Bernardo Silva

[lol yank]

Declan Rice isn’t as good as Phillips let alone Bernardo. And he isn’t fit to lace Rodri’s boots as DM.

Lol

Not as good as Phillips.

Ok

 

[Withnail]

As I’ve outlined above, I think Rice is a different player to Bernado but I think he could be very good alongside Rodri and De Bruyne. He’s got loads of scope to improve and evolve his game, but in the short term he would replace Bernardo’s work rate and legs in midfield.

Would obviously be expensive but that’s all the more reason to set a high price on Bernado. It’s difficult to think of a like for like replacement, so I think we’d have to go down a different route.

Expensive, West Ham will want north of £100m definitely not worth that.

 

[yankblue]

He clearly wants to go and I don't begrudge him for that, but I'd like to think he's professional enough to understand we can't just let him leave at a cut rate because he wants it.

If Barca pays a fair fee (lol) and we get a replacement, then fine, thanks Bernie and wish you well. But none of this discount/player swap nonsense with no time to replace him.

 

[Bluewars]

We couldn't find a LB replacement for Zinchenko for two months and were supposed to believe will find a replacement for Bernardo in 3 weeks?

 

[Matt.D]

World class midfielders aren’t available with a fortnight left of the window. Name me one (other than De Jong who we clearly aren’t interested in). As a club we don’t panic buy and never have since Txiki, Omar, Ferran have been here so we won’t be signing a replacement.

I’ll wait for a name from you…

In terms of a player capable of replacing Bernardo’s quality I don’t think we will find one as I literally don’t think a player exists who can play his role in our team as well as him. Other than Bellingham who won’t move this summer I can’t even think of anybody who id even want to replace him if / when he decides to go. All I’m saying is that I’m almost certain the club will sign another midfielder if Bernardo leaves. As I said earlier, they literally briefed that this week.

Potentially the lad Pacqueta at Lyon or Nunes at Porto. Can’t say I know much about them but I’m sure City do and Pep was raving about Nunes when we played them saying he’s one of the best players in world football.

 

[MafeotulBlue]

Completely indifferent to this situation, and this Barca bullshit. Send him packing.

 

[RayCTID]

The issue is who is readily available and Grealish was probably brought in last season as potential replacement

 

[Ajm1985]

He’d be great for us, and I’d be disappointed if we didn’t try for him should Bernado leave.

The irony with all these people saying that Rice can only play defensive midfielder is that he’d be replacing Bernado. The same Bernado who has been transformed in his time here and now plays a completely different role to the one he was playing when we bought him.

Rice is a very good player but his main strengths are in areas we are covered - with Rodri and Philips. The outlay would be massively unnecessary and wouldn't fill a need.

To replace Bernardo, you'd want someone who can either play as a wing/forward and drop Foden/Jack back to 8, or want someone who is an 8...or someone who does both. I think Nunes or Paqueta are the best choices - Paqueta especially seems a bit magic

 

[RayCTID]

Completely indifferent to this situation, and this Barca bullshit. Send him packing.

£80M+ and Bernardo is their player

 

[MafeotulBlue]

£80M+ and Bernardo is their player

And we won’t sell at that fee, that’s the shit that irks me. 50-60 milion, Matheus Nunes, Paqueta. End of saga. Fuck Barca, fuck everything they are, fuck everyone but our team and badge.