De Bruyne?

RichardDunneOwnGoal said:
They're missing the point.

It isn't about appeasing whining blues on the Internet, it's about being hard nosed negotiators and ultimately being prepared to walk away from a deal.

When we were the only club at the table for Sterling, and we held all the cards (Sterling's relationship with Liverpool and their fans was at an all time low, wanted out, contract two years remaining and refused to renew), and we still paid their inflated asking price after more than a month of posturing - that made us look a soft touch.

That set a precedent that Wolfsburg took obvious notice of, and can now be evidenced by them moving the goalposts with an asking price. The thing that really hurt us with the Sterling negotiations was the reported 'take it or leave it' bidwhich was followed up with two increased bids after a fortnight of no movement after Liverpool rejected it outright.

We showed that we can be brought back to the table, and can be squeezed for all we're worth.

Now I don't care about how much we pay at the end of the day, but I do care that how much we pay can effect our ability to acquire other targets because other clubs will then see us as a soft touch and our budget won't accomodate buying clubs' demands.

I'd like to see us utilise the darker arts that the likes of Real and Barca do in forcing a buying club to part with a prized player.

I'm delighted we signed Sterling, my initial post was just expressing scepticism about Txiki's work on these deals, for which I've since come in for a lot of flak.

Coupled with us being taken over a barrel with Jovetic and Dzeko, then I think it's fair to express criticism.

We're all speculating, none of us are privy to all the facts and the negotiations, my I've given my reasons for the scepticism. I'd welcome a discussion rather than personal attacks from other blues and mods.
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Are you advocating the fuck you and walk way approach ?
 
RichardDunneOwnGoal said:
They're missing the point.

It isn't about appeasing whining blues on the Internet, it's about being hard nosed negotiators and ultimately being prepared to walk away from a deal.

When we were the only club at the table for Sterling, and we held all the cards (Sterling's relationship with Liverpool and their fans was at an all time low, wanted out, contract two years remaining and refused to renew), and we still paid their inflated asking price after more than a month of posturing - that made us look a soft touch.

That set a precedent that Wolfsburg took obvious notice of, and can now be evidenced by them moving the goalposts with an asking price. The thing that really hurt us with the Sterling negotiations was the reported 'take it or leave it' bid which was followed up with two increased bids after a fortnight of no movement after Liverpool rejected it outright.

We showed that we can be brought back to the table, and can be squeezed for all we're worth.

Now I don't care about how much we pay at the end of the day, but I do care that how much we pay can effect our ability to acquire other targets because other clubs will then see us as a soft touch and our budget won't accomodate buying clubs' demands.

I'd like to see us utilise the darker arts that the likes of Real and Barca do in forcing a buying club to part with a prized player.

I'm delighted we signed Sterling, my initial post was just expressing scepticism about Txiki's work on these deals, for which I've since come in for a lot of flak.

Coupled with us being taken over a barrel with Jovetic and Dzeko, then I think it's fair to express criticism.

We're all speculating, none of us are privy to all the facts and the negotiations, I've given my reasons for the scepticism. I'd welcome a discussion rather than personal attacks from other blues and mods.
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Well considering that, you really seem to have a downer on our club.
 
u2fme2 said:
Time for city to move on from this transfer.
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Why on earth would you think that?
You honestly think that all the groundwork that's been put in so far will just be fucked off and we'll walk away?
Get a grip.
The end result of this transfer will see us having the best front four in the country and up with the best in Europe. Just because it's not being done at the speed the bluemoon soft arses want it done isn't reason to walk away.
This place has some proper weirdos when it comes to City. Stick to football manager.
 
doctor whites said:
He could actually wave his loyalty bonus and contribute to this move if he really wanted to as fernandinho did
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In retrospect, could you blame him for doing whatever he could to get out of Ukraine? Also he was on the outside looking in for the Brazil NT ahead of the World Cup(in Brazil) and told he needed to be at a higher profile club to get a look in. KDB is firmly in the Belgian squad and one of the best players for club and country while at Wolfsburg.
 
so some may think that some others need a
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but I refer you to the earlier post we nobody except the Supremely ITK's actually know the score

so I will attempt to provide light relief with appropriate and measured GIF's on this thread this evening - its either that or boil my head since my 'brownie points' are heavily minus after sinking over 30 pints in the last 8 days...
 
80s Shorts said:
Well considering that, you really seem to have a downer on our club.
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Default response that on here isn't it?

Got a downer on our club

Rag

Flapper

Negativity

There are some blues on here who are genuinely negative regardless, and those who are genuinely positive regardless - the forum's pendulum.

I don't think I belong to either group, I'm just giving it how I see it.

I was in the away end at the Hawthorns on Monday night, serenading David and co, had a quality time, so I certainly don't have a fucking 'downer on our club'.
 
MillionDollarDream said:
In retrospect, could you blame him for doing whatever he could to get out of Ukraine? Also he was on the outside looking in for the Brazil NT ahead of the World Cup(in Brazil) and told he needed to be at a higher profile club to get a look in. KDB is firmly in the Belgian squad and one of the best players for club and country while at Wolfsburg.
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Agree mate it was just an observation
 
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