De Bruyne?

FanchesterCity said:
Just because they are key players in the team doesn't provide evidence of how big a signing they were originally. Robinho was our biggest (in terms of PR) signing at that time, and he didn't work out.
The fact remains, Yaya and Silva are both bigger names in the footballing world since joining City. Yaya was a bit of a coup (although many questioned if he was an overpriced Barca castoff at the time), and Silva was a nice little Spanish player on the fringes of the Spanish team, but possibly too small to make it in the PL (as was the view then).

The pool of players that would improve City of 6 years ago was much larger than the pool of players who can improve us now. The closer you get to the top of the tree, the harder it gets to find even better players, and that is what makes it harder for us.

I also did not say it's any harder for us that other elite teams, I said it's hard for us NOW than it was then. Back then we weren't an elite team. That's why I said we are now competing with a different set of clubs for the calibre of player we would like. Once we start doing very well in Europe, things might get easier, but until then, if we want the world's best players to join us, they need some serious coaxing. We are still a 'project' on the European stage, whereas domestically, we have gone past that stage.

If, as you suggest, things are not harder, but ought to be easier for us, then we do indeed appear to be struggling to improve in a number of positions on the pitch.
This whole subject came about over criticism about how we 'seem' to be failing to land targets when in the past we managed to land them. I don't believe we are failing (we've landed 1 of our 3 obvious big targets with a second one seemingly imminent, and brought in a couple of others too), and I'm arguing are previous targets were from a wider pool of players we might have bought. The pool has severely diminished due to us being a far better team now then we were then.
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give over mate, he had played over 30 times before joining us
 
Forzacitizens said:
Are people seriously suggesting that signing Sterling was difficult?
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I wouldn't say Sterling was difficult no, just a laborious process dealing with Liverpool. But in part that was because Sterling had indicated he wanted to stay in the PL, and we (maybe Arsenal) looked to be the only two interested in him.
Pogba and KdB on the other hand would likely have more suitors.
 
Wolfsburg clearly don't want to sell, can't see Kevin not coming tbh. We've been on the case for a long time now and won't let the little things get in our way.
 
FanchesterCity said:
I wouldn't say Sterling was difficult no, just a laborious process dealing with Liverpool. But in part that was because Sterling had indicated he wanted to stay in the PL, and we (maybe Arsenal) looked to be the only two interested in him.
Pogba and KdB on the other hand would likely have more suitors.
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This time last year, if you had gone on the radio, like Talkshite, & said Sterling would be a City player in 2015, you would have been the biggest clown on the airwaves, & that's some serious competition. 'Not a fucking hope in Hell' would have been the general theme.

If they put it to Liverpool 'legends' they would have laughed their bollocks off. 'Liverpool selling a player who could be the next Ronaldo, & to City ??!!' Maybe when he's 27 if he wants to go to Barca..

Well he's here. Somebody changed all that.
 
has to be one of the mos confusing transfer sagas which will be hopefully ending up with him signing this week
 
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