Bernardo Silva

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Cheeky fucker.

I've lived here all my life!

 

[RayCTID]

Yep, but it's still Manchester.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

I am sure Bernie can put up with Manchester for one more season

 

[Zenmanc]

Yep, but it's still Manchester.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

C'mon mate, you can have a go at the weather but I draw the line at slagging off the missus.

 

[AcceptedWalnut]

You can put lipstick on a pig...

 

[BringBackSwales]

Yep, but it's still Manchester.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

I clearly like Manchester more than you do. I also think he’s a lot better off in employment with trustworthy people who don’t default (or defer) wages and don’t confront their players in public. By all accounts no club looks after their players as well as we do. If Bernardo wants to play for such a club so much then I wouldn’t deal with them unless they (a) pay what we value him at, and (b) I would say pay up front (insolvency must be a real risk for these charlatans, already selling off companies and future gate receipts).

 

[OB1]

Thanks mate. No you are right. I'm guilty of thinking about the success of the team and forgetting about Bernie as a human being who wants to live his life the way he wants to. Fair play to him. I selfishly hope that he is still with us for this season but if he leaves then good luck and best wishes to both of them.

It's such a short career though. Professionally, it's hard to see a better place for Bernie to be. A few more years in Manchester, ought to represent a small part of his life but one he cannot make up for if he leaves and find it was not really the best thing he could do.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I am sure Bernie can put up with Manchester for one more season

But can his lovely missus?

When Bernie is training or away with the team, she is stuck alone looking at the Irwell and walking John down the arse end of Salford.

 

[cookster]

I've lived here all my life!

Me too, slightly longer than you and I love it, probably even more if I was a multi-millionaire ;)

 

[117 M34]

Can't we solve the family issue by moving them all over here?
Sure there a few terraced houses on rightmove they could go for.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Wants to start a family with his missus and bring them up closer to relatives.

The guy was stuck in a flat in central Manchester during lockdown, can't begrudge him wanting a different lifestyle at this stage in his career.

Love him to bits, remains a top professional and respectful of City's stance, he won't gripe if nothing materialises for him this month.

Purely a lifestyle issue.

I reckon he could afford a house in a less central area as well as a luxury city centre flat, I’m not feeling as much sympathy

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

But can his lovely missus?

When Bernie is training or away with the team, she is stuck alone looking at the Irwell and walking John down the arse end of Salford.

Living so far away from the in-laws must such a shitter

 

[Coatigan]

90m what?

Pounds?
Euros?
Smarties?

It‘s meaningless without labels. And, to the uninitiated, £ and € are not interchangeable.

Unless it says otherwise, I usually take a stated number to be in pounds, think it shhould almost go without saying.

 

[Coatigan]

How much a player is worth debates should be banned.

Utterly pointless and emotive.

I think writing out imaginary formations with one or two additional potential incomings should be banned myself, yet here we are. Part and parcel of the transfer business.

 

[Zenmanc]

Bernie probably saw the writing on the wall he'd be lining up at left back soon enough.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I clearly like Manchester more than you do. I also think he’s a lot better off in employment with trustworthy people who don’t default (or defer) wages and don’t confront their players in public. By all accounts no club looks after their players as well as we do. If Bernardo wants to play for such a club so much then I wouldn’t deal with them unless they (a) pay what we value him at, and (b) I would say pay up front (insolvency must be a real risk for these charlatans, already selling off companies and future gate receipts).

Difference being mate, you are from Manchester, Bernie isn't.

He has the means to play anywhere and has already lived in Lisbon and Monaco.

If you come from a different culture, I can totally understand someone who wants to try something else after five years.

Personally, I find Manchester an aggressive, dirty place to live, although, like any big City it has its exceptions.

It is horrific to see the levels of depravation and that's from somebody who grew up in Moss Side!

 

[RayCTID]

But can his lovely missus?

When Bernie is training or away with the team, she is stuck alone looking at the Irwell and walking John down the arse end of Salford.

Zaba's Mrs wasn't too keen on Manchester earlier on into his City career either but she coped. Besides that isn't he renting a new place in Cheshire

 

[OB1]

I've lived here all my life!

Manchester is alright. There's certainly very nice places to live / bring up a family if you work there and earn what Bernie does. Also, in Bernie's case, it's not forever but perhaps he is too young to have the perspective of someone like me who has both lived in the MCR area and away from it for longer than Bernie has been on this planet.

It's his life though and we have to respect it. From City's point of view, it needs sorting definitively a.s.a.p.. We've already survived the loss of better / more important players.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

C'mon mate, you can have a go at the weather but I draw the line at slagging off the missus.

Is she called Sarah?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Zaba's Mrs wasn't too keen on Manchester either but she coped. Besides that isn't he renting a new place in Cheshire

He's not. Bernie has completely denied it.

 

[RayCTID]

He's not. Bernie has completely denied it.

It doesn't really matter for one more season. We aren't going to give him away. We kept Sterling and Jesus and sold them with one year left on their contracts.