Kevin De Bruyne | Appreciation thread

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wolfie1988 said:
You can't complain about the dads army midfield and then complain that the club are letting De Bruyne leave.

He's the only one with an expiring contract. To refresh, unfortunately he's the easiest to get rid of and therefore the decision is done. The others require another club to pay money for them and there aren't any guarantees another club will.
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-----------Rodri
De Bruyne---Wirtz

Things can change quickly. I'm sure De Bruyne would take less per week.

Offer Gundo a coaching role, say goodbye to Kovacic.

Club have been doing what's easiest in the transfer market for 2 years now and it's not worked.
 
MCFC1993 said:
-----------Rodri
De Bruyne---Wirtz

Things can change quickly. I'm sure De Bruyne would take less per week.

Offer Gundo a coaching role, say goodbye to Kovacic.

Club have been doing what's easiest in the transfer market for 2 years now and it's not worked.
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"Say goodbye to Kovacic"

He has a contract, you can't just say goodbyes to a player on a contract. There has to be a willing buyer.
 
He was good yesterday, Really good but I'm not sure he'd be able to do that Saturday and Wednesday or Thursday/Sunday!!!!!!!

Now that's where the problem lies moving forward.
 
On yesterday’s performance and phases/glimmers in other games I’d be tempted to give Kev one more season.

Play him sparingly though. 60 mins here, 30 mins there, couple of games rest.

Get a couple in (eg Wirtz and Gibbs-White/Guimares) and get Rodders back. Give NOR certain games in midfield. Use Kev as and when.

If fit, he’d be the impact sub we all wanted Gundo to be.

He’d have to accept a good drop in wage too to satisfy our financials.
 
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Manchester_lalala said:
Right time for him to leave. Huge wages off the books. He’s still a brilliant player but we’ve only seen that ability a handful of times in 18 months or so. You can’t be going after Wirtz and thinking about signing De Bruyne on for another year on £300k pw. It doesn’t make financial sense.
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It’s a tough one. You make a very valid point, but for all we know Wirtz might want to stay at Leverkusen until after the World Cup next Summer and even if he did leave Leverkusen this Summer it could be to Bayern.

So we could end up with no Wirtz and no De Bruyne.
 
MCFC1993 said:
If we're staring at this next season:
-------------Rice
Odegaard--De Bruyne

We'd be gutted and only have ourselves to blame.

I'd like to think Kev wouldn't do it but if someone is offering him top level Premier League football a year before the World Cup, he'd be daft to say no.
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As if
 
MCFC1993 said:
If we're staring at this next season:
-------------Rice
Odegaard--De Bruyne

We'd be gutted and only have ourselves to blame.

I'd like to think Kev wouldn't do it but if someone is offering him top level Premier League football a year before the World Cup, he'd be daft to say no.
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That’s exactly the type of thinking I don’t like. We have to have our own plan. We can’t make decisions based on often inaccurate possibilities. We don’t know what Kev’s position is either. United operate like that. No plan of their own. React to market rumours.
 
You can not have your top earner, or second top earner, only able to play once a week.

Lots of sentimental outpouring on here after yesterday but the cold hard fact is he's not physically capable of what's needed for the first team over a full season any more.

If he were willing to half his wages and be a bit part player then we should keep him but again, cold hard fact is he can go to Saudi and earn double what he's on now.
 
Putting the 'is it the right time for him to leave or not ' to one side.

Kev dragged us back into that game yesterday, as he has done many times previously. Gundo and Bernardo have done too in the past. Not just by their skills but by absolutely determination and grit.

I look through the players we have outside of these guys (with the exception of Rodri and Stones - who are also injury prone) and I just don't see that same gritty DNA and leadership.

I see a lot of excellent quality players who can definitely win us lots of games collectively, but I'd like to see us bring in some true leaders at the end of the season, if not we could end up with a team with excellent quality but little belly when needed e.g. 'that' QPR game
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I think you’re likely right but: We’ve possibly got 8 games left, so what happens if he ‘turns up’ in 6 of them and is instrumental in winning the cup and finishing 3rd?
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Then he further cements his status and leaves on a high. He plays 6 blinders and we finish 6th and lose FA cup final, will then
Moss Side's Finest said:
Putting the 'is it the right time for him to leave or not ' to one side.

Kev dragged us back into that game yesterday, as he has done many times previously. Gundo and Bernardo have done too in the past. Not just by their skills but by absolutely determination and grit.

I look through the players we have outside of these guys (with the exception of Rodri and Stones - who are also injury prone) and I just don't see that same gritty DNA and leadership.

I see a lot of excellent quality players who can definitely win us lots of games collectively, but I'd like to see us bring in some true leaders at the end of the season, if not we could end up with a team with excellent quality but little belly when needed e.g. 'that' QPR game
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Rodri injury prone? Not sure he fits that description, may become so depending on his ACL recovery
 
Stoned Rose said:
On yesterday’s performance and phases/glimmers in other games I’d be tempted to give Kev one more season.

Play him sparingly though. 60 mins here, 30 mins there, couple of games rest.

Get a couple in (eg Wirtz and Gibbs-White/Guimares) and get Rodders back. Give NOR certain games in midfield. Use Kev as and when.

If fit, he’d be the impact sub we all wanted Gundo to be.

He’d have to accept a good drop in wage too to satisfy our financials.
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He said he wanted to stay another season on a reduced salary but the club didn't offer it to him. I think it makes sense to give De Bruyne another year and use him sparingly. Hopefully the club have a rethink and change their mind on letting him leave because we saw yesterday when he's on his game he's still an influential game changer.
 
Vincent Kompany captained us to a domestic treble in May 2019 and was basically retired by December that same year. Ilkay Gundogan captained us to a treble and, as we've seen, was basically done 12 months on. It's better De Bruyne leaves now.
 
mancboy said:
i dont think he takes that deal, what you have to remember he is one of the biggest earners at the club, can we really carry his level of wages for 10 games a season and would he be insulted if we offered him such a deal
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Exactly

And for those saying another big Premier League team would sign him, well yeah, I'm sure any team would like De Bruyne in their squad, in theory.


The reality of offering big wages to a player of his age who is in decline and had major injuries in recent times is completely different. You know he isn't gonna play 30 league games a season and you might get half a dozen good games out of him at this stage. That's why I don't think big Premier League teams would be scrambling for his signature.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Exactly

And for those saying another big Premier League team would sign him, well yeah, I'm sure any team would like De Bruyne in their squad, in theory.


The reality of offering big wages to a player of his age who is in decline and had major injuries in recent times is completely different. You know he isn't gonna play 30 league games a season and you might get half a dozen good games out of him at this stage. That's why I don't think big Premier League teams would be scrambling for his signature.
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I really couldn't imagine him wanting to sign for any other prem side out of respect for us
 
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