De Bruyne?

[yankcitizen76]

KDB wants us and we want him. When (if) we get him it will def have made for an interesting transfer window. Seems like Berg. is thinking about next year as much as this one.

 

[City_Sean]

Maybe we have but we have an agreement with wolfsburg that we don't go public with the bid.
Unlike the mickeys with sterling who squealed about us at every opportunity.
I think we've got the ball to roll with de bruyne.

Hope you're right mate. After Jovetic left I thought it'd be a matter of time. The reason people are worried is the season kicks off in 7 days we don't look prepared

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Sounds like he's even doing the negotiating for us now!;)

Bundesliga Spotlight ‏@BundesligaSpot 36m36 minutes ago
Kevin De Bruyne: "I won't force a move. If a club is ready to offer £50m, I'll have to think about it." #WOB #MCFC #FCBayern #PSG

As a certified non-flapper it does start to annoy me sometimes, just sort it out City.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Hope you're right mate. After Jovetic left I thought it'd be a matter of time. The reason people are worried is the season kicks off in 7 days we don't look prepared

Just maybe we are letting wolfsburg find/seal a deal for his replacement! Always thought city live would be an ideal night to announce him!

 

[daztrueblue91]

Have you seen the size of lopes up top after 1 season out on loan! I'd send garcia out and hope he could come back the same lopes is now ready to go in the squad!

That's a valid point about Lopes looking a lot more muscular.

However, I'm not sure Garcia needs to beef up in that way. If you look at a lot of the top Spanish midfielders such as Dave, Xavi, Isco, Busquets and Iniesta, none of them are particularly strong. They just have the technical ability to know how to draw pressure from the opponent into a foul.

I think the lad could play a part this season of coached correctly. He just needs experience.

 

[goalmole]

It's clear KDB wants the move, and it seems he's telling city what they need to do. I can work out why we haven't bid yet, it's getting ridiculous now.

A lot of posters on here should stick to playing Snap and leave the high stakes poker to Txiki.

 

[manimanc]

Hope you're right mate. After Jovetic left I thought it'd be a matter of time. The reason people are worried is the season kicks off in 7 days we don't look prepared

We'll be fine come west Brom.
Pre season is all about getting the fitness levels up.
I'd rather we go into the new season won, lost and drawn games than beating teams 4 and 5-0.
The players will turn it on come the first whistle of the new season and with Sterling up front linking up with merlin already I can only see exciting times ahead.
We got the kids on the fringes, nacho gives us something completely different up front, we got the south Americans to welcome back.
Fuckin bring it on.

 

[DiscoSteve]

In case this hasn't been mentioned that authoritative tome The Sun says that Kevin De Bruyne .... actually that's an oxymoronic statement so I'm gonna say no more

 

[domalino]

We'll be fine come west Brom.
Pre season is all about getting the fitness levels up.
I'd rather we go into the new season won, lost and drawn games than beating teams 4 and 5-0.
The players will turn it on come the first whistle of the new season and with Sterling up front linking up with merlin already I can only see exciting times ahead.
We got the kids on the fringes, nacho gives us something completely different up front, we got the south Americans to welcome back.
Fuckin bring it on.

My only worry is that Pellegrini seems unsure of the midfield. Playing Nasri in the midfield 3 has been a disaster twice and fair enough, pre-season is the time to experiment, but it looks like he is searching for midfield options because we're lacking.

Hopefully he's just looking for a place for Nasri in the new formation, and his hand was forced by injuries. Thinking Evans-Nasri-Silva was going to be OK away from home... I just hope he's got that out of his system.

I will agree that some people are being way too dismissive of Delph, Denayer & Iheanacho. Delph is not an £8m quality player, he'd probably have cost 3x that without the buyout clause. Denayer has shown he's good enough, for Celtic in Europe last season and for Belgium. Iheanacho has had 2 goals and 3 assists, linked up brilliantly wiith Sterling all preseason, and some people are panicking because we've lost Jovetic...

 

[@BluePhil8]

So the club is open to selling and the player is open to moving...

Only City could drag this out by NOT EVEN MAKING A BID. This should be as simple as a transfer gets but it's taken us longer than it did to wrestle Sterling from the scouser's grip.