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I can understand why we are being conservative to be fair. We have a price and we stick to it. I do think eventually we will get the deal done, but will roll on for easily another 3-4 weeks. The player wants to come, Leipzig have conceded that a deal can be done, it's just a case of coming to...

I said a short while ago this deal won't be a matter of weeks and days... It could take over a month or so. We could be looking at going into the new season without him here. This is the type of deal that will drag on and on and on. A bit like Koulibaly, a bit like the Kevin De Bruyne deal...

Are you actually taking the piss? Surely you are. No sane person would ever ever say this.

Ahead of Kalvin Phillips? I agree. Ahead of Kovacic? Based on what exactly? Kovacic was playing in the champions league last season, he's a regular Croatia international that plays almost every game for them and he's won a European cup. What has Lavia done in his career to merit being a...

Tin foil hat jobby, that.

Embarrassing fee that. We should be pushing easy over 100m.

That awful window was down to FFP. Had we not had our hands tied behind our backs, we would have brought in far more quality and could have potentially won the league back to back. We don't have the same issue this time around.

You said "how come" So I gave you my reason why I don't think this deal will happen quickly. These types of deals never happen quickly. Especially ones where the selling club want a big amount for him and don't really want to sell him. Don't have any reason to sell him either.

There is no way City let Bernardo go without an adequate replacement. Pep would be absolutely furious if we didn't replace him with real quality. He's already lost Gundo, he can't afford to lose Bernardo without a quality replacement... And he knows that. If Mahrez goes, I think we will have...

I don't think we will get Veiga as a replacement for Gundo, just don't see it. I think he's Chelsea bound if I'm being honest. Just can't see us taking a chance on someone so raw.

Because they will charge a kings ransom for him just like Napoli did with Koulibaly. I just think we will spend a few months haggling over the fee and eventually we will walk away from the deal. Hope I'm wrong, but I just think that's how we do things. We stick to a transfer strategy and won't...

We have spent a lot on defenders, but we haven't gone above 65m for any of them individually. We won't go above 80m for Gvardiol I don't think. I can see Leipzig push us for 90m at least which we definitely won't go to.

He's already on 350k a week.

Phillips is 100% staying. If the player doesn't want to go, there isn't much we can do.

He's been on record saying how much he loves Barcelona as a city though. He's definitely staying at Barca. Plus I doubt Barca would want to get into that mess about deferred wages either. They tried to force him out of the door last summer and that didn't happen. It won't happen again this time...

He's staying at Barca. They will not force him out of the door. He loves his life in Barcelona. He'd be miserable in rainy Manchester.

Even if a deal went through... It certainly wouldn't be next week. This will roll on for a while now. Will be like the Koulibaly saga a few years ago.

80m plus 10m add ons. We are inclined to pay more on a midfielder than a defender.

Do you really see us buying Gvardiol for 85m plus? I certainly don't. It isn't how we usually operate. Now they have the Szoboszlai money, they don't really need to sell Gvardiol. They could potentially get 98m when his release clause kicks in, in the summer of 2024... Why would they accept...

I genuinely don't think we will sign many players this summer, it won't be the shake up we predicted a few weeks ago anyway. I think we might get one more signing, at a push. I just think our board won't dip into the market unless it's players they are absolutely sure will improve us. I can't...