Kylian Mbappe

[ADegenerate]

It is absutely crazy & obscene but it's unfortunately becoming normal, which is why we need to start putting more effort into actually producing City players from our academy.

We're trying, no? Sancho and Diaz might be future world 11 players.

 

[Callum Ramsey]

That's the (100) million dollar question isn't it? It's a crazy fee for an 18 year old and I understand the points you make about wanting proven quality for that fee. The only point I want to make is that the 'gambling on potential' narrative feels wrong because every top club is jumping through the roof trying to smash the record trying to buy this kid. It's not ...well Real Madrid will do it, so that means we should get in too! It's more like every clubs scouts are begging the club to buy this youngster at any cost. That's enough for me to say aright, we have to go all-in for this kid.

Where are all these crazy prices for him coming from. Genuine question as I still haven't seen any credible sources that has teams looking to pay those fees for him

 

[Neville Kneville]

We're trying, no? Sancho and Diaz might be future world 11 players.

Trying means having the balls to play them. None of the players we have signed would have come through the same at City.

The situation with signings is spiralling out of control & we need to consider what happens if UEFA change the rules.

 

[CityStu]

100 million is not crazy if he goes on to be come the next Henry/Ronaldo.

100m would not be crazy if he was already at the standard of Henry/Ronaldo. Paying that much because he might do that is crazy IMO.

 

[ADegenerate]

Trying means having the balls to play them. None of the players we have signed would have come through the same at City.

The situation with signings is spiralling out of control & we need to consider what happens if UEFA change the rules.

Last post from me on this regarding youth because I don't want fantasyireland having a stroke. I wanted rekik, barker, lopes, denayer, and Roberts to play and make it here just as anyone else. There hasn't been a single player make our first team since I got into the game (outside of Micah). Having said that we need to start looking at ourselves like we're RM. It annoys Pep that we don't. Ask yourself if Real would have taken a chance on any of those players above. Massive Nope for me.

 

[B\connellblue]

For £100m he'd need to score 20 more goals a season than kun, he won't ,in fact he'd do well to match his record for us. Don't see where the value to us lies in this deal to be honest.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Based on the little I have seen of him, he doesn't have the technical ability to be another Ronaldo or Messi. But his explosive pace, good link-up play and coolness in front of goal do evoke memories of Henry.

Whilst he's obviously a brilliant prospect, one side would be taking quite a sizeable risk if he were to leave this summer for the figures quoted.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

Anyone who thinks £100,000,000.00 is not crazy money to pay for any footballer needs to take a step back, it's not just crazy it's also immoral. But hey this is the wonderful world of football and whilst the prize money goes up, then so does the transfer value, 100 million is still crazy.

 

[Jazzman]

100m would not be crazy if he was already at the standard of Henry/Ronaldo. Paying that much because he might do that is crazy IMO.

Well if he was the standard of Ronaldo he would cost 200 million. We can't use the prices of yesteryear as a measure of what players cost today. If Mbappe is a talent in the same bracket as Henry and Ronaldo almost any price is justified, because that would mean he is a once in a generation talent. I cannot judge myself if he really has that potential, but it would seem that almost all clubs in the world think so.
Furthermore, I think that we mustn't mix up the exception of a once in a generation talent with the general problem City has introducing talents from the academy into the first team. None of our talents are once in a generation talents. Surely we need to become better at introducing these players. Real Madrid has shown how it can be done. We will see if we manage to make Foden, Sancho and Diaz first team players in the next 2-3 years.

 

[CityStu]

Well if he was the standard of Ronaldo he would cost 200 million. We can't use the prices of yesteryear as a measure of what players cost today.

I'm not. £100m is an unprecedented transfer fee and we're already talking about comfortably exceeding that.

If Mbappe is a talent in the same bracket as Henry and Ronaldo almost any price is justified, because that would mean he is a once in a generation talent. I cannot judge myself if he really has that potential, but it would seem that almost all clubs in the world think so.

No club in the world can be 100% sure because there simply isn't enough available information to make that assertion. He's had one season in a lower class league in a counter attacking side that suits his pace.

Furthermore, I think that we mustn't mix up the exception of a once in a generation talent with the general problem City has introducing talents from the academy into the first team. None of our talents are once in a generation talents. Surely we need to become better at introducing these players. Real Madrid has shown how it can be done. We will see if we manage to make Foden, Sancho and Diaz first team players in the next 2-3 years.

Again, you haven't got enough information to make the assertion that our kids aren't once in a generation talents. If those players get the same first team as Mbappe has got then who's to say how well they may perform? It's the same logic as would suggest that Josh Harrop is a better player than Sancho because he has played and scored in the Premier League.

 

[Callum Ramsey]

I'm just finding it hard to believe that even real will be willing to pay around 100m plus for him. The only source I could find was some french radio station stating they had already two bids rejected but outside of that no credible source has stated any of the teams listed willing to pay that price for him. This is a team that just won back-to-back champions league trophies and did a double in a season where bale hardly featured. The likes of isco and jamez rodriguez are rotational options where they would be starters for almost every other team. Why they would need to break the world record for a teenager on the basis of one season just makes little sense.

 

[BillyShears]

Have it on pretty good authority he's going to sign a new contract. At least that's what Monaco think which means someone from his camp has said it's on.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Have it on pretty good authority he's going to sign a new contract. At least that's what Monaco think which means someone from his camp has said it's on.

In some ways I hope he stays there for another season. If he moves now there's always the danger he ends up in Madrid being crowded out and even if he signed for us there would be huge competition. The rags would waste his talent if he went there.

Let him stay for another year in Monaco then we can sign him as our Aguero replacement and hopefully Madrid will be chasing some other shiny new toy.

 

[Manchester1894]

Nasri + 80m. Deal. I wish.

 

[Chi-town blues]

İf we sign 28 year old Sanchez for 50 and Arsenal signs 18 year once generation player for 110. It would be very big mistake for us. Sanchez will win us a year as RVP at Manu. But this kid is next Messi. I hope Pep understands it. Just spend all Van Dijk and Sanchez money for Mbappe and buy 2 full backs it enough. Bernardo, Ederson, Mendy, Walker, Mbappe is perfect summer. We can convincd Mbappe by Guardiola's youth record, UCL, and presence of Bernardo and Mendy in City 2 of his 3 closest friends at Monaco (3rd is Valeri Germain). Hope somebody reading this from technical stuff of Guardiola. Just skip Sanchez and concentrate on Mbappe. Missing him to PL side would be very very dissapointing.

Next Messi?

 

[Jazzman]

I'm not. £100m is an unprecedented transfer fee and we're already talking about comfortably exceeding that.



No club in the world can be 100% sure because there simply isn't enough available information to make that assertion. He's had one season in a lower class league in a counter attacking side that suits his pace.



Again, you haven't got enough information to make the assertion that our kids aren't once in a generation talents. If those players get the same first team as Mbappe has got then who's to say how well they may perform? It's the same logic as would suggest that Josh Harrop is a better player than Sancho because he has played and scored in the Premier League.

I agree such a transfer (well any transfer actually) is a calculated risk, and this particular one only makes sense in the best case scenario. If, however, the best case scenario is that the lad is the next Thierry Henry, the price is not too high. Player prices has doubled or tripled in the last couple of years, and I do not see why this development should stop. Pogba cost 100 million, Higuain 90 million, Watford will not set Troy Deany for 30 million. 130 million for Thierry Henry is ok for me.
Now the problem is off course that the risk is terribly high. What if he does not become Thierry Henry. It takes only a simple injury for this to happen.

 

[CityStu]

I agree such a transfer (well any transfer actually) is a calculated risk, and this particular one only makes sense in the best case scenario. If, however, the best case scenario is that the lad is the next Thierry Henry, the price is not too high. Player prices has doubled or tripled in the last couple of years, and I do not see why this development should stop. Pogba cost 100 million, Higuain 90 million, Watford will not set Troy Deany for 30 million. 130 million for Thierry Henry is ok for me.
Now the problem is off course that the risk is terribly high. What if he does not become Thierry Henry. It takes only a simple injury for this to happen.

Exactly. If Mbappe was already proving that the 'next Henry' tags were not untoward then the fee would seem more reasonable. He's simply not had the time to show whether the comparisons are fair or not though.

It's an enormous risk at that price at this stage of his career.

 

[117 M34]

His price has already reached its maximum. If he has another year next year like he has this year his price won't go up.
As a buyer, we may as well wait and see if he can replicate it

 

[Dr Jacoby]

His price has already reached its maximum. If he has another year next year like he has this year his price won't go up.
As a buyer, we may as well wait and see if he can replicate it

I think it's more a case of "we better sign him before ............. do".

 

[The Blue one!]

Have it on pretty good authority he's going to sign a new contract. At least that's what Monaco think which means someone from his camp has said it's on.

He know something about Mendy to us mate?