Centre-back

[Nevizade]

Oh, if we can get Pepe... what a window this will have been. Demichelis is old but was excellent last year - is two transfers in the same window allowed, though?

Didi Hamann went from a free agent to Bolton to us in a few hours in '06. I think the crack is you can't play/be registered for three teams in a year or something.

 

[sam-caddick]

If Txiki is off to Madrid to try and do any transfer deals I would offer £30m for both Pepe and Coentrao, that would be our defense complete ready for the season then.

Those two would be fantastic additions to the team.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I do hope Pepe fancies steak in San Carlo.....

 

[MCFC BOB]

If Txiki is off to Madrid to try and do any transfer deals I would offer £30m for both Pepe and Coentrao, that would be our defense complete ready for the season then.

I'm right in with this guy. Our squad would be this if that were to happen:

Goalkeepers
Joe Hart
Costel Pantilimon
Richard Wright

Defenders
Pablo Zabaleta
Micah Richards
Vincent Kompany
Pepe
Matija Nastasic
Joleon Lescott
Gael Clichy
Fabio Coentrao

Midfielders
Yaya Toure
Fernandinho
Jack Rodwell
Javi Garcia
Gareth Barry
James Milner
David Silva
Jesus Navas
Samir Nasri
Scott Sinclair

Forwards
Sergio Aguero
Edin Dzeko
Alvaro Negredo
Stefan Jovetic
John Guidetti

 

[Andouble]

Have we even been linked to Coentrao? Seems like fantasy.

 

[Plain Speaking]

If Txiki is off to Madrid to try and do any transfer deals I would offer £30m for both Pepe and Coentrao, that would be our defense complete ready for the season then.

I'm right in with this guy. Our squad would be this if that were to happen:

Goalkeepers
Joe Hart
Costel Pantilimon
Richard Wright

Defenders
Pablo Zabaleta
Micah Richards
Vincent Kompany
Pepe
Matija Nastasic
Joleon Lescott
Gael Clichy
Fabio Coentrao

Midfielders
Yaya Toure
Fernandinho
Jack Rodwell
Javi Garcia
Gareth Barry
James Milner
David Silva
Jesus Navas
Samir Nasri
Scott Sinclair

Forwards
Sergio Aguero
Edin Dzeko
Alvaro Negredo
Stefan Jovetic
John Guidetti

Why have some players in black and some in blue?
Edit ah home grown!

 

[DaveStevens]

Instead of a £30+ million transfer fee and wages on two players in Pepe and Coentrao, Why not sign Vertonghen or Agger for £20-30 million and they can play CB and LB while only costing 1 set of wages and you save around £80k a week and a squad place for somebody else.

 

[TonyM]

Instead of a £30+ million transfer fee and wages on two players in Pepe and Coentrao, Why not sign Vertonghen or Agger for £20-30 million and they can play CB and LB while only costing 1 set of wages and you save around £80k a week and a squad place for somebody else.

You crazy man. Spurs and Liverpool are hardly going to sell their best defenders to us a few days before the start of the season and for reasonable prices too. :-)

(Spurs are screwed for fit defenders it seems right now too)

 

[luckyadeel78]

total brainless choices by city management, first city have to admit they cant buy pepe from real, simple reason they still need this thug to mess with barcelona only, real knows they have plenty of thugs in their team , but pepe is the king of them, any dirty team would definitely love to have his services in their team.

Dear City Manager, i have a request to reconsider following names please ...........

Ezequiel Garay from Benfica, No. 1 argentian CB. ( Manchester United also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc97AEevMos[/youtube]

Nicolas Otamendi from Porto (liverpool also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklPJIH8hVo[/youtube]

Eliaquim Mangala from Porto ( Chelsea/ Real Madrid also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_6cx9Q3JA[/youtube]

Enzo 'Guerreiro' Perez from Benfica perfect replacement for Barry
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zMzl920d8c[/youtube]

Sebastián Rakan Dubarbier - CFR Cluj ( NEXT DI MARIA ) (left side Midfield Player)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNiwaOZbPoM[/youtube]

 

[cmdub]

total brainless choices by city management, first city have to admit they cant buy pepe from real, simple reason they still need this thug to mess with barcelona only, real knows they have plenty of thugs in their team , but pepe is the king of them, any dirty team would definitely love to have his services in their team.

Dear City Manager, i have a request to reconsider following names please ...........

Ezequiel Garay from Benfica, No. 1 argentian CB. ( Manchester United also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc97AEevMos[/youtube]

Nicolas Otamendi from Porto (liverpool also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklPJIH8hVo[/youtube]

Eliaquim Mangala from Porto ( Chelsea/ Real Madrid also after him)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_6cx9Q3JA[/youtube]

Enzo 'Guerreiro' Perez from Benfica perfect replacement for Barry
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zMzl920d8c[/youtube]

Sebastián Rakan Dubarbier - CFR Cluj ( NEXT DI MARIA ) (left side Midfield Player)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNiwaOZbPoM[/youtube]

can i take u to task real quick? i can? ok thanks:
first off if u've been paying which you clearly haven't we aren't looking for a young pricey CB, we've already got 1 and another is out on loan this year whose show a ton of promise. we're looking for an older CL experienced CB to tide us over for this year and probably the next as a reliable backup/starter depending on the game. pellegrini knows he can't trust lescott in important games and mancini knew he couldn't last year either. have a look at this:

basically shows that nastasic got all the tough away games and lescott got all the easy home games. nastasic will be back but we need someone to fill in for the mean time cause lescott is not reliable at all. someone like pepe resolves this perfectly as hes big game proven and isn't completely devoid of pace

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