14 | Nico Gonzalez - 2025/26

[Tevez City]

I hope he stays and prove him self as reliable DM.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Silly season nonsense.

For one poster it's always silly season. Spent the most successful period by any English club in football history posting how shite it all was and how he couldn't wait for it to be over because he liked the buzz of getting little notifications on his phone.

 

[Blue2202]

Nico Gonzales is 23 with over 170 appearances behind him who was signed for £50m. He isn't a raw kid we have picked up. Lose the aggro and the insults. It is telling that Pep favoured both Gundo and Kovacic ahead of him. Especially as recently as last Monday morning.

There’s no aggro from my end, your points just don’t make sense to me at all, will just agree to disagree.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Kinnell! There's some story spinning on this topic tonight, it's like listening to Goldfish.

Is he that wank, wannabe rag youtuber?

 

[Blue2202]

Just as a response to the points. Possible answers.

1. To play.
2. To get money back to spend on someone better.
3. The squad is big and we need to remove a few players at least. We won't be able to get rid of players if teams don't want them - if someone wants Nico, he might end up going. It doesn't mean that others won't as well.

Fair points, but do you not think that would be ridiculous? Sign a player for £60m in January and sell him in the summer for a hefty loss with him having hardly kicked a ball? No one would be offering anywhere near close to inflated January price we paid for him.

There are also many players at the end of the road who should be front of the queue to leave before gonzalez.

If it does happen it screams of a complete disconnect at the top. We pride ourselves on being one of the best run clubs off the pitch but it’s hard to argue that case if things like this happen.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think this is a bullshit rumour put out to possibly find a mole in the camp and fuck them off instead.

 

[ysmsa]

Not too sure about the source but I like to hear it

Who is the lowest ranked player to have an Entourage I wonder?

 

[JewelZee]

So, can you do better? Never seen you as an expert pundit on any of the football channels or press. What are your credentials? Please list them and convince me you are a better judge than Pep.

With all due respect we don't need Pep to be better than LP, waspish, blueparrot, you, or me. We need him to be better than he's been this past 14 months. Better than his current peers. IN MY OPINION he needs to step up his game. That doesn't mean I know more than Pep. It means I can see he's been off it for a minute now.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

With all due respect we don't need Pep to be better than LP, waspish, blueparrot, you, or me. We need him to be better than he's been this past 14 months. Better than his current peers. IN MY OPINION he needs to step up his game. That doesn't mean I know more than Pep. It means I can see he's been off it for a minute now.

He got into the mess because of loyalty to players who are past their prime.

If he fixes that and goes back to being ruthless.. that'll be enough!

 

[dhruvblue]

Fair points, but do you not think that would be ridiculous? Sign a player for £60m in January and sell him in the summer for a hefty loss with him having hardly kicked a ball? No one would be offering anywhere near close to inflated January price we paid for him.

There are also many players at the end of the road who should be front of the queue to leave before gonzalez.

If it does happen it screams of a complete disconnect at the top. We pride ourselves on being one of the best run clubs off the pitch but it’s hard to argue that case if things like this happen.

No other manager gets away with such stuff anywhere else

Had rags or dippers done this this place would be having a laugh for over 1000 pages

Pep will have to play him and test him at real match conditions and move beyond oh he is not good in training stuff

That price tag is just too much to write off

 

[Damocles]

Another history lesson! If you honestly think 24/25 Pep City is anywhere near as good as 22/23 Pep City then fair enough. I don't. It's been a slow decline in performances since we won the CL imo.

Yes... Even though we won the 'four in a row' in 23/24. The signs of decline were already there and it got worse in 24/25. We only finished third because the teams in 4th to 7th were awful.

Recent history is usually a lot more enlightning than that of the more distant past.

I think the problem Lavinda is that no matter what Pep does, your opinion won't change. Which means it doesn't hold any value. You didn't like him before, you don't like him now, you won't like him in the future. You've convinced yourself on a false image of the guy and have now just decided to double down.

Oh and within the football industry, he's considered one of the best man managers of all time and even people like the Zinchenko you've mentioned worship the guy. In fact out of the hundreds of players he's worked with, I can probably think of less than 5 who have ever had a problem with him. Most of them say he's the absolute best they've ever worked with.

 

[Paul1970]

Can’t see and hope this sale doesnt happen as it embarrass the club and make us a laughing stock . Buy a young player in January for a big fee then refuse to even really give a him chance and then ship him out for a loss in the summer I mean wtf is going in the background of this club which was renowned the world over as the club that hardly ever gets it wrong and we where a blueprint on his you run a club but now since he treble we have just fell away and are clutching at straws trying to sign players who we think will fit peps ever changing systems . Not only should someone’s head fall in the backroom over clusterfuck decisions but can you imagine what any top class young player will be thinking if we approach them .

 

[waspish]

Can’t see and hope this sale doesnt happen as it embarrass the club and make us a laughing stock . Buy a young player in January for a big fee then refuse to even really give a him chance and then ship him out for a loss in the summer I mean wtf is going in the background of this club which was renowned the world over as the club that hardly ever gets it wrong and we where a blueprint on his you run a club but now since he treble we have just fell away and are clutching at straws trying to sign players who we think will fit peps ever changing systems . Not only should someone’s head fall in the backroom over clusterfuck decisions but can you imagine what any top class young player will be thinking if we approach them .

Anyone believe any of this the media are reporting are so gullible! When as a supporter we know how the media been treating us reporting on us last 15 years! It’s pure media bias driven agenda, spreading there lies all over social media!

Soon as I read it first instinct complete made up lie!

 

[Paul1970]

Anyone believe any of this the media are reporting are so gullible! When as a supporter we know how the media been treating us reporting on us last 15 years! It’s pure media bias driven agenda, spreading there lies all over social media!

Soon as I read it first instinct complete made up lie!

Problem is normally it would be dissmissed at crap but atm fans are thinking anything is possible .

 

[waspish]

Problem is normally it would be dissmissed at crap but atm fans are thinking anything is possible .

He played in 17 games for us around 950mins that is not mix game time for a young player at 23/24 coming into a new league he needs to know the system! Difference is when we got Rodri was he he mainly played Fernandinho at moment because Rodri couldn’t play he had to learn of without the crutch of Rodri!

Let’s see by the end of this season before we think is not in pep plans because he can’t do the jobs pep wants…

 

[mattcity5]

Fair points, but do you not think that would be ridiculous? Sign a player for £60m in January and sell him in the summer for a hefty loss with him having hardly kicked a ball? No one would be offering anywhere near close to inflated January price we paid for him.

There are also many players at the end of the road who should be front of the queue to leave before gonzalez.

If it does happen it screams of a complete disconnect at the top. We pride ourselves on being one of the best run clubs off the pitch but it’s hard to argue that case if things like this happen.

I wouldn't say ridiculous, but I would say disappointing. There is still time for this to go either way - it can still work and him become an important player for us, or he goes.

IF he does go, then it suggests there was something in his game, or about him, that we weren't totally impressed by, which would suggest we've got this one wrong.

IF that does happen, we've either not found out enough about him as a person, or we've not spotted flaws in his game - that would be the most disappointing part for me.

No team ever gets everything right, but it feels that if we have got this wrong, we can get others wrong as well. It would definitely reduce confidence.

 

[mattcity5]

Anyone believe any of this the media are reporting are so gullible! When as a supporter we know how the media been treating us reporting on us last 15 years! It’s pure media bias driven agenda, spreading there lies all over social media!

Soon as I read it first instinct complete made up lie!

Absolutely. The media know we still need transfers so over the next month there will be loads of guesses that will attract the clicks they're after. Some guesses could turn out right, but it will be a low percentage.

 

[mattcity5]

No other manager gets away with such stuff anywhere else

Had rags or dippers done this this place would be having a laugh for over 1000 pages

Pep will have to play him and test him at real match conditions and move beyond oh he is not good in training stuff

That price tag is just too much to write off

Disagree.

What the price tag is too much for, is for him to end up another Phillips.

Ideally he ends up a major part of the team, but if we've seen something that says that's never going to happen, then it's better that he gets a transfer quickly and we move on. If the majority of the money gets recouped then it isn't horrendous, these things happen. What we don't need is squad places taken up by players who aren't going to get a game unless the squad gets hit by the plague.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Pep doesn't fancy him, and from the small bits of playing time I've see him. he hasn't looked a £60 million player IMO.

How can you judge him so much, based on barely any games?

I’d argue some of our regular first team players haven’t looked like their price tag at all. Yet they start regularly and get game time

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I reckon part of the thing with Nico is he seems to be gassed after 60 minutes (and was subbed numerous times last season) -which is the thing from moving from the Portuguese league to the EPL

Could that because he has not match fitness/ sharpness? And the more he plays the more he gets used to playing 90 minutes