Aymeric Laporte

[jaiguruKun]

One of the key differences between us and the Rags is that we need the best young players in the world to play the style of football that Pep demands. They would play in exactly the same way regardless of which players they signed so in that sense the fees and wages we pay is a necessity, for them it's a luxury.

 

[J_MCFC21]

Yh judging by the tweets he has liked and on Instagram it looks like he will be ours soon...not celebrating till he is holding up the shirt after last time :D

Also liked a message on Instagram...ends in -

"you also have the doors open if you decide to return because this is your home. You are one of my idols and you always will be. Good luck in Manchester I wish you the best"

 

[Armaan]

Yeah he’s liked loads of Farewell messages on twitter..he’s ours

Get in. Lovely.

 

[Delphacito]

It’s €65M + 5M development fee. So they’re already adding the little fees they cry about but nobody has any ideas on the wages just it’s between a 5 or 6 year contract.

What the hell is a development fee really?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Going to the rags don't you know?

 

[MillionDollarDream]

What the hell is a development fee really?

I read it somewhere that it’s a payment to the selling club if the player came through the team between 12-21. Will be the small fee we send to PSG for Gomes as well and what we got for Sancho

 

[Wolfkin]

So many angry rags on twitter haha

 

[Akira]

Does this mean we aren't signing Jonny Evans anymore?

 

[Gabriel]

Hope we get him in time to be on the bench for the Albion game on Wednesday night. Would be good to have him blooded early, and at home, because the February fixture list has games where you probably wouldn't want to make your debut.

 

[MarsLlama]

Hope we get him in time to be on the bench for the Albion game on Wednesday night. Would be good to have him blooded early, and at home, because the February fixture list has games where you probably wouldn't want to make your debut.

Otamendi's on form and Stones is... also here, so I doubt we'll throw him in the deep end. Like Mangala, he'll need some time to adapt to the league, but unlike Mangala, he can take as long as he needs because we're flying at the moment and have three currently fit top quality centrebacks.

If I had to guess I'd say he'd make the bench for the Burnley game next Saturday and maybe his first start against Leicester on Febuary 10th, but I don't know if he'd need to.