It’s Quiet 20 - What is the Wirtz that could happen?

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midfielder needs to arrive quick.
Marmoush may help in attack, young defenders may offer rotational help and in case of another injury wave but fucking hell the way even lesser teams bypass our midfield needs to be changed and quick.
 
Bellamy's Caddy said:
Might be wishful thinking, but I wonder if the CM (if we do actually go for one) is going to be an established premier league player like Guimaraes and it will happen at the end of the window, to avoid the media soap opera and potential fan backlash? In my opinion he's exactly what we need, would not come cheap and would be a difficult transfer. If not him, I really hope its someone of his ilk. We desperately need to add some steel to our midfield.
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He wasn’t at his best today, perhaps mind elsewhere (or not obviously)
 
Damanino said:
midfielder needs to arrive quick.
Marmoush may help in attack, young defenders may offer rotational help and in case of another injury wave but fucking hell the way even lesser teams bypass our midfield needs to be changed and quick.
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Knowing Pep he’ll just play 6 CB’s all at once : )
 
Damocles said:
I'll repeat what I said last week or whenever. Every journalist in the Manchester scene KNOWS that City are working on a midfielder. None of them, off the record, seem to know who it is.

Transfers aren't a secret, there's too many people involved. One of the journalists will get a whisper from someone and they'll generally gossip with others to see if they've heard or can confirm. So even before it goes to print, you know what's coming. This is how @tolmie's hairdoo has been ITK for so long, his sources and the gossip in the trade that hasn't hit the back pages yet. (It's nice to be finally able to acknowledge that Scott knew what he was talking about all along btw as many of us have stressed over the years)

But nobody has a clue who it is. And that's a weird situation. Nobody is talking. People will give info on the 115 case off the record with the "anonymous source/protect relationships" stuff and that's the most important thing that has happened in the modern history of this football club. But nobody is saying anything about the midfielder.

Here's my guess, and I stress that this is a total guess. I think the midfielder is coming from Viana exclusively. I think it might be someone who he has already done a lot of groundwork with or has a pre-existing relationship so there's little need for all the usual hoop jumping that would happen if this went through the City ranks. We already know that Reis is a Viana signing and although Khusanov was "on the list" in November, if you look at the profile of the player then he's more the type of risky player that goes to a Sporting than signs for City. Khusanov should sign for City as the club after his next one. Marmoush is a typical Txiki signing imo.

That's the only way this makes sense to me. The only other option I can think of, and this seems highly unrealistic, is that it's a controversial signing like a Zubimendi who Arsenal think they've got wrapped up. But I think it's the Viana thing, unless somebody else has got any ideas?
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If your guess is right, then Nico Gonzalez has to be up there as a very likely possibility.
 
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