It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[leo_city]

We aren't selling Bernardo Silva this season. And if we did we aren't replacing him with Neymar

imo we should not be considering to sell him at all. I get about Pep not wanting players unhappy but if he's professional he will get on, because when he's on it he's a ridiculous player.

 

[Delphinho]

Nothing of any note bud. People still expect them to push on Cucurella, but that’s not new news I don’t think

So no other incomings other than Cucurella then?

 

[Sentinel]

This is impressive

With zinky £30m that’s £68.5m in the bank
£45m for Cocu
£23.5 in the netto!

In
Erling Braut Haaland (£51.2m, Borussia Dortmund)
Stefan Ortega (free, Arminia Bielefeld)
Kalvin Phillips (£43.9m, Leeds United)

Out
Jayden Braaf (free, Borussia Dortmund)
Pedro Porro (£7.2m, Sporting Lisbon)
James Trafford (loan, Bolton Wanderers)
Gavin Bazunu (£12m, Southampton)
Fernandinho (free, Athletico PR)
CJ Egan Riley (free, Burnley)
Taylor Harwood-Bellis (loan, Burnley)
Ko Itakura (£4.5m, Borussia Monchengladbach)
Gabriel Jesus (£47m, Arsenal)
Darko Gyabi (£5.2m, Leeds United)
Tommy Doyle (loan, Sheffield United)
Romeo Lavia (£10.5m, Southampton)
Diego Rosa (loan, Vizela)
Ryotaro Meshino (free, Gamba Osaka)
Callum Doyle (loan, Coventry City)
Raheem Sterling (£50m, Chelsea)
Kwaku Oduroh (free, Derby County)
Lewis Fiorini (loan, Blackpool)

Manchester City total spent to date:£97.9m
Manchester City total received to date:£136.4m

Manchester City net transfer balance:£38.5m

And yet Simon Jordan will still come out and have the audacity to claim we have a 100mil negative net spend every Summer. What an absolute moron.

 

[mattyb]

So no other incomings other than Cucurella then?

I’ve heard the same rumours as everyone else, from some decent people, but nothing I rate enough to hang my hat off

 

[oddfellows]

This is impressive

With zinky £30m that’s £68.5m in the bank
£45m for Cocu
£23.5 in the netto!

In
Erling Braut Haaland (£51.2m, Borussia Dortmund)
Stefan Ortega (free, Arminia Bielefeld)
Kalvin Phillips (£43.9m, Leeds United)

Out
Jayden Braaf (free, Borussia Dortmund)
Pedro Porro (£7.2m, Sporting Lisbon)
James Trafford (loan, Bolton Wanderers)
Gavin Bazunu (£12m, Southampton)
Fernandinho (free, Athletico PR)
CJ Egan Riley (free, Burnley)
Taylor Harwood-Bellis (loan, Burnley)
Ko Itakura (£4.5m, Borussia Monchengladbach)
Gabriel Jesus (£47m, Arsenal)
Darko Gyabi (£5.2m, Leeds United)
Tommy Doyle (loan, Sheffield United)
Romeo Lavia (£10.5m, Southampton)
Diego Rosa (loan, Vizela)
Ryotaro Meshino (free, Gamba Osaka)
Callum Doyle (loan, Coventry City)
Raheem Sterling (£50m, Chelsea)
Kwaku Oduroh (free, Derby County)
Lewis Fiorini (loan, Blackpool)

Manchester City total spent to date:£97.9m
Manchester City total received to date:£136.4m

Manchester City net transfer balance:£38.5m

Plus Torres money

 

[bell_mcfc]

Hey Jude.

I expect this to be our main signing next year. See how Palmer develops we may also see a winger.

 

[oakiecokie]

You mean the George and dragon

Amended. Nursey time for my Guinness.

 

[Cobwebcat]

No news on Oleg Shatov?

Happly at Ural :-)

 

[bluenova]

Plus Torres money

That was last season.

But it does get included in the last five years comparison - and right now, over the last five years we're midtable spenders on transfers. Pep is literally working on a shoestring budget*, with the lowest 5 year net spend of any of the Big Six ;)

*copyright LFC

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

I always wanted both zinny and cucurella. It's fantastic depth.

I also think with Phillips and with how Bernie is dropping deeper that we will play (we did last season) more of the 4231 with 2 in midfield behind a 10 (usually kdb).

I see no reason why zinny can't be depth here as well, with the other options of rodri, phillips, Bernie and gundogan.

I would even like to see gundogan pushed higher to rotate with kdb more as a 10 than deeper. Look at the aston villa game at the end, pep in one of the rare times last season gave gundogan freedom to score goals and he did.

The season prior gundogan was so good because pep gave him that freedom, he took it back last season for control, but zinny and Phillips could just as easily do that job further back.

We are selling Zinchenko because he wants to go
There is no other reason he simply wants more game time
Which is fair enough

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Which you could say tells you one of a couple of things. Otherwise, the club would have gone in and signed Cucurella no matter what, paid what it takes and got him in, when they did that with all the other targets.

Either the club aren't really in the market for a LB and are intereated in Cucurella or others down the list purely as a replacenent should Zinchenko leave.

Or Brighton are looking for too high a value, and the club are happy to be patient and stick with what they have, unless their arm is twisted by something like Zinchenko leaving.

Alternatively it’s already more or less done and Brighton are looking for a replacement

 

[chaddblue]

I expect this to be our main signing next year. See how Palmer develops we may also see a winger.

Would be funny as the dippers have convinced themselves he’s joining their cult

 

[WallyA]

We are selling Zinchenko because he wants to go
There is no other reason he simply wants more game time
Which is fair enough

Umm okay, why are you replying to me?

That had absolutely nothing to do with my entire post.

 

[goater1985]

This is impressive

With zinky £30m that’s £68.5m in the bank
£45m for Cocu
£23.5 in the netto!

In
Erling Braut Haaland (£51.2m, Borussia Dortmund)
Stefan Ortega (free, Arminia Bielefeld)
Kalvin Phillips (£43.9m, Leeds United)

Out
Jayden Braaf (free, Borussia Dortmund)
Pedro Porro (£7.2m, Sporting Lisbon)
James Trafford (loan, Bolton Wanderers)
Gavin Bazunu (£12m, Southampton)
Fernandinho (free, Athletico PR)
CJ Egan Riley (free, Burnley)
Taylor Harwood-Bellis (loan, Burnley)
Ko Itakura (£4.5m, Borussia Monchengladbach)
Gabriel Jesus (£47m, Arsenal)
Darko Gyabi (£5.2m, Leeds United)
Tommy Doyle (loan, Sheffield United)
Romeo Lavia (£10.5m, Southampton)
Diego Rosa (loan, Vizela)
Ryotaro Meshino (free, Gamba Osaka)
Callum Doyle (loan, Coventry City)
Raheem Sterling (£50m, Chelsea)
Kwaku Oduroh (free, Derby County)
Lewis Fiorini (loan, Blackpool)

Manchester City total spent to date:£97.9m
Manchester City total received to date:£136.4m

Manchester City net transfer balance:£38.5m

Alvarez?

 

[City Raider]

So Brighton appear to have us over a barrel and reported fee is £10-15m too much. But if it sorts our long-standing LB problem, it will be the best extra £10-15m we’ve ever spent.

 

[bluenova]

Alvarez?

As with Torres - he was last season (we bought him in January and loaned him back to River Plate till July).

 

[kun]

Alvarez?

Bought him in January, when we also sold Ferrán for more than 3x what we paid for Álvarez

 

[goater1985]

As with Torres - he was last season (we bought him in January and loaned him back to River Plate till July).

Ah course.

I'm really excited see him bed in. I'd imagine he'd come in as 'back up' to foden/mahrez/grealish out wide and be CF whenever haaland doesn't play.

Could turn out to be an absolute bargain

 

[samuelyeboah]

It is kind of weird that Blackburn reported literally today that zinchenko might not leave. Like apparently he's already traveled to their training camp, idk what info he got but it's weird that someone who's briefed by the club would be so obviously wrong like that

 

[Shaffer92]

It is kind of weird that Blackburn reported literally today that zinchenko might not leave. Like apparently he's already traveled to their training camp, idk what info he got but it's weird that someone who's briefed by the club would be so obviously wrong like that

Shit happens. It's certainly plausible that Zinny was indeed having second thoughts and Blackburn was told as much by a source of his.