17 | Kevin De Bruyne - 2024/25

[Tier2Blue]

soon see re KDB - two 20 minute cameos plus around a months training. If he cannot do an hour in what is now a must win game on Wednesday then he is done and there is something very wrong.

 

[jacko74]

I'm not in any way criticising De Bruyne he has been one of if not the greatest players the club has had... but he's another example of Txiki, Pep and the board becoming complacent.

It was obvious for all of last season that age and injury were rapidly catching up with him but there were reports of a huge money move to the Middle East.

The club should have cashed in last season, instead we're now left with an even older De Bruyne, still just as unfit and with minimal contract remaining, I doubt he's now worth even a quarter of what we could have potentially got for him just last season.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Were they all way off their current levels though? Or were they just afforded chances to play and show what they can do?

My point is we were happy to shell £50m on doku, £55m on Nunes, £45m on Philips - who were all unproven to play at citys level when signed - instead of affording more chances to the likes of palmer, lavia and so on.

When Madrid or the like sell a promising academy player most of the time they include some kind of buy back option/clause.

It's my opinion we've made errors in managing youth outgoings on top of a lack of quality signings over probably the last 4 or 5 years excluding dias, haaland and rodri.

Luckily we have had a very strong core squad which has led us to the success we've achieved but the cycle with those players is looking like it has now come to an end.

You really are missing the forest for the trees, and an understanding of what the Academy is and is not.

 

[Lauz9888]

I'm not in any way criticising De Bruyne he has been one of if not the greatest players the club has had... but he's another example of Txiki, Pep and the board becoming complacent.

It was obvious for all of last season that age and injury were rapidly catching up with him but there were reports of a huge money move to the Middle East.

The club should have cashed in last season, instead we're now left with an even older De Bruyne, still just as unfit and with minimal contract remaining, I doubt he's now worth even a quarter of what we could have potentially got for him just last season.

I think he's one of those players with whom, if you have the luxury of not prioritising finances, you don't.

Where there's room for sentiment in football, it should allow Kev to retire here if he wants to. No amount of money we could get for him would reflect his significance to the club.

I expect that if he'd wanted to go to the Middle East, we would have let him go. We don't hold players against their will if an offer comes in and they want to go. Personally I don't see him wanting to uproot his young family.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I'm not in any way criticising De Bruyne he has been one of if not the greatest players the club has had... but he's another example of Txiki, Pep and the board becoming complacent.

It was obvious for all of last season that age and injury were rapidly catching up with him but there were reports of a huge money move to the Middle East.

The club should have cashed in last season, instead we're now left with an even older De Bruyne, still just as unfit and with minimal contract remaining, I doubt he's now worth even a quarter of what we could have potentially got for him just last season.

He’s worth nowt without time left on his contract!

Let’s not write off the man just yet. He’s clearly not fit, as he has explained, and while there may well be behind the scenes issues, you can’t play a player who clearly knows his own body when he’s telling you he’s not fit.

Don’t forget, this is a player who played half a season with a hamstring injury, during which we did the REAL Treble. Then, tried to comeback, failed, had to have significant surgery (just look at the fucking zipper scar up the back of his leg!), was out for months, then came back and immediately won us the game at Toon and helped drag us to 4 in a Row!

Yeah, THAT guy gets the benefit of EVERY doubt in my book, because he’s proven he’s a player and a fighter.

He hadn’t caused a minutes trouble in a decade and doesn’t even have an agent trying to shop him to every club in Europe every season for a nice payout.

When he’s ready, he’ll give his all…whether that’s on Pep’s timeline or Bluemoon’s timeline or not, I don’t care. If his all isn’t good enough, then decisions have to be made.

That’s reality.

 

[alexmcity]

I expect that if he'd wanted to go to the Middle East, we would have let him go.

Exactly.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

I'm not in any way criticising De Bruyne he has been one of if not the greatest players the club has had... but he's another example of Txiki, Pep and the board becoming complacent.

It was obvious for all of last season that age and injury were rapidly catching up with him but there were reports of a huge money move to the Middle East.

The club should have cashed in last season, instead we're now left with an even older De Bruyne, still just as unfit and with minimal contract remaining, I doubt he's now worth even a quarter of what we could have potentially got for him just last season.

Him and Bernardo

 

[ChicagoBlue]

soon see re KDB - two 20 minute cameos plus around a months training. If he cannot do an hour in what is now a must win game on Wednesday then he is done and there is something very wrong.

Maybe he has an injury (which he has discussed) that is not getting better very quickly, because it’s about the mechanics of kicking the ball?!

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

You mean similar to the likes of Nunes, Doku, Savinho and Philips then? Those 4 alone signed for over £180m.

Can you not see my point?

Two of those players will either kick on or we'll get more than our money back on them. Nunes is better than most of the players you listed. The nature of a transfer policy is you'll get some wrong coming in and some wrong going out.

Players that come out of our academy are going to be the best player in the Ipswich team, it is what it is.

 

[Blue2202]

Two of those players will either kick on or we'll get more than our money back on them. Nunes is better than most of the players you listed. The nature of a transfer policy is you'll get some wrong coming in and some wrong going out.

Players that come out of our academy are going to be the best player in the Ipswich team, it is what it is.

So could many of the academy products had they been afforded a proper chance. Nunes has done nothing for city and will never justify his price tag.

Of course you're going to get some wrong but the problem is we've made more wrong than right in the last 3/4 seasons.