It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[Keeper!]

I don’t think West Ham will let them pay it more than 2 years. By allowing Arsenal to agree terms with Rice , it pushes more pressure on Arsenal to agree to the payment terms not less.

Let's hope they have enough cash left to come and get Cancelo for 60m, that would be a lovely deal for us.

 

[MafeotulBlue]

Phillips passing is his great strength, but his lack of mobility is an issue for me.

Didn't he have a long term issue with his shoulder and an operation this year?

 

[Keeper!]

Jude was 115m

and a huge wage to go with it.

 

[Keeper!]

Didn't he have a long term issue with his shoulder and an operation this year?

He has had injury issues his whole career, he is not the most mobile of players even when fully fit.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

So are we signing Anyone then?:))

 

[Keeper!]

Is that one of his publications?

A very messy one.

 

[mattcity5]

I like him as a player, as i did Jude, but Real Madrid probably paid less for Jude, than Arsenal for Rice. The difference in quality, skill, and potential is gargantuan. Which is why i said, not worth more than 50 million.

Don't count your chickens on Kalvin. He's got a really good pass on him, and good speed. Might change a few opinions, like Jack did. I seem to recal hundreds of pages on his thread of people shitting on him year 1.

I have Rice down as a good Premier League player, I have Phillips down as an average one.

Not that bothered at missing Rice. I haven't got any answers as to who we should buy though, but I am confident that things will work out. If we don't get anyone and are forced to play Phillips more often, maybe he'll show that he's actually a good Premier League player
Or maybe Pep will come up with a different solution.

It's a big step from Leeds to City. It would have been just as big a step for Rice to go from charging around headlessly for West Ham to playing for us. No guarantee of success for him.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

If rumours are true on Valverde being available we should be balls to the wall for it. Or even a potential swap with Bernardo

 

[MafeotulBlue]

It's a big step from Leeds to City. It would have been just as big a step for Rice to go from charging around headlessly for West Ham to playing for us. No guarantee of success for him.

My point exactly.

 

[Trickyblues]

He has had injury issues his whole career, he is not the most mobile of players even when fully fit.

That’s just not true.
He’s had 4 injuries in his whole career. The shoulder one at city was a reoccurrence of the one he had at Leeds so we made him get surgery.
1 hamstring and calf injury. All from 2021.

 

[manimanc]

I think Arteta is the one who will lose his head, he has to win a pot this season.

Absolutely, the pressure is cranked up double for him, they need to hit the ground running.

 

[Tony - MCFC]

Absolutely, the pressure is cranked up double for him, they need to hit the ground running.

He has to deliver at very least the PL. This is how we were judged and they should be the same (they won’t tho).

 

[CityPar]

I am rubbing my eyes in disbelief. There are genuinely people here who think winning 5 out of the last 6 titles, winning a treble, is "closer to fortunate than it is to good planning". Just absolute insanity, I don't know what to say.

"We don't have a left back, we have one senior right back" - not only are both of these false (Nathan Ake, Rico Lewis, Kyle Walker), we are also adding Gvardiol to it, and we also don't even PLAY with left backs.

"We have limited options out wide" - I would venture a guess almost any team in the world would kill to have Jack Grealish, Phil Foden, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez as their "options out wide".

"Our bench is topped up with players Pep does not trust to play meaningful minutes" - let's take the 11 that played the most minutes this season. They are, sorted by minutes played - Rodri, Ederson, Haaland, Gundogan, Akanji, KDB, Bernardo, Grealish, Dias, Mahrez, Ake.
That means that our "bench" is - Kyle Walker, John stones, Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez, Aymeric Laporte, Rico Lewis, Ortega, Palmer, Gomez, Phillips.
Yeah, full of untrusted players.

"If arsenal hadn't dropped stupid points, we wouldn't have won the league" - yeah, welcome to every season in every league in history! We won the league with 89 points, and that's because we let it go after winning it officially. We were on course for a 95 point season. This DOESNT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. It would be, what, the 4th or 5th highest point total in PL history? Yeah, so lucky to have won it.

"Every team around us is significantly strengthening" - and so are we. Kovacic, Gvardiol are magnificent additions. More will come through the door. The team is being refreshed. Countless times we've missed out on the first target and didn't regret it one bit. I am baffled some people think it's always due to luck and not because of our superior financial planning AND refusal to pay over the odds, leaving us with more money to invest in the organization.

Far too sensible an analysis for on here mate!

 

[bell_mcfc]

This. We are sorted :).

I really like the balance of that squad.

 

[TonyM]

I like him as a player, as i did Jude, but Real Madrid probably paid less for Jude, than Arsenal for Rice. The difference in quality, skill, and potential is gargantuan. Which is why i said, not worth more than 50 million.

Don't count your chickens on Kalvin. He's got a really good pass on him, and good speed. Might change a few opinions, like Jack did. I seem to recal hundreds of pages on his thread of people shitting on him year 1.

Philips reminds me of kids that I coach (God help them). All grand and skillful when not under pressure but in a game they just aren't on thier toes ready to react. The top outfield players IMO are like the top goalkeepers in that they are switched on constantly and ready to react to whatever danger/opportunity exists. Philips imo is on his heels too much, he doesn't keep moving to the best position to recieve the ball and he doesn't spring into life that millisecond earlier than lesser players. All he needs to make him into a top top players, as good as Rice/Vieira/Pirlo, imo, is a perfectly timed good hard kick up the hole.

 

[City Raider]

It’s important to strengthen whilst on top and I’m sure we will. Though to be honest, as long as we have Pep, I’m pretty relaxed. Still revelling in those last couple of weeks.

 

[Phoenix900000]

If rumours are true on Valverde being available we should be balls to the wall for it. Or even a potential swap with Bernardo

Valverde in our squad would be fire :)

Imo the best player in Real's team

Not sure if we can get him sadly

 

[Woody135]

If rumours are true on Valverde being available we should be balls to the wall for it. Or even a potential swap with Bernardo

I think hes their best midfielder. Cant imagine they let him leave. Cant imagine he wants to leave. Tchouameni leaves before valverde, even camavinga probably leaves before valverde.
Only thing that could make it happen is being forced out to fund mbappe

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

If rumours are true on Valverde being available we should be balls to the wall for it. Or even a potential swap with Bernardo

He's not.

 

[vicblueman]

Philips reminds me of kids that I coach (God help them). All grand and skillful when not under pressure but in a game they just aren't on thier toes ready to react. The top outfield players IMO are like the top goalkeepers in that they are switched on constantly and ready to react to whatever danger/opportunity exists. Philips imo is on his heels too much, he doesn't keep moving to the best position to recieve the ball and he doesn't spring into life that millisecond earlier than lesser players. All he needs to make him into a top top players, as good as Rice/Vieira/Pirlo, imo, is a perfectly timed good hard kick up the hole.

Spot on ,you summed it up perfectly .