Benjamin Mendy

[MCityFC]

Ever thought it's monaco raising the price as they really don't need to sell him?

Of course it's Monaco raising the price but their initial price was fair, that's my point. Early in the summer a reliable journalist from France (Jonathan Johnson) said on the 9320 pod that City valued Mendy at 30- 35m pounds but Monaco wanted 40m. 40m was also widely reported. We didn't even bid until last week and by then 40m wasn't enough... I'd reject 40-45m too after seeing what Chelsea bid for Sandro and what Walker cost.

 

[rollingnakedinmoney]

Yep, just because he knew Pep. Nothing whatsoever to do with the job he did at Barca.

He surely has know how but what extraordinary job did he do at Barca like Monchi did at Sevilla? Buy Messi, Iniesta, Xavi? The only good thing he's done there is hire Pep instead of Mourinho but I'm not sure if that was him or Joan Laporta. Presidents make the big decisions there like buying Ronaldinho or Neymar. DoFs are mere underlings to presidents at Barca. I don't see any Barca fans praising or blaming their directors, if you speak to Barca fans today they'll all blame Bartomeu for whatever their shortcomings are.

 

[Cityfan]

I don't think so. As far as I know we're in the business to win trophies, not save money.

I think our owners wish to run the club in a business like fashion which means paying what they deem to be acceptable prices to win trophies. Not paying what the fans want them to pay, we have carried on negotiating for most of our targets and bought them in recent years, a few like Pogba we have walked away from.

 

[Rolee]

He surely has know how but what extraordinary job did he do at Barca like Monchi did at Sevilla? Buy Messi, Iniesta, Xavi? The only good thing he's done there is hire Pep instead of Mourinho but I'm not sure if that was him or Joan Laporta. Presidents make the big decisions there like buying Ronaldinho or Neymar. DoFs are mere underlings to presidents at Barca. I don't see any Barca fans praising or blaming their directors, if you speak to Barca fans today they'll all blame Bartomeu for whatever their shortcomings are.

Where did I claim he did an extraordinary job?

 

[mcfc1632]

Yes I'm assuming but at least my assumptions are based on history, like Alves with the most recent history or even Walker. Txiki negotiated for weeks and what happened? He paid the fee Levy asked at the end didn't he?

Same with Mendy. We have no LBs, we're desperate and Monaco knows it. You have no evidence what so ever to tell me I'm wrong when I can at least refer to reports in several news outlets from The Times to DM to French outlets all claiming the same: Monaco want their money.

So just pay the money and sign him.

Why are you even fighting me? Instead, why don't you tell me why we shouldn't have any LBs in preseason? Tell me.

You are making a whopping assumption there mate - were you present? Do you KNOW that we paid the maximum asking price - or are you just regurgitating what you hear?

 

[MCityFC]

So because people quote £40m but Monaco don't u think that's what txiki should pay maybe people should decide what we pay for all our transfers instead of selling clubs

All I'm saying is that it's clear (if you've been following the Mendy saga closely since Bernardo signed) that not agreeing to a fee earlier in the summer has led to Monaco raising their fee, multiple times.

 

[Profaneomen]

Of course it's Monaco raising the price but their initial price was fair, that's my point. Early in the summer a reliable journalist from France (Jonathan Johnson) said on the 9320 pod that City valued Mendy at 30- 35m pounds but Monaco wanted 40m. 40m was also widely reported. We didn't even bid until last week and by then 40m wasn't enough... I'd reject 40-45m too after seeing what Chelsea bid for Sandro and what Walker cost.

This. I dont understand the waiting game, if we would have bought him with that 40m in the first place... ok lets deal! Now that we have waited they want 50+ coz of our other signings. Time usually doesnt make the price go down.

 

[SWP's back]

It's walk away time.

Bollocks

 

[domalino]

This thread is like some sort of hall of fame for stupid comments about Txiki.

 

[pfazz]

All guesswork and no substance on here from people who have absolutely no idea what the true figures of any transfer are, it seems they look at several news outlet reports and select the figures that suit their argument the best. Were not buying groceries from Tesco here.

 

[City_J]

Monaco has allegedly reported City for tapping up Mbappe, that will be part of the problem in the negotiation with Monaco over Mendy

 

[kaz7]

All I'm saying is that it's clear (if you've been following the Mendy saga closely since Bernardo signed) that not agreeing to a fee earlier in the summer has led to Monaco raising their fee, multiple times.

Pure guess work unless you were there?

 

[bluwes]

Rejected bid of £44.5m, Monaco saying they want the deal for Walker's transfer matched - this will get done imo

Where are the quotes from a senior figure at Monaco saying that. There are none. Its the usual media rubbish

 

[rollingnakedinmoney]

I think our owners wish to run the club in a business like fashion which means paying what they deem to be acceptable prices to win trophies. Not paying what the fans want them to pay, we have carried on negotiating for most of our targets and bought them in recent years, a few like Pogba we have walked away from.

I think our owners want the club to be a winner club. Otherwise they would've hired big Sam, Koeman or have kept Pellers instead of chasing Pep for years and they would never spend the money to bring players like Yaya, Kun, Silva and others.

But something changed in the past few years, something changed from bringing players who were deemed impossible to bring according to our status 8-10 years ago to haggling over a few quids on main transfer targets and settling for what we can.

Pep doesn't have a magic wand to win titles with whatever we throw at him. He needs first class players. We're wasting his time and owners' money if we're unable to get him his main targets and have to settle with what we can.

I understand the difficulty in signing Neymar, Mbappe but I don't think they'll be happy if we miss out on main LB targets when we have no LBs, settle with what we can and lose the league and look poor in Europe.

I think the owners in Abu Dhabi have invested in this club to make it number 1 in PL and a serious challengers to clubs like RM in Europe.

Like PSG are doing.

And in the long run, when you become a winner, your brand value and revenues increase and you become less and less dependent on owner investment. The club becomes a more profitable business and that will make owners happy.

Is this so hard to understand? Clubs like Real Madrid and Bayern have huge commercial revenues because of their success. And they don't depend on owner investment. Take a moment and read this: https://www2.deloitte.com/mk/en/pag...articles/deloitte-football-money-league2.html

 

[asahartford1]

Some fans would give an opinion and criticize a Neuro surgeon at work. Even though they haven't a clue what was happening .wrong scalpel or poor knife work around the brain would be the comment.

We do not know what negotiations are occurring, so we cannot comment with any relevance. A waste of time really.

 

[mcfc1632]

Haha, this! "I want it all. I want it now!"

With some of them it's a case of

"I'll scream and scream until I'm sick"

 

[Kirkhamblue]

No Mendy deal then, hope pep has a few more targets he could fall back on.

 

[uteblue]

Monaco has allegedly reported City for tapping up Mbappe, that will be part of the problem in the negotiation with Monaco over Mendy

Source?

 

[not my fault!]

I'd hazard a guess City being reported for tapping up Mbappe has effected this... Monaco clearly not happy!

 

[SPIDERBOY]

It'll get done IMO.....and if it doesn't...well,I'll still be sat in my seat this season.
People worry too much.