If we’re judging it by your standards probably the next shiny new toy who has had one good season.So just to be sure, when David Silva moves on next year, Phil Foden will replace him? If not, who does?
Lol :-)If we’re judging it by your standards probably the next shiny new toy who has had one good season.
If we’re being sensible and balanced probably a mixture of Foden, Bernardo, Gundogan (if he stays) and possibly even Zinchenko if he shows the same sort of character and determination which earned him a first team place this season. If Gundogan leaves then possibly a replacement will be needed but it’ll likely be someone who we’ve had our eyes on over a sustained period (e.g. Houssem Aouar).
If not then I’m sure we will invest in the right player. However, I’d love to actually wait and find out if Foden is going to be good enough before we start writing him off.So just to be sure, when David Silva moves on next year, Phil Foden will replace him? If not, who does?
Foden has proven himself at youth level, but expecting him to start & be effective at man kevel, over 40+ games per season, & to replace what we've lost in David Silva? Can't see it mate.
As an example; against Spurs, at times he made so little impact, that I felt like we were a man short. However he did score the all important goal which made many clamour for him to become an instant starter.
Foden's time will come, but we can't possibly expect to thrust our expectations on him at his current level. BTW, I wasn't one of those calling Pep 'Fraudiola' & trying to advise the great man how to approach playing in the PL. :-)
We are not interested in the guy,we said it weeks ago
Was it not that we were interested in him, might even have agreed a deal, but Lisbon were not enamored with the players we were offering as part of said deal? We’ve been doing business with them for other players since, so perhaps that has an effect on him now. All conjecture.