Kalidou Koulibaly

twosips said:
Nah it's clearly just a typo. Someone's had a mare sadly. It''d have been a placeholder page for the next signing and they've just not noticed it when getting it all ready to go. Bigger brands than Man City have made bigger mistakes than that before on websites.
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That’s a very sackable offense for some poor person. Cv at the ready there Ste!
 
Damanino said:
not a typo, there are multiple versions prepared for KK, win a signed shirt with KK, ask KK a question etc.

We had it prepared because digital team were told to prepare it. Then they were told to change to Dias as plan A failed.
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Yep, its obvious it was close. Then ADL stepped in...
 
But upon hearing we’ve switched our attention from Koulibaly to Dias via Kounde, plenty of people in the transfer forum were telling us these KK links was nothing but twitter rumours. We couldn’t categorically prove we were ever interested in anybody else and Dias was our number 1 target all along. we just chose to wait until the last week of window for the hell of it.
 
Damanino said:
not a typo, there are multiple versions prepared for KK, win a signed shirt with KK, ask KK a question etc.

We had it prepared because digital team were told to prepare it. Then they were told to change to Dias as plan A failed.
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But but but according to some posters on the Dias forum he was our first choice all along and the Koulibaly stuff was all pure fantasy invented by journalists? :/
 
ninjamonkey said:
But upon hearing we’ve switched our attention from Koulibaly to Dias via Kounde, plenty of people in the transfer forum were telling us these KK links was nothing but twitter rumours. We couldn’t categorically prove we were ever interested in anybody else and Dias was our number 1 target all along. we just chose to wait until the last week of window for the hell of it.
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Some people think that the club can never do anything wrong and if you dare to question the way things are run then you’re automatically an ungrateful moaner or a rag in disguise
 
racecar said:
But but but according to some posters on the Dias forum he was our first choice all along and the Koulibaly stuff was all pure fantasy invented by journalists? :/
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Like most know with our transfer policy, we usually have multiple targets for each slot, there were rumours previously we were in for Dias, I think his deal played out best of the three, especially with Ota going the other way.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Can we close this chapter, please?

Glad we paid €20M less for a 6 yrs younger player with considerably more upside over his 6 year deal.

Remember that...when his 6 yr deal is over, Dias will only be as old as KK is today!
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That is such a good point about the age. We need to build another team of players who can give us years of service, like Aguero, Kompany, Silva etc. KK couldn’t do that, because in a couple of years he would need replacing again. Let’s hope Dias is the real deal, if he is we could have a top centre half for the next 8 years plus. And hopefully that clown in Naples now has a hugely unhappy player and a cashflow crisis.
 
cookster said:
Most Digital Teams employ a proof reader....
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I've worked in digital teams at clubs/sports brands and none of them had a proof reader for online content.

In fact, there's a lot of trust placed in senior journalists to post articles without the need for approval (especially if nothing like this has happened before).

While someone may have scanned the copy before it was uploaded, they wouldn't have checked the back end of the site before it went live.
 
As my son who used to work at swamp central said : That's a big fuck up though. We had big project planning documents for new signings that were timed to the minute with full details and QA. Someone's in trouble!
 
i posted before, there was 2 versions of that tweet doing the rounds, first one said win a KK shirt,2nd one was ask a question, that tweet was altered imo, i looked on the city os and the same tweet didnt have anything about chat or shirt with dias or kk
 
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Otamendi's Beard said:
I've worked in digital teams at clubs/sports brands and none of them had a proof reader for online content.

In fact, there's a lot of trust placed in senior journalists to post articles without the need for approval (especially if nothing like this has happened before).

While someone may have scanned the copy before it was uploaded, they wouldn't have checked the back end of the site before it went live.
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They pay for themselves.
 
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