De Bruyne?

Neville Kneville said:
Well City won't agree to it, so if he requires it, he will ask, City will say no, & he won't sign.

but he won't ask, because Mourinho is full of shit. He probably just asked for assurances he would get a decent chance, & Mourinho behaved in his usual obnoxious way.
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Yea I expect a lot of it is just Mourinho trying to save face as people will start asking why Mourinho let him go when we're buying him for 40 plus million a couple of years later. The likelihood is we'll have an extremely motivated player in our team come that Chelsea home game, never know it could be the difference
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
Yea I expect a lot of it is just Mourinho trying to save face as people will start asking why Mourinho let him go when we're buying him for 40 plus million a couple of years later. The likelihood is we'll have an extremely motivated player in our team come that Chelsea home game, never know it could be the difference
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Well if it was the other way around, & us who had released the player, we would be pretty concerned about it, that's for sure.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Well if it was the other way around, & us who had released the player, we would be pretty concerned about it, that's for sure.
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Only if he went on to be better than what we already had I think. I'm sure our academy will create some top class players that never actually play or only play a few games for us. But if we let a player go that goes on to be someone we would actually love in our team then no doubt we will rue that.
 
Dax777 said:
A lot of City fans are not used to buying starters to replace Backups. This exactly how you strengthen a team.

I wguned about it last summer, that we were buying Backups to replace other Backups. Thus, not strengthening the first 11. Now we are replacing starters and turning those old starters in to the new Backups, and getting rid of the inferior Backups. That's what winning teams do.

This may very well be our best summer ever period.

I haven't had a single complaint :)

Had we not even gotten any of the targets, I'd have been fine. Coz we went in for them.

Sterling, Pogba, De Bryune. We've been in for all 3. This is how ambitious teams operate.

I mean check the history the guys we are after:

Best young player in England: check
Best young player in Europe: check
Best creator in Europe last year: check
Best English player outside the top 4: check

Sure we can argue over who is or isn't overrated. And frankly they all could be overrated. But you'd be silly to conclude they are all below average overpriced chumps.

It is not so much about any individual we've acquired, but rather the collective. So I'm not gonna get bugged down anymore in the minutiae of 'his he better than Hazard or Nasri or Lopez?" As the real answer is that City will be better when they add Sterling, Debruyne and Pogba to the squad, than they've ever been before in their history.

Yeah go ahead, ponder that for a second. If we pull these deals all off, we will be on the verge of witnessing the best City team EVER.

So rather than all this flapping, some of you might want to get your video cams up and ready. Coz you'd want your kid's kids to know you witnessed this.

We are about to go digital nuclear, and some are busy making analog complaints. Shhsh!
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I like you
 
johnmc said:
Only if he went on to be better than what we already had I think. I'm sure our academy will create some top class players that never actually play or only play a few games for us. But if we let a player go that goes on to be someone we would actually love in our team then no doubt we will rue that.
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Well if you look at DeBruyne's contribution for last season, there's a strong case for arguing he is better than what they had, barring Hazard. And he's very close indeed to Hazard in contribution. Certainly leaves Oscar, Willian & Cudrado for dead, & possibly Fabregas too.

I doubt Chelsea feel very comfortable about this at all. Good ;-)
 
Blue warrior said:
Maureen quoted in tomorrow's papers on why he left chelsea. Basically wanted guaranteed starts didn't train very well and didn't have the mentality to fight for a place. Goes onto say chelsea got a good deal for him buying him cheap and selling high. Wishes him well and says Wolfsburg can now make a good deal.
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Moaninho should fook off and diemichelis
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Daniel Sturridge is probably the closest we've got. Did Liverpool pay £18m or so, and we got about £6m?

It happens to all clubs.
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It does but tbf not usually as blatantly as the way Chelsea booted DeBruyne. He didn't even get chance to fail there.

And usually, when these characters come back, if they are any good, you absolutely expect them to score or at least do something you're not going to enjoy very much.

Chelsea will not enjoy this if it happens & will be praying for a bad start, just like those plastic scousers booing Sterling before he stuck that goal away ;-)
 
johnmc said:
Indeed. We have been relatively clean on that side of things since Mancini left. I'm confident that a lot of homework is done players characters off the field. Thing is a twat on the pitch isn't always a bad thing if they don't bring the club onto the front page. Sometimes I think we need a bit of twat. If you get what I mean.
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A twat on the pitch is fine, a twat in the changing room is a liability.
 
kun said:
I reckon it'll happen with Denis Suarez soon enough
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Tbh if Suarez becomes a top player I'll be delighted, as we have an absolute squadron of kids at the academy now who are way way better than he was at the same age. So if he does it, they can.

Devante Cole is more of a worry to me. Goalscorer. They do shit like knocking you out of cups etc.
 
Mourinho: De Bruyne's mentality too weak for Chelsea

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...ource=TW&utm_medium=en_gb&utm_campaign=MouKDB

The Belgian is a target for Manchester City, with the Premier League runners-up reportedly planning a £50 million bid, but the Portuguese was not impressed by the player's desire

Jose Mourinhosays he soldKevin De Bruynebecause the midfielder's mentality was not strong enough to play forChelsea.

The Belgian,who is a target for Manchester City and could be the subject of a £50 million bid from Manuel Pellegrini, left for Wolfsburg in January 2014 in an £18m deal after struggling for game time.

De Bruyne has gone on to excel in the Bundesliga, notching a record-equalling 20 assists last season to attract the interest of City - a potential move Mourinho insists he would hold no regret over.

"I am happy for him, because he is a good kid," he told reporters. "I wanted to keep him. But he couldn't handle fighting for his place in such a competitive squad.

"He told me it was not in his personality to be competing for a position in the team. He needed a team where he knows he can play every game."

Mourinho says the increased competition for places at Chelsea was not to De Bruyne's liking despite City boasting similar strength in depth with the likes of David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Jesus Navas.

He continued: "I told him, 'This is Chelsea. You are very young, you have Eden Hazard, you have Mata, you have Willian, you have Schurrle, and I cannot promise you that.'

"He told me he was not happy. He was not training very well, I was asking for more and he was saying, 'I can't give you more. This is just my way'.

"So yes. I accept that if this his mentality and that if it is his choice to go, it is better for Chelsea to make a good deal.

"We sold him, made our money and it was fantastic because we bought him cheap and sold him for a fantastic price. Now Wolfsburg, if they make a fantastic deal, that is good for them."
 
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