Josko Gvardiol

[Ajm1985]

Oooft that's infuriating: Liverpool not fucking about, getting a player I wanted at City and it strengthening Leipzig's position while we don't pay their asking price. Ouch

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

So your saying a player in the middle of a 100 mill transfer is going to jeopardize a transfer by liking a tweet saying it's a done deal to the other club ..yep you believe what you want lol

Or more likely, he thought there was nothing to jeopardise as the deal was done.

 

[Blue and true]

Do you just pay over the odds for everything you buy?
When you put £32 of diesel in your car, I guess you must slip them a £50 and say keep the change?

Not even remotely comparable. Stop being daft.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Or more likely, he thought there was nothing to jeopardise as the deal was done.

But still would you risk it. End of the day if it gets done it does if I don't I for one don't really care

 

[TB369]

very weird how defensive some people here on simple facts like "it sucks that we miss out on good players" like it's some sort of attack on them

I agree, some people get so aggressive for no reason. You are a city fan as much as anyone else and want what you thinks best for the club as they do. It's a forum for people to discuss opinions and news but some people can't handle different opinions and view points.

 

[leo_city]

Selling club says please pay up!

 

[borassic]

Just part of the pantomime to appease their fans

 

[Phil1]

This is odds on going to fall apart now. This window is pathetic so far. What a great way to back Pep after a treble along with so many players wanting to leave!

It’s not going to fall apart. The sad sacks who fucking camp on this thread day and night looking for anything to whinge and whine about might like to give us the impression that City are useless but I doubt anyone with any grasp of reality takes their needy fucking nonsense seriously.

 

[Utter bobbins]

Just reacting to the window so far…..I will be absolutely delighted if things turn around but come on, so far this window has been piss poor.

Yeah 1 out 1 in not accounting for academy players

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Surely by now we realise that to stay at the top you have to spend your money wisely? Bringing in a couple of work class players asap is not a strategy that exists. There isn’t a club on the planet bar perhaps Real Madrid who seem to be able to execute that.

It doesn't even work that well for Madrid in La Liga, only the UCL

 

[Phil1]

Been a shite window so far.

Reminiscent of the 2012 window after the title win.

Hopefully we get things sorted.

Wonderful stuff. The cry arsing cavalry have arrived.

 

[samuelyeboah]

Yeah 1 out 1 in not accounting for academy players

well no, mahrez has already had medicals at Al Ahli, I think you can count him with the outs

 

[vanchi]

The best scenario from this is, we fuck off Leipzig and get Lukeba from Lyon for €40m who has an equally high ceiling, is a year younger and superb all round. That’s who they wanted to replace Josko with, and no doubt they’d be selling him for 80-90m following summer.

i don’t think it’s as simple as that. leipzig are so successful cause they give the talented but inexperienced young players the chance to play a lot, european competitions included. top clubs don’t have that “luxury”, too much at stake.

lukeba played 2 seasons of senior football, he’s 20. gvardiol at 21, four seasons, a lot of minutes (as in he wasn’t just an option on the bench), played his first big international senior tournament at just 19, the world cup at 20 where he and our gk were the only players that played every single second of all 7 games. the best player of our national team in the wc, and luka modrić was there. and he won the bronze medal with a team that basically doesn’t have an attack, yeah it was ugly but they never ever give up, that’s not only valuable experience but also an excellent lesson in what people like to call being a mentality monster. he has 6 club trophies in 4 seasons. not as fancy as the ucl for example of course, but they still have to step on the pitch, fight and win to get them.

 

[mosssideblue]

The only fact is the club are yet to secure his signing, despite the season starting in two weeks. It's piss poor, irrespective of what happened last month; we're talking about the here and now. That's reason enough to be critical, if one so feels, on a public forum built on opinion

Lol. Why is it piss poor, what should Txiki have done differently ?

 

[clarion]

No transfer. Just watched SS News Germany. The guy is training for Leipzig.

Don’t want us to pay 100mil€. We need to get far away from this image.

 

[mosssideblue]

I agree with this tweet. I reckon this is exactly what happened.


We should have signed him when we had a chance. I knew Liverpool paying them quickly what was needed for Szoboszlai is going to make this signing difficult.

He didn't say he was staying, he said he would prefer he stayed

 

[Sir peace frog]

I don’t think it’s amateur hour on behalf of either club. Sometimes we get frustrated because it takes time. Both clubs involved have their own agenda and need to look after their own interests. We live in a world of 24 hour news and information has become a valuable commodity. Unless you tune out of the noise and are prepared to have patience, you will allow yourself to be influenced by dick heads like that weird Romaro character and his childishness tweets and catchphrases.

That said I do still enjoy the speculation and the info posted here by those who share what they are told. Keep it up fellers..

i don't think information is a valuable commodity , there's that much information,it is cheap, most of it worthless,and that's the problem , 692 pages of information on this thread and 99.99% is worthless.

 

[Coatigan]

Did they expect us to wait till the end of the transfer market to announce it? Fucking selfish cunts. Sorry if posted, it's difficult to catch up in this thread :).

Just as likely that Romano is the one saving face here, to deny he was premature. Hard to believe a club would just stop a transfer process of this value just because some transfer journalists put out tweets about it.

 

[mosssideblue]

And we are half way through it. Oh and what about “we get our business done early” brigade. Doesn’t look that way. Aaah and yes so the Gvardiol deal has only been worked on since the window opened, which is bollox. The comms would have started 6 months ago. The fee and any other related matters could and should have been dealt with prior to the window opening. I don’t think this gets done now

You do recognise there are two parties involved in a transaction?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Sorry to disappoint the forum flappers,but this will get done when RB have stopped sulking.