Bernardo Silva

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Bournemouth Blue said:
If ever there was an obvious demonstration of corruption in European Football rules, it must lie in Barcelona. OK I know Pep is a Catalonian and a fan, but how can Barcelona be selling off rights to finance purchase of new players when they are around a billion Euros in debt? Same goes for the Rags. It is a bad and corrupt system when most of the negative publicity is focused on us.
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I hope they go out of business. The way they’re run is a disgrace!
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
If ever there was an obvious demonstration of corruption in European Football rules, it must lie in Barcelona. OK I know Pep is a Catalonian and a fan, but how can Barcelona be selling off rights to finance purchase of new players when they are around a billion Euros in debt? Same goes for the Rags. It is a bad and corrupt system when most of the negative publicity is focused on us.
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Nail on the head & this goes back to 2009/10 when David Gill changed the terms of Financial Fair Play from tackling debt, to stopping legitimate investment just to stop City.

Barça are in £1.5bn worth of debt, but as long as they can service that debt, they're fine by FFP. HOWEVER if Sheikh Mansour decided to invest £1.5bn into City's squad, that's not allowed! BUT if he legitimately loaned £1.5bn from a registered bank & we could afford the repayments, that's perfectly legal.

FFP is plain fuckin bent. But we already know this... :-|
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
They're not about to go bankrupt - simply because they've effectively sold around 25% of their TV income for 25 years, and are potentially selling 50% of merchandise income shortly.
Short term gain, possibly long term pain
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They are on their way back, similar to us under Peter Swales, appallingly run and nearly destroyed, Barca will be back, make no mistake about that.
 
I'm not sure if all City fans properly appreciate just how important he is to us. Him going would be close to disastrous. Bernardo, like Nasri and Merlin before him, is one of those players who just effortlessly keeps the ball, and very rarely misplaces a pass. He's almost never caught in possession. He is a hub around whom play is constantly recycled until a crack appears in the opposing organisation. That is truer of him than KDB (who of course can pull things out of the hat that Bernardo cannot). Such players are like gold for the more ‘flair’ players of the team. It just wouldn't make sense to have recruited a player like Håling only to let a player like Bernardo go.
It won't happen.
 
Dribble said:
Nail on the head & this goes back to 2009/10 when David Gill changed the terms of Financial Fair Play from tackling debt, to stopping legitimate investment just to stop City.

Barça are in £1.5bn worth of debt, but as long as they can service that debt, they're fine by FFP. HOWEVER if Sheikh Mansour decided to invest £1.5bn into City's squad, that's not allowed! BUT if he legitimately loaned £1.5bn from a registered bank & we could afford the repayments, that's perfectly legal.

FFP is plain fuckin bent. But we already know this... :-|
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Point very well made
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'm not sure if all City fans properly appreciate just how important he is to us. Him going would be close to disastrous. Bernardo, like Nasri and Merlin before him, is one of those players who just effortlessly keeps the ball, and very rarely misplaces a pass. He's almost never caught in possession. He is a hub around whom play is constantly recycled until a crack appears in the opposing organisation. That is truer of him than KDB (who of course can pull things out of the hat that Bernardo cannot). Such players are like gold for the more ‘flair’ players of the team. It just wouldn't make sense to have recruited a player like Håling only to let a player like Bernardo go.
It won't happen.
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It won't be disastrous. do not overrate bernardo as well. He is not still important as Rodri, KDB or say Ederson who are fundamental to how we play. We will definitely miss him, but pep will adapt the game to minimize his loss
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'm not sure if all City fans properly appreciate just how important he is to us. Him going would be close to disastrous. Bernardo, like Nasri and Merlin before him, is one of those players who just effortlessly keeps the ball, and very rarely misplaces a pass. He's almost never caught in possession. He is a hub around whom play is constantly recycled until a crack appears in the opposing organisation. That is truer of him than KDB (who of course can pull things out of the hat that Bernardo cannot). Such players are like gold for the more ‘flair’ players of the team. It just wouldn't make sense to have recruited a player like Håling only to let a player like Bernardo go.
It won't happen.
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I don't know any City fan that doesn't appreciate what Bernardo offers to the team. A player with an amazing work ethc combined with a high level of technical ability. Rodders performs better when he plays alongside Bernardo.

Will be a sad day when he leaves.
 
we will hear these rumours constantly till next summer...pretty obvious that Bernardo wants to leave (recent comments, non-extention of his contract)...if you accept it the less you care...everybody is replaceable..even pep
 
Agueroooo9320 said:
It won't be disastrous. do not overrate bernardo as well. He is not still important as Rodri, KDB or say Ederson who are fundamental to how we play. We will definitely miss him, but pep will adapt the game to minimize his loss
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I think you underestimate his importance tbh, two of those mentioned, rely on his work rate, that coupled with his technical ability, he’s almost unique, the water carrier with more tools than B&Q, replacing that is nigh on impossible at this juncture and makes us vulnerable should he be allowed to leave!
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'm not sure if all City fans properly appreciate just how important he is to us. Him going would be close to disastrous. Bernardo, like Nasri and Merlin before him, is one of those players who just effortlessly keeps the ball, and very rarely misplaces a pass. He's almost never caught in possession. He is a hub around whom play is constantly recycled until a crack appears in the opposing organisation. That is truer of him than KDB (who of course can pull things out of the hat that Bernardo cannot). Such players are like gold for the more ‘flair’ players of the team. It just wouldn't make sense to have recruited a player like Håling only to let a player like Bernardo go.
It won't happen.
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I don’t disagree with the sentiment of your post, but how did we do AFTER Nasri left ? And AFTER Silva left ?
 
Agueroooo9320 said:
It won't be disastrous. do not overrate bernardo as well. He is not still important as Rodri, KDB or say Ederson who are fundamental to how we play. We will definitely miss him, but pep will adapt the game to minimize his loss
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Bernardo is the heartbeat of this team, it would be a huge blow to lose him and incredibly difficult to replace.
 
Impeccable One said:
I don’t disagree with the sentiment of your post, but how did we do AFTER Nasri left ? And AFTER Silva left ?
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Nasri was great for a brief period and in similar aspects in the game that are key to success with possession/attacking oriented sides, but when he fell off and showed the lack of desire you saw how poorly we performed under Pellegrini.

Yaya, still my favourite, when on top of his game was also beyond massive with ball retention, control and tempo dictation.

However, when Yaya dropped in work rate he also became a liability that left Fernandinho alone to mind the insanely wide gap for our already weak, slow or inconsistent back line.

So, reality is we were suffering with Nasri here at the end of his time, as was the case with Yaya for the opposite reasons we will miss Bernardo, because the man is dedicated on the pitch.

I highly doubt Bernardo will ever be a player like Nasri was to drop off in effort whilst possessing his qualities, and that is what we will miss sorely and is difficult to find.

A player with exceptional technical ability with high levels of agility and pace, who's a threat to score from anywhere, yet still selfless enough, possessing extremely high football intelligence, teamwork and work rate.

Not many out there like that.

Gundo and Merlin prior is perhaps the fairest comparison to importance in these areas to us since Pep arrived.

However, last season Bernardo stepped into replace Gundo as an even better version this past season.

Gundo was incredible 2 seasons ago with the goals and assists, when Bernardo was in the wilderness, but Gundo's aging had some big injuries and hasn't had the same agility pace, aggressive approach and work rate Bernardo has.

Notice how we were arguably more dominant and unbeatable if you ask me when Bernardo was on top of his game than even dare I suggest, Merlin.

Merlin is worshiped for all the right reasons, but Bernardo was a bigger goal scoring threat and more aggressive than Silva was. Silva had better vision and control but we didn't see the type of goals Bernardo scored, and wasn't really going to get stuck in like Bernardo does.

Phillips will likely be the player Pep will look to be the replacement or Bellingham if he continues his development.

But neither are where he is.
 
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unfortunately i do think he wants to leave but i kinda doubt he goes this summer. Can see barcelona putting a bid if they can sell de jong for a good price, besides that, nah
 
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