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It’s clear Pep rates him or we wouldn’t be in for him. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to that though Pep says shit like this regularly about opposition players.

If he’s supposed to provide an attacking threat, not good enough. Not too dissimilar to Kova but not as good.

Less potential than Palmer.

You’ve just said he can be world class but then said the other 2 have a higher ceiling… don’t see Bobb or McAtee going on to be world class personally. Palmer is the most talented of the 3 for me. If Pep saw McAtee going on to be world class he wouldn’t ever have loaned him out once never mind...

He’s not a creative midfielder.

Fair enough. Ferran Torres, a 37 year old Jesus Navas and Alvaro Morata also play for Spain though. They are pretty average too at the moment tbh.

Which creative midfielder? None of them top quality around either and imo this season is the start of Phil’s career in the middle.

agree. If Sane is a no go then if Raphina is available he’s the best option. Noones suggesting he’s better than we have now but that’s the problem when you look at world football at the moment, who’s better than Mahrez to play right wing that we could realistically sign?

He’s average. If you think not you don’t understand football. No chance we will go for him.

Have seen Dani Olmo play a lot and he is categorically not close to being good enough to play for us. Wouldn’t hate the idea of Raphina as a replacement for Mahrez. Mainly because there isn’t many better options around. Imo we are in an era with much fewer top quality wide attackers and...

Not good enough.

Good and tidy player and think he would be a good option if / when Bernardo goes but if you put FDJ in our squad last season or even now after Gundo’s gone he wouldn’t be one of the best 3 CM options at the club. Doesn’t play that role as well as either Gundo or Bernardo either in an advanced 8...

That and he’s a defensive midfielder. I know Rice was but obviously City planned to use him further up, caicedo doesn’t have that in him.

Agreed. If we don’t brief we are out tomorrow then we are all in.

Why is everyone saying it’s over? I think we will see within 24 hours whether it is. It was always going to be a 100m deal, arsenal have put that up front with 5m extra in add ons who knows how achievable?. Total package is only 15m more than a bid we knew would get rejected. City’s next move...

Bit weird this one. We know that we wanted Bellingham but also know we never bid for him. So imo City must have had encouragement from the Rice camp. No way we bid if he’s made it clear he wants to only go to Arsenal.

Exactly. & Pep may have signed him but he also signed Claudio Bravo and quickly realised he was shite once he had him.

Ie I made it up.

Fwiw I think Rice ends up at Arsenal. But Sorry dude, but I’m calling absolute bullshit here. One, no way are you speaking directly to a city first team player and then posting it on blue moon and secondly Pep Guardiola does not rate Kalvin Phillips. He couldn’t even get 10-15 minutes when a lot...

Honestly, if Pep does to Phillips what he did to Joe Hart I don’t see how he could possibly want to stay. It’s crystal clear Pep sees it exactly the same way, if he lets Phillips know that he isn’t the player he needs and he won’t play then he has to move on. Guessing that didn’t happen prior to...