So if a player leaves between now and September that number can't be taken by someone else? Odd rule.
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So if a player leaves between now and September that number can't be taken by someone else? Odd rule.
andyhinch
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So no news then.
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So if a player leaves between now and September that number can't be taken by someone else? Odd rule.
It's to do with disciplinary issues I think.
It's to do with disciplinary issues I think.
Ah, fair enough. I guess it makes it easier in an administrative sense but I would have thought that the name would take precedence.
Not that I think it would but I hope the number issues has very little impact on resolving this transfer.
Tez Tosterone
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So no news then.
None whatsoever.
One of the tabloid comics today has said we will have to pay £45m to get him. Probably made up on the back of a beermat in a pub late last night by a red nosed retainer.
I think it does matter to an extent. I recognise that your strongest 11 will be different for different teams. But my point is we expect both sterling and de bruyne to be starters. So just wondering where it could be.Shouldn't matter at all how much we paid for a player. We pick the best team to win each game. If that means leaving out DeBruyne or Sterling or even Silva in order to balance the team vs certain opposition, then that's what we should do. We will have the option of actually bringing soneone off the bench, who changes the way the team plays.
If we can fit those three plus Aguero & Yaya in the team & batter people, then of course we do it, but if it's too loose, we rotate them.
We never drop silva to balance the team- what makes you think we will start doing it this season. We will have a preferred 11.
kas_tippler
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Pogba seems to have developed rather nicely since the reds gave him away...
Loads of players have left clubs and matured, remember Shearer playing in net for Newcastle when he was a boy! But that was stupidity to be honest.
HamannCheese
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Official site saying Bony no. 14 for new season. Presume these numbers can still be changed before a certain date?
andyhinch
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NoOfficial site saying Bony no. 14 for new season. Presume these numbers can still be changed before a certain date?
Neville Kneville
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I think it does matter to an extent. I recognise that your strongest 11 will be different for different teams. But my point is we expect both sterling and de bruyne to be starters. So just wondering where it could be.
We never drop silva to balance the team- what makes you think we will start doing it this season. We will have a preferred 11.
If it's possible to play Silva, DeBruyne & Sterling in the same team & we beat everyone, then fine. If it isn't, then we shouldn't do it. Unless that team looks balanced, I wouldn't dream of starting it when we get drawn against Barca or Bayern in the Champions League for instance.
I expect we can play all 4 v Bournmouth etc at home, but I would want to see a solid 3 in midfield vs the best teams, then any 2 of Sterling, DeBruyne Silva, with Aguero or Bony. If all 4 prove they can function in the same team, without us being usess when we lose the ball, then that's a different matter. But I would be surprised if that is the case.