player like Vincent Kompany so cheap, yet this state-of-the-art City lets great talents go by the handful and instead spends 8 figures on players like Fernando and Garcia?

To add to the great points you made here, because City haven't bought any young talent for the past few transfer windows that in few years time City will have to have a completely new team. At the start of the 2018/19 season the only players on the current squad that will be under 30 are Mangala and Jovetic. And Jovetic will most likely be sold this summer. Meanwhile Madrid and Bayern both have 10 players that will be under 30 at the start of the 2018/19 season.

If City don't get these next few transfers exactly right, the team could be fighting for 4th instead of 1st.
 
leech said:
LoveCity said:
Blue Haze said:
That sumer was a disaster. We spent 15m in Roswell when Verratti went for 10m and Pogba went for free.

Sickening

Our club has shown a terrible inability to see beyond the near future, with lots of short-term thinking. Pogba and Verratti would not have been instant world superstars, but would have been good young rotation players and developed into what they are. And now with the squad aging, players of this profile would be taking the reigns and becoming our new leaders. We may not have been able to get those two anyway, but there have been other examples and no one can convince me we couldn't have signed at least a couple of these brilliant emerging talents.

Every week you hear of City scouting some excellent young talents. And come summer it's nearly always the same... they end at at Juve, Dortmund, Chelsea, PSG. The recent exception being Mangala, but we still managed to pay one of the biggest fees of all time for a defender while most good young talents (Zouma a good comparison) go at more reasonable prices.

This club needs to utilise its scouting system (which by all accounts is very good) better and show some foresight. Rather than a predictable and one dimensional transfer policy... ie. "We aren't scoring goals so let's sign Bony even though he'll be available after 3 strikers are back from injury!". The academy looks good but you can't gamble too much on an academy... the failure rate of even the BEST academies for creating first teamers is incredibly high. We may rave about our U18s, U19s, U21s but history has shown that many of them will not adjust to the men's game well enough that they're good enough for City. So we need to also buy great young players.

How is it that a more primitive club managed to nab a player like Vincent Kompany so cheap, yet this state-of-the-art City lets great talents go by the handful and instead spends 8 figures on players like Fernando and Garcia?
We have to be more sure about these players than foreign clubs though. The Premiership is so tough that a few poor games and a youngster's confidence may be shot, never to fulfill their potential as they would playing against the Fox and Hound in Serie A or Ligue 1.
Bullshit. Every major league is tough in its own way. We are just not very good at this. And just LC has been whaling about for a while now, it starts with our penchant for always wanting 4 strikers ;(
 
bitsmith said:
Just have read about bonused PSG players are getting in Champions League.

100k EUR for advancing from group
+150k EUR for win vs Chelsea.
+400k EUR if they win in quarters
+700k EUR if they win semis.
+ 1mil. if they win it.

So basically, if they win Champions League they'll pocket 2.35 mil. EUR each. They can get any player to sign for them paying such money.

Those sums are not cumulative, meaning each player will get 1M€ if they win the CL, 700k if they reach the final, etc ....
 
From City Watch.
Gazzetta: City have made inquiries about the
availability of PSG & Italy midfielder Marco Verratti (22). Any deal would be very difficult.
 
supercity88 said:
Verratti is an excellent player and one that we desperately need at the club. He can read the play well defensively, is very comfortable on the ball and has a great passing range. He's the sort of player you don't notice until you really watch him, then you see just how much of the teams play is through his good work on and off the ball. I can't see us being able to sign him to be honest. The only way he will leave PSG is if Barca or Real come knocking or he is used by PSG to sign a better player. We'll swap Yaya for him?!

He's reportedly v.happy to stay in Paris.

That said, I'd be very surprised if Pogba left Juve (as I expect he will this Summer) and his replacement wasn't Verratti. He's seen by the Drughi as the natural successor to AP who will finish his playing career in Turin next year.

Pogba will be sold by Juve to fund their rebuilding programme. They will need £70 minimum for him tho.
 
Tez Tosterone said:
supercity88 said:
Verratti is an excellent player and one that we desperately need at the club. He can read the play well defensively, is very comfortable on the ball and has a great passing range. He's the sort of player you don't notice until you really watch him, then you see just how much of the teams play is through his good work on and off the ball. I can't see us being able to sign him to be honest. The only way he will leave PSG is if Barca or Real come knocking or he is used by PSG to sign a better player. We'll swap Yaya for him?!

He's reportedly v.happy to stay in Paris.

That said, I'd be very surprised if Pogba left Juve (as I expect he will this Summer) and his replacement wasn't Verratti. He's seen by the Drughi as the natural successor to AP who will finish his playing career in Turin next year.

Pogba will be sold by Juve to fund their rebuilding programme. They will need £70 minimum for him tho.

PSG don't have to sell and they'd be stupid to sell or swap Verratti for Pogba - the two of them together would be absolute class, especially considering PSG play a central three and can have a defensive midfielder to back their side up.
 
Seriously,your not going to take players off Psg unless you give them someone ridiculous like Sergio.
NONE OF THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN !!!!!!
 
Gazzetta dello Sport reporting that Carlo Ancelotti is being lined up tp replace the hapless Pippo Inzaghi, following the prospective takeover this weekend. They specualte that Carlo will pursue Marco Veratti.
 
Out of interest, does anyone know PSG's position on veratti? I'm guessing he would be near impossible to extract from them? Also does anyone know what our relationship is like with PSG; cordial or cold?
 
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