Clearly he's got some kind of addiction to medals. The boy needs help not condemnation.
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Alvarez done deal - £82m to Atletico
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Clearly he's got some kind of addiction to medals. The boy needs help not condemnation.
Blue_Lightsaber
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I liked Jesus, but Alvarez is better by quite a bit, and will always score more than Jesus, whether with us or elsewhere. He shouldn’t be going anywhere for less than £70 mill.
You're outta your mind. If Jesus went for 50 mil.. Julian is worth 120. Younger, faster, proven goal scorer.. can even play in midfield, can take free kicks.
70m is like discounting him by 40%. Would anyone discount him for us if we were after him?
Just saw Dupont winning gold at the rugby.I'd get rid
It's ridiculous that he's wanted to go to the Olympics and even more ridiculous that we've allowed it.
Seems to me he wants out.
Several top players in golf, tennis , basketball etc. I am currently watching Alcaraz and Nadal in the doubles.
Not sure what the exact criteria is but if Pep has allowed him to go, then so be it.
I know that Madrid refused to allow Brahim Diaz to play in the Olympics so I'm guessing we could have stopped Alvarez participating too.
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No, not yet he isn’t a £100 mill player. If Haaland extends with us then I’m not sure he can stays with us. As we won’t know that for a while thought think we need to do whatever we can to keep him this season at least.You're outta your mind. If Jesus went for 50 mil.. Julian is worth 120. Younger, faster, proven goal scorer.. can even play in midfield, can take free kicks.
70m is like discounting him by 40%. Would anyone discount him for us if we were after him?
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I liked Jesus, but Alvarez is better by quite a bit, and will always score more than Jesus, whether with us or elsewhere. He shouldn’t be going anywhere for less than £70 mill.
Agreed.
Even more ridiculous is he hasn't had a break since we signed him.
Even before signing, he spent the summer before coming to us playing for river plate then he comes to us in Jan, involved straight away essentially playing 1 and a half seasons back to back. He then gets next to no summer break because of the schedule changes post covid and pre-world cup extending the previous season and bringing forward the start of the next season, then he goes to the world cup. We win the treble that year and play into June, there's about a 3 week break for the entire squad, we play last season where he makes more appearances than anybody in the squad, goes to the Copa afterwards and now directly to the Olympics off the back of that.
I don't think there's anybody in world football who has played more football than Alvarez over the period he's been a city player, at times he has looked like he needed a rest too and yet he apparently wants to play more?
I don’t think this is about wanting to play more. I think he wants to be the number one striker for a top European club. Yes he gets plenty of minutes for City, but he will always be the back up striker whilst Haaland is here. I think he may want the Spanish climate/culture too.
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According to AFTV posted an hour ago Arsenal are linked with Alvarez.
Surely City won't sell anyone to Arsenal now?
They'd sell em Phillips.
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apart from Kalvin and any chipmunksAccording to AFTV posted an hour ago Arsenal are linked with Alvarez.
Surely City won't sell anyone to Arsenal now?
Wouldn't surprise me.According to AFTV posted an hour ago Arsenal are linked with Alvarez. Fee is £77m. Other interested party is Chelsea.
Surely City won't sell anyone to Arsenal now?
We have ex players, some indirectly, at Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle, arsenal United spurs and loads other teams in the Premier league.
Its unlikely enough but so far they haven't refused a deal with a Premier league team, based on a club being a rival.
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Cant see it, but would easily be the bigger mistake of the players sold to Arsenal.According to AFTV posted an hour ago Arsenal are linked with Alvarez. Fee is £77m. Other interested party is Chelsea.
Surely City won't sell anyone to Arsenal now?
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AFTV ha ha ha haAccording to AFTV posted an hour ago Arsenal are linked with Alvarez. Fee is £77m. Other interested party is Chelsea.
Surely City won't sell anyone to Arsenal now?
I think if we could bring in a top class CM to help Rodri at the expense of Nunes, they would be delighted.I think Pep would be happy for him stay around but can’t guarantee him game time? Only Saudi could pay the fee to take him as well?
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Swap for Rice. :)I think if we could bring in a top class CM to help Rodri at the expense of Nunes, they would be delighted.
No better :)Swap for Rice. :)
Phillips for Rice, straight swop, same players.Swap for Rice. :)
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How would Alvarez going to Arsenal help him weather wise?
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Why would we sell to a rival? Unless we have an even better replacement lined up it would be stupid, and weaken us while strengthening them. We’d only have Haaland as a striker and he can’t play 60-odd games.