Kylian Mbappe

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Chippy_boy said:
Well all know UEFA are bent as a 9 bob note, but I do not think they are so bent as to have rules and to completely ignore them, or to make up new interpretations which are completely arbitrary and unjustifiable. They need to have at least semblance of credibility.

Personally I think it very unlikely that PSG have broken or will break any of the rules. I would imagine they have a planned revenue stream that (in conjunction with the allowed 3-year losses of €90m) supports their spending. Neymar will doubtless bring new sponsorship opportunities and revenues, for example.
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I thought it was €30million rather than €90million?
 
bluemoonmatt said:
Depends how you look at it. We could potentially be tying up our goals for the next decade with mbappe and Jesus, for me the market is only gonna get worse as well. Next years mbappe will probably break the Neymar record, so like I said earlier, I feel our owners are at a crossroads moment, they're facing having to decide quite simply if they want the top talent at the club or not, if it's the latter then fair dos, its their money and I wouldn't blame them, we've had a blast while it lasted but we won't be sat at the top table for too much longer.
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How can you say that? Utter nonsense.
 
Rolee said:
I thought it was €30million rather than €90million?
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Sorry. yes, you're right. I've not looked at the rules for a while and the UEFA website misleadingly says,

"€30m for assessment periods 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18". It might have been helpful if they had added the word, "combined"!

The "monitoring period" as they call it is a 3-year rolling period over which the cumulative losses must not exceed €30m.
 
CityForever45 said:
We don't need him, we have enough goals in the team
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Last season we had so many chances in big games that were not put away. Pep said himself we need something more, Aguero scored 20 goals in the League, then our next highest scorer was Sterling and Jesus with 7..Not good enough, Jesus obviously will play a full season this year but our attacking players are getting 5/6/7 goals between them. Not saying Mbappe would score 30 a season but to say we have enough goals I think is just false. Can create all the chances in the world but if we don't finish then we wont win.

As a team we just need to be clinical, often last season it takes us 3/4 chances to score 1.
 
Marvin said:
We'll do well, but Mbappe is a special player who would put us into CL contention. I am not sure about Aguero. I am hopeful he will have a good season in a very attacking team, but not sure he is as good as he was.
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I'm not sure he isn't ;-)

He might be half a yard slower, but his footballing brain looks even better to me. His runs and finding space and his ball control are all still phenomenal. He's always had periods where he's wasteful in front of goal, but he creates more chances for himself than anyone we've ever had. The only issue is, how much will Pep play him?
 
We're in a no lose situation with regards to Mbappe.

He comes - Great.
He stays at Monaco - We get to see how he does in a weaker team over the course of a season, rather than a good team over 6 months.
He goes to PSG - FFP is dead, and we do what we want in the future, (they won't get banned even if the buy Mbappe, because Neymar means so much marketing wise, so we automatically know we can budget more in this or future windows).

This is basically why I'm pretty chill about the whole thing.
 
bluemoonmatt said:
Which part, care to explain a bit further?[/QUOTE

I feel our owners are at a crossroads moment, they're facing having to decide quite simply if they want the top talent at the club or not, if it's the latter then fair dos, its their money and I wouldn't blame them, we've had a blast while it lasted but we won't be sat at the top table for too much longer.

1. We've never quite attracted the very top players e.g. Messi but we've tried and am sure will continue to try if the player is right
2. Not sat at the top table? We've spent £200m signing the most sought after left back, a top keeper, Bernardo Silva for starters with more players likely to join.
We've got arguably the top coach in world football.
3. Maybe we don't want to be smashing
the transfer record each year we leave that to Madrid and the expert Woodward.

I don't see our owners being diverted from their vision of plans for City.
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Chippy_boy said:
Hmmmmm. I'm not so sure.

There's only 2 tier one clubs in the world where money doesn't matter, us and PSG. And you could argue only one, since unlike PSG, we do actually try to run a sustainable business model which delivers profits, even if we have a bottomless pot of cash to support it.

And neither us nor PSG can go on blowing £200m+ every year and stay in line with the rules. We'd get banned, pure and simple.

None of the other clubs relish the prospect of a huge jump in transfer fees, nor have a huge jump in revenues to support vastly higher spending. So I do not see an inexorable increase in transfer fees happening. This year may well be a high watermark for quite some time.
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The other big clubs will definitely be monitoring how the Neymar deal pans out commercially. If he demonstrably generates shed loads of commercial revenue then there could be a step change in the valuation of the very best players. If the deal is a flop then transfer fees will re-adjust to a "normal" level.
 
Andrew___K said:
Monaco are not in the title race anymore, their squad is being torn to pieces. Fabinho is reportedly off to AtMd in Jan, Lemar will soon find a new club as well, Sidibe is too good to stay. They'll sell to the highest bidder.
To get Mbappe, we need to to outbid PSG which doesn't see
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You forgot about Fabiano
 
Chippy_boy said:
It had nothing to do with Blatter and very little to do with Platini.

It was simply the G14 cartel and their owners, frightened at the prospect of spiralling transfer fees and them not being able to compete financially, and the prospect of losing vital CL revenues to newcomers. The whole plan was about stopping this happening, and the "this" was City. PSG came along after.

I don't doubt for one moment that the evil shite Gill is absolutely behind it.
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They suppoted it and ratified it didnt they?
 
I still think Monaco would prefer to sell to us than PSG, but if reports that PSG have offered over €150m for Mbappe are true then I can't see us competing with that.
 
Ric said:
I still think Monaco would prefer to sell to us than PSG, but if reports that PSG have offered over €150m for Mbappe are true then I can't see us competing with that.
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Id agree nearly every time but i honestly think our board/owner will back and give Pep whatever he wants.
 
Ric said:
I still think Monaco would prefer to sell to us than PSG, but if reports that PSG have offered over €150m for Mbappe are true then I can't see us competing with that.
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What's our transfer record so far, £60m ish?

No, I can't see us more than doubling it (on the back of £200m spend this season already) either.
 
blueinsa said:
Id agree nearly every time but i honestly think our board/owner will back and give Pep whatever he wants.
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Even if true, do we know this is what Pep wants?

I think we know he wants a proven, clinical goalscorer who will convert the umpteen chances we create every game. Is that Mbappe?
 
Chippy_boy said:
Even if true, do we know this is what Pep wants?

I think we know he wants a proven, clinical goalscorer who will convert the umpteen chances we create every game. Is that Mbappe?
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We dont do anything in the public eye anymore so can only go off reports that he is in love with the player mate.

Same goes with sanchez tbh.
 
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