70% though ?Not what I recall. Many were saying he simply wasn’t good enough and we needed a more mobile DM.
Not sure you needed "jealous".Jealous cunts.
Yeah, at that sort of money it's a steal. Add in the fact he's English, knows the league, knows the area, and thrived under a coach who Pep admires and was influenced by I think he'll do great. In a world cup year as well, I think for those of us who support England it is a good sign too.I was meh.. but when it comes to midfielders I trust Pep unconditionally and if he wants him, it will work well for us. Then on seeing the fee it’s a no brainier. I honestly thought he would cost £20/30 mil more. Absolute bargain in this day and age.
The modern day Gaz Baz.If you want to see a guy who will do the unbelievable with passes and his all round ball play then you be disappointed. Kalvin Phillips will clean the midfield and will connect defence to attack with minimum fuss and under pep will become even better and as for the price well it’s an absolute bargain .
Yup, back page of the Telegraph reporting the fee at £42m!The interesting thing is that over the last week the RDAHMeedya seem to have lobbed a few bob off the price it was gonna cost us a fortnight ago!
Plenty of detractors on here. However, I recall about 70% of this forum thought Rodri wasn’t good enough 18 months ago. He is now arguably the best DM in world football.
Dad in prison, next to lufc training ground, violent robbery, brought up by mum and his beloved gran (rip) with v little money, nice , humble lad who was great with fans hence no chance of going to scum . Based here it will be weird, great to see him in a City shirt , good solid signing .Wasn’t he brought up my his mam and nanna.
I just hope he's better than his namesake Buster.....The moment the agreed fee was realised I received a text off my brother in law who supports the dark side.
He said, getting Phillips for £42m is an absolute bargain. I have to agree.
Plenty of idiotic posters on here, he was excellent under Bielsa who pep admires as a coach.
I believe we have done a shrewd bit of business here, replace the departing legend in Ferna and also added to the HG quota with sterling potentially going.
I know. The days of us having to pay big to land our targets are now long gone. We’re the preferred choice destination and coach for players wanting to maximise their potential as a player, experience and medals whilst still being well looked after financially.£42 million. Very happy with that.
I doubt he's come to play second fiddle..excited to see the new level he will reach..
While it would take an incredible sudden development of further ability......Stranger things have happened.
We have identified a specific player to do a job,and i think he will do it very well.
Nothing to do with the home grown rule, we bought Phillips because Pep wants Phillips. Simple as that.Look at how many games Ferna played last season. I’ll trust the club but I’ve been saying for a while I can’t see where he’ll fit in.Very slow and ponderous. Reminds me of Barry and De Jong and we’ve evolved a lot since those 2 left. The bits I’ve seen of Lavia suggests he could fill in for Rodri against lesser teams at home. It’s this crazy home grown rule again forcing prices up.
Did he?Fernandinho certainly climbed a few steps up at a similar stage of his career..