Dani Alves

[Marvin]

I wouldn't say dipped. I would say not used to the fast pace of our league. I wouldn't like to go into our first game with him as our only proper right back. 2 world class-ish for every position. Not one old guy and an unproven youngster and Fernandinho on occasion.

Ideally have top class competition in every position, but I'd look at centre-back cover in case Kompany gets injured.

After strengthening the full back positions that would be my next priority

 

[KiLP12]

I can see an Alves and Jesus dance off on Citytv from a mile a way. Plus celebrations just like this haha.

 

[kaz7]

We should leave the corny celebrations to the rags and dippers,i don't like them

 

[quiet_riot]

He's no Wilf in the dancing department.

 

[feedthegoat27]

Absolutely, I hope he's brilliant.

But ultimately it still would've been a risk if he's first choice, just one that happened to pay off.

If I win a bet at 1000/1 then yeah I won, great. It was still a big fucking risk!

The betting analogy is perfect for the Alves situation.

You stick a fiver on a 1000/1 shot; it doesn't come in, no big deal and not something to lose sleep over, or you win and you're fucking ecstatic.

Alves is that fiver. We cannot lose signing him. The worst case scenario vs the reward of getting him (esp on a free) is stacked so heavily in our favour that we'd have to be run by fucking idiots to overlook getting him in, even at 34.

A fiver on a 1000/1 isn't a big risk, a grand on an even money shot is. Alves is the former.

Also, didn't Schweinsteiger cost the rags 10/12m?

 

[blueparrot]

We should leave the corny celebrations to the rags and dippers,i don't like them

We are going to have a bunch of Brazilians instead of Argentinians, think you need to get used to those celebrations.

 

[asahartford1]

We should leave the corny celebrations to the rags and dippers,i don't like them

Probably your best ever post..cringeworthy.

UWE rossler nailed it.

 

[80s Shorts]

We should leave the corny celebrations to the rags and dippers,i don't like them

 

[kaz7]

We are going to have a bunch of Brazilians instead of Argentinians, think you need to get used to those celebrations.

The shift from our argies is taking me time lol

 

[kaz7]

No doubt i'll be doing that within a month haha

 

[kaz7]

Probably your best ever post..cringeworthy.

UWE rossler nailed it.

I'm sure most of the moon are happy i have posted 1 sensible post 1 in 7yrs ha

 

[Tricky_Trev]

I can see an Alves and Jesus dance off on Citytv from a mile a way. Plus celebrations just like this haha.

I spy Alexis too :)

 

[Dax777]

Dissociative Identity Disorder, clearly...

I see what you 'did, there :)

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I liked it better when you were telling people that you'd stick them in the boot of your car and take a blowtorch to their face instead of humouring them. : )

Lol...... the gollum is never far away my precious (:

 

[russell jack]

Remembering when we last bought an aging world class full back who only played 9 games for us due to injury and fitness levels.
Fear that history may repeat itself.

i rember an ageing fullback,who went on to great things,hes called tony book

 

[inchy14]

Anyone got a link to his quote regarding Juventus not being ambitious enough in the CL?

 

[super_city_si]

can't wait for Kelechi to score one in pre-season with him in the side.

Nah, we need to sign Bolo Zenden

 

[Neville Kneville]

I was at that game and we were very comfortable until Zabaletta came on. It completely changed the game. Watch the whole thing back as opposed to 5 minute highlights.

How the fuck anyone can look at the chances Real had on those '5 min highlights' & call Higuain 5 yards out missing 'comfortable' I have no idea. The reality was much worse when you watch more of it.

Or perhaps those highlights aren't genuine, & I made them up.

Either that, or some folks are talking bollocks.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I don't get why everyone was so excited for pep guardiola and says he's the best manager in the world. He will take us to the elite etc.

Then when he makes signings or is interested in a player everyone acts like they know more than him.

If he wants Alves, he will get him. If it was a lot more money I don't reckon he would. But for the price and player, Its a good deal. 5 million is nothing to us. He would be fantastic to have around the squad.

In any regard Alves is better than anything we had last season in that position. I'm sure Alves could handle himself in a capital one cup :^)

Trust in Pep

Pep will make mistakes & people have their own favourites or dislikes, but if we accept that Pep's game involves attacking fullbacks & we can get one cheap, who is almost a perfect Pep player, who has just turned in a number of very decent performances prior to signing, I don't understand why anyone would be worried about it, when you consider we were playing a centre mid & a winger in that position last season, because Pep didn't trust the fullbacks to do the job.

There is absolutely no guarantee that Kyle Walker will be a huge success there if we sign him. It is down to Pep's judgement, same as this.

The difference is, if Walker flops, it might cost us 50 mil. This guy could just be moved into the background, & replaced.

 

[Shaelumstash]

How the fuck anyone can look at the chances Real had on those '5 min highlights' & call Higuain 5 yards out missing 'comfortable' I have no idea. The reality was much worse when you watch more of it.

Or perhaps those highlights aren't genuine, & I made them up.

Either that, or some folks are talking bollocks.

I doubt you made them up, you're just jumping to conclusions based on 5 minutes of highlights.

Watch the game back. We were playing well, comfortable, then Zabaleta came, we dropped about 15 yards, Ronaldo tore him to shreds and we conceded 3 goals in 15 minutes.