City's €140m summer will "stun English football"

[am333]

The only thing I have a problem with is that when ever a club wants to sell their player for 3% of GDP of some developed country, it is automatically linked to us, Chelsea, PSG and lately Monaco

 

[robbieh]

Not really sure how many ins we need.

If we are basing ourselves on the Barca model then surely the front 3 would be

Tevez(Villa) Kun (Messi) ????? (Pedro)
Silva (Iniesta) Yaya(Busqets) ???? (Xavi)

For me Nasri can cover Silva , but cannot do the Xavi thing.

Buy Navas and he can do Pedros role. Maybe Thiago can be he playmaker?

Whatever not sure we need to break the bank here.

I do have reservations about all these small guys. A more physical presence up front might help.

 

[Gabriel]

Not sure size matters, at least not in football anymore.

The key thing in modern football is intelligence and that means having a perceptive ability to see what will happen with the ball, where it will go, and move accordingly. Such players are rare, hence the hefty price tags.

 

[Edwaardz]

Not really sure how many ins we need.

If we are basing ourselves on the Barca model then surely the front 3 would be

Tevez(Villa) Kun (Messi) ????? (Pedro)
Silva (Iniesta) Yaya(Busqets) ???? (Xavi)

For me Nasri can cover Silva , but cannot do the Xavi thing.

Buy Navas and he can do Pedros role. Maybe Thiago can be he playmaker?

Whatever not sure we need to break the bank here.

I do have reservations about all these small guys. A more physical presence up front might help.

I think you'll find Yaya is our Xavi. Barry = Busquets.

 

[Matt.D]

Not really sure how many ins we need.

If we are basing ourselves on the Barca model then surely the front 3 would be

Tevez(Villa) Kun (Messi) ????? (Pedro)
Silva (Iniesta) Yaya(Busqets) ???? (Xavi)

For me Nasri can cover Silva , but cannot do the Xavi thing.

Buy Navas and he can do Pedros role. Maybe Thiago can be he playmaker?

Whatever not sure we need to break the bank here.

I do have reservations about all these small guys. A more physical presence up front might help.

I think you'll find Yaya is our Xavi. Barry = Busquets.

Barry is not close to being good enough to play at the top level.

 

[Edwaardz]

Not really sure how many ins we need.

If we are basing ourselves on the Barca model then surely the front 3 would be

Tevez(Villa) Kun (Messi) ????? (Pedro)
Silva (Iniesta) Yaya(Busqets) ???? (Xavi)

For me Nasri can cover Silva , but cannot do the Xavi thing.

Buy Navas and he can do Pedros role. Maybe Thiago can be he playmaker?

Whatever not sure we need to break the bank here.

I do have reservations about all these small guys. A more physical presence up front might help.

I think you'll find Yaya is our Xavi. Barry = Busquets.

Barry is not close to being good enough to play at the top level.

Did someone say he was?

 

[Matt.D]

I think you'll find Yaya is our Xavi. Barry = Busquets.

Barry is not close to being good enough to play at the top level.

Did someone say he was?

Barry = Busquets, unless you were just stating he plays a similar role to Busquets rather than actually comparing the 2 players. If so my bad.

 

[mancity61]

Are any of these players any good when it gets cold?? We were all sold on Javi Garcia - bloody hell!!

 

[LoveCity]

England will seem like Miami to Fernandinho after playing in Ukraine for 8 years.

Most of the Spaniards in England don't seem to have had much trouble with the climate (Torres, Silva, Mata, Cazorla, Enrique, Chico Flores).

And I don't think Garcia's problem is the weather... :P

 

[Hydemcfc]

So it looks like 2 of our targets are now going elsewhere,Cavani & Isco. Who on earth are we going to spend this €140 million on now?