Elliot Anderson | Opening bid rejected (p189)

[mancityscot]

prem teams no longer need the money, its of no interest to them to sell if they want to keep the player.

 

[skillman]

Reijnders made the Dutch world cup squad. Frimpong didn't and I rate him pretty highly.

Reijnders started off well enough but I think he's one of those players who needs game time. He was midfielder of the year when he signed for us, admittedly a lower bar but to get the award of the best in the league at any level age he must have something about him. A change of manager might just suit him.

Marmoush had scored a goal every two games played on average this season. That's a decent return for a player that's not getting much game time.

Agreed. I like them both (particularly think Reijnders will do well under Maresca) but they’re massive wages in case we do want to cash in.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

True, but let’s add Rice and Grealish to the list. I think City will know very well that Anderson is £100m+ in today’s market and that’s where this will go.

We shall see…

I think we will break our record for Anderson.
The only thing niggling me is the outgoing players and who they will be and who pushes to leave.
If all of Kovacic, Nico G and Rodri want out, it may change our requirements. Not sure what money would be available as we would need to completely rebuild the midfield.
Bernardo and Stones already gone

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

‘integral’ lol. Are we still running with this bollocks? Rice has just played in a champions league final & grealish is playing with fucking beto and barry.

What the fuck are you on about?

Grealish played the full 90 minutes in a CL Final which we won, and was an important part of our treble winning season - his best season at City.

Rice played in a CL final which Arsenal lost, was part of the team that fucked up both the FA Cup and the League Cup final - and has contributed to a single trophy winning season.

In terms of trophies won, and major finals played in - if those are the metrics we’re using - Grealish has unquestionably been a more successful signing than Rice.

He’s 30 now, and is at a different stage in both his career and his cycle with the Club than Rice is at Arsenal - but at a comparable stage, Grealish was more successful for City than Rice has been for Arsenal so far.

 

[David Silva]

Posted this 9 days ago. It’s happening again. We’ll not go beyond £100m for Anderson and will spend about £150-200m over the coming seasons on players that are just not quite good enough when we could have got the one that is good enough for less than that. Sometimes ‘overpaying’ is the right thing to do.

100% agree. Since Rodri, our midfield signings have been:

Kalvin Phillips (£50m)
Matheus Nunes (£50m)
Mateo Kovacic (£25m)
Nico Gonzalez (£50m)
Tijjani Reijnders (£45m)

£220m spent. In that time frame we have lost David Silva, Fernandinho, Gundogan and now Bernardo, and we are going into arguably the third or fourth summer in a row needing adequate midfield recruitment.

Nunes of course has proved a good signing but not as originally intended. We would have saved £100m by offering that for Rice or Bruno three years ago.

 

[Mad 4 It]

I think we will break our record for Anderson.
The only thing niggling me is the outgoing players and who they will be and who pushes to leave.
If all of Kovacic, Nico G and Rodri want out, it may change our requirements. Not sure what money would be available as we would need to completely rebuild the midfield.
Bernardo and Stones already gone

We have plenty of players to sell who add nothing to the team apart from this thing that people cling to called squad depth but in reality these players are no more useful than EDS lads and are in fact blocking EDS lads chances.

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

‘integral’ lol. Are we still running with this bollocks? Rice has just played in a champions league final & grealish is playing with fucking beto and barry.

Pep must be wrong then. He said it...

 

[bell_mcfc]

The MEN guy also made the point I’ve made, which is that Forest and City seem to get on well at boardroom level (the emergency Ortega deal being a good example). Contrast with Spurs and Man Utd, who both seem to have pissed Marinakis off so much he’s possibly unlikely to deal with them.

This is one thing that always gets glazed over, City have an incredible relationship with a lot of clubs.

We are obviously very biased as fans but the club is very well run at a boardroom level.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

100% agree. Since Rodri, our midfield signings have been:

Kalvin Phillips (£50m)
Matheus Nunes (£50m)
Mateo Kovacic (£25m)
Nico Gonzalez (£50m)
Tijjani Reijnders (£45m)

£220m spent. In that time frame we have lost David Silva, Fernandinho, Gundogan and now Bernardo, and we are going into arguably the third or fourth summer in a row needing adequate midfield recruitment.

Nunes of course has proved a good signing but not as originally intended. We would have saved £100m by offering that for Rice or Bruno three years ago.

We signed rodri for 50m
Yaya 25m
Bernardo 38m
Gundo 20m
David silva 25m
Fernandinho 30m
Kdb 50m

It's not how much u pay it's just getting the right players some u win some u lose.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We signed rodri for 50m
Yaya 25m
Bernardo 38m
Gundo 20m
David silva 25m
Fernandinho 30m
Kdb 50m

It's not how much u pay it's just getting the right players some u win some u lose.

The price is relevant though, because it’s often the price that puts us off buying the right players and we sometimes then buy multiple wrong players for more money than the price we didn’t like for the right player.

 

[Gumzy97]

Hopefully we can get Anderson done as the alternative seems to be to be off elsewhere. Alex Scott in talks with Tottenham, Wharton a Liverpool target.

 

[bell_mcfc]

Hopefully we can get Anderson done as the alternative seems to be to be off elsewhere. Alex Scott in talks with Tottenham, Wharton a Liverpool target.

They both make perfect sense. Both for the player and team involved.

 

[richards30]

Hopefully we can get Anderson done as the alternative seems to be to be off elsewhere. Alex Scott in talks with Tottenham, Wharton a Liverpool target.

Spurs are having a right go this summer aren’t they?

 

[mattcity5]

Hopefully we can get Anderson done as the alternative seems to be to be off elsewhere. Alex Scott in talks with Tottenham, Wharton a Liverpool target.

I think we'll sort Anderson, but if not I'd be after Mateus Fernandes, although I know there's quite a bit of interest in him too.

 

[mattcity5]

Spurs are having a right go this summer aren’t they?

If it isn't all just paper talk to make them seem relevant...

 

[richards30]

If it isn't all just paper talk to make them seem relevant...

They are defo at least talking to Bournemouth for Scott and us about Savinho and have signed the other two already

 

[David Silva]

We signed rodri for 50m
Yaya 25m
Bernardo 38m
Gundo 20m
David silva 25m
Fernandinho 30m
Kdb 50m

It's not how much u pay it's just getting the right players some u win some u lose.

Some of those fees are from a completely different era though. Fees are massively inflated since Neymar’s move to PSG.

Gundo was a steal, but Yaya, Silva, KDB were all considered top whack back in the day. There was loads of criticism aimed at us for spending £30m on “27yo Fernandinho”..

 

[Claytop]

Posted this 9 days ago. It’s happening again. We’ll not go beyond £100m for Anderson and will spend about £150-200m over the coming seasons on players that are just not quite good enough when we could have got the one that is good enough for less than that. Sometimes ‘overpaying’ is the right thing to do.

Think the Grealish transfer spooked them back to the previous MO of not spending more than £50-£60m for one player.

 

[blueparrot]

Spurs are having a right go this summer aren’t they?

A right go at avoiding a relegation battle and making top 10, yes,

 

[Marvin.]

Until we have a manager, transfer speculation seems pointless.