Gianluigi Donnarumma | Done deal according to Romano

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Blue Since 76 said:
He won them games because he's probably the best keeper and best penalty stopper in the world. I've nothing against him as a keeper, far from it, I'm questioning whether he's good enough with his feet for a Pep team and I don't see it.

Ortega is decent with his feet for a keeper yet causes us issues when he plays, not least because attackers know to press him into rushing. No one bothers to press Ederson, as he'll make you look daft whilst simultaneously taking half your team out of play with a pass injury midfield. Donnarumma is a definite step down from that, I'm not convinced he's even as comfortable as Ortega, so we can swap to him, but we would need to change style and not pass it around the 6yd box
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Not disagreeing with you, but maybe we've decided being pressed wouldn't be such a bad thing? Instead of teams being scared to press us? Instead they have a go and we pass through/round/over then and then actually have some space to attack?
 
Blue Since 76 said:
He won them games because he's probably the best keeper and best penalty stopper in the world. I've nothing against him as a keeper, far from it, I'm questioning whether he's good enough with his feet for a Pep team and I don't see it.

Ortega is decent with his feet for a keeper yet causes us issues when he plays, not least because attackers know to press him into rushing. No one bothers to press Ederson, as he'll make you look daft whilst simultaneously taking half your team out of play with a pass injury midfield. Donnarumma is a definite step down from that, I'm not convinced he's even as comfortable as Ortega, so we can swap to him, but we would need to change style and not pass it around the 6yd box
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PSG are the best possession based side in the world. If he can play for them and win the CL, he can play for City.

This should be obvious.
 
Marvin. said:
That sounds a bit fantastical to me. I think he already knows where he's going.
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yeah it did to me but Im hoping its true

We dont need Donarumma as good as he is...we do need to reinforce both midfield and defence.

Im ignring the replacement for Sav if he goes as that is totally separate.
 
simon23 said:
Dont know how realistic this is but TH on X is saying that the club could be playing a bit of a game here and that bidding for Donarumma (or making it known that we are supposedly after him is forcing utd to go for him now...utd want a keeper and they also want Baleba (we also want Baleba but not till next year) - utd cannt afford both Baleba and Donarumma now so by forcing them to get Donarumma now paves the way for us next year to get Baleba
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Big gamble to take. We all know the Premier League will let the Rags spend what they like next season too even if its finishing 15th again.

Donnarumma is world class, Genuinely be gutted if he went to them cunts.
 
SWPISHOME said:
Pretty obvious were all this is leading...

"Donnarumma turns down City to join United"...

We've seen it all before, Berbatov, Sanchez, Pogba, Maguire ect...
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Rags journalist briefed they are not in for him. They are happy with Onana.

So it’s just us
 
mattcity5 said:
Not disagreeing with you, but maybe we've decided being pressed wouldn't be such a bad thing? Instead of teams being scared to press us? Instead they have a go and we pass through/round/over then and then actually have some space to attack?
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I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm saying Donnarumma doesn't fit a typical Pep profile of a keeper and we'd need to change style. Maybe we will, but feels a bit like Saul on the road to Damascus if we suddenly have a keeper hitting row Z constantly
 
Marvin. said:
PSG are the best possession based side in the world. If he can play for them and win the CL, he can play for City.

This should be obvious.
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Thought the same but couldn't be bothered getting involved in the debate.

Tickles me that people don't see that PSG are arguably the best footballing side in the world at the moment.
 
Marvin. said:
PSG are the best possession based side in the world. If he can play for them and win the CL, he can play for City.

This should be obvious.
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And yet they want him out because he just isn’t good enough and expects wages that are just too high. He is perfect for United
 
Best goalkeeper in the world by a mile but we are bothered that ederson is better with his feet I mean bloody hell we are talking about saving shots which ederson struggles with so if we have a chance of both Trafford and donnaruma we go for it .
 
JustAnotherCityFan said:
Don't see it with United. They guy has just won the Champions League and now he's going to go to a team who isn't in Europe at all next year and doesn't have any recent pedigree at all to say they can get there in the near future.
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Said the same to a United mate yesterday. The drop is too big - when was the last time a key player for the CL winners went to a team not in Europe at all?

In addition, if this was 5-6years ago maybe United could pitch that it’s a blip and they expect to be in the CL in 12 months. If Donnarumma believes that, I’ve got a bridge to sell him
 
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