De Bruyne?

[Neville Kneville]

Would we agree to let him play this last game, after having bid accepted?

We'd have no choice unless he had been signed over to us.

There is a hint of malice in the way this whole thing is being done imo.

 

[Dribble]

Would we agree to let him play this last game, after having bid accepted?

I think the Times are hedging their bets and covering their arses in one move. If a deal is close but not yet agreed and he plays but goes on to sign they're right, if he plays and doesn't go on to sign, it was because of last minute complications. Either way they've gained a few clicks and covered themselves for any eventuality.

 

[Rösler von Stretfordbömber]

The difference in quoted offers is something along the lines of Krautrags (50m Euro or 36.28 GBP) and City at 50+ million GBP.

Bayern would supposedly give them 31 year-old Dante, who may be better than one of Wolfsburg's existing centre backs and whom they would have to pay the not inconsiderable wages of. And then De Bruyne for a year on loan.

De Bruyne would have to prefer this (and whatever Bayern could pay him) to whatever it is we have apparently agreed terms upon with De Bruyne and his camp.

FFS, why the flapping? Other than by "join date August 2015" types.

 

[Dax777]

He is much better than Navas. Navas never scores a goal, need better than that at the highest level.

Hungarian Blue has a point though. I expect De Bryune to be average this season and better in the 2nd. He has to get used to the possession based squad. Sterling is having to go thru that a bit too. But DeBryune is a talent though and should eventually make a top talent.

 

[sam663]

 

[Blue warrior]

He's just tweeted "matchday"

Ginger **** :-)

 

[bumbleblue]

Come on Kev , play well say goodbye and get on a plane to manc. See you next week enjoy the match.

 

[K10&S21]

whoa people here are suggesting that we should brief the press that we have cooled interest in KDB because bayern are sniffing around FFS. thankfully i hope our directors dont think the same. as long as KDB is open to a move to us i suggest we go to any lengths necessary to bring him here. we should never miss the opportunity to get one over Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and put him in place for deriding us at every given opportunity.

 

[Blue warrior]

whoa people here are suggesting that we should brief the press that we have cooled interest in KDB because bayern are sniffing around FFS. thankfully i hope our directors dont think the same. as long as KDB is open to a move to us i suggest we go to any lengths necessary to bring him here. we should never miss the opportunity to get one over Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and put him in place for deriding us at every given opportunity.

I said if city know the deal is going tits up ie he's not coming city would then brief the press not because they're interested.

 

[kaz7]

Fee can't be accepted yet then if he is playing

 

[K10&S21]

I said if city know the deal is going tits up ie he's not coming city would then brief the press not because they're interested.

yea man not necessarily you. the general consensus here seems to be flapping at the first instance of negative news. as long as KDB is open to moving to us i fancy our chances of getting him.

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Fee can't be accepted yet then if he is playing

We haven't made a bid/have made a bid and had it rejected/made our feelings known/had a bid accepted*

* delete as appropriate and repeat ad nauseum until the whole saga disappears in a time vortex of its own creation.

Sorry am getting tired of not being the only itk on this one

 

[Blue warrior]

yea man not necessarily you. the general consensus here seems to be flapping at the first instance of negative news. as long as KDB is open to moving to us i fancy our chances of getting him.

Me too bud, that's why I said as long as city are keeping quiet it's all good on wards and upwards!

 

[middleton___blue]

Man this thread has dragged out allllllll summer with no certainty as to what's happening as Regards de Bruyne himself and City approaching the player, I hope we do eventually sign Him after all the waiting around. As i've said previously, it's got deadline day written all over it imo.

 

[bornblueegg]

This thread has nearly 3.5 million views - wondering how many I've made.....

 

[RobinHood]

Bizarre isn't it Matty.

Even more bizarre when you consider that Bayern's top 10 highest transfer fees are as follows:

Martinez £28m
Vidal £26m
Gotze £26m
Gomez £21m
Nueur £21m
Costa £21m
Benatia £20m
Ribery £18m
Thiago £18m
Robben £19m
Makaay £14m

Yet we are led to believe City are prepared to pay £50m or perhaps even a little more, and at the same time Wolfsburg are talking to Bayern about possibilities? It's just staggering. I cannot for 1 nanosecond imagine that Bayern would offer Wolfsburg anything like what we are offering.

Good point, well made.

 

[cleavers]

I cannot for 1 nanosecond imagine that Bayern would offer Wolfsburg anything like what we are offering.

Nor will they offer the package to de Bruyne that we are offering.

 

[Worst Case Ontario]

Nor will they offer the package to de Bruyne that we are offering.

They also cant offer 2000+ pages of KDB talk :P

 

[KDBsmum]

I can't see De bruyne going to Bayern, especially in the construction where he is loaned out to wolfsburg another year. I think he is done with loan moves and will go to the club that wants him the most which is city. He isn't German so he doesn't give a crap about playing for "legendary" Bayern. Unless Wolfsburg reject City and accept Bayern, which would be the dumbest thing ever.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Would we agree to let him play this last game, after having bid accepted?

This is the same as when we were trying to sign Nasri from Arsenal. He ended up playing a Saturday dinner time game after it looking almost certain bed sign for us and then he did sign for us the week after.