Nathan Ake

Coatigan said:
Which one?

Gets said every year. Along with 'Walker can play keeper in CL if needed'.
Has never happened yet, pretty certain won't this year either. We will go with the 17 including the excess HG players.
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You're probably right but if whoever we chose was third choice behind Ederson and Steffen/Ortega then would it really matter as they're never going to play.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
You're probably right but if whoever we chose was third choice behind Ederson and Steffen/Ortega then would it really matter as they're never going to play.
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They might have to play. It is not unthinkable that both keepers can be unavailable, through injury, lack of fitness, suspension, covid, or a combination of factors.
 
People who think we could replace quality professionals with academy players are naive. We are not a kindergarten, but a top club. We cannot lose too many players because of depth and experience. We need depth. Nathan Ake if he could go, he has to be replaced. The same as Sterling and the others IMO. But better for him and for us to stay.
 
Coatigan said:
They might have to play. It is not unthinkable that both keepers can be unavailable, through injury, lack of fitness, suspension, covid, or a combination of factors.
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True but in the unlikely event that it did ever come to that then I'm not sure an academy keeper is going to be that much worse than a 37 year old Scott Carson.

I doubt any of this will come in to the equation anyway so I'll leave it there as I don't want to derail the thread too much.
 
Seems to me like Pep is happy for him to go, he has often said, the only way to keep going and pushing for title after title is to get new players...

Ake, Sterling, Jesus were mostly non starters and probably not perfectly happy playing second fiddle. Chop and change
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
didn't he say a few weeks ago he wants to stay?

Potentially going to lose two players who can play LB (Zinny & He who must not be named) so can't see City selling a 3rd for that position.
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Depends if we sign a specialist LB like Cucurella imo
He and Cancelo would then have that side locked down, hard to see where Zin gets games unless we push him into the midfield rotation. Which I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to tbh seeing his performances for Ukraine
 
SambaStyle said:
Seems to me like Pep is happy for him to go, he has often said, the only way to keep going and pushing for title after title is to get new players...

Ake, Sterling, Jesus were mostly non starters and probably not perfectly happy playing second fiddle. Chop and change
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Sterling was not a non starter & whether they were or not, they strengthened our bench. Not replacing them with someone with a bit of pace weakens us.

We started off the transfer window with a bang signing Haaland but we’ve fizzled out badly. We should be shelling out for more top players - not making a net profit on our transfers
 
mj1991 said:
People who think we could replace quality professionals with academy players are naive. We are not a kindergarten, but a top club. We cannot lose too many players because of depth and experience. We need depth. Nathan Ake if he could go, he has to be replaced. The same as Sterling and the others IMO. But better for him and for us to stay.
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This is no ordinary crop of youngsters though, we have some serious serious talent bursting through. They’ve battered all their peers and already outgrown age group football. Use them or lose them.
Look at the mess Chelsea are in defensively right now, while their academy products Tomori, Guehi and Livramento are starring elsewhere and picking up senior England caps
 
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