What is weird is the number of posters who appear to be making a claim for Mr Super Cool - "I don't panic, you fool's know nothing compared with my immense knowledge " How can anyone believe that a goalkeepeeper's ability to pass to a team mate is a greater advantage to the team than their ability to keep the ball out of the net.
It's not about ranking importance - it's being able to do both effectively. Joe Hart can't pass accurately, has never shown any ability to, and didn't want to stay and try so he's not here any more.
Claudio Bravo has been a professional goalkeeper for 14 years, 10 of which were in the best leagues in the world. He also has 112 caps for Chile.
Do you think that he's played that entire time including winning titles both team and personal, yet absolutely nobody has noticed that he's unable to perform basic goalkeeping duties?
Instead of ducking it, somebody answer that because it's key to this whole situation and it's essentially what your logic is. Which is obviously ridiculous.
Anyway, so Bravo can obviously perform as a goalkeeper. He can also obviously pass the ball. So he has both of the traits that we want rather than one of them. He's currently in a bad run of form which because he's new and some people on here don't watch anything apart from City and the odd La Liga game in the background they vaguely pay attention to, they've mistaken this for a lack of talent.
When you have a player in bad form, and you're at a club who has a fanbase who understands the value of work rather than thinking the way out of every situation is to buy more and more and more players then complain that we've not bought well, you work with them through it to help them rediscover their form.
Or just spend another £30 million, who gives a shit. When they don't work out we'll spend thirty more, and another fifty on a centre back because Stones isn't Beckenbauer immediately either. Or and another fifty to replace Sterling who had a wobble. And Yaya obviously. Aguero too. In fact just buy everybody in the world then we'll never have problems with out of form players and helping them recapture their form and instead can just swap them in and out of they have a single bad twenty minutes.