If we get Premier League opposition in the cups then that is a start (similar on how the likes of Cole Palmer and Phil Foden got their breaks). It was Pep who converted Fernandinho into an accomplished Centre Back so there maybe a player who could comfortably take up the position if required.So essentially the same as this season. He gets a game if we draw a shit enough opponent in the cups?
Not sure that will make him ready to play PL football.
But Aké has played more games to cover for us at left back than he has at centre back. So why not get someone like Cucurella in who's a proper upgrade and an out and out left back, he'll push for the starting spot, play tons of games unlike Aké who despite multiple injuries towards end of season was only able to play his last game which was the FA Cup. He's a decent centre back, very likeable personality and someone I'm sure the squad love having around, but if we're to reshuffle might as well continue focusing on how we can improve.Phillips is a midfielder and too short to play centre back. The thought of a young lad like Mbete coming up against the likes of Kane, Son, Salah, etc doesn’t inspire me with confidence at all.
We‘ve already got four superb centre backs, which is perfect for a long season, why do we feel that we don’t need Aké? Especially to a rival,why help them out? It makes no sense.
It’s a risk, however you look at it.If we get Premier League opposition in the cups then that is a start (similar on how the likes of Cole Palmer and Phil Foden got their breaks). It was Pep who converted Fernandinho into an accomplished Centre Back so there maybe a player who could comfortably take up the position if required.
It is but it is calculated risk because of the difficulty in trying to bring in an extra defender when the World Cup is looming. Chelsea may not meet our valuation and we will get to keep Nathan Ake which would be problem solved for us (which might not be the ideal situation for him)It’s a risk, however you look at it.
It's been extraordinary these last couple of weeks.The invasion of new accounts and/or blatant old sleeper accounts from rival fans screams one thing:
The redshirts are absolutely shitting their pants
That is the most likely outcome imo unless Chelsea stump up £50-60m. Which I’m not at all sure they will, even though as a club trained player he is actually now worth much more to them than to City.It is but it is calculated risk because of the difficulty in trying to bring in an extra defender when the World Cup is looming. Chelsea may not meet our bid and we will get to keep Nathan Ake which would be problem solved for us (which might not be the ideal situation for him)
It has been pure popcorn.It's been extraordinary these last couple of weeks.
It has been pure popcorn.
Glad Tolmie called their bluff.
Never met the fella or his brother, despite obviously knowing many mutual people, but he has good standing and is time served.
If Ric stands firmly beside him then he is gold. There is no better reference than that.
Why should he sit back and let blaggers and chancers take money out of his pocket? This is his job.
For those who think ‘professional’ journalists don’t steal stuff from forums and Twitter, you are disastrously incorrect. That is increasingly all they do, in fact.
I know. I have seen it first hand.
Ornstein was cited earlier in this thread as an exemplar. Wrong.
He basically has an ‘in’ with one agent, Barnett, but the industry is a village so he will occasionally get to hear a bit of the village’s second hand gossip.
He’s not far off Castles, tbf, whose credibility is so irreparably damged that he is now considered unemployable on staff in England.
That’s why he relentlessly plugs his ‘transfer podcast’ with the old soak Nixon. It’s a clickbait scam.
Instead, Castles is little more than a “useful idiot” and instrument of Mendes’ third/fourth string guy. He doesn’t even have a direct line to the main man ffs, yet was still willing to debase himself with increasingly deranged Mourinho worship, to try and ingratiate himself with the Big Boss.
But he still has a couple of mates on the industry desks who will throw him a sympathy commission now and again.
Who knows? Maybe they also have an embarrassing liverpool taxi story they would rather nobody ever knows about?
Tl:dr: I’ll side with a Moss Side lad over spoofers like Romano, Castles, Ornstein any day of the week
M14 is not to to be trifled with (:
Haha, many a ride on the 53, mainly to cheetham hill (:As someone who used to catch the 53 bus alone from Longsight at the age of 14, to play 5-a-side in the insane gladiatorial arena that was the old Moss Side Leisure Centre, I 100% concur
Ah the old baths behind the bus depot, was it Bowes Street? Cousins lived directly facing on Princess Road. Houses were cleared and they got moved to Wythenshawe, just a grass verge with trees now.Haha, many a ride on the 53, mainly to cheetham hill (:
Also some of my best memories as a nipper were my dad sneaking us in to moss side baths on a weekend when we were skint, he was and still is my hero, not for his sketchy nature but his understanding of the importance of, despite hard times, engagement with his boys, he lived for us and still does… hardship means fuck all with people like that and it inspires me every day with the work I do!
Tbh i can’t recall if it was but we use to bowl through the precinct, while the Mexican standoff between the ‘gangs’ were playing Vietnam (: mad times but he taught us to not give 2 fucks and walk right through the military lines (: he’d probably be labelled with some safeguard notion today but for me, and I’d say our kids, it’s built into our dna in the best possible way!Ah the old baths behind the bus depot, was it Bowes Street? Cousins lived directly facing on Princess Road. Houses were cleared and they got moved to Wythenshawe, just a grass verge with trees now.
Then they opened the giant new pool in the leisure centre iirc?
“Character building”Tbh i can’t recall if it was but we use to bowl through the precinct, while the Mexican standoff between the ‘gangs’ were playing Vietnam (: mad times but he taught us to not give 2 fucks and walk right through the military lines (: he’d probably be labelled with some safeguard notion today but for me, and I’d say our kids, it’s built into our dna in the best possible way!
Agree with you Ornstein certainly that he is a waste of time and airspace but bizarrely seems to get airtime on the bbc. I could Google in 20 seconds the rubbish he spouts and does not add anything to what is already widely circulated.It has been pure popcorn.
Glad Tolmie called their bluff.
Never met the fella or his brother, despite obviously knowing many mutual people, but he has good standing and is time served.
If Ric stands firmly beside him then he is gold. There is no better reference than that.
Why should he sit back and let blaggers and chancers take money out of his pocket? This is his job.
For those who think ‘professional’ journalists don’t steal stuff from forums and Twitter, you are disastrously incorrect. That is increasingly all they do, in fact.
I know. I have seen it first hand.
Ornstein was cited earlier in this thread as an exemplar. Wrong.
He basically has an ‘in’ with one agent, Barnett, but the industry is a village so he will occasionally get to hear a bit of the village’s second hand gossip.
He’s not far off Castles, tbf, whose credibility is so irreparably damged that he is now considered unemployable on staff in England.
That’s why he relentlessly plugs his ‘transfer podcast’ with the old soak Nixon. It’s a clickbait scam.
Instead, Castles is little more than a “useful idiot” and instrument of Mendes’ third/fourth string guy. He doesn’t even have a direct line to the main man ffs, yet was still willing to debase himself with increasingly deranged Mourinho worship, to try and ingratiate himself with the Big Boss.
But he still has a couple of mates on the industry desks who will throw him a sympathy commission now and again.
Who knows? Maybe they also have an embarrassing liverpool taxi story they would rather nobody ever knows about?
Tl:dr: I’ll side with a Moss Side lad over spoofers like Romano, Castles, Ornstein any day of the week
I live round the corner from the Beverly Hills Hotel (no really) do you want me to see if they checked in?My brother in law's cousin, twice removed, booked an extravagant weekend with Margot Robbie at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
This is 100% true btw and it's going to be an exciting weekend for sure.
I thought I was the only poster on here that didn’t go… nice to know there are two of us…Couldn’t get a bloody ticket, now I know why. Every other fan had one!