uwe rosler 28
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Agree with most of the above central midfield is a priority not wide attacking players pogba first then de bryune if we can shift nasri/navas
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De Bruyne?
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uwe rosler 28
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Kelechi is under 21 so doesnt take up a foreign player spot
He does in cl as he ain't been here for 2 years
ADegenerate
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I think that's true but if Pogba was coming I 'd expect one of Nasri, Fernando or Navas to make room.
<Insert intense anti-navas rant>
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Kelechi is under 21 so doesnt take up a foreign player spot
thanks bluegray....there is a thread in the BM forum on HG players etc.....been trying to get my head round why we need to sell/loan out anymore players before we can bring in De Bruyne...
Neville Kneville
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We don't have to, but we may prefer to.thanks bluegray....there is a thread in the BM forum on HG players etc.....been trying to get my head round why we need to sell/loan out anymore players before we can bring in De Bruyne...
uwe rosler 28
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We don't have to, but we may prefer to.
To be fair there is other options like leaving a foreigner out of the champs lge squad like fernando, navas, nasri, nacho we could even have an injury that takes care of it! But I think they don't want an unhappy player in the group at all this season!
Neville Kneville
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To be fair there is other options like leaving a foreigner out of the champs lge squad like fernando, navas, nasri, nacho we could even have an injury that takes care of it! But I think they don't want an unhappy player in the group at all this season!
If we do sign DeBruyne, it doesn't make sense having both of Nasri & Navas to me & I would expect one or both to be less than delighted. But then if we move Dzeko out, there is no law says we can't use them, so we may just put up with any potential sulk, & move them on next season/January.
Nasri to Juve would make perfect sense for both sides but perhaps wages would be a problem.
Tbh I don't post much in the transfer forum. I'm more of a lurker. However, I've just read Wolfsburg will let City talk to De Bruyne if City offer/meet his £50mill buyout clause. Like many reports/stories in the footballing press, that could be a load of........, but let's go with it on this occasion.
My questions are these, amongst many.
A. Is De Bruyne the type and quality of player who will take the team(and the club) to the next level, where both can compete for the PL title and the CL trophy on a continual basis for years to come?
B. At £50mill-€70mill, is De Bruyne worth that much money considering his professional career so far, which amounts to 1 good season in the Bundesliga(I stand corrected on that), his future potential, his age, etc?
PS. I'm not flapping. :-)
A - definitely. He would be one of our best players as soon as he arrived. One of the best attacking midfielders in Europe - as shown by the fact he set a new record for assists last year in the Bundesliga, despite having to supply 2 awful strikers. And he's young as well, so the "years to come" bit should be taken care of.
B - I swing both ways on this. Sometimes I think £50m is a bit too much, but then I think of players like Bale going for almost double that at the same age - and there really isn't that much difference between de Bruyne's last season and Bales last season at Spurs. Certainly not in terms of his influence on the league and team.
He has only had 1 season at that world class level, but the season before when he was on loan, he was still very good - good enough to improve us. It's clear he made a big step up last season, but it's not a flash in the pan. And like with Sterling, I suppose you pay extra for potential as well. He could possibly go on to be even better - especially with the likes of Aguero, Sterling and Silva alongside him instead of Bendtner, Bas Dost and Perisic. It's not ridiculous to say he could be on the shortlist for Ballon d'Or - after all he was voted as Bundesliga POTY ahead of the likes of Muller, Ribery and Robben, who have all been there before.
As for winning titles, Sterling-Silva-De Bruyne behind Aguero would be the kind of attack that wins Champions Leagues. It would be one of the best, second only to Barcelona as far as I'm concerned.
uwe rosler 28
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If we do sign DeBruyne, it doesn't make sense having both of Nasri & Navas to me & I would expect one or both to be less than delighted. But then if we move Dzeko out, there is no law says we can't use them, so we may just put up with any potential sulk, & move them on next season/January.
Nasri to Juve would make perfect sense for both sides but perhaps wages would be a problem.
Not as much as you would think due to most being bonus related now!
So would you be happy to go the whole hogg with just those 4 as natural central midfielders?
I'd be ok with Delph, Fernandinho, Yaya, Fernando and Zuculini as our central midfield options if we can't bring in Pogba. Fernando is injury free, and like Zuculini he's looking twice the player he was last season. If we can't get Pogba there's room for Zuculini in the squad and he looks more and more like a good player who got sent on a bad loan, than a bad player who deceived us all last summer on tour. 4-3-3 will rejuvenate Yaya as well, like we saw in the 6 game end of season winning streak where we played Lampard-Yaya-Fernandinho.
I'd like pogba, but our current midfield will not stop us from challenging for titles.
Not as much as you would think due to most being bonus related now!
The problem with that is bonuses still count. If his base pay of £Y is fairly small, but he's accustomed to taking home £X every week because he usually fulfils our easy to reach bonuses, he's going to demand £X/week from Juve, not £Y