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Shocked to learn that we (along with everyone else) speak to players under contract with other clubs.

Right, or maybe they just want to keep the player and try and win some games. He's on a long deal and looks happy enough to me. Their valuation seems reasonable.

Well yeah, thanks for that.

Browsing transfermarket it does seem that 30m is a bit of a lowball. Aside from the two fullbacks that we paid 50m for Hakimi moved for 59m last summer, along with Chilwell for 45m, Wan-Bissaka for 49.5m and Ferland Mendy for 43m in previous seasons. 45-50m seems basically correct. I’m not sure...

Anyone have a sense of how tall he is? Still growing I'm sure but looks pretty short for a defender.

When I pull up the BBC's sports page I don't see a single mention of this game, but do see the story about ours. So no, no like that one?

People legitimately upset here that meaningless preseason friendlies played in the middle of the night that weren't even on TV only warranted one article in the BBC? I mean, come on.

After watching more of preseason it bears repeating how bizarre of a decision it was to sell Zinchenko before locking down Cucurella .

He's going to end up missing all of preseason so we can save like £3m in add ons. Pointless.

Seems like a great guy but the thing is he's not good enough at actually playing football. We know this because Pep barely played him, all things considered.

The part that's always gotten me is even if you allow for all of this and the plan really was to sportswash, why Manchester City specifically? If the nation state was behind it surely they could afford basically whomever, regardless of whether it was "for sale" or not. Wouldn't you go for a...

He's never started more than 15 league games in a season for us! He should take the move and we should sign an actual left back.

Makes no sense, they're in no rush to sell him.

Agreed. Seems like a great guy and all but I'm wondering if I've been watching the same player that you all have? Zinchenko is fine, but the manager doesn't trust him and he doesn't play much as result. We'll be much better with an actual left back and that seems to be getting lost here.

You know Puma sells the shirts right?

It would seem awfully incompetent if we didn't... and Txixi and co certainly aren't that

I agree with you but am I the only one who remembers Eric Garcia? He got a shot because we were short at the back and would've played even more had he re-signed. Pep, as you point out, very rarely plays youth ahead of senior pros but he's also shown he will when he needs to and also trusts the...

I would definitely agree with that. Monaco Mendy looked like he was on a fast track to being (among) the best in the world at his position.

He appears to be a random nobody, definitely.

Nothing but the best to Zinchenko but selling him on to partially fund this guy is fantastic business.