Gianluigi Donnarumma | Done deal according to Romano

[richards30]

most likely PSG offered to little money and Donnarumma refused.

I think thats the most likely scenario to be honest.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Edited it for you.

Perfect!

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

Put simply, Ederson has been up there with David Silva and KDB in terms of his fundamental importance to everything we have won.

Everything that has made us the team that we are today surrounds Ederson. From the moment Pep arrived, his style of fearless back to front possession based football was never going to work until Ederson arrived.Once he did, we clicked and the rest is history, if Ederson didn't arrive we wouldn't have achieved what we have, it's as simple as that.

His 'apparent' decline has more to do with teams unpicking Peps overall tactics, and drop off in form of other defensive players than it has to do with the keeper himself.

His stats are still up there with the best, and for me, replacing him with Donnarumma will do little for us if we continue to be as open defensively as we were last season.

 

[Pam]

try that instead.

Try what? Not a Pep player.

 

[havefaith]

I'm quite excited by the thought of us getting him.

It'll be nice to have brilliant shot stopper and presence in goal.

Like I and many others have said, PSG didn't suffer with his feet.

Ederson is a one-off. If we try to replace him with a keeper who is advertised as being good with his feet, I guarantee you they'll be closer to Onana than Ederson.

Rather than doing that, just get the best keeper possible, one that just happened to win the CL in a team that play good football. An attempted like for like Ederson replacement is only going to be underwhelming.

"Like I and many others have said, PSG didn't suffer with his feet" good point in fact PSG were being touted as going to dominate European football for the next 10 years, no mention of a dodgy keeper :-)

 

[mancboy]

Try what? Not a Pep player.

if you dont understand this then you should try that. To your point though neither was haaland and hes done okay tbf, i think alot of people will be quite shocked as to how differently we play this year.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

I personally think Ederson has declined and his reaction speed has dropped off a cliff. There's no better keeper out there than Donnarumma so if city can make the numbers work then then I'll be happy with that

 

[decmancity]

most likely PSG offered to little money and Donnarumma refused.

Combination of that and PSG seeing a market opportunity to secure Chevalier.

 

[AndyP68]

Put simply, Ederson has been up there with David Silva and KDB in terms of his fundamental importance to everything we have won.

Everything that has made us the team that we are today surrounds Ederson. From the moment Pep arrived, his style of fearless back to front possession based football was never going to work until Ederson arrived.Once he did, we clicked and the rest is history, if Ederson didn't arrive we wouldn't have achieved what we have, it's as simple as that.

His 'apparent' decline has more to do with teams unpicking Peps overall tactics, and drop off in form of other defensive players than it has to do with the keeper himself.

His stats are still up there with the best, and for me, replacing him with Donnarumma will do little for us if we continue to be as open defensively as we were last season.

I largely agree, although he isn't getting any younger, and let in some soft goals last season which he seemed increasingly prone to doing.

If Ederson wants to stay, then I certainly wouldn't force him out to bring in Donnarumma. If Ederson wants to leave, then I think he'd be a great replacement.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

I think thats the most likely scenario to be honest.

Wasn’t it that they wanted to convert it to performance related bonuses, & because he was in a very good flat salary, didn’t want to change?

 

[RobinHood]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/36291385/gianluigi-donnarumma-premier-league-transfer-psg/ This article is a bit of a laugh.

What a shock. Linked with us so negative article.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Whilst what you say is true, we also might have won less than we have without Ederson.

Ederson and his quality on the ball has been one of the key aspects that have made us as successful as we have been. He is an eleventh outfield player which means almost every team we play against, we have a man more than them on the pitch. Hardly any other team we’ve played in nine years have had eleven outfield players.

When we have 70% possession, it becomes a relentless tirade for opposition teams to face.

Ederson’s quality on the ball has allowed us to seamlessly play players in the back four, in midfield, and outnumber all our opponents in the engine room on the pitch. He is always available for short passes which means one of the opposition forwards has to press him which creates a hole in behind that press. And if they sit off him, he’s been able to ping a pin-point 60 yard ball to Agüero or Haaland (or Gündoğan a few times) in dangerous areas up the pitch which takes out around 8 or 9 opposition players.

I’d argue that part of City under Pep is the core basis of our whole team play.

Ederson also acts as a sweeper excellently. His interception stats over the years are excellent. And that is not just with a shit toe-end out for an opposition throw-in like you get with a lot of other good sweepers, it means we win the ball back when we’re broken on and regain possession as he’s unflappable in possession and almost always finds a blue shirt.

That’s not taking anything away from those three you mentioned, especially Trautmann who is arguably our greatest ever legend… but Ederson took our football to another level with his key attributes.

Alright, a keeper better and saving shots might save us a few goals conceded over the season, but what Ederson is able to execute means there’s a trend to our play, with probably around a 98:2 split in our favour for what he brings in ratio to what he lacks from minute-to-minite in every game.

For all Ederson's good points it dosnt alter the fact if we get a penalty against us it goes in ,you could probably say over the years he's cost us the odd trophy as well as won us a lot ?

 

[kingn6]

Put simply, Ederson has been up there with David Silva and KDB in terms of his fundamental importance to everything we have won.

Everything that has made us the team that we are today surrounds Ederson. From the moment Pep arrived, his style of fearless back to front possession based football was never going to work until Ederson arrived.Once he did, we clicked and the rest is history, if Ederson didn't arrive we wouldn't have achieved what we have, it's as simple as that.

His 'apparent' decline has more to do with teams unpicking Peps overall tactics, and drop off in form of other defensive players than it has to do with the keeper himself.

His stats are still up there with the best, and for me, replacing him with Donnarumma will do little for us if we continue to be as open defensively as we were last season.

Yaya is not going to be happy with you. Better run and buy him a cake.

 

[argyle]

did not compromise PSG play tho this season, and PSG under Enrique plays similar to Pep

Enrique feels he did.

His champions league performances were excellent but from what Ive read he was making regular mistakes with his passing/kicking in other games. He also stays on his line and this doesn't help teams who play a high line.

If he comes I'd love to think Pep has us playing a different way but as we saw last season, he has a system and doesn't change even if a player can't play in that system.

 

[Silva2021]

I think we have looked a bit stale over the last 2 seasons, despite being successful in the main.

We could be looking to go a slightly different way.

 

[wattle]

Put simply, Ederson has been up there with David Silva and KDB in terms of his fundamental importance to everything we have won.

Everything that has made us the team that we are today surrounds Ederson. From the moment Pep arrived, his style of fearless back to front possession based football was never going to work until Ederson arrived.Once he did, we clicked and the rest is history, if Ederson didn't arrive we wouldn't have achieved what we have, it's as simple as that.

His 'apparent' decline has more to do with teams unpicking Peps overall tactics, and drop off in form of other defensive players than it has to do with the keeper himself.

His stats are still up there with the best, and for me, replacing him with Donnarumma will do little for us if we continue to be as open defensively as we were last season.

Totally 100% agree

 

[wattle]

For all Ederson's good points it dosnt alter the fact if we get a penalty against us it goes in ,you could probably say over the years he's cost us the odd trophy as well as won us a lot ?

I can’t think of when he cost us any trophies. I could be wrong, I often am nowerdays - but I can’t think of any. Yes the odd mad mistake, but costing us trophies? Dunno about that mate

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I can’t think of when he cost us any trophies. I could be wrong, I often am nowerdays - but I can’t think of any. Yes the odd mad mistake, but costing us trophies? Dunno about that mate

He's not cost us any trophies but his performance in CL final definitely helped win us old big ears.

 

[houraisen]

It's quite a high salary for GK

 

[richards30]

It's quite a high salary for GK

No way he`s getting that from us imo. The transfer fee is fine but we wont pay a keeper that much.