decmancity
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Madrid have been fortunate that a few of the players they have loaned out and brought back have been good enough to fight for a first team place, they are notorious for buying back players just to basically sell them straight away for a higher price because they can e.g Javi Garcia, Morata and Negredo. We haven't had many that have been on loan and been good enough to return, so we sold them, with a buy back e.g. Angelino. Why have you included Rodrygo and Vinicius I don't know, they haven't been loaned anywhere. They cost a fortune and are first team players.You've created a complete strawman.That's not what the choice is. The choice is between Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona...or Manchester City. No one is stopping a client moving to one of the biggest clubs in the world, they're picking from which one they want.
And don't embarass yourself by claiming Madrid don't have a track record. Look at Casemiro, Fede Valverde, Carvajal, Asensio, Mariano, Lucas Vazquez, Rodrygo, Vinicius. Half their fucking squad is players they bought very young and either incubated in Castilla or loaned/sold with very low buybacks.
That's why Brahim went there, because when City said "we'll loan you out and bring you back", he didn't believe it, because it's never happened. When Madrid said they'd do it, he looked at Casemiro, vice captain of Madrid. He looked at Dani Carvajal's 3 CL medals, Marco Asensio's 10 trophies... and he believed that he'd come back to Madrid after a loan because they've got a record of doing it.
Who have City brought through in similar circumstances? Zinchenko maybe?
Denayer was told he would be in the first team so that he signed a contract, then he got farmed out on loan for 3 years. Angelino turned down a €25m transfer to PSG because City really wanted him back...except surprise surprise Pep still didn't like him and he left 4 months later, and went on to the CL semi-finals and being in the team of the tournament. Both players have spoken negatively about what happened to them publicly.
People are going to notice these things. Couto could not have been more clear. He was offered a CFG transfer with a loan for a few years and he turned it down because Bayern and Barcelona were offering first team places. Pep called him, promised him first team action, and he signed for City. He's come out and said all of this himself, so we don't need to guess what the plan was.
At this point it becomes apparent you're speaking from a place of complete and utter ignorance, and are just defending the club for the sake of defending the club because how dare someone say something bad about them.
How about when Real bought Hakimi, he went on loan and tore it up and then they sold him for a huge profit, its how things go these days.
Brahim went there because he thought it would be a good move, it hasn't been. Things change and situations happen as I said.
Denayer signed a new deal, went on loan to prove himself and yes I agree would have been good to see him in the first team squad rather than Pellegrini farming him out to fit in Demchelis but situations change. He probably shouldn't have been filmed kicking people in the head either....
We will never know if Angelino actually had an offer from PSG, we brought him back and Pep didn't like what he saw so we sold him. I think he deserved more chances but what do I know?
Are we going to now argue that Pep shouldn't be allowed to decide who does or doesn't stay in the squad just to show the world that City bring through youngsters?
Lets see if people notice these things, City have been farming out players for years now and so far it doesn't appear to have cost us anything.
Things change, just because Couto was promised first team football doesn't mean its bound by law for that to happen. For all we know he fucking hates the sight of Manchester and wants to move to sunny Girona. Who knows and quite frankly who cares?
He will either come back and be a shrewd piece of business or he gets sold and we bank a few million. Thats business.