Aymeric Laporte

[Big Ernst]

What City want and want I want aren't mutually exclusive.

Never seen more than five minutes footage of Laporte, just plenty of people saying what a prospect he is.

How can I miss what I didn't know what we were getting.

I'm sure City are pissed at the level of time wasted but shit happens and we now have an extra £40m to throw at Alaba!!

@tolmie's hairdoo - Remember where you heard Alaba?? :)

 

[It could have been 10]

I think we have a new generation of fans who are becoming pretty arrogant or behave like spoilt kids who can't have everything their own way.
Every team and player have the right to choose who they sell or play or sign for........sure we can be disappointed that a transfer has fallen through........however we get the same predictable reactions...insult the player or club, question Tixi etc.
We are shopping at Harrods these days, the majority of players we are looking at are being chased by the top teams......theses deals are always going to be difficult to close...some people really do need to wise up !

I always used to think the thing what sets us apart from the rags & the reason we have class & they have none is that we don't have that arrogant sense of entitlement & feeling of divine right that those arrogant tossers have. When Alan Shearer used to play at Old Trafford he used to get booed & have abuse hurled at him because he had the audacity to turn down the SCUM twice. I used to think us blues would never be that sad or pathetic. I am rapidly beginning to change my mind.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

After what happened to the Laporte deal.....I'm trying to not let myself get too excited about those reports just in case!;)

There's many a slip between cup and lip. The only time I believe a deal is done, is when the player is on the Official site holding a shirt up and doing an interview.

I believe Pep will either continue his pursuit for the lad and we end up paying an extra 15 to 20 million euro's for him, or we bin our interest and move onto another player.

In Pep I trust.

 

[MCFC1993]

Some of the posts in this thread are embarrassing. Basically theres been a choice of 2 decisions; 1. We didn't want to pay the transfer fee or 2. The player didn't feel we were the right destination.

He hasn't ruined his career, he signed a new contract which will probably increase his wages and means him staying in a comfortable environment whilst he gets over his injury. He's also only 22, if he's waiting for Barcelona or Real then i'm sure he will get that chance if he keeps up his form until his new deal comes close to ending (he'll only be 25/26 years old), there's not much more we can do. He was never our player, i'm sure the club done their best or made the right decision. Lets just trust the club have an alternative option in mind or a different solution, we have a great manager, lets just trust he knows what he's doing.

 

[itisrising]

Some of the posts in this thread are embarrassing. Basically theres been a choice of 2 decisions; 1. We didn't want to pay the transfer fee or 2. The player didn't feel we were the right destination.

He hasn't ruined his career, he signed a new contract which will probably increase his wages and he staying a comfortable environment whilst he gets over his injury. He's also only 22, if he's waiting for Barcelona or Real then i'm sure he will get that chance if he keeps up his form until his new deal comes close to ending (he'll only be 25/26 years old), there's not much more we can do. He was never our player, i'm sure the club done their best or made the right decision.Lets just trust the club have an alternative option in mind or a different solution, we have a great manager, lets just trust he knows what he's doing.

Well I slightly disagree, Bilbao are tough negotiators. I doubt Barca or Madrid would pay anywhere near his new release clause. One thing being loyal and another being naive. Waiting until you are 26/27 playing for a club that's mid table may harm his development - certain players are ready for that step up earlier. I hope for his sake it works out.

 

[Iamthemusicman]

He'll regret this decision. No team is going to pay his new release clause and Bilbao don't negotiate so unless he runs down his contract he's stuck there forever.

 

[moomba]

If he wants to stay, good luck to him. A stance most of us would have found quite admirable not all that long ago.

 

[TCIB]

So we were in advanced talks but it did not happen, fair enough, shame if he was our primary target but hey ho.

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

There's many a slip between cup and lip. The only time I believe a deal is done, is when the player is on the Official site holding a shirt up and doing an interview.

I believe Pep will either continue his pursuit for the lad and we end up paying an extra 15 to 20 million euro's for him, or we bin our interest and move onto another player.

In Pep I trust.

I trust Pep also mate.....its Txiki I dont have as much confidence in and sadly, he's the one that does the deals....fingers crossed Txiki proves me wrong this summer!;) cheers!

 

[SPIDERBOY]

I trust Pep also mate.....its Txiki I dont have as much confidence in and sadly, he's the one that does the deals....fingers crossed Txiki proves me wrong this summer!;) cheers!

Laporte has fucked up on this one,not Txiki...IMO.