Virgil van Dijk

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If we're looking at spending 50m for a center back, make it Bonucci not van Dijk. He's a great player and only 25 but Bonucci is one of the three best center backs in the world and would transform our back line immediately.

That said, I wouldn't be disappointed if we don't sign anyone in the position. Not only is Kompany incredible (when fit), Otamendi had a massively underrated season imo. And Stones is only going to get better. Add in Tosin and Kolarov as cover and we're sorted.
 
aguerooo93 said:
If we're looking at spending 50m for a center back, make it Bonucci not van Dijk. He's a great player and only 25 but Bonucci is one of the three best center backs in the world and would transform our back line immediately.

That said, I wouldn't be disappointed if we don't sign anyone in the position. Not only is Kompany incredible (when fit), Otamendi had a massively underrated season imo. And Stones is only going to get better. Add in Tosin and Kolarov as cover and we're sorted.
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Is tosin going to sign tho? Seems to be dragging it out
 
aguerooo93 said:
If we're looking at spending 50m for a center back, make it Bonucci not van Dijk. He's a great player and only 25 but Bonucci is one of the three best center backs in the world and would transform our back line immediately.

That said, I wouldn't be disappointed if we don't sign anyone in the position. Not only is Kompany incredible (when fit), Otamendi had a massively underrated season imo. And Stones is only going to get better. Add in Tosin and Kolarov as cover and we're sorted.
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I agree, for all the flack our defence has suffered this season we will be much better with solid full backs, add to this that our goal keeper situation should be better this year.
 
Dax777 said:
Highly unlikely in my humble opinion. We won't get all the CBs being linked and Stones will play CB. Frankly, I don't think we'll get any.
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Pretty clear we were going for another centre back last year and we have needed one at times this year and are spending significant money to chase trophies. I'd be a bit surprised if we didn't land another centre back. Though I agree Stones will play Centre back (Or possibly occasionally right back rather than midfield)
 
r.soleofsalford said:
and we still conceded the 4th least goals last year in spite of having Bravo on the pitch for a good part of the season.
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Exactly, the other thing that is not often quoted is that we have had this nasty knack of shipping lots of goals in one game which distorts the figures more, e.g. Leicester and Everton away.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
and we still conceded the 4th least goals last year in spite of having Bravo on the pitch for a good part of the season.
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Maybe, but the one's we did concede did turn out to be costly. Part of the problem was that we weren't overwhelming at the other end either. We seemed to create a lot and convert relatively few, thereby making each goal that we conceded relatively more significant and costly than it might otherwise have been.
 
Otamendi has been ok this season, but against a pacey, strong forward he struggles. Costa bullied him at our place and Rashford had him on toast in the first half of the Derby. VVD is a better defender and far more equipped to deal with the forward I have discussed above.
 
Kamran Shirinzade said:
No you are wrong Royal Family here are United fans. United in era of Fergie was considered as significance of youth promotion but City sign of consumerism. Pep liked here because of Croyff's legacy, but there is stilli nefative bias against City. Hope Van Dijk signing will avoid it.
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Meh. Feyenoord liked us last I checked. The rest can fuck off.
 
I'd wager that Tosin will leave regardless, the only issue is whether Van Dijk would replace Otamendi or Kolarov. For me I hope it's the latter, but with Pepe seemingly leaving Madrid, a £35m offer for Otamendi would be great business.
 
City_Sean said:
I'd wager that Tosin will leave regardless, the only issue is whether Van Dijk would replace Otamendi or Kolarov. For me I hope it's the latter, but with Pepe seemingly leaving Madrid, a £35m offer for Otamendi would be great business.
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Real Madrid have Jesús Vallejo coming back from loan next season. He'll probably round out their group of CB's along with Ramos, Varane, and Nacho.
 
I hope this is true, the guy is quality, tall, strong, dominating, comfortable on the ball, would be a great acquisition.
 
BlueDeadHead said:
Kompany, Stones, VVD, Kolarov, and Tosin would be just fine.
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You can't have Kola and Tosin. I think Pep loves Kompany as he will play when healthy, but not counting on him as anything more than a 4th CB.

With the sale of Mangala, and possibly Otamendi, plus cash... we may be able to bring in two CBs to pair with Stones and Kompany. VVD, LaPorte, Stones, Kompany would be nice. I don't think we'll need five as Pep will shrink the roster, and we'll play 3 at the back sometimes.
 
BlueDeadHead said:
Kompany, Stones, VVD, Kolarov, and Tosin would be just fine.
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Kolarov? Come on I know the lad hasn't done too badly this season but him as 3rd/4th choice (depending on Vinny's fitness) is scary if you've got ambitions of winning the Champions League and the Premier League.

You don't spend £80m on a goalkeeper and attacking midfielder, probably another £80m on fullbacks and another £50/60m on Sanchez to leave yourself with Kolarov at centre back if you get 1/2 injuries.
 
shaiomarali said:
I would keep Otamendi. Top 5 CB defender in Europes top league last I checked.
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This can't be a serious post...

According to WhoScored stats? lol. Those & Squawka are universally mocked for a reason, they don't even publicly release their model (I'm guessing it skews highly towards total passes/pass completion). It's why stats are so frowned apart these days, people use the wrong stats & often misleading ones. Not to mention defenders & GK's (even more so) are still very hard to quantify using stats.
 
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JimmyNJ said:
You can't have Kola and Tosin. I think Pep loves Kompany as he will play when healthy, but not counting on him as anything more than a 4th CB.

With the sale of Mangala, and possibly Otamendi, plus cash... we may be able to bring in two CBs to pair with Stones and Kompany. VVD, LaPorte, Stones, Kompany would be nice. I don't think we'll need five as Pep will shrink the roster, and we'll play 3 at the back sometimes.
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Have £100mil of CB's on the bench, naaaaah. Fuck Laporte, we don't want him anymore anyway. VvD, Kompany, Stones, Kolarov would be fine. Kolarov is a decent backup, especially since he covers LB too
 
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