birchwoodgingerste
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Declan Rice
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Very true, I used to watch transfer odds thinking somehow they knew, but are team would be very different given how some of them where at any point.Not sure that's true, odds change on bets more than anything else. Rumors can change odds significantly regardless of how true or false they are.
Either we are letting ourselves be used to up Arsenals offer or we have received information he wants to join.
Time will tell, but I think we are in control of the situation one way or the other.
I don’t think we’re scrambling around trying to get him to change his mind
Fair point, still think it’s wrong that we weren’t even in for him though.Not sure that's true, odds change on bets more than anything else. Rumors can change odds significantly regardless of how true or false they are.
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If Rice wants Arsenal then I wonder if we could tempt Brighton with any of our players to get Caicedo?
I’m pretty relaxed about this tbh. Will be chuffed if we get him, but not gutted if we don’t either. As City fans we should know by now to trust the process. If it’s not Rice, it’ll be someone else similarly good. They don’t get many transfers wrong.
I’m in the same boat.
Happy if we get him, happy if we get someone else.
Absolute Worst case scenario and we miss out on all our targets, I would still trust Pep to do just fine with Perrone and McAtee etc.
If Rice wants Arsenal then I wonder if we could tempt Brighton with any of our players to get Caicedo?
To short we go for tall players now
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Stepping back for a second.
I haven't seen enough of Rice to have an informed opinion, except when he's played against us (that skews it, because few people look impressive playing against the best club side in the world).
I do know this, though. Just over ten years ago, we had become champions of England. It was not the first time, but it hadn't happened for a very, very long time. That summer, Robin van Persie chose to go to United. He had just been elected PFA Player of the Year. The most promising young prospect, arguably, in Europe, Eden Hazard, chose to join Chelsea. I don't remember if we were ever even in the conversation for those players, but my vague feeling is we weren't. Instead we carried out a recruitment that summer that nobody needs reminding about. To say it was underwhelming is to laughably understate the case. It was as if we accepted our status as “new” boys on the block.
Eleven years on, and everything has changed, out of all recognition. I never for once second thought we were just going to go away — the people running us plan for decades ahead, apparently — but I also did not begin to imagine what we would achieve in the intervening eleven years.
We are not the new boys on the block. We are second to none. In Europe. Perhaps in the world (we'll see, when we take part in that cup that I, personally, have very little interest in). Over the last six years, we've moved into a different zone, and what's happened in the last three months is merely the culmination of that, indeed of everything that's happened since 2008. If a player has to be persuaded to come to us — if we are his second choice, because his first choice won't pay a certain sum of money — I don't care who he is. He could be prime Maradona in person.
I genuinely don't care. I say, move on to our next target without looking back.
I haven't seen enough of Rice to have an informed opinion, except when he's played against us (that skews it, because few people look impressive playing against the best club side in the world).
I do know this, though. Just over ten years ago, we had become champions of England. It was not the first time, but it hadn't happened for a very, very long time. That summer, Robin van Persie chose to go to United. He had just been elected PFA Player of the Year. The most promising young prospect, arguably, in Europe, Eden Hazard, chose to join Chelsea. I don't remember if we were ever even in the conversation for those players, but my vague feeling is we weren't. Instead we carried out a recruitment that summer that nobody needs reminding about. To say it was underwhelming is to laughably understate the case. It was as if we accepted our status as “new” boys on the block.
Eleven years on, and everything has changed, out of all recognition. I never for once second thought we were just going to go away — the people running us plan for decades ahead, apparently — but I also did not begin to imagine what we would achieve in the intervening eleven years.
We are not the new boys on the block. We are second to none. In Europe. Perhaps in the world (we'll see, when we take part in that cup that I, personally, have very little interest in). Over the last six years, we've moved into a different zone, and what's happened in the last three months is merely the culmination of that, indeed of everything that's happened since 2008. If a player has to be persuaded to come to us — if we are his second choice, because his first choice won't pay a certain sum of money — I don't care who he is. He could be prime Maradona in person.
I genuinely don't care. I say, move on to our next target without looking back.
SK14BLUE
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ExactlyOr maybe we wait and see if he comes.still early days
Brightwell Bros.
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Think it's very easy as a City fan these days to just trust the process. Dias over Kalidou Koulibaly or Jose Gimenez. Haaland after Kane. Who, including Pep, would change that now? Whether it's late in the window or a season where some players have to adapt to a midfield role and we maybe aren't at full pelt I think everyone can survive.Absolute Worst case scenario and we miss out on all our targets, I would still trust Pep to do just fine with Perrone and McAtee etc.
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