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Proy said:
We could certainly manage with Walker/Mendy/Danillo and Fernandinho stepping In for cover, but if Kola does end up leaving I think we will go for an actual left back, which essentially negates the need for Dinho. He stepped in to cover last season but I don't think he enjoyed it in the slightest. In fact there was one home game, can't remember who, where he was horrific.

But I couldn't say who. We will get rinsed for Bertrand. And I think this £25 million on Danillo is money that wasn't in the book keeping.
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I can't help but feel 3 fullbacks is risking it a bit - especially when Mendy and Walker have had their injuries issues in the past, 1 covering player doesn't really seem safe.

A CB who could legitimately play LB - like Lucas Hernandez - would be perfect but they're rare.

Actually Lucas Hernandez would be fucking perfect, and we've been linked to him, but that stupid transfer ban at Atletico seems to have killed any hope there.
 
domalino said:
I can't help but feel 3 fullbacks is risking it a bit - especially when Mendy and Walker have had their injuries issues in the past, 1 covering player doesn't really seem safe.

A CB who could legitimately play LB - like Lucas Hernandez - would be perfect but they're rare.
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I agree. 2 for each full back position. If the shit hits the fan we will be covered.
 
domalino said:
I can't help but feel 3 fullbacks is risking it a bit - especially when Mendy and Walker have had their injuries issues in the past, 1 covering player doesn't really seem safe.

A CB who could legitimately play LB - like Lucas Hernandez - would be perfect but they're rare.

Actually Lucas Hernandez would be fucking perfect, and we've been linked to him, but that stupid transfer ban at Atletico seems to have killed any hope there.
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Can still pay the release clause if he really wants to join nothing Atletico can do about it.
 
domalino said:
Actually Lucas Hernandez would be fucking perfect, and we've been linked to him, but that stupid transfer ban at Atletico seems to have killed any hope there.
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Maybe go back in for him in January? I know Atlético probably wouldn't be too happy about that (which is important as we like to keep good relationships), but it'd be a good move imo for when the games really begin to pile up, even if he'll be cup tied for CL.
 
Ruzzles said:
Can still pay the release clause if he really wants to join nothing Atletico can do about it.
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Buyout clause is €55m/£48m. That's a lot of money.

Also sometimes that's the easy part, see Greizmann. Someone's got almost cult like loyalty from his players.
 
Ruzzles said:
So? If he wants to come and City think he'd be perfect the price doesn't matter I'd also doubt Atletico would even consider less.
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Assuming Sanchez's £50m is ringfenced that would take our summer spending past £300m which has got to be pushing the very limits of what we can afford if we can even go that high with Hart and Mangala both not being sold as was the plan.

When the story broke earlier in the summer that we might get him I think it was expected for less than the buyout, about £36m.
 
Bootador said:
I'm concerned, hearing from lots of people saying he's awful. Not just the usual suspects, but the kind that will say if we're signing a good player.

I've never seen him personally, but yeah... worried.
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He is far from awful. Just expensive.
 
Pep's master plan is to flood our team with brazilians, Danilo makes 3 brazilians bought this window.
 
Haven't seen anything of this lad get a feel one way or the other for him. Interesting reaction his possible signing is getting on here. Very mixed. All I can think is that for Real to pick him up in the first place he must have a bit about him, and also for Pep (by all accounts) to want him now.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Okay, fair enough. Lets say it was decided as a collective then that it's best for him to be elsewhere and isn't ready. You could be right, maybe some disagreed and think he is ready but obviously not enough of them did or they wasn't convinced enough to influence and convince Pep to keep him. At the very least, Pep didn't think he was ready and that's ultimately what matters the most. If Pep, or enough of the team thought otherwise, he'd be in America right now there's no getting away from that.

You're entitled to think that, you can be as certain as you want but why hasn't it happened if that's actually the case? You can say Pellegrini wasn't one for taking risks, i'll accept that, but Pep will give youth a chance. However, he's absolutely clear that he won't give them a chance for the sake of it, they have to be good enough and earn it, he's said it many times, even the chairman said it in his end of season interview, we won't compromise on quality. Again, if Maffeo was good enough, he'd be with the team now.

I think you're lending far too much weight to that game against United. He played well but it's one game, there's countless examples of kids that have performed great for a handful of games then are never seen again, why? Because they often get through on adrenaline and simply can't find that level consistently to establish themselves. I do agree that performance seemed to warrant another chance but we have no idea what goes on a day to day basis. They're training every single day and he was training with the first team before he was sent on loan, There's no logical reason for him not getting a game other than the assumption that he simply wasn't performing better than others in training.

Nobody is saying he needs to be the perfect flawless player from the get-go, they simply need to show that they are currently better than any other option we have or even just the second best option to make the squad.

He's at Girona now, we'll get to see him playing week in week out in La Liga, against a good standard of opposition and we'll see entirely risk free whether he can handle that level. If he can, he'll be judged and a decision will be made on whether he's good enough for our squad or whether he's to be tested at a better level further still, and if he's not then it's a bullet dodged that could otherwise had been costly.

If this were something specific to us, i'd accept you may have a case but It's not like we're the only club that do this with the kids either, almost all the top teams in Europe do exactly the same thing. You very rarely see a player come in from nowhere and just chucked in at the deep end unless they've either had a loan or multiple loans first, are in a competition they don't care about, have nothing left to play for or injuries have forced it upon them. It's even rarer still, that they actually hold their own and establish themselves in that side. Why do they all do it? Because there's no risk, no downside to it and it works.

Danilo may be the easier choice, but he's always the better choice.
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I could have sworn I made it clear that I'm not saying he's ready.
 
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