De Bruyne?

TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
Neville........just been reading "SWP's back" comments.....and they make alot of sense....would seem that Wolfsburg dont want to have to pay De Bruyne loyalty bonuses which is why they dont seem to want to drop below the 57mil asking.......if they didnt have the loyalty payment I would guess that the 50mil would have been agreed by now.....I guess Wolfsburg dont want to hand out millions in loyalty payment to De Bruyne and De Bruyne doesnt want to push to hard and miss out on that payment.....so might mean we fit the bill if this deal is going to be done.....I think its just frustrating when a player like Otamendi asks to be left out of the team to push his way out (even risking millions in loyalty payments) but De Bruyne would be "happy" to not push the deal and stay in Wolfsburg instead of missing out on a loyalty payment....I'm sure we would make sure the kid wasnt out of pocket if he did show support by putting in a transfer request!;)
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A transfer request is entirely different than him telling them in private,he would like to sign for City if possible. Leaves on better terms with the fans for a start, irrespective of the financial situation.
 
Neville Kneville said:
A transfer request is entirely different than him telling them in private,he would like to sign for City if possible. Leaves on better terms with the fans for a start, irrespective of the financial situation.
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I agree mate....but also think it would show his support and hunger to join us and would gain him alot of respect with his new set of fans!;)
 
RichardDunneOwnGoal said:
Said this would happen after Sterling. Showed ourselves weak in negotiations for a player who desperately wanted out, relationship with his club collapsed, who wanted to come here, and we were the only club at the table - yet we still paid the overinflated asking priced after a month of posturing and a couple of 'take it or leave it' bids.

Wolfsburg obviously paid heed to that, and are now putting into practice the lessons learned. Which means we pay over the odds once more after weeks of acrimonious negotiations over a fee.

We still pay well over the odds for players, and we still get taken over a barrel selling players; Jovetic, Dzeko et al.

We put all our eggs in the Pogba basket, and now we look set to fail to adequately strengthen a key area of the side earmarked 6 months ago.

People can say what they like about any perceived 'negativity', but I'm not convinced by Txiki's work as DoF.
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That's a derogatory statement to our great club
 
Players rarely actually commit to the transfer request - look at the Sterling situation. That was properly poisonous and even then he didn't actually officially request a transfer. De Bruyne isn't going to, cos he doesn't need to.
 
Healdplace said:
Maybe KDB genuinely wants to respect the team and their fans by not demanding to leave. If that were Aguero and Real Madrid were calling you would rightly respect him for declining to put in a transfer request. It might not be greed over money at all but appreciation for how they helped him turn his career around.
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Excellent post mate. We are on the verge of signing a quality player with the class of Serg and Merlin.
 
SWP's back said:
If he buys two of the best young players in Europe, from rich clubs that don't wish to sell their best player, there should be a statue of Txiki outside the Etihad.

There is a reason we are the only club bidding for KDB and the only team that bid for Sterling. Txiki did his work on both players six months ago and when the players were sounded out by other clubs, they were told not to bother.

If I fail to convince you, there's not much else I can say really.
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We fundamentally disagree here then mate.

Both of those players would represent great additions of course, but is it really an enormous achievement to land them when we're literally the only club at the table for both at the fees being mooted?

Should be more or less a given. We're no tinpot outfit, and we pay good wages.

"There is a reason we are the only club bidding for KDB and the only team that bid for Sterling. Txiki did his work on both players six months ago and when the players were sounded out by other clubs, they were told not to bother."

Not sure that's a fair representation of events. The real reason we're the only clubs at the table is because no other club is prepared to meet the kind of figures we're being quoted.

If there is credence to that hypothesis, then that makes it worse, IMO. We've had an agreement in place with De Bruyne for 6 months, but only placed a bid in the opening week of the season and are still haggling over a price with his club in season's second fixture?

We seem to do well at the tapping up, and seemingly have Liverpool and Wolfsburg right where we want them, but still look the weaker party in the negotiations.

Then you have us doing very, very, poorly in respect of sales out, and I think scepticism of Txiki's work should be granted as reasonable IMO.
 
IMO it sounds like de bruyne wants the move and if it came to it (last days of the transfer window) i wouldn't be surprised if he then put in a transfer request or started to be vocal in the press to force the move.

However no doubt he has been told to keep quiet and hopefully the deal can be completed before any of that is necessary, also means that he keeps that loyalty bonus and gets to leave without the sort of reaction that sterling got.
 
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