Recent content by abellwillring

Warren Zaïre-Emery is a super talent who I think could be immediately useful, but signing young fullbacks feels a bit pointless based on our recent past, no matter how talented they may be. I'd like to see us give Kabore or Yan Couto a shot. It takes a lot to get into City's team at 18, 19, 20...

Foden and Rodri. What more can you say about them.. WOW. Gvardiol has been playing very well lately in general and had another excellent game. I think Jack played fairly well but he really just lacks a killer instinct these days. He had an amazing opportunity to shoot late on and decided to...

I thought the referee was very good today in general, but not carding Onana for wasting time from the 20th minute or so was outrageous. They will never stop players from doing it unless they punish them. Onana must have wasted 8-10 minutes at least over the course of the match.

In the Brentford game there honestly should have been about 15 minutes added on. The timewasting from them was so unbelievably egregious from literally the start of the second half that I was in disbelief. Their keeper took 40-50 seconds to restart play regularly. Ultimately I'm glad a more...

He has more or less exclusively played on the left this season so him switching to the right later in the game and scoring two goals tonight is especially impressive. He's quite a player.

The number is way lower than I expected to be fair but you can make a case that it's fair given the circumstances. His previous club gets 15% but whatever the number is it's still a big profit for Troyes. Really hopeful they can stay in Ligue 2.. thought City would do a little something to help...

Ligue 1 has a limit of 3 non-EU players and so it was hard to fit him into their squad after the initial purchase -- they had 3 foreigners already (Palmer-Brown, Ike Ugbo and Porozo). All of these players were more experienced so I assume the management felt like they were probably more likely...

I agree entirely. My point was just that I think Savio has shown he could be a regular first teamer for City based on this season, but that he would probably be worried about playing enough. The other poster said if Savio might be worried about that, he probably isn't good enough yet and I...

Jack Grealish is good enough for City but he's definitely worried about game time right now. It's about too many players in the position, not about the quality of the player. Savio could slot into City right now, easily, but it's about whether there are enough minutes to go around for all of the...

Looks like I nailed it with this prediction r.e. scrutiny over the fee. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. The Pozos have had genuinely crazy prices for transfers within their own group of teams and it seemed to go under the radar but City have a big target on their back, of course...

Have to think he'll cost €45-50m minimum. I imagine City will want to avoid any scrutiny if he's sold at significantly under market value.. A nice tidy profit for Troyes whatever it is though.

Not a bad idea. The stadium is still officially the City of Manchester Stadium for any game in Europe since they don’t allow the sponsored names to be used. Would be a good change for those games.

Saw elsewhere that he failed his medical for them so it will be interesting to see how things develop long term as far as his future and transfers go.

Cheers, appreciate the review! I think I will snag it. I love the dragon round the badge on the back.. a sharp touch (one of many).

Yikes! It shows fully in stock still on Kitbag so I've been thinking of ordering from there.. got a local friend whose shirt arrives today from OS so I was waiting to hear about the fit and get his impression. Hopefully this mistake is a one off! Haha. They still have a jacket from the Lunar...