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Blue and true said:
Fair price? No fucking shit. Absolute mugs if we only fetch this for a player of his calibre. Bare minimum we should be looking at, in the current climate, is £50m.
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Nobody outside of PL will/can pay that much. City receiving a €50-60m offer for Laporte from a club like Juventus/Inter/Atletico/Sevilla is just completely unrealistic since neither can afford it or would be willing to spend that kind of money on a defender with no resale value.

The only real question is, would we rather:
a) Keep him, with him most likely getting less minutes than last years 12 PL appearances and possibly selling him for even less next year with him costing the club an additional €7m in salary.
b) Sell him for €50m to a PL rival, getting the most money possible but strengthening a competitor for the league and also having to see him in a rivals shirt.
c) Sell him to the highest non PL bidder this summer, which at this point looks like being Juventus with a €30m bid.

I can see arguments being made for all alternatives. I would rather just keep him, as long as he doesn't cause any problems in the locker room from being unhappy with minutes. But if City suspect he could do that, I would rather just sell him to Juventus than to Arsenal. Not strengthening our rivals is more important than 20m, in my opinion.
 
BRONSON said:
Did I read somewhere a couple of weeks ago, that Real had accepted an £80 mullion bid from the scousers, or did I dream It.
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i think there was an article mate but a shit source? I would not think twice of slapping a £100m bid in for Valverde mate if he was available? We`ve gone for Bellingham and Rice so the appetite is there for a big midfielder transfer?
 
richards30 said:
i think there was an article mate but a shit source? I would not think twice of slapping a £100m bid in for Valverde mate if he was available? We`ve gone for Bellingham and Rice so the appetite is there for a big midfielder transfer?
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He is available for 75-85m pounds, though :)
 
Haaland94 said:
Valverde would play RW for us if we were to lose Bernardo/Mahrez. Perfect, world-class replacement at the right age. Pep loves him as well, but I am not sure if he would want to leave Madrid. He would need a lot of convincing.
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Need to be convinced from Real Madrid side by directly telling him that he is not part of plan anymore in the future.

That will surely push him to go out from the club, if we only relying from our own to convince him it will be difficult.
 
richards30 said:
wasnt that one shite source mate?
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Yeah, maybe, not sure. Regardless, I think we would strike a deal with Madrid, no problem, but would he want to move to us? I read somewhere he wants to be a future Madrid captain...
 
Vester said:
Nobody outside of PL will/can pay that much. City receiving a €50-60m offer for Laporte from a club like Juventus/Inter/Atletico/Sevilla is just completely unrealistic since neither can afford it or would be willing to spend that kind of money on a defender with no resale value.

The only real question is, would we rather:
a) Keep him, with him most likely getting less minutes than last years 12 PL appearances and possibly selling him for even less next year with him costing the club an additional €7m in salary.
b) Sell him for €50m to a PL rival, getting the most money possible but strengthening a competitor for the league and also having to see him in a rivals shirt.
c) Sell him to the highest non PL bidder this summer, which at this point looks like being Juventus with a €30m bid.

I can see arguments being made for all alternatives. I would rather just keep him, as long as he doesn't cause any problems in the locker room from being unhappy with minutes. But if City suspect he could do that, I would rather just sell him to Juventus than to Arsenal. Not strengthening our rivals is more important than 20m, in my opinion.
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Totally agree - I think the money in the PL is distorting our view.

Here are the top transfers last year - of the top 20, 16 were paid by PL teams.

www.transfermarkt.co.uk

Top transfers

Worldwide top transfers in the season 25/26. The list ist pre-sorted by transfer fee and market value, where the higher value is used for sorting.
www.transfermarkt.co.uk www.transfermarkt.co.uk

There are very, very few clubs that are going to be paying anything like the PL prices we see as normal at the moment, and even they are likely only paying them for world class players in their early 20s.

If our players want to go abroad, or we insist on selling them outside the PL, then the market is tiny, and nothing like as lucrative. It would not surprise me if Saudi started to look more appealing as the Summer wears on.
 
doobyedoobye said:
I'm very surprised there isn't a sizeable queue of clubs looking to sign Laporte..
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Tend to agree , I’m amazed that Newcastle or maybe Spurs aren’t in for him , a lot of business though is done when the initial flurry is over , nobody these days wants to show there hands early. Always liked Laporte , never seems to whinge , celebrated our gongs like an ever present in the side , in tears wasnt he at Wembley , like he knew it was over for him ? I’d love to see him stay tbh.
 
flb said:
Tend to agree , I’m amazed that Newcastle or maybe Spurs aren’t in for him , a lot of business though is done when the initial flurry is over , nobody these days wants to show there hands early. Always liked Laporte , never seems to whinge , celebrated our gongs like an ever present in the side , in tears wasnt he at Wembley , like he knew it was over for him ? I’d love to see him stay tbh.
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Spurs were, he already told them to fuck off. Newcastle have Botman and dont need him
 
I think we're getting to a place where united were 10 years or so a go in that our academy is so highly regarded, we are able to get high fees on reputation alone.
 
St.Pauli support said:
Short memories on BM...
Kovacic and Laporte both born May 94. Internationals.
Clubs happy to let them go.
We signed Kova for €30m.

What's so difficult to suggest similar for Laporte?

Only PL clubs will pay that, or a bit more.
Or Saudi.

Juve? Have a laugh.
Bilbao? Didn't pay a quid on signings for 2 years.
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Kovacic cost Chelsea less, they could not fit him in the squad or pay his wages, with new signings, CB`s generally are at their peak 26 to 32. Admittedly Juve would try and take him on a free ,before selling back to us for £98 million :) there are plenty of clubs that would take him on installments or swap +cash, but those deals are awkward and take time.
 
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