Welcome Joao Cancelo

This is a game changing signing, this allows us even more tactical fluidity and is the final piece in the jigsaw as far as I’m concerned. Rodri was desperately needed and absolutely had to be done but this signing of Cancelo means we have the technical ability to play out of any press. It gives us width of the right hand side to free up Bernardo/Mahrez to come inside and also means De Bruyne will be free to cause fucking mayhem from slightly deeper against park the bus teams (e.g. rag scum).

Walker will still be crucial at right back but the slow transition into a centre back to protect his athleticism is 100% happening.

We’re in for a fucking treat again this season boys and girls.
 
RandomJ said:
£34 million for Danilo. Txiki take a bow son.
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Not sure how the accounting works, but to me it is net £26m for Cancelo. I believe City valued him around 45-50, so that means we effectively sold Danilo for 19-24m. Still really good going.

Nice to actually come out on the right side of an Italian negotiation.
 
Having Mendy/Zinchenko/Cancelo as the wingbacks, allows us to have an ideal back three for our system:

RCD | Walker - athleticism and pace to cover the long/through ball

CCD | Stones - ball playing centre half for on-the-ground passing/distribution

LCD | Laporte - great 1v1 defender who can spray cross-field passes to wingers/wingbacks up the pitch

ALT | Otamendi - strong, no-nonsense defender, great in the air, who can be brought in for one of the three above depending on opposition/tactics

ALT | Dinho - similar to Stones, but can drop there in possession when we aren’t playing a formal back three
 
lasereyes said:
Not sure how the accounting works, but to me it is net £26m for Cancelo. I believe City valued him around 45-50, so that means we effectively sold Danilo for 19-24m. Still really good going.

Nice to actually come out on the right side of an Italian negotiation.
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The fact that both he and Rodders both have the same eagerness to be here and he also seems like a really nice lad is great to see. As has been said many times before this is not just about the football technique, but about the players attitude and whether he will gel with the squad. Looks like we have got another good lad. This lads not here for the ride either, would not be surprised to see him become a fan favourite and nail down the position over the season. Compare the video of this lads happiness to be here and Harry’s :)
 
BosnianBlue said:
What do you make of this deal? Juventus in danger of FFP or what?
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Not in danger of FFP but we obviously wanted to sell him for money. We're quite shit at selling, here's hoping we can sell either Rugani or Khedira to Arsenal (both would be perfect) like the rumours said.
 
Yeah I know its a Youtube vid and the background music is shite as usual but he does look good going forward...

 
lasereyes said:
Not sure how the accounting works, but to me it is net £26m for Cancelo. I believe City valued him around 45-50, so that means we effectively sold Danilo for 19-24m. Still really good going.

Nice to actually come out on the right side of an Italian negotiation.
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The fees are all to help out Juventus.

The needed to raise money on their books this year, and because of the amortisation, selling Cancelo for €65m and buying Danilo for €37 nets them a €24m profit this year.

If we'd given them Danilo for 0 and paid €28m for Cancelo then they'd have made a €4m loss this year despite the net amount of cash and the players being identical.
 
Can't wait to see his link up with Bernardo, kinda cool to find out they played with eachother at Benfica and both ofcourse play for Portugal so they'll be know eachother will which can only bode well for us!
 
Uffa said:
Not in danger of FFP but we obviously wanted to sell him for money. We're quite shit at selling, here's hoping we can sell either Rugani or Khedira to Arsenal (both would be perfect) like the rumours said.
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you compensate that with getting players for free :D
 
Tricky_Trev said:
It’ll be interesting to see. I’d guess West Ham is too soon, depends what shape Juve got him into. He seems like the kind of guy that’s naturally fit though. The Spurs game I think Walker starts to keep an eye on Son. We won’t want Cancelo flying forward in that game I don’t think. So maybe starting at Bournemouth? It’s only guesswork though :)
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I think he’ll start against Spurs, they play with a narrow press and we’ll need Cancelo to give us the width. Gundogan or maybe even Fernandinho will also start alongside Rodri to give us additional protection against the counter attacks.
 
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