João Félix

01cravend said:
I don't get the Atletico excuse for this lad not living up to his hype. Good strikers tend to shine under Simeone(Falcao, Costa, Griezmann and Suarez resurgence).
Felix is shit for Portugal too.
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He's not a proper striker. The others were also older than him when they shined.
 
If Laporte goes Pep will 100% look for a leftfooter, and Pau Torres fits the bill then.. Laportes build up play is exceptional and hard to replace. Paus short passing is great and press resistant, but it will be harder to replace Laporte somewhat longer balls and deep vertical ones, not many are as good as him at finding in between the lines deep there.
Pau not very quick though.. or mobile, great footballer though.

I think a lot will happen in Spain over the summer when the wage caps will return to somewhat regular levels and Felix will surely move. Suarez will be gone as well and Atleti will look for a new frontline. Or maybe Simeone goes.. by himself of course, the problem for him is that the Inter spot is taken and Inzaghi just came there and is doing well, can't really seeing him going somewhere else to be honest.. Lazio is not at his level and far, far from his wages lol.
 
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BlueBanger said:
He's not a proper striker. The others were also older than him when they shined.
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The others didn't cost £113,000,000..in fact they didn't even cost that much combined.

Falcao - 40mil
Griezmann - 24mil
Costa - 800k
Suarez - free

Yes Felix has age on his side but you don't pay that kind of money for someone to come good 4 years down the line. He should be performing now instead he sits on the bench behind Angel Correa. He scored 20 in 43 for Benfica and Atletico went and paid out like he was putting up Haaland numbers. He made 9 appearances in Europe that season and scored 3 goals, all in 1 game vs 10 man Eintract Frankfurt. 8 other games he was shit, Benfica with one of the biggest heists in modern football.
 
01cravend said:
The others didn't cost £113,000,000..in fact they didn't even cost that much combined.

Falcao - 40mil
Griezmann - 24mil
Costa - 800k
Suarez - free

Yes Felix has age on his side but you don't pay that kind of money for someone to come good 4 years down the line. He should be performing now instead he sits on the bench behind Angel Correa. He scored 20 in 43 for Benfica and Atletico went and paid out like he was putting up Haaland numbers. He made 9 appearances in Europe that season and scored 3 goals, all in 1 game vs 10 man Eintract Frankfurt. 8 other games he was shit, Benfica with one of the biggest heists in modern football.
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Felix not performing in a Simeone Atleico tells us nothing at all about how he would perform in a Pep City team. If we bought him we would be relying on Pep and Txiki's judgement. I'm happy to do that as it's pretty good.
 
blueparrot said:
Felix not performing in a Simeone Atleico tells us nothing at all about how he would perform in a Pep City team. If we bought him we would be relying on Pep and Txiki's judgement. I'm happy to do that as it's pretty good.
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It speaks to him not handling the step up in quality from Portugese to Spanish league. And it shows his lack of adaptability.
When have we signed someone under Pep who struggled somewhere but has come and been good for us?
 
01cravend said:
It speaks to him not handling the step up in quality from Portugese to Spanish league. And it shows his lack of adaptability.
When have we signed someone under Pep who struggled somewhere but has come and been good for us?
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Doesn't mean he can't, if we buy him then we'll see. If we buy him it will be because Pep thinks he has what we need. I think he has too.
 
01cravend said:
The others didn't cost £113,000,000..in fact they didn't even cost that much combined.

Falcao - 40mil
Griezmann - 24mil
Costa - 800k
Suarez - free

Yes Felix has age on his side but you don't pay that kind of money for someone to come good 4 years down the line. He should be performing now instead he sits on the bench behind Angel Correa. He scored 20 in 43 for Benfica and Atletico went and paid out like he was putting up Haaland numbers. He made 9 appearances in Europe that season and scored 3 goals, all in 1 game vs 10 man Eintract Frankfurt. 8 other games he was shit, Benfica with one of the biggest heists in modern football.
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Welcome to 2022 where grealish costs 100 mil and felix even more...
 
01cravend said:
When have we signed someone under Pep who struggled somewhere but has come and been good for us?
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Cancelo...who is also Portuguese ironically. Maybe its a stretch to say he struggled but Juve let him go on the cheap so he mustn't have impressed Allegri too much.
 
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BlueBanger said:
Cancelo...who is also Portuguese ironically. Maybe its a stretch to say he struggled but Juve let him go on the cheap so he mustn't have impressed Allegri too much.
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I think we paid nearly £60 million for him?.....people only think he was cheap because Danilo went the other way and the net cost was £27m...is that right?
 
BlueBanger said:
Cancelo...who is also Portuguese ironically. Maybe its a stretch to say he struggled but Juve let him go on the cheap so he mustn't have impressed Allegri too much.
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He didnt really struggle at Juve.. a bit up and downs. He struggled Valencia though, but that was erlier in his career and he didn't go directly from there.

Its a valid concern though for Felix, and I can't really think about anyone not working out somewhere (other club) that Pep has taken on.. (But maybe that has more to do with City generally not buying from the biggest clubs recently perhaps, Rodri and Cancelo a bit of exceptions)

Edit: Danilo was one to those, didnt do too well at Real Madrid but I thought he did his job very well at Man City actually and then hes done well at Juve as well. Its a tricky one.

e2: Thiago might come into this conversation as well.. he didnt really have a spot at Barca understandably with that midfield and was far from the player he later became under Pep and later on at Bayern. Bayern initially loaned Coman from Juve as well..

In his Barca-era I can find no one really though. Piqué? He was dirt cheap though lol
 
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loio said:
He didnt really struggle at Juve.. a bit up and downs. He struggled Valencia though, but that was erlier in his career and he didn't go directly from there.

Its a valid concern though for Felix, and I can't really think about anyone not working out somewhere that Pep has taken on.. (But maybe that has more to do with City not buying from the biggest clubs perhaps)
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Sterling was struggling when pep arrived...look at him 1 season later.
 
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