Jonny Evans

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Ric said:
He only had a year left on his contract though I think, and the market in 2015 was very different to now. I’m probably clutching at straws, but maybe Guardiola can greatly improve Evans too as he has with Delph (although I concede it’s not worked with Mangala).
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I thought we paid his release clause? In any case, even if he does improve, the guy is 30. It's not like we'd get 5 years of good performances out of him. Even in this market, £20m is not the kind of money that you'd want to throw away. It's not a Demichelis-style stopgap. Those funds would go a good way towards a promising young centre half with potential future value. We should be looking for Kompany's replacement.
 
Homar said:
I thought we paid his release clause? In any case, even if he does improve, the guy is 30. It's not like we'd get 5 years of good performances out of him. Even in this market, £20m is not the kind of money that you'd want to throw away. It's not a Demichelis-style stopgap. Those funds would go a good way towards a promising young centre half with potential future value. We should be looking for Kompany's replacement.
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Agree 30m can go to a younger CB our issue though is a back 4 of walker stones mangala delph has no mature head and if Pep wants someone as a calming influence who makes the rest of the back 4 calm down JFE could actually fit the bill.
 
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@BluePhil8 said:
Agree 30m can go to a younger CB our issue though is a back 4 of walker stones mangala delph has no mature head and if Pep wants someone as a calming influence who makes the rest of the back 4 calm down JFE could actually fit the bill.
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Walker, Otamendi and Delph are not exactly kids. I personally think that we've got enough experience. Although I take your point that none of these are leaders in the same vein as Kompany, I don't that that you could put Evans into that category either. Twenty million goes at least half way towards a quality centre half. In a couple of years we're going to be struggling to get this guy off our books. I simply cannot conceive of any realistic scenario in which this transfer would turn out to be good business.
 
Homar said:
I simply cannot conceive of any realistic scenario in which this transfer would turn out to be good business.
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I don't know, what about if we insure him for £50m and he then has an 'accident' before he can make his debut?
 
Homar said:
The insurer would probably die from uncontrollable laughter upon claiming his value to be £50m.
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Not if we point out what Lukaku cost, with Ed Woodward in football virtually any fucking Sunday league carthorse could be sold for £100m and Johnny Fucking Evans is probably worth about half of one of those.
 
johnmc said:
Why don’t y’all that don’t want him do your coaching badges, win a few league and chuck in a champions league and then say he’s not good enough
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cleavers said:
Because we/they're fans, and we're not paid, but as such we can have an opinion on a fans forum.
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Tbf the average poster on here probably has more chance of getting their A license, winning a few league titles and the Champions League than Johnny Fucking Evans has of ever being any good.
 
As much as I hate JFE, some guys are being absolute muppets here. If Arsenal sign JFE, he'll start for them. He'll be the 4th choice CB at City. How is this going backwards? We've have a potential starter at CB for a top 6 side at 4th choice. That's insane depth. He's never starting over Stones, Ota or Kompany so we'll barely even see him play ever. Also everything suggests that we'll be going big in the summer for a top CB again to replace Kompany. Ota, Stones, new CB and Evans. That would be incredible depth at CB as far as I'm concerned.
 
aguero93:20 said:
Tbf the average poster on here probably has more chance of getting their A license, winning a few league titles and the Champions League than Johnny Fucking Evans has of ever being any good.
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That would be too easy, try a bunch of 8 year olds on a wet winter Sunday morning, if you can get them to maintain some kind of coherent shape, and end the game without being hoarse, you deserve all the badges and future trophies you could possibly want!
 
johnmc said:
Why don’t y’all that don’t want him do your coaching badges, win a few league and chuck in a champions league and then say he’s not good enough
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Or we could just post an opinion on a message board like people have been doing since message boards began.
 
"We sign Sanchez, you sign Jonny Evan, Jonny Evans!"

He's nailed on to have a blinder at the Etihad in April, and to help City win the title. :-)
 
sky_blue said:
As much as I hate JFE, some guys are being absolute muppets here. If Arsenal sign JFE, he'll start for them. He'll be the 4th choice CB at City. How is this going backwards? We've have a potential starter at CB for a top 6 side at 4th choice. That's insane depth. He's never starting over Stones, Ota or Kompany so we'll barely even see him play ever. Also everything suggests that we'll be going big in the summer for a top CB again to replace Kompany. Ota, Stones, new CB and Evans. That would be incredible depth at CB as far as I'm concerned.
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Agree that Evans is actually a good 4th choice, but aren't you being too optimistic on Komps' situation? He has a deal until 2019 and is almost impossible to shift next summer, unless the club decides to loan him out, sponsoring wages.
 
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