Martín Zubimendi

Gordyola said:
So why spend £300M on the North Stand and visitor attraction until the tribunal announces their verdict?
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The stadium will remain the same regardless if we go down a league. The players wont.

Also, the Etihad was chosen as a Euro 2028 stadium. That would have been a huge driving force for the club to showcase the ground and amenities .
 
Gordyola said:
A real threat of relegation?
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Unless you haven't heard, that is a very possible outcome of the 115 charges against us? The club might be (or say they are) confident, but some top players would probably need more than our guys saying "dont worry about it".
 
Chak19 said:
You didn't use that word but that's what you implied, what else does "wanting the easy life at a crap team" mean ? it's something the arrogant cunts at Madrid, dippers, rags use when they don't get a player they want, so once again, do better.
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If it’s implied you wouldn’t use quotations you dope hahaha
 
Vester said:
Unless you haven't heard, that is a very possible outcome of the 115 charges against us? The club might be (or say they are) confident, but some top players would probably need more than our guys saying "dont worry about it".
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I’ve heard about it FFS. It seems like a rather pessimistic perspective. The executives don’t seem to share that view. They’re quite firm in their stance, with solid evidence to support it. If top players are genuinely concerned, they can always include a release clause in their contracts.
 
pbueno16 said:
Considering current form and the very real possibility of a fat points deduction if the PL case doesn't go well; we could very well face relegation.
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Gorbachev said:
The stadium will remain the same regardless if we go down a league. The players wont.

Also, the Etihad was chosen as a Euro 2028 stadium. That would have been a huge driving force for the club to showcase the ground and amenities .
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The question remains:
I am aware of the Euro 2028 selection, but it is not worth £300 million.
If the club is found guilty, the owners and executives’ positions will become untenable, and the extension will become a £300 million white elephant. Therefore, they must have genuine confidence in their position.
 
Gordyola said:
The question remains:
I am aware of the Euro 2028 selection, but it is not worth £300 million.
If the club is found guilty, the owners and executives’ positions will become untenable, and the extension will become a £300 million white elephant. Therefore, they must have genuine confidence in their position.
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Regardless of how the case has gone, they're not going to give hints to what the verdict could be.

To get back to the topic of Zubimendi, I'm not holding my breath given the context that he turned down Liverpool several months ago and doesn't seem like he would leave Sociedad in a season where they could possibly qualify for European competitions next season.
 
Gordyola said:
I’ve heard about it FFS. It seems like a rather pessimistic perspective. The executives don’t seem to share that view. They’re quite firm in their stance, with solid evidence to support it. If top players are genuinely concerned, they can always include a release clause in their contracts.
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I think it's naive to think our guys in charge saying they are innocent is enough to remove all doubts among potential targets around the world. If they are happy were they are in their career right now many are probably happy to wait and see what the outcome is before signing a 5 year deal without any certainties they can get out of it, or were they would end up if they somehow can, if the outcome is negative.
It's not just "they can always just include a release clause", would City agree to one significantly lower than what they paid? Who would activate it, if anyone does? They often have a family that has to move abroad, children changing schools and so on. No matter how one sees it, there is a lot of uncertainty. Uncertainty that can be avoided or at least reduced if they wait a few months.

Doesn't mean it's impossible to sign players, but of course it has some impact. Even more likely so on someone who just turned down a move to Liverpool because he didn't want to leave his boyhood club which tells me he isn't exactly in a hurry to leave his current club.

With that said, I would obviously be happy if we managed to sign him. The point of my original post when someone questioned "whats the thought process" about us not signing Zubimendi was more that its possible we want to sign him but its Zubimendi who doesn't want to move. He just turned down a move to another big PL club so not sure why the poster didn't even consider that as an option.
 
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Not seen much of him. Does he have the legs for the premier league? We’re missing a lot of pace and physicality in the middle and he seems like a ‘controller’ type, similar to Kovacic.
 
The injuries are geniue concern. This is not because of me being over negative during January's transfer window. We have to tread very careful in bringing players now. By all means have a punt but it does mean overstretching with the valuation and our supposed budget. Something we didn't do when making an attempt in signing Mahrez in the Centurion season but we did eventually in the next transfer window.
 
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Given Zubimendi turned Liverpool down and would prefer to stay in Spain, I really hope we're not going to chase him all January only to end up with a fuckin Wolves player.
 
RayCTID said:
The injuries are geniue concern. This is not because of me being over negative during January's transfer window. We have to tread very careful in bringing players now. By all means have a punt but it does mean overstretching us with the valuation and our supposed budget. Something we didn't do when making an attempt in signing Mahrez in the Centurion season but we did eventually did in the next transfer windw.
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He's missed 10 games in 4 seasons through injury and has a £51m release clause. Given the state of the market and comparable transfers, I'd say £51m represents very fair value given that Rice moved for over £100m.

Or are you going to tell me he'd be worse than Lewis/ Gundogan?
 
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