Pau Torres

[razman]

The person reporting it seemingly has very little track record with City transfers?

For that reason alone, let's hope it is just a flyer.

City had a serious interest in Mason Holgate at Everton 18 months ago, but not sure if he has kicked on or we would go back.

Man City & Juventus register interest in Pau Torres

Manchester City and Juventus have become the latest clubs to register their interest in Villarreal defender Pau Torres, 90min understands.

www.90min.com

Interesting that his article states that

City are selling Ake to Chelsea and had identified Brighton left-back Marc Cucurella as their primary target to replace him.

Sources have confirmed to 90min that Cucurella remains first choice, but the Cityzens are reluctant to bid over £50m - the minimum Brighton would accept for their prized asset who is being offered a new contract.

That has led to City looking at other options - including centre-backs - and Torres has emerged as a target for Pep Guardiola, who is a fan of his compatriot.

Pretty sure -I think cucurella and Ake aren't linked

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Man City & Juventus register interest in Pau Torres

Manchester City and Juventus have become the latest clubs to register their interest in Villarreal defender Pau Torres, 90min understands.

www.90min.com

Interesting that his article states that

City are selling Ake to Chelsea and had identified Brighton left-back Marc Cucurella as their primary target to replace him.

Sources have confirmed to 90min that Cucurella remains first choice, but the Cityzens are reluctant to bid over £50m - the minimum Brighton would accept for their prized asset who is being offered a new contract.

That has led to City looking at other options - including centre-backs - and Torres has emerged as a target for Pep Guardiola, who is a fan of his compatriot.

Pretty sure -I think cucurella and Ake aren't linked

They aren't, the whole premise of the piece is a transfer round-up of our already known interest in Cucurella and Ake wanted at Chelsea.

Our interest in Cucurella pre-dates Chelsea asking about Ake.

In essence, it's bullshit.

 

[CC1]

You have a point.

But part of our "best defensive record" is because we play high possession and we win the the ball high up the field, we don't give the ball away to often and we try and win it back as quick as we can. Still strange ?

Yep - so strange. Could say our midfield possession is linked to our good defensive record. Team work. Hey ho

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

You have a point.

But part of our "best defensive record" is because we play high possession and we win the the ball high up the field, we don't give the ball away to often and we try and win it back as quick as we can. Still strange ?

I think our great defensive record is largely due to us not conceding many goals.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

There you go! lol. the fact we have been linked over the years makes me think this is likely, especially with the release clause there.

Or we are getting de lit from juve
And they get torres.

 

[richards30]

Or we are getting de lit from juve
And they get torres.

would be nice mate but de ligt seems destined for bayern unfortunately.

 

[Dialog]

Yep - so strange. Could say our midfield possession is linked to our good defensive record. Team work. Hey ho

Ok

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

would be nice mate but de ligt seems destined for bayern unfortunately.

Wait and see mate we have got the dough.

 

[Cobwebcat]

They aren't, the whole premise of the piece is a transfer round-up of our already known interest in Cucurella and Ake wanted at Chelsea.

Our interest in Cucurella pre-dates Chelsea asking about Ake.

In essence, it's bullshit.

That’s very bad linking the two. Extreme laziness.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Fair comment, the only time I've seen him was last year and a couple of times in the champions league and he was never convincing. You think there are no better options out there for £50m or so what his release clause is?

Didn't look that good against the rags imo, so hoping it's just gossip.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Wanna suck ?

One suck, por favor.

 

[Kippaxpete]

The person reporting it seemingly has very little track record with City transfers?

For that reason alone, let's hope it is just a flyer.

City had a serious interest in Mason Holgate at Everton 18 months ago, but not sure if he has kicked on or we would go back.

Nail on head. We're all guilty of getting sucked into heated debates about players initially linked with City by halfwit amateurs running what are little more than personal blogs. In this age of electronic media, before you know it, the story's been picked up by some of the more reputable sites and is being quoted as legitimate. The days when football journos actually checked their sources before publishing appear to be long gone.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

That’s very bad linking the two. Extreme laziness.

Not laziness, lying for the sake of putting a fresh slant on the story.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Nail on head. We're all guilty of getting sucked into heated debates about players initially linked with City by halfwit amateurs running what are little more than personal blogs. In this age of electronic media, before you know it, the story's been picked up by some of the more reputable sites and is being quoted as legitimate. The days when football journos actually checked their sources before publishing appear to be long gone.

You didn't need to check, they had a contacts book and spoke directly to the people involved.

 

[Kippaxpete]

You didn't need to check, they had a contacts book and spoke directly to the people involved.

I had no doubt you were old school! More power to your elbow I say.

 

[domalino]

Watched him at the euros last year and he looked awful every game I saw . Slow, bullied easily and crap in the air.

Pau Torres is many things, but slow is not one of them. He's one of the fastest players in Spain.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Pau Torres is many things, but slow is not one of them. He's one of the fastest players in Spain.

How does he rate at defending ?

 

[Shaffer92]

How does he rate at defending ?

not nearly as bad as some on here are making him out to be.

 

[domalino]

How does he rate at defending ?

@Blue tiger was right that he's terrible in the air, that's a really glaring weakness in his game.

Other than that I would say he's got a lot of potential but isn't the finished article yet and that's probably why no one has taken him yet at €60m. His speed is a major asset, he's pretty big, so he's very useful in a high line.

I think all his issues really come down to one thing - being a bit passive in defence. That's why he's bad in the air and I've definitely seen a few problems caused by him preferring to drop off rather than go and make a tackle.

On the ball he's amazing, He's got the creative long passing we don't have at CB (except Laporte trying to hit that diagonoal 10x a match) and if no one is marking him, he'll just take the ball 40 yards up the pitch until a defender has to come and deal with him and leave someone else unmarked.

I would not be surprised if our coaching staff looked at him and thought that because we're talking about a 4th good CB, they could take a few months to a season polishing him whereas other CL contending clubs think he's not quite ready to go in as the #1 CB. How hard is it to teach someone to be better in the air when they have all the physical tools?

My approach to transfers these days is that Pep and the club very rarely make mistakes. With the release clause this one has always seemed like a City transfer, and he's definitely got enough positives about him to see why we might be interested. If we go for him I'm sure he'll be good.

Also we've been credibly linked to him for 3 years at least, so they've seen a lot of him.

 

[murur0a]

I’d prefer the other young Spanish CB - Eric Garcia I think his name was.