De Bruyne?

[Rammyblues]

Seems to be flavour of the month, Rags playing hardball over De Gea, Liverpool being pedantic over Sterling now this tosser up to the same tricks. If they don't want to sell just tell everyone not for sale as Everton have done with Maureen.

 

[domalino]

Sport Witness has quoted a couple of Belgian papers saying we'll be offering De Bruyne £228k per week on a 6 year contract

Which is absurd and why would Belgian papers be reporting in pounds? Probably €228k...£160k.

 

[George Hannah]

Seems to be flavour of the month, Rags playing hardball over De Gea, Liverpool being pedantic over Sterling now this tosser up to the same tricks. If they don't want to sell just tell everyone not for sale as Everton have done with Maureen.

except that Stones will be sold to the chavs, Martinez has already lined up van Dyck to replace him

 

[Ajm1985]

Which is absurd and why would Belgian papers be reporting in pounds? Probably €228k...£160k.

It was quoted in euros and then changed to pounds.

 

[moomba]

I would imagine much of our negotiations were based around convincing KDB to move to city. Seems to be working out ok, the rest is just games.

 

[domalino]

Seems to be flavour of the month, Rags playing hardball over De Gea, Liverpool being pedantic over Sterling now this tosser up to the same tricks. If they don't want to sell just tell everyone not for sale as Everton have done with Maureen.

I can't really blame Wolfsburg for not wanting to sell and making it as tough as possible. This is their selling Bale/Suarez moment. He is the sole reason they are in the champions league and he's won them 2 trophies in a year - and this is a club who's barely won anything ever.

They know that no matter what we pay, 45m, 50...70m they can't replace De Bruyne. The best they can do is buy a couple of players that might become as good as him one day.

That's why this is dragging out. They're probably hoping to convince KDB to stay.

But I very much doubt they will, so they'll cave in eventually. Might be in a day, might be in a week.

 

[gio's side step]

Words fail me!

This ultimately is a question of faith. Good vs bad. And I've seen some horrendous examples on this forum over the years of absolute bad faith. Total self deceptive nonsense. Equally, I've seen some wonderfully articulated logical posts based on sound reason.

We can only judge once the window is shut. I don't think its is ludicrous for people to pose questions about a transfer strategy as it unfolds whether this be timing, the targets themselves, positions, fee's, negotiating details emerging (issues of image rights etc), nor do I think its ludicrous for people to say 'hang on a minute - the window closes when it closes, lets see whether our targets are in place come the end of the window before over simplifying Txiki as a catastrophic failure'.

But make no mistake - if we landed all three (add four if you want to classify Delph as a 'top' target although I wouldn't personally) top targets - it has been a phenomenal window and Txiki will come out of this with his reputation further enhanced (in terms of the recruitment aspect of his role)

However, if we only land Sterling as one of three top targets (again plus Delph) - then this is short of what I and I suspect hundreds on here believe Khaldoon referred to in his post season interview and what is perfectly logical to assume would be again far short at CL knock out stage level with this squad.

The debate will then continue.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Some right self-entitled and naïve comments made on here. Its as if people here really have a valid view on how to conduct such transactions and if they have a right or even any capability to judge the and critique our management

Not heard any of that before.

So only comment on your own profession is that it? I take it you're a transfer negotiator, seeing as you're qualified to formulate your view.

Incidentally, although my view is clearly not valid according to your rules, in this window Txiki and others are doing an extremely good job, however others are entitled to their opinion if it differs from yours.
I also think you'd be surprised what incredibly professional and involved occupations people have on here before you intimate they're hicks incapable of forming an opinion.

I got less angry as I wrote this - just don't like the put downs and high handed suppression of genuinely held views.

 

[This and only this]

I can't really blame Wolfsburg for not wanting to sell and making it as tough as possible. This is their selling Bale/Suarez moment. He is the sole reason they are in the champions league and he's won them 2 trophies in a year - and this is a club who's barely won anything ever.

They know that no matter what we pay, 45m, 50...70m they can't replace De Bruyne. The best they can do is buy a couple of players that might become as good as him one day.

That's why this is dragging out. They're probably hoping to convince KDB to stay.

But I very much doubt they will, so they'll cave in eventually. Might be in a day, might be in a week.

this

 

[Stephenhakin]

I can't really blame Wolfsburg for not wanting to sell and making it as tough as possible. This is their selling Bale/Suarez moment. He is the sole reason they are in the champions league and he's won them 2 trophies in a year - and this is a club who's barely won anything ever.

They know that no matter what we pay, 45m, 50...70m they can't replace De Bruyne. The best they can do is buy a couple of players that might become as good as him one day.

That's why this is dragging out. They're probably hoping to convince KDB to stay.

But I very much doubt they will, so they'll cave in eventually. Might be in a day, might be in a week.

This.