Bernardo Silva

[wolviedinho]

Doesn't fill me with confidence those quotes keeping Bernardo in this window will be a massive plus.

I don’t see anything wrong. He is playing it well. The player needs to know he can leave if that’s what he wants but only on the clubs terms. Most of our important players over the years are non transferable. At this stage in the window I hope he does not go as it would leave us scrambling to replace a vital player. Pep seems calm about it and the lb position. The club won’t hang him out to dry.

More than likely, Bernie will see out another season and go next summer. Small edit after pep’s quotes. Bernie is happy either way so it’s all down to Barcelona being able to raise the funds out of their magic money tree. It’s not a situation the club should be in but when you have the cules at the door you know the games they play when trying to prise away a player.

 

[SleepingBlueTiger]

As many have already said De Jong is directly tied to Bernardo. If he leaves I'm sure Barca will buy him, if they can't ship him off then the transfer is probably delayed 1 year.

Not a great situation again for the club, there simply is no way to replace Bernardo for us. Whoever we buy won't be at that level for a good while at least. It will be up to the players like Foden, Mahrez etc to show if they can step up to world class to offset the loss of Bernardo.

 

[blue wang]

Need to get Bernie on a 275k plus contract. This is all posturing by Bernie and his agent.

He deserves to be one of the toppaid players.

 

[Claytop]

Yup, usual stuff from Pep really. I don't think he's ever said outright we won't sell a player.

 

[wolviedinho]

As many have already said De Jong is directly tied to Bernardo. If he leaves I'm sure Barca will buy him, if they can't ship him off then the transfer is probably delayed 1 year.

Not a great situation again for the club, there simply is no way to replace Bernardo for us. Whoever we buy won't be at that level for a good while at least. It will be up to the players like Foden, Mahrez etc to show if they can step up to world class to offset the loss of Bernardo.

Foden will not sure Mahrez has another level.

 

[CityBluez]

Need to get Bernie on a 275k plus contract. This is all posturing by Bernie and his agent.

He deserves to be one of the toppaid players.

He is offered a new contract. Salary more than sterling earned. He didn't accept it

 

[JWCH-99]

Can anyone confirm where quote 1 came from- article or podcast?

 

[CityBluez]

Pep said it All. If Bernardo wants to leave we won't stop him.. Barca has to offer what we ask . If they do Bernardo is off.

It seems to me from pep's answer that Bernardo still has a desire to go.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

View attachment 51729View attachment 51730Can anyone confirm where quote 1 came from- article or podcast?

Article in the athletic

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Pep said it All. If Bernardo wants to leave we won't stop him.. Barca has to offer what we ask . If they do Bernardo is off.

It seems to me from pep's answer that Bernardo still has a desire to go.

He did say "hes happy here, what will happen will happen. "

 

[Withnail]

I don’t see anything wrong. He is playing it well. The player needs to know he can leave if that’s what he wants but only on the clubs terms. Most of our important players over the years are non transferable but unhappy players no matter how good need sold. At this stage in the window I hope he does not go as it would leave us scrambling to replace a vital player. Pep seems calm about it and the lb position. The club won’t hang him out to dry.

More than likely, Bernie will see out another season and go next summer.

I would like to think City have some sort of deadline in place for the deal to be done. We don't want to be looking for a replacement in the last week of the window. Like yourself I am still hopeful we have one more season with Bernardo in a City shirt.

 

[CityBluez]

He did say "hes happy here, what will happen will happen. "

Meaning he isn't sulking because he can't go . Either this season or next , if club gets a suitable offer he would want to leave

 

[Mad_fer_it]

There's no way we should let him leave now. Not enough time to replace. Scout out a suitable replacement over the next year then let him leave next year. He's got a contract to fulfill and he's not the kind of player to sulk.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Meaning he isn't sulking because he can't go . Either this season or next , if club gets a suitable offer he would want to leave

Yeah, strikes me as a professional lad. One more year.

 

[dhruvblue]

Hopefully it's €100m if we are planning on sell him which is not ideal. Some figure that were floated around were around €75m which is Cucurella money. Hopefully we don't bend and accept low figure. He is Bernardo silva and not Ferran Torres or Eric Garcia

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Hopefully it's €100m if we are planning on sell him which is not ideal. Some figure that were floated around were around €75m which is Cucurella money. Hopefully we don't bend and accept low figure. He is Bernardo silva and not Ferran Torres or Eric Garcia

And they are Barcelona, they enjoy certain privileges with us. It's a Catalan thing, you wouldn't understand...none of us would.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Yeah, strikes me as a professional lad. One more year.

If he doesn't extend then we might sell him way below market value next year. The question now is, do we sell him this window for about 85m+ (still a low valuation by the way) or do we keep him for one more year and sell for below 50m?

 

[dhruvblue]

And they are Barcelona, they enjoy certain privileges with us. It's a Catalan thing, you wouldn't understand...none of us would.

Tbf €100m is less. It's Fofana money. Ideally we should be asking basic Grealish level money plus bonuses.They have paid big yhey are selling their future revenues, they can sell some more

 

[Vester]

As many have already said De Jong is directly tied to Bernardo. If he leaves I'm sure Barca will buy him, if they can't ship him off then the transfer is probably delayed 1 year.

Not a great situation again for the club, there simply is no way to replace Bernardo for us. Whoever we buy won't be at that level for a good while at least. It will be up to the players like Foden, Mahrez etc to show if they can step up to world class to offset the loss of Bernardo.

The strangest thing with this Bernardo, Barca, FDJ situation is that FDJ is probably the best replacement we could get for Bernardo out there. If Barca really want Bernardo, why dont they just offer FDJ in exchange, if they really want him out? FDJ coming in as Bernardos replacement, if we would sell him, I could accept. I would be a downgrade in my opinion, but I could accept it if Bernardo wanted out. Barca selling FDJ to United/Chelsea, us selling Bernardo to Barca and ending up replacing him with someone like Paqueta would see one club being the big loser in this transfer domino, and that would be us. A Bernardo FDJ swap would make so much more sense for Barca, FDJ and us. Perhaps thats what really holding his deal with United/Chelsea up?

Or, hopefully, the real reason there is no FDJ links to us is because Bernardo is staying and the rest is just noise.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

If he doesn't extend then we might sell him way below market value next year. The question now is, do we sell him this window for about 85m+ (still a low valuation by the way) or do we keep him for one more year and sell for below 50m?

Contract to 2025, price wont drop till 2024.