Since the will be more games played this upcoming season, all I see is a great squad depth. A squad that will challenge in all fronts and try win every available trophy, whilst managing injury prone players and rotating the squad to be forever refreshed ;).KDB ,Foden,Bernie,Grealish, Doku,Alcarez,Haaland ,Kovacic, Nunes, fighting for 5 slots that's before you give minutes to Rico,Oscar and Savio.
I agree the injury record scares me. It did with Doku as well his was as bad if not worse than Olmo. Fingers crossed seem to have been lucky with him. At that release clause we could take the risk again.Him and Pedro Neto are just those talented and technically gifted players that I would like to have in my team but their injury records are just off-putting to such an extent that it would be underwhelming to have them as your players. They are never present/ playing and sadly they are game changers. They are players that can win games with their brilliance when on. Such talent, wasting away on a sickbed is just sad!
But if City can fix him up, wrap him up in a bubble wrap, then we are Gold!
I personally would prefer players that are less injury prone. I Like Olmo as a player, his gifted, his read and influence of the game is spectacular, but knowing that he won't feature much, annoys me. Having a game changer, who is never around, when his brilliance can determine whether we win the final or not is such a disappointment!
Much prefer a muffinSliced bread is overrated to be fair.
A muffin with boiled ham! A proper muffin mind, not one of those overgrown soft flabby rolls.Much prefer a muffin
That's no way to talk about Kalvin Phillips mateA muffin with boiled ham! A proper muffin mind, not one of those overgrown soft flabby rolls.
Agree strange comparison but 31 premier league games last season and 14 goals and 8 assists in last 2 seasons and City looking at extending his contract doesn't really scream promising career going backwardsThis the Mcatee who barely got a game for Sheffield United and who's promising career is going backwards at an alarming rate?
Comparing Mcatee to Danny Olmo is criminal, FFS what are you thinking?
i don’t remember seeing him mention any particular club.@vanchi would know better, but has he expressed an interest in the big Spanish clubs or are we his first choice? Are Rodders and Josko enough of a pull?
That £100m hasn't been a huge success, however to be fair the £90m+ blown on Philips and Nunes is almost criminal. Mind boggling stuff that.If we had sorted Bruno G and Savio and that was that i would have been delighted mate and then react to any other transfers as we went along? We have a reluctance to blow another £100m though on a player even though even have already done it?
Gotta agree but we don't get many wrong ,14m Alverez ,62m Rodri massive bargains.That £100m hasn't been a huge success, however to be fair the £90m+ blown on Philips and Nunes is almost criminal. Mind boggling stuff that.
Ok. So I went back and read lots of the thread, it seems 1 gut thought he was trash, Sempus Aggressors. One guy didn't see the value of getting another slow winger when we needed a fast one. Said poster preferred Doku to Olmo ( I agree by the way). Then a few (2 from my count) said they weren't impressed the once or few times they saw him but trust the club. That's a run of the mill whatever the club doe opinion.
Everyone else, was complaining about his injury record. Generally the thread was full of people who thought he was mint ( especially after watch his Italy game) and his Bayern game.
So, as a general rule the majority, Sempus excluded, worried primarily about his injury record.
That said, those who love him are by a large margin the majority.
There will be several departures in the coming weeks, as soon as the Euros is over the transfer market will kick into life.Looks a talent but unless anybody goes particularly with allegedly Savio coming in we've too many options now.KDB ,Foden,Bernie,Grealish, Doku,Alcarez,Haaland ,Kovacic, Nunes, fighting for 5 slots that's before you give minutes to Rico,Oscar and Savio.
Of course any departures changes the picture but we are desperate for a good enough Rodders assistant who's prepared to play circa 20 games a season.
He should have listened to the club who did not want him to go back to Sheffield but go to Leicester.Agree strange comparison but 31 premier league games last season and 14 goals and 8 assists in last 2 seasons and City looking at extending his contract doesn't really scream promising career going backwards
His close control is David Silva like despite him looking quite gangly. Pep could work his magic with this player.
One thing I would say as a general point is you can’t rate any player if you have only seen him in the latest tournament and you could waste a lot of money doing so…not that clubs do that anymore!
Great player but do we need him? If only we had got Rice instead of Phillips.As a kid I remember Phil
Babb having a great World Cup.
I’m in the undecided camp on this one. Clearly a very talented player but If we had a chance of the two I would be spending the money on Neco Williams personally.
Of course if KDB or Bernardo decided to
move on prioritise might change but I really enjoyed the blueprint this Spain side have shown of how to play and Neco Williams has such a high ceiling, looks unstoppable at times.
Heathen! It’s taken for grant these days.Sliced bread is overrated to be fair.