Eric Garcia to Barcelona

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Very disappointing as he's an exceptional young talent who defends with intelligence beyond his years but if he doesn't want to stay, what can we do. Good luck to him at Barcelona, you can't deny anyone the chance to play for their boyhood club. If it was any of us we'd do anything to play for City.

It presents us the perfect opportunity to bring back Adaradiayo, who has the skillset to become anything he wants to be in my opinion.
 
Unsurprising.

I am not as devastated as some on here. Its one thing finishing a season having broken into the side because more senior players have been dump, its another thing entirely, starting the next season in the team after a transfer window.

I said previously on here that if he started next season any higher than 4th or 5th choice CB then we had failed in the transfer window. Better for us that he goes now for a decent fee, while his stock has been artificially inflated due to Stones and Otamendi.

Good luck Eric.
 
Super Joey Hart said:
hes fucking sh*t.

slow small and not very tough outside of a pep team (which he hasn’t even proven anything yet) he’ll be below bang average.

Mane jogged past him 4/5 times like he was jogging past a traffic cone. Off ya pop son close the door on the way out.
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Honestly I'd have to agree.

Good luck to the kid tho.
 
razman said:
Really need to see if its worth for city to invest in these Spanish kids.

Garcia, Suarez and Brahim, all eventually want to go back to Real / Barca even if they are not ready.
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We pay peanuts for them and have banked millions from selling them so yes it is worth it.

Garcia of course hasn't left yet but Brahim and Suarez have gone on to achieve nothing, I would hardly say we have missed out on anything.
 
Shame he's going. Decent defender who reads the game brilliantly and obviously highly intelligent. But he's slow, turns like an elephant and his heading technique is like a 4 year old. This is not the same as Sané leaving and he's probably better suited to La Liga anyway.

Are Barca prepared to pay 20-30 million for him this summer?
 
FCBarca said:
Pleased obviously. I want him back and I maintain it was always inevitable at some point even if he had extended. Catalan kids all have a homing beacon to return to where it started

On the positive side, he left his home club to play & learn under the club's biggest legend for 3 years and that will help him going forward ala Pique
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What do you think happened to Adrian Bernabé's Catalan homing beacon?
Bernabé is about to put the final touches on a new 5 year deal with Man City. Is his beacon broken!?


Eric Garcia Is a smart boy, so best wishes for him.
 
Meh, I think he'll do great over there as he's a very composed lad with good instincts, but we play in a kick and rush league which was never going to be the best place for someone like him. If we can get a decent price then it'll have been another profitable foray into the Spanish youth market
 
FFS. John Stones is the one who should leave, not this guy.

I wonder what this means in terms of Guardiola extending. Maybe he know something we don’t.
 
domalino said:
I'd love to hear you explain how this works.

You think Barcelona are in the dark about him rejecting a contract? This isn't a surprise to anyone involved.
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Of course they do. It still creates a,aituation of acceptance, and gives a footing to lowball the price. If he had included the usual caveat of 'if the clubs agree a price/he still has another year unless our valuation is met' then perhaps. As it is, Barcelona can hold out for us accepting a lower offer.
 
Great Kompany said:
Stones gotta stay now. Not an entirely bad thing. He either gets to the level expected of him and prolongs his stay at this club or gets sold next year with THB replacing him
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Just stop. Garcia is twice the defender John is. This is bad news.
 
He told us to fuck off basically, now lets get as much for him as we can.

If Barca really tries to fuck us tho with the pricing we need to go after their La Masia talents for peanuts.
 
decmancity said:
We pay peanuts for them and have banked millions from selling them so yes it is worth it.

Garcia of course hasn't left yet but Brahim and Suarez have gone on to achieve nothing, I would hardly say we have missed out on anything.
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I can't disagree completely, but there is an obvious element of dissapointiment especially in Garcia's case.

Was really pleased that him and foden were starting games regularly
 
Seems a funny one given that Barca didn't want him to leave in the first place, he starts to get into the City first team then decides he doesn't want to stay.
 
Have no problem with him leaving, expect for the fact that we have to replace him with a HG player. Not many around i would fancy.

Again, Garcia seems to have the right mentality. And he is decent on the ball etc. But athletically, he doesn't have anything going for him. He is useless in the air, partly because of his height. But doesn't even have any pace to compensate for that.

I have a hard time believing that he'll become a WC defender in the modern game with such weak physical abilities.
 
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