Coates - 7M, Mertesacker - £8M, Savic - £7M

[hal2000]

City contacted coates around winter but were turned down. Dunno why.

They just don't want to give up their coates in winter

badum tish

I'll get my coate

 

[Kurple]

Lescott is playing very well and a fully proven premier league player and we have Kolo in reserve (plus Micah can move over if we have a crisis) so a player more for the future sounds right to me.

Fed up of hearing about Lescott being the weak link. I just don't think he is.

Then who is? If your answer is nobody, then we should be ready to win the CL.

Our team got CL winners potential.. How bout giving the team time to gel? We spend sooo much money on young talented players, what's the point if you don't give them a little time and just replace them at the first opportunity if we don't win immediately

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Anyone see any of coates play for Liverpool last night? My mate said he was frighteningly good but he's a Liverpool fan so he probably would.

I thought savic played pretty well yesterday though, looks a better bet than kolo at the mo for me

 

[Kurple]

All my friends that are liverpool fans hate him after he cost them the win against Norwich (don't remember exactly what team it was)

 

[Cityfan]

Anyone see any of coates play for Liverpool last night? My mate said he was frighteningly good but he's a Liverpool fan so he probably would.

Only saw the highlights, he conceded a stonewall penalty that the ref got wrong. Apart from that he made an excellent clearance and seemed to play reasonably. Though Chelseas attack didn't feature much I had the impression it was more due to Liverpools midfield than their defense. I would need to see a lot more of him to make any kind of a judgement to be honest.

 

[bluemoondays]

Maybe I'm being too critical but although to me it looks like Savic has talent I think he's still a bit naive and needs a lot more game time than he'll get at City. He's obviously comfortable on the ball but I also think he needs to bulk out a bit to handle the likes of Kevin Davies, Agbonlahor, Kenwyne Jones that he will meet week-in, week-out in the PL.

I'd like to see him going out on loan to one of the Bolton's, Wigan's, Blackburn's (like Boyata) of the PL where he will really have to put in a shift and be bombarded by attackers all the time.

In regards to Lescott, I'm in two minds, I'm not confident he is CL quality but you can't knock the fact for two season we have had the joint best defensive record in the PL. I do worry that if VK or JL get injured our backups are Kolo or Savic (not bad but also not great) but I don't think we need to spend £20m+ on a CB.

Personally I'd go for Cahill or Chivu on a free. Cahill is english, right age range and probably in our back 4 would improve another level, similar to Clichy. Downside would be he might hinder development of Boyata, Savic & (eventually) Rekik. Chivu would probably be best, bags of experience and only for a couple of years (making him 33 or so) which would give our youngsters the couple of years they need to then slot straight in provided they continue to show promise.

 

[Nelly's Left Foot]

Maybe I'm being too critical but although to me it looks like Savic has talent I think he's still a bit naive and needs a lot more game time than he'll get at City. He's obviously comfortable on the ball but I also think he needs to bulk out a bit to handle the likes of Kevin Davies, Agbonlahor, Kenwyne Jones that he will meet week-in, week-out in the PL.

I'd like to see him going out on loan to one of the Bolton's, Wigan's, Blackburn's (like Boyata) of the PL where he will really have to put in a shift and be bombarded by attackers all the time.

In regards to Lescott, I'm in two minds, I'm not confident he is CL quality but you can't knock the fact for two season we have had the joint best defensive record in the PL. I do worry that if VK or JL get injured our backups are Kolo or Savic (not bad but also not great) but I don't think we need to spend £20m+ on a CB.

Personally I'd go for Cahill or Chivu on a free. Cahill is english, right age range and probably in our back 4 would improve another level, similar to Clichy. Downside would be he might hinder development of Boyata, Savic & (eventually) Rekik. Chivu would probably be best, bags of experience and only for a couple of years (making him 33 or so) which would give our youngsters the couple of years they need to then slot straight in provided they continue to show promise.

Maybe it's just me but I don't want Cahill.Of course he is decent but no way imo better than what we have.Definitely not a better defender than Vinnie or Lescott.

 

[pb1951]

What most people do not take into consideration is : are they left or right footed. This is important when making pairings or deciding to sign or not sign etc
VC Being rigt and JL being left footed is an important part of the partnership.