Douglas Luiz

ninjamonkey said:
No idea. Things change. We aren't in the same situation now as we were in last summer. The need for reinforcements in that area has drastically increased. He also cost £42m to sign, if we are looking at a loan, even with a substantial loan fee and perhaps even buy clauses inserted, it's a different league to what Juve paid.

I agree he probably operates best as a hybrid than a pure 6 but we are deep in the shit at this point, we find the best option to us, its unlikely to be a perfect fit but we take it, eat the cost get through the season and reassess. Luiz and kovacic is a substantially better duo in midfield on paper than anything else we can put out right now

Doing nothing is the worst thing we can do that's basically the reason why we are in this mess as it is.


You're correct it's an easy link to make for a story but that also doesn't mean it's not valid. Club may well be looking somewhere else but to us on the outside it makes sense, arguably the most sense.

We don't have the luxury of thinking purely long term this window, we screwed ourselves over and now it's firefighting mode. we can potentially find ourselves outside the top 4 for the first time in well over a decade, which will be very damaging, the immediate is more important than the future right now, there has to be an attempt to fix the problems. If we can find an ideal, perfect fix that works now and into the future too then brilliant, if not, we find a temporary fix and Viana has to work a little bit harder to earn his bumper new wages next summer onwards.
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To be honest will Luiz save us? Nah, he’s an 8 and he was at City in 2018 over 7 years ago.
It’s not that great, he knows Pep’s system is a myth, he was here ages ago.
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
Hindsight being wonderful we should probably have brought him back in the summer
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ok back in the summer Juve helped Villa "balanced their book" and offered Luiz & his partner a double transfer. Villa signed two overpriced deals from Juve. City would not do anything doggy with 115 ongoing.
 
Shazza458 said:
To be honest will Luiz save us? Nah, he’s an 8 and he was at City in 2018 over 7 years ago.
It’s not that great, he knows Pep’s system is a myth, he was here ages ago.
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Have you not watched us over the last 2 months? We've been utterly abysmal. Anybody competent, physical and mobile will make a massive difference to us right now.

Can somebody else improve us more? Perhaps, thats on Txiki to work out and get the best he possibly can but if Luiz is that, we would unquestionably be a much better side if hes lining up alongside kovacic in our midfield in a few weeks than whatever side we put out this weekend. What Pep wants from a holding midfielder in general terms hasn't changed, specifics obviously change game to game but he won't need a crash course on the basics, that's a big bonus.
 
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