Dani Alves

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Time to move on. This is a big and frustrating miss for a player we desperately needed but sometimes it just doesn't pan out. I just hope we don't overpay for an average player like Danilo. He is not good enough and will be exposed.
 
domalino said:
To a club we own. Let's not pretend we couldn't have him back tomorrow morning if we wanted.
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possibly, but more likely we pay over what we want for Walker, then fail getting a backup and use somebody within the squad available or change tactics.
 
TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
I agree....Monaco and Spurs will be laughing!

Sam Lee‏Verified account @Sammy_Goal 2h2 hours ago
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Don't want to feed the panic but there are a lot of knock-on effects if this goes south. Average price of four full-backs shoots way up

Sam Lee‏Verified account @Sammy_Goal 2h2 hours ago
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Good chance that a move for another right-back will affect the centre-back pursuit. Not sure money stretches that far, barring big sales
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I think this all sounds a little bit hysterical tbh. I would be surprised if our entire spending plans for the much needed revamp of our entire defence hinged on a verbal agreement with a 34 year old we were hoping to sign as back up on a free.
 
johnmc said:
Dodged a bullet
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Best right back in the Champion's League last year.
Knows how to work with Pep, and is a perfect fit for his system.
This stings, but resorting to "well, he was shit anyway" is stooping to rag levels.
We just have to put up with a bit of piss taking and then learn from this shit.
A gentlemen's agreement doesn't count for wank. From now on, we don't do that.
 
SilverFox2 said:
Football is notorious for breaking contracts by both footballers and their clubs so maybe verbal agreements are two a penny and he had offers from many quarters.
Probably his wife influenced his decision as to where they would live and strangely she chose Paris to Manchester.
Money also talks in the last couple of years of ones working life so I´m sure that impacted as well.

Of course he was pals with Pep but he is also pals with some of the PSG team so that may have played a part.
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He was a free agent cause Juve let him out of his contract a year early the reason being if we are to believe was to join up with his old mentor Pep as he loves him and has always wanted to play in Emgland and the wonderful English fans and he plays football for the love of it not the money, now if thats the case the man is an absolute cunnt of the highest order for what he's done.
 
Marvin said:
he has to put himself and his family first, but in the cirumstances it looks like he has bottled the challenge of Premiership football, and it does look like he did not have the decency to inform City and Guardiola of his decision. We're probably better off now. if he feels he can't hack the grind of playing Premiership football at his age, then good. This is a pipe and slippers job. Retirement in Le Ligue
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Thought it was only Brazi
mattyb said:
Red or brown?
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Ha Ha don't use sauce myself.
 
The disappointing thing is we let all our full backs go before having any in the bag.

We have no full backs and this was the absolute priority last summer, never mind this.

Hopefully it will get sorted soon but we need 4!!!
 
I'm not that worried about alves per se, but he was quality signing on free and this might screw up some of our other target as we'll probably have to pay lot of money for some other RB. He could of have been something like Ibrahimovic was for rags, quality free signing for year or two.

I'd be pretty angry on txiki and his stuff if they had opprtunity to sort this one but thought it's all done.

Well, Qatar vs UAE 1:0. Let's draw that up with Mbappe :P
 
Salfordian Blue said:
Best right back in the Champion's League last year.
Knows how to work with Pep, and is a perfect fit for his system.
This stings, but resorting to "well, he was shit anyway" is stooping to rag levels.
We just have to put up with a bit of piss taking and then learn from this shit.
A gentlemen's agreement doesn't count for wank. From now on, we don't do that.
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Putting up with pisstaking is part of our syche fella..

tis but a passing distraction.
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
The disappointing thing is we let all our full backs go before having any in the bag.

We have no full backs and this was the absolute priority last summer, never mind this.

Hopefully it will get sorted soon but we need 4!!!
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I hope letting the fullbacks go doesn't turn out to be a really dumb decision.
 
geoff clipp said:
I think this all sounds a little bit hysterical tbh. I would be surprised if our entire spending plans for the much needed revamp of our entire defence hinged on a verbal agreement with a 34 year old we were hoping to sign as back up on a free.
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But it was a back up and he was free

Now we have to go out and spend money on someone who is willing to play back-up whilst being good enough when called upon...I mean Walker isn't guaranteed anyway.. We have 0 right-backs and 1 left-back who is potentially on his way out.
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
The disappointing thing is we let all our full backs go before having any in the bag.

We have no full backs and this was the absolute priority last summer, never mind this.

Hopefully it will get sorted soon but we need 4!!!
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I really don't see us getting 4 done. I can see the realistic situation where we sign Walker and Mendy but their back ups are Kolarov and Dinho.
 
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