Bruno Guimaraes

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So why does Manchester City never get top dollar for our players,
( it's negligent not to get the highest price possible ) Cancelo, Phillips, to name a few

Wages.

 

[Keeper!]

Wages.

Who on earth rubber stamped 160K a week over 6 year for Phillips?

That deal was so unlike us.

 

[blueparrot]

So why does Manchester City never get top dollar for our players,
( it's negligent not to get the highest price possible ) Cancelo, Phillips, to name a few

We don't sell players we want to keep,the teams we are selling to can't afford the wages, we do get the highest price we can, do you think we are turning down high bids?

 

[p.taker]

We don't sell players we want to keep,the teams we are selling to can't afford the wages, we do get the highest price we can, do you think we are turning down high bids?

It's not rocket science is it?

 

[blueparrot]

It's not rocket science is it?

It really isn't.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

So why does Manchester City never get top dollar for our players,
( it's negligent not to get the highest price possible ) Cancelo, Phillips, to name a few

We have a different approach IMO, if a players wishes to leave we enable this to happen usually by lowering the fees, when it comes to younger players we usually go for lower fee higher sell on and buy back clause.
Young Tommy Doyle is a great example for younger player transfers: £4.5 million is steal but, we have a buy back clause and a 50% sell on clause,
I think we are pretty good at this.

 

[Father Paul]

Who on earth rubber stamped 160K a week over 6 year for Phillips?

That deal was so unlike us.

For me it was potentially a sackable offence and probably would have been had we not been so successful over the last two seasons

 

[richards30]

For me it was potentially a sackable offence and probably would have been had we not been so successful over the last two seasons

I think he had such a good euros and Pep and Txiki trusted Bielsa as well?

 

[Mon Autre]

So why does Manchester City never get top dollar for our players,
( it's negligent not to get the highest price possible ) Cancelo, Phillips, to name a few

Because we're very good at player retention and almost never have to sell a high value asset who we want to keep.

The players you've mentioned are examples of players where we've massively cocked up by putting them on long contracts with huge wages and have made it very obvious that we want rid/they have no future at the club. When you're hoping other clubs will bail you out of your own terrible business decisions you don't really get to demand top dollar off them for the privilege.

 

[blueparrot]

For me it was potentially a sackable offence and probably would have been had we not been so successful over the last two seasons

Bit over dramatic, we obviously thought he was good player that could be taught enough to cover Rodri, he wasn't it happens.Impossible to predict every players capacity to learn Peps game 100%.Surprised we do as well as we do.