Centre back options

blueparrot said:
We aren't being judged on 31 st Fifa are.
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The action is against FIFA and City. I'm not fully au fait with the grounds, but I'd be concerned about the fact that Garre allegedly signed for us barely 24 hours after landing in Europe and 'exercising his treaty rights'. It smacks of a done deal (which of course it was) with a player we'd been told was not for sale. I don't know if the CAS's remit extends into sharp practice or making subjective moral judgments, but if it does then I don't doubt we'll be afforded a typically draconian punishment. And I'm always mindful that that fucking bastard Gill works for FIFA. I wouldn't put it past him to have ratified the Garre deal in the full knowledge that it would proceed to CAS anyway - a slap on the wrist for FIFA then being a worthwhile trade for nobbling City, whilst managing to look like an innocent 3rd party.
Could all be just my usual paranoia kicking in though of course!
 
IF we don't trust the Ability or fitness of one of ( Kompany, Otamendi or Stones ) then we should sell them.

Stones should step up next season and justify his +45 Million price tag and book the first spot in City's defence.

Otamendi is already consistent for me and I trust him.

Kompany should take care of his body.

Kolarov is very good as our 4th choice CB. ( I don't think Pep praised any CB last season as he praised Kolarov)
 
MCFC ISRAEL said:
If the story about Lucas Hernandez if true I cant see us signing Laporte. They are both young left foot CB. I think we going after someone with more experience. Boateng for me!
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Hernandez has the ability to be an excellent player
 
If Southampton now want Kelechi is it possible we are back in for VVD? Would explain why it's supposedly a complicated deal if it's a part exchange.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
If Southampton now want Kelechi is it possible we are back in for VVD? Would explain why it's supposedly a complicated deal if it's a part exchange.
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If it's a kind of 'double deal' (as real exchanges never happen), guess it's for Bertrand, not VVD.
 
Tevez City said:
IF we don't trust the Ability or fitness of one of ( Kompany, Otamendi or Stones ) then we should sell them.

Stones should step up next season and justify his +45 Million price tag and book the first spot in City's defence.

Otamendi is already consistent for me and I trust him.

Kompany should take care of his body.

Kolarov is very good as our 4th choice CB. ( I don't think Pep praised any CB last season as he praised Kolarov)
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Agreed in totality with this :)
 
Hallelujah some common sense, our central defenders are very good but were so often exposed with our full backs too high and not recovering. Better full backs improves us defensively.
 
Tevez City said:
IF we don't trust the Ability or fitness of one of ( Kompany, Otamendi or Stones ) then we should sell them.

Stones should step up next season and justify his +45 Million price tag and book the first spot in City's defence.

Otamendi is already consistent for me and I trust him.

Kompany should take care of his body.

Kolarov is very good as our 4th choice CB. ( I don't think Pep praised any CB last season as he praised Kolarov)
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so your happy with city going with the same as last year , no left sided centre back? just a small right sided centre back who gets put there because the others cannot play there , and a left back who can play well there just not for 90 minutes.
But this position has other issues city let go 4 foreigners and have bought 2 with 2 more on the way we do not have a foreign place, personally i would buy the best english centre back but i do not think Pep will, I think Pep is going to go with a back 3 with Mendy the only problem with that is Mendy is shit in the air
 
There comes a time where the club stops throwing money at buying new centre backs and starts getting the absolute best out of the current lot. As it has been mentioned in the thread with better full backs we will notice more of an improvement in the defensive side of our game (which isn't as bad as it is made out to be to begin with).
 
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City health warning said:
There comes a time where the club stops throwing money at buying new centre backs and starts getting the absolute best out of the current lot. As it has been mentioned in the thread with better full backs we will notice more of an improvement in the defensive improvement of game (which isn't as bad as it is made out to be to begin with).
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the MEN has city paying 185 million in 10 tears on the centre backs and your quite right watching city it is very obvious that it was the left back position that let us down the most last season but so did the goalie , now fixed, and the left sided centre back. We do not have anybody who can play that spot to a decent standard, Pep tried last year and failed
 
Chelsea agreed deal with Roma for Rudiger a player who could have done a job for us............

27th March 2017:
Marvin said:
Antonio Rudiger from AS Roma would be my choice, but if we went for an English centre-back, Keane would be a good choice although he is a bit similar to Stones. Ideally would like a bit of power alongside the quality of Stones. There's always players like Lukaku, Carroll etc in the Premier league.
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A fortnight until we're back training and there's two quality central defenders off the market who we could easily have bought.
 
Marvin said:
Chelsea agreed deal with Roma for Rudiger a player who could have done a job for us............

27th March 2017:


A fortnight until we're back training and there's two quality central defenders off the market who we could easily have bought.
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He's the same type of defender as Stones and doesn't seem to be vastly more talanted for me. We don't need him unless we're going to replace Stones right now.
 
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