Bernardo Silva

[grim up north]

There's no way we should let him leave now. Not enough time to replace. Scout out a suitable replacement over the next year then let him leave next year. He's got a contract to fulfill and he's not the kind of player to sulk.

Do you honestly believe City are not scouting new players every single day

 

[grim up north]

And they are Barcelona, they enjoy certain privileges with us. It's a Catalan thing, you wouldn't understand...none of us would.

Or you just made that up

 

[grim up north]

The strangest thing with this Bernardo, Barca, FDJ situation is that FDJ is probably the best replacement we could get for Bernardo out there. If Barca really want Bernardo, why dont they just offer FDJ in exchange, if they really want him out? FDJ coming in as Bernardos replacement, if we would sell him, I could accept. I would be a downgrade in my opinion, but I could accept it if Bernardo wanted out. Barca selling FDJ to United/Chelsea, us selling Bernardo to Barca and ending up replacing him with someone like Paqueta would see one club being the big loser in this transfer domino, and that would be us. A Bernardo FDJ swap would make so much more sense for Barca, FDJ and us. Perhaps thats what really holding his deal with United/Chelsea up?

Or, hopefully, the real reason there is no FDJ links to us is because Bernardo is staying and the rest is just noise.

Wages

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

The strangest thing with this Bernardo, Barca, FDJ situation is that FDJ is probably the best replacement we could get for Bernardo out there. If Barca really want Bernardo, why dont they just offer FDJ in exchange, if they really want him out? FDJ coming in as Bernardos replacement, if we would sell him, I could accept. I would be a downgrade in my opinion, but I could accept it if Bernardo wanted out. Barca selling FDJ to United/Chelsea, us selling Bernardo to Barca and ending up replacing him with someone like Paqueta would see one club being the big loser in this transfer domino, and that would be us. A Bernardo FDJ swap would make so much more sense for Barca, FDJ and us. Perhaps thats what really holding his deal with United/Chelsea up?

Or, hopefully, the real reason there is no FDJ links to us is because Bernardo is staying and the rest is just noise.

Doesnt want to move or take a paycut. there are no links due to that.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Or you just made that up

Hmmm

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Hopefully it's €100m if we are planning on sell him which is not ideal. Some figure that were floated around were around €75m which is Cucurella money. Hopefully we don't bend and accept low figure. He is Bernardo silva and not Ferran Torres or Eric Garcia

There are a lot of factors at play here. But it has to be well over £100m.

Barca coming in so late is one of them, I presume that they are trying to offload F D Jong and maybe others and if they can they will try and do this deal. But we dont want to be doing deals late in the window so the Fee has to go up to compensate.

But we are also not in the business of pissing off players. That is basically what Pep said he always wants a good outcome for the players. So if Bernado wants the move and Barca come in with a suitable offer the deal will get done.

Can Barca pay up? I would imagine Barca will struggle to get to the number we need. And we will want it mostly up front as they are in a mess. I think this is the biggest driver in this not getting done. Even if they make a number of sales they will still struggle to make it work.

 

[Trojan1962]

Wages

And age

 

[RayCTID]

Do you honestly believe City are not scouting new players every single day

Availabilty is the issue as well. Clubs would be very reluctant to sell at this stage of the window.

 

[argyle]

so no , it isn't twitter bollocks

Could have outright said it - he is staying

Anyway - trust the club - if he is sold for the valuation city want + get a replacement

If he's sold we won't get a replacement until next summer or the summer after.

Too little time and City don't panic.

 

[Cricket Blue]

This is very distracting.
What a circus the last week has been, be glad when the window shuts.