Robben.

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Don't understand why so much emphasis on cost.... 1. Since when has cost bothered us... 2. 24m gets you next to nowt nowadays anyway..

Hi riley347.....I think the emphasis is so much on cost at the moment as City seem to be playing hardball over deals for Pogba, Sterling etc.....in my opinion, it would be a mistake to walk away from signing a guy like Sterling or De Bruyne who could improve our team for the next 5-10 years to buy a guy that is already in his 30's and will start losing his speed/quickness very soon.....If this happened it could only be seen as a short term buy
 
I really doubt this rumour. As Stretfordian_Blue has kindly demonstrated, fake tweets are surprisingly easy to mock up.
 
Not enough gifs on here.......you're all wankers.

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Robben is class, but over his career has played no more than 25 domestic games a season due to injury problems, at 30 odd surely these aren't going to get any better. 24 million seems too much, he's worth it based on how good he is today, but based on where he will be in 2 years I'd pay no more than 10-15 million.
 
Sign Robben for 24 million. Sell him next year to NYC for 15 million. Sterling buys out his contract next season for 50p or whatever it is. Job done.
 
Robben.......in a City shirt..?

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There was a link to Robben months ago way before Sterling, de Bruyne and Pogba were mentioned. To be frank even at his age he is the sort of signing that with one more could win us the league.

In my opinion he is better than Hazard. So if we want to win the PL next year why not?
 

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