Centre-back

[Tricky_Trev]

If we bought Pepe, I'd worry about what we're doing to the average age our our squad. With FFP, it's much wiser to spend your money on players that will have a resale value.

 

[momo88]

If we bought Pepe, I'd worry about what we're doing to the average age our our squad. With FFP, it's much wiser to spend your money on players that will have a resale value.

for sure

 

[abu13]

i am wondering if we are now waiting for the world cup to stat before showing or hand, the reality is that the transfer fees being quoted for the guys identified is unlikely to increase any further by waiting.

There are good reasons to hold off for the moment,

We could spend £30 million on a player now who then gets a serious injury in Brazil.
We will be paying wages now for a player we can not use, if we had signed 3 players now all on £100k a week then that is a one and a half million over 5 weeks.
There may be a hidden diamond that shines in the world cup who might catch our eye.
We may be waiting on others making a move before committing ourselves.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

i am wondering if we are now waiting for the world cup to stat before showing or hand, the reality is that the transfer fees being quoted for the guys identified is unlikely to increase any further by waiting.

There are good reasons to hold off for the moment,

[1]We could spend £30 million on a player now who then gets a serious injury in Brazil.
[2]We will be paying wages now for a player we can not use, if we had signed 3 players now all on £100k a week then that is a one and a half million over 5 weeks.
[3]There may be a hidden diamond that shines in the world cup who might catch our eye.
[4]We may be waiting on others making a move before committing ourselves.

[1]This is so.
[2]This is so.
[3]Possibly, but will be an 'young upstart' if any and will not be ready for our league as yet.
[4]We know who we want and will not be sidetracked by what others are doing. I'm sure our management team are focused on our own clubs development rather than worrying over what others are doing or not doing.

 

[abu13]

i am wondering if we are now waiting for the world cup to stat before showing or hand, the reality is that the transfer fees being quoted for the guys identified is unlikely to increase any further by waiting.

There are good reasons to hold off for the moment,

[1]We could spend £30 million on a player now who then gets a serious injury in Brazil.
[2]We will be paying wages now for a player we can not use, if we had signed 3 players now all on £100k a week then that is a one and a half million over 5 weeks.
[3]There may be a hidden diamond that shines in the world cup who might catch our eye.
[4]We may be waiting on others making a move before committing ourselves.

[1]This is so.
[2]This is so.
[3]Possibly, but will be an 'young upstart' if any and will not be ready for our league as yet.
[4]We know who we want and will not be sidetracked by what others are doing. I'm sure our management team are focused on our own clubs development rather than worrying over what others are doing or not doing.

I agree completely, i was thinking more that we may want certain buyers of our players to commit before we start to buy given the restriction with FFP.

We need to free up squad places and wages for the players coming in, it is easier to negotiate when we havent shown our hand

 

[City_Sean]

Re: Centre-Back 3rd option

Nastasic

sorted.

I assume you didnt watch him regularly in the high line system we play?

 

[Davs 19]

Re: Centre-Back 3rd option

Nastasic

sorted.

I assume you didnt watch him regularly in the high line system we play?

Nobody watched him 'regularly' last season. He made 13 appearances and spent the majority of the season injured and he wasn't the only player to struggle.

 

[Clubber]

Re: Centre-Back 3rd option

Nastasic

sorted.

I assume you didnt watch him regularly in the high line system we play?

Nobody watched him 'regularly' last season. He made 13 appearances and spent the majority of the season injured and he wasn't the only player to struggle.

Give that man a hurmph. Well said.

Nastasic is a cracking player who is still very young. I see no mad rush to get another cb, unless we are worried he will still be struggling with injuries.

 

[Mancitybluemoon1]

Re: Centre-Back 3rd option

Nastasic

sorted.

I assume you didnt watch him regularly in the high line system we play?

I agree.....both Nastasic and Demichelis are very solid "system players" In the right formation they both can do well........but will always struggle with the way Pellegrini wants to play...Nastasic isn't comfortable enough on the ball and this will be a major issue as Pellegrini like to play football from the back and Demichelle will always put pressure on Kompany as he is too slow when covering.....in a one on one with a quicker striker, both Demichelis and Natasic can struggle.........if you don't have the right personnel, cracks are going to show......CB is the biggest need by far on this team.... imho!

 

[George Hannah]

Clear as day they are conspiring to undermine our targets. Barca, Madrid, PSG, Chelski and even the Swampies take turns to sabotage our bids.
Thick as thieves all of them - UEFA are very pleased with their handiwork.

 

[George Hannah]

Clear as day they are conspiring to undermine our targets. Barca, Madrid, PSG, Chelski and even the Swampies take turns to sabotage our bids.
Thick as thieves all of them - UEFA are very pleased with their handiwork.

this

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Clear as day they are conspiring to undermine our targets. Barca, Madrid, PSG, Chelski and even the Swampies take turns to sabotage our bids.
Thick as thieves all of them - UEFA are very pleased with their handiwork.

this

Talking to yourself today, George?

 

[its a Barm]

Clear as day they are conspiring to undermine our targets. Barca, Madrid, PSG, Chelski and even the Swampies take turns to sabotage our bids.
Thick as thieves all of them - UEFA are very pleased with their handiwork.

this

Talking to yourself today, George?

Ha ha

 

[George Hannah]

Clear as day they are conspiring to undermine our targets. Barca, Madrid, PSG, Chelski and even the Swampies take turns to sabotage our bids.
Thick as thieves all of them - UEFA are very pleased with their handiwork.
this

Talking to yourself today, George?

Ha ha

I find it a such a relief to find a post I wholeheartedly agree with

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Talking to yourself today, George?

Ha ha

I find it a such a relief to find a post I wholeheartedly agree with

I'm glad to hear that. Just don't argue with yourself though. That's the first sign of madness [a common trait amongst forum users]!

 

[MCFC-alan88]

No chance in hell Soriano would give the go ahead to spending €30m on a 31 year old. Won't happen. Just press speculation.

 

[The_Boxing_KangaBlue]

Everyone's jumped off Virgil Van Dijk I take it?

 

[George Hannah]

Everyone's jumped off Virgil Van Dijk I take it?

the Dutch are quite surprised that Virgil van Dijk (Celtic) or Douglas (Dinamo Moscow) haven't been called up and there are a lot of Eredivisie players in the squad.....

Louise picked Rekik ahead of him for the provisonal WC squad

 

[Daz_Blue]

Rekik said if we signed another center back he would want a move .....

Getting him and a fit Nastastic to go with Kompany and MDM is surely enough ......we can use the money elsewhere like a left winger

 

[Rösler von Stretfordbömber]

Rekik said if we signed another center back he would want a move .....

Getting him and a fit Nastastic to go with Kompany and MDM is surely enough ......we can use the money elsewhere like a left winger

I agree with this - unless there is something wrong with Nasty that we are unaware of, I would rather take a shot at getting him back into the team that blowing the whole net-spend allocation this year on a CB. With the latter, you either overspend for an older guy (i.e. Pepe) or overspend for a prospect who may not even be as good as Nasty (i.e. Mangala.)

Benatia every day of the week - and I would not rule that out. Roma will get to the point where getting 30 mil for him is a better proposition than getting nothing and we might be able to snatch him yet. Just need to be patient.

Seems like this is a pretty deep position for us at the EDS level, and maybe that is a facotr in looking at Pepe or someone like that as a shorter-term expedient.