Kalidou Koulibaly

[Zenmanc]

That is about the only thing in your post which is correct.

Do you have any idea what sarcasm is? BTW that you had 22 messages when i posted this and joined the forum this month are also FACTS... so what are you on about?

 

[decmancity]

Possibly yes, as Jorge Messi was non-the-wiser when he landed in Barcelona as to what was happening and only found out what was going on when he spoke with Bartomeu and was told Messi was staying.

I have no doubt we will sign another barrage of young kids, all of whom will never once see the Etihad playing surface, well not playing for this club at least.

I am sure if Khaldoon was involved then Koulibaly would either be here now, or we would have moved onto other targets, as he wouldn't accept this Napoli president stringing him along like a puppet on a string

Why are you saying things like you know them for facts?

So why isn't Khaldoon involved now? or let me guess, you know hes too busy shining his shoes and polishing the cutlery?
Then when the window closes he will turn up at the etihad and be baffled why hes not seeing Koulibaly.

Fck me, can you just stop with this nonsense.

 

[paulsimpson]

True. My post was about KK being our main target where we are already in the know that this deal is going to be difficult. City would have thought they have some aces up their sleeves owing to Napoli's weak position financially and that hasn't work either.
I am saying KK is no Maldini so just find another target CB to buy.

Very hard to find another CB of great quality. Gimenez was mentioned earlier but Atletico would want 120 € million ( release clause) just to talk

 

[asahartford1]

But yet we are STILL trying to overpay for a 29 year old defender and not even getting any closer to securing the deal.

But we still paid £41 for Ake, a defender whose side were relegated last season and who we again overpaid for immensely

But we still wasted 2 weeks waiting for Messi to do what he has done every season for the last 5 at least, whinge, whine and then agree to stay at Barcelona.....all the while, our focus on getting all the other positions fixed we needed was left, until the Messi saga was over.

We got him in very early, yes for a good deal, due to Valencia needing the money and him only having 12 months on his contract left, Ollie Watkins price is stupid, but that is what you get when you are a poor side, you get a wad and throw it around without really improving, we have been in that position, not now, we are supposed to have the masterminds of that great Barcelona era from 2006-2014 at our club, well you would have fooled me, as I bet he wasn't this incompetent when employed by that club.

Until they are signed you do not know who and for how much we are trying to sign someone.
Do not believe posters or twitter, they do not know.
Coutinho was £140 million, Dembele£100, Pogba90 million , Felix £120 million. Have we made howlers like that , no.
Have we spent more than £65 million for a single signing ? Not in the top 20 of major signings, no we have not.
Our club are very well run, buying young players with potential and a long shelf life, you underestimate how good they are, because they do not follow your instructions.
You or anybody do not know if we wanted Messi, and if we did what we would have offered, regards Kk, I agree a short term signing , no resale value, wouldn't pay more than £40 MILLION, or leave him with his president, in fact wouldn't deal with that club at all..
Fans , don' t give a shit about , finances or wage structure (Not my money). But the club do.
We are in a strong position, have won 7 trophies in 3 seasons , yet people still think our hierarchy are shite, unbelievable.

 

[clarion]

Agree 100% I'm sure if there was a host of other clubs trying to buy him we would be more focussed. Dealing with Napoli is a nightmare, they are known to constantly change the goalposts so I'm with you - we are handling this the right way.

Think that paying more than 50mil in this challenging times is madness. Hope we don’t sign this guy.

 

[balotellishaircut]

Do you have any idea what sarcasm is? BTW that you had 22 messages when i posted this and joined the forum this month are also FACTS... so what are you on about?

It doesn't matter if someone has 22, 100, 5k or 100 thousand messages on BM, we are all blues, and the fact you quoted this says more about you than him.

 

[Zenmanc]

we are all blues

So NO ONE who posts here isn't? I was responding to someone who had their facts askew going on and on about how KK is our only plan. I was not doing anything other than calling that out as a farce (in a farcical manner) and essentially defending the club for not being that short sighted. If you have an issue with that and feel the need to interject to defend someone who is making stupid statements about our transfer practices- cheers.

 

[lasereyes]

So NO ONE who posts here isn't? I was responding to someone who had their facts askew going on and on about how KK is our only plan. I was not doing anything other than calling that out as a farce (in a farcical manner) and essentially defending the club for not being that short sighted. If you have an issue with that and feel the need to interject to defend someone who is making stupid statements about our transfer practices- cheers.

I don't think he's not a blue. He's just pretty naive and assumes that the media is party to everything we are doing or everyone we are speaking to.

 

[Marvin]

On the face of it there does not seem to be much activity here

 

[CenturyClub]

I agree, Txiki really does struggle to get complex deals over the line.

He doesn't seem to back himself or have the cajones for me.

Garry Cook on the other hand had a more aggressive transfer strategy which laid the foundations at City for many years.

 

[CenturyClub]

I'm firmly in the club's side in this one. We won't deal with ADL for good reasons and I would honestly prefer we walk away than let him get his way.

So if that is the case, why haven't we already walked away and tried to do a deal for other targets?

ADL has Txiki by the bollocks here. Txiki knew what Napoli and ADL were like, so why haven't we aimed to get other deals done before Koulibaly?

I just don't understand it. We are going to leave ourselves short if this saga goes on for another few weeks.

 

[BufordUSABlue]

Why are you saying things like you know them for facts?

So why isn't Khaldoon involved now? or let me guess, you know hes too busy shining his shoes and polishing the cutlery?
Then when the window closes he will turn up at the etihad and be baffled why hes not seeing Koulibaly.

Fck me, can you just stop with this nonsense.

Looks like we have a new drama queen to add to the increasing herd Dec! I am getting out the 'sniffometer' on this one!!

 

[CenturyClub]

Flappers our in full force.
1. Ake and Torres crap
2. We won’t win anything next season
3. Wolves will beat us easily.
4. Txiki rubbish
5. Need cb anyone will do at this point

I could go on but what is the point. Every season the same crap gets spouted out. Negotiations are tough with Napoli it is unfortunate but expected. If we don’t buy Kk the club is crap ffs give your face slap and calm down. If we were after another cb and not Kk people wld be saying we shld sign Kk.

I trust the club to do all they can to get the players we need. If they don’t want to pay the crazy fee for Kk then do be it. We will buy a cb who will be better than oto, stones and garcia.

I have remained calm throughout, but i am starting to get a bit frustrated now.

We are nowhere near agreeing a deal for Koulibaly and the season starts this weekend (Monday 21st September for us).

I appreciate transfer saga's can be dragged out for a long period of time, but why haven't we aimed to wrap up other targets such as LB and CM or forward player?

We seem to be laying all our eggs in one basket in the hope of acquiring Koulibaly and then looking to move on to other targets from there.

This Koulibaly saga seems to be dictating our entire transfer strategy.

 

[mosssideblue]

I have remained calm throughout, but i am starting to get a bit frustrated now.

We are nowhere near agreeing a deal for Koulibaly and the season starts this weekend (Monday 21st September for us).

I appreciate transfer saga's can be dragged out for a long period of time, but why haven't we aimed to wrap up other targets such as LB and CM or forward player?

We seem to be laying all our eggs in one basket in the hope of acquiring Koulibaly and then looking to move on to other targets from there.

This Koulibaly saga seems to be dictating our entire transfer strategy.

Do you believe Txiki is incompetent or it is a lot more complex than we understand? Gen q

 

[Neville Kneville]

On the face of it there does not seem to be much activity here

 

[ancoats]

this is becoming clearer by the day ?

the more i see no new signings the more i feel that pep is in his last season at city, when we lost out on messi
everything changed and now pep must be rethinking his future, maybe just maybe pep feels another 12 months waiting for messi is to long, he will be in the open market and city have little to no chance if a bidding war start

so lets hope the club can refresh pep and give him a new vision that he can get his teeth into once more at city
12 months or 3 years that's the time scale pep has got at city ? can city get messi in 12 months, can city convince pep that messi will come in 12 months and does pep believe them

so my points are ? maybe all the plans are on hold until pep and messi have sorted their future, will pep and city say lets work with what we have already and build in 12 months time

 

[Utter bobbins]

I have remained calm throughout, but i am starting to get a bit frustrated now.

We are nowhere near agreeing a deal for Koulibaly and the season starts this weekend (Monday 21st September for us).

I appreciate transfer saga's can be dragged out for a long period of time, but why haven't we aimed to wrap up other targets such as LB and CM or forward player?

We seem to be laying all our eggs in one basket in the hope of acquiring Koulibaly and then looking to move on to other targets from there.

This Koulibaly saga seems to be dictating our entire transfer strategy.

how do you know all this stuff

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

I have remained calm throughout, but i am starting to get a bit frustrated now.

We are nowhere near agreeing a deal for Koulibaly and the season starts this weekend (Monday 21st September for us).

I appreciate transfer saga's can be dragged out for a long period of time, but why haven't we aimed to wrap up other targets such as LB and CM or forward player?

We seem to be laying all our eggs in one basket in the hope of acquiring Koulibaly and then looking to move on to other targets from there.

This Koulibaly saga seems to be dictating our entire transfer strategy.

Do you know as a fact that your assertions are true?
Do you actually know that we're nowhere near signing KK?
How do you know we haven't aimed to wrap up other targets?
What makes you think that the highly paid, highly experienced professionals, who have guided this club to more senior honours in the last decade than in the 100+ years before, have put all our eggs in one basket?
How could the KK "saga" (where the asking price has plummeted from 100M Euros down to circa 70M euros) be dictating our entire transfer strategy?

And, are you actually clueless and on the wind-up or do you seriously think that you know better that the club?

 

[Sky Blue]

He doesn't seem to back himself or have the cajones for me.

Garry Cook on the other hand had a more aggressive transfer strategy which laid the foundations at City for many years.

Garry Cook didn't have FFP to worry about.

 

[itisrising]

Do you believe Txiki is incompetent or it is a lot more complex than we understand? Gen q

Genuinely think the Messi saga has messed up our window. The club probably knew Messi wanted to leave weeks prior to when we did, there's no way we could have just proceeded as we planned when a Messi deal would cost us hundreds of millions. It must've inevitabily set us back weeks.