It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

I wouldn't be completely against that

Raw but a livewire who plays and puts up numbers from LW/RW/ST

 

[leo_city]

Barcola is an excellent profile, changed his agent to Mendes. I wonder if we can do a decent deal for him. Ideal target, Lyon need funds too.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Never heard of Barcola. Is he any good? Is he fast? Direct? Score many goals or able to dribble past defenders?

Is he better than Palmer?

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Never heard of Barcola. Is he any good? Is he fast? Direct? Score many goals or able to dribble past defenders?

Is he better than Palmer?

Yes, Yes, Yes - but still raw

Yes, but has had more game time invested in his development. Palmer prob more suited to Pepball with a bit of experience.

 

[DeBlueLou]

From : #ManCity make first contact for Lyon’s winger Bradley Barcola who valuation at €40m. City gathered information on the player. [via
@le_Parisien
]

Same source said PSG are making a bid for him any days now

 

[City14]

This was supposed to be the window to further widen the gap with the other teams. By bringing in smart additions.

But I feel after the Treble we may have been complacent and allowed players wanting to leave to dictate and be in control by keeping us hanging until last week.

We should have been the ones dictating concrete timelines to players when we
Need answers by or they will be staying and no discussions would be had.

Now major deal is going to custard, and we seem from the outside running around trying to put some plan in place.

Best approach now:
Keep Laporte like managed to convince Bernardo to stay. Ask him one more season or till Jan, allowing us time to line up an alternative.

Walker: take the new deal or serve out one more year. We have given you best years of your career and now do us a favour.

And focus on keeping Bernardo under any circumstances. If he decides he wants to leave then just focus everything on getting his replacement. That’s all in this window.
Otherwise he stays aswell.

Time to play hardball.

 

[Phil1]

If Laporte isn’t in our plans then why would we keep him at the expense of a signing a brilliant, all round player who is only 21?

 

[Chi-town blues]

From : #ManCity make first contact for Lyon’s winger Bradley Barcola who valuation at €40m. City gathered information on the player. [via
@le_Parisien
]

Wtf is this shit “ gathering info “ ? does that mean city had never scouted him before and just getting ready now? unbelievable !

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Wtf is this shit “ gathering info “ ? does that mean city had never scouted him before and just getting ready now? unbelievable !

says gathered, not gathering. so scouting done.

 

[decmancity]

This was supposed to be the window to further widen the gap with the other teams. By bringing in smart additions.

Bloody hell is it 1st September already. Must have slept through it all.

 

[samuelyeboah]

A negative byproduct of allowing our players to bring offers in mid july and leave is that replacements have already been poached by other clubs. If we had known Mahrez is gone say, a month ago, maybe we could have persuaded Arda Guler.

 

[Damanino]

clearly that was the plan was to add Haaland, Bellingham, Gvardiol is space of 12 months. thats huge. future superstar in each department.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

A negative byproduct of allowing our players to bring offers in mid july and leave is that replacements have already been poached by other clubs. If we had known Mahrez is gone say, a month ago, maybe we could have persuaded Arda Guler.

Other than Haaland, KDB and Aguero, when have we managed to get our top target across the line? We failed with Bellingham, Rice, Koulabaly, Maguire, Alexis, Van Dijk, Hazard, and many others.

We always tend to get 2nd or 3rd on the list or relative unknowns, who're hungry to prove themselves.

I've made my peace with this is how Txiki operates.. so we'll find diamonds in the rough and not the jewelery store. Kind of like Julian Alvarez and Maximo Perrone. Don't be surprised if they have a bigger role this season.

 

[vin]

Other than Haaland, KDB and Aguero, when have we managed to get our top target across the line? We failed with Bellingham, Rice, Koulabaly, Maguire, Alexis, Van Dijk, Hazard, and many others.

We always tend to get 2nd or 3rd on the list or relative unknowns, who're hungry to prove themselves.

I've made my peace with this is how Txiki operates.. so we'll find diamonds in the rough and not the jewelery store. Kind of like Julian Alvarez and Maximo Perrone. Don't be surprised if they have a bigger role this season.

And let’s be honest about it. It’s not like this hasn’t proved successful over the years is it. What will be will be.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Barcola is an excellent profile, changed his agent to Mendes. I wonder if we can do a decent deal for him. Ideal target, Lyon need funds too.

Ready made song “Lola” by The Kinks

 

[richards30]

clearly that was the plan was to add Haaland, Bellingham, Gvardiol is space of 12 months. thats huge. future superstar in each department.

Yeah it does seem that was the plan mate, hopefully we end up with just missing out on one of them!

 

[Lord Blue]

Bloody hell is it 1st September already. Must have slept through it all.

It better not be otherwise i think Haaland is eating my birthday cake

 

[GazM]

Wtf is this shit “ gathering info “ ? does that mean city had never scouted him before and just getting ready now? unbelievable !

You should know better than to take this stuff at face value. Jeez.

 

[CC1]

Wtf is this shit “ gathering info “ ? does that mean city had never scouted him before and just getting ready now? unbelievable !

Exactly what you say - shit

 

[Dialog]

Wtf is this shit “ gathering info “ ? does that mean city had never scouted him before and just getting ready now? unbelievable !

Perhaps they weren't expecting to replace Mahrez this soon. Tbf, Mahrez had 2 years left on his contract, him wanting to leave was clearly a surprise to the club.