Angel Di Maria

[bluechampion7891]

Depay?! Really?! One halfway decent display off the the bench in a world cup.... Lopes is already at his level or higher.

Where the F have you been all summer?

Yes, Depay, basically anyone that can run fast :)

Navas? If all you have to do is run faster, we already have 1

 

[aguero93:20]

Depay?! Really?! One halfway decent display off the the bench in a world cup.... Lopes is already at his level or higher.

Where the F have you been all summer?

Yes, Depay, basically anyone that can run fast :)

We have clichy aguero and navas.
In hospital after a leg operation (blood clot) with only a 2g phone mate :) sorted now.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Depay?! Really?! One halfway decent display off the the bench in a world cup.... Lopes is already at his level or higher.

Where the F have you been all summer?

Yes, Depay, basically anyone that can run fast :)

We have clichy aguero and navas.
In hospital after a leg operation (blood clot) with only a 2g phone mate :) sorted now.

Ahh right hope you're OK mate
Bit bored in work so just swatting these people that think Sanchez is the next messiah

 

[bluesince76]

And if my aunty had bollocks

You clearly don't have a clue how a football club is run, it certainly isn't on the basis of 'x player has suddenly become available so lets rip up our plans for the future'

We were after Sanchez three summers ago when we had just won our first trophy in 30 years, and surprise surprise he chose to go to arguably the best club in the world at the time. We are in a slightly different position now where were not just chasing a big name signing to satisfy the soft arses on here that want someone new on the back of their shirt

I'm not doubting his quality, he is a very good player. But given the restrictions we have on our spending we have to make sure we spend it wisely, and if that means spending £50m on Caballero, Sagna, Fernando and Mangala then id say thats good business and covers all the areas that need strengthening. Not I know you would probably do it differently, and would probably spend the £35m on Sanchez and perhaps have enough left to bring in Fernando, but then we would have a bang average 2nd keeper and a centre half partnership that is lacking in key areas especially at CL level.

I'll agree with the way Txiki and Manuel have done the business, and you can disagree and get upset about how if we'd signed Sanchez we would be champions of Europe next season :)

Sorry, I hadn't realised you were the expert on how to run football clubs.

I haven't said that Sanchez would have made us win the CL, however, he is an upgrade on what we have. Buying him probably would have required selling Navas and maybe one of the strikers which may have been too much to try and achieve in one summer without detailed planning for it. We certainly needed a keeper and whilst home grown would have been an advantage, I'm not sure we'd have got anything decent for the price we paid for Willy. Fernando will also be important, so those two would have come straight from the budget.

Whether we need a centre half depends on the club's view on Nastasic. I don't think he was the new Baresi from his first season, despite how some seem to remember him, but I also don't think he was so bad on the pitch before his injury to write off such a young player. If they didn't feel he would be good enough from what they see in training and they don't feel Rekik can step up yet, then we needed someone. Mangala is a high cost gamble (60% of our available budget) and I really hope he pays off, but I'm not so sure we couldn't have managed another season with what we had.

But as I initially said, we don't know whether the club did enquire and were told he wasn't interested or actually we weren't interested.

Mate im clearly not an expert, but if you can't trust Txiki to get it right as he did in his first summer here then who can you trust?

I agree with you on Nastasic, perhaps they think that given his age and the fact that they don't have to register him for the CL squad then its a no brainer to keep him for another season and see how he develops.

Mangala is a big risk, a bigger risk than signing Sanchez. But again like i said, we have been planning to sign him for the last year so my guess is we have ran a pretty good rule over him and we think he is the real deal, or will be the real deal.

Perhaps we enquired about Sanchez this summer, but were told a fee and the only way we could reach that fee is by selling 2 or 3 players ie Navas, Negredo, Garcia etc but its not as easy as it sounds what if these players are happy at the club? Do we risk upsetting morale by encouraging bids for them? My guess is that if we didn't have restrictions, then Sanchez would have been a City player cause £30+M for a player of his calibre is nothing.

But for me we had to stick to the plan we had in place as its all about the long term with City these days. Next summer should hopefully be a bit more interesting :)

I think we're in agreement. There's no evidence that we tried for Sanchez or that he'd have come if we did. However, he is a quality player and I think offers more than Navas, and I like Navas.

However, if you become aware that a player like Sanchez (or Barkley, Isco, Reus etc) are available unexpectedly, I think you have to stop and consider it. Ultimately, you might stick with plan A, but they'll always have contingency plans for the Yaya, Negredo type issues anyway.

 

[Dax777]

Depay?! Really?! One halfway decent display off the the bench in a world cup.... Lopes is already at his level or higher.

I like him personally. I wanted him long before he showed up at the World Cup. But if he is not your cup of tea, cool. The key there, was defining the kind of player I was talking about. Not necessarily which exact player to buy. Robben, Sanchez, Di Maria, Reus. Hope that okay.

 

[Dax777]

Where the F have you been all summer?

Yes, Depay, basically anyone that can run fast :)

We have clichy aguero and navas.
In hospital after a leg operation (blood clot) with only a 2g phone mate :) sorted now.

Ahh right hope you're OK mate
Bit bored in work so just swatting these people that think Sanchez is the next messiah

No hyperbole is needed. You don't see anyone claiming you think Mangala is the next messiah. Simply put, Sanchez at 35 million is better value than Mangala at 32 million. Simples!

 

[SebastianBlue]

When did Jesus become the new antichrist?

 

[Golden Balls]

Back to the thread... The signing of Di Maria is absolutely no chance.
Close the thread, better chance of signing Barkley. Oh wait...

 

[razman]

60 Million Euros is too much

debt ..what debt

 

[Centurions]

We have clichy aguero and navas.
In hospital after a leg operation (blood clot) with only a 2g phone mate :) sorted now.

Ahh right hope you're OK mate
Bit bored in work so just swatting these people that think Sanchez is the next messiah

No hyperbole is needed. You don't see anyone claiming you think Mangala is the next messiah. Simply put, Sanchez at 35 million is better value than Mangala at 32 million. Simples!

Not if you're looking for a CB it isn't.