berniethebusman said:What's so bad about selling to a rival? especially when its done to strengthen and in knowledge said player isn't all that. You wouldn't sell kolarov/garcia to Chelsea either?
JoeMercer'sWay said:berniethebusman said:What's so bad about selling to a rival? especially when its done to strengthen and in knowledge said player isn't all that. You wouldn't sell kolarov/garcia to Chelsea either?
Dzeko is a proven goalscorer, especially in the right team and therefore has far more potential to make a big impact elsewhere.
berniethebusman said:JoeMercer'sWay said:berniethebusman said:What's so bad about selling to a rival? especially when its done to strengthen and in knowledge said player isn't all that. You wouldn't sell kolarov/garcia to Chelsea either?
Dzeko is a proven goalscorer, especially in the right team and therefore has far more potential to make a big impact elsewhere.
You think he'd severely outscore ba or torres? You think he brings more to the table than either of them? I honestly don't, so in my eyes It's a no brainer. At the end of the day It's all hypothetical & very unlikely so on other matters navas yesterday fernandinho today who you suppose we get tomorrow evening? :)
sam-caddick said:Summerbuzz said:Intriguing story. Did someone suggest Chelsea might be playing games, using Dzeko as a stalking horse for Cavani? Doesn't make sense to me - you can only play that game when you are clearly ahead in the bidding. Because we are presumably equal in the running, I read it the other way around - Napoli want Dzeko and we drop this story to give them the hurry up.
Cos I just don't believe it. Special Man uses lone strikers in a specific way - Drog was charged with keeping all four defenders busy. Benzema is an accomplished link player who made space for Ronaldo, Ozil, etc. Dzeko has shown precious little ability at either task, in this league, anyway. It's just too hectic, too much pressure, you can't learn how to hold the ball up this late in life, against defenders who have been nudging the striker on those long balls, since they were five. He would thrive in Italy, however, where defences hold their shape more. and he would be THE main man at Napoli, which is his psychological niche.
This. I think Chelsea are playing our bluff and City need to ignore it, does anybody think we would sell to a rival? I don't.
jauganaut said:JoeMercer'sWay said:would be silly to sell to a rival.
Yes. How the hell do you sell a 27 million pound player to a Rival?
Imagine if we had sold Robinho to United or Chelsea, how about Balotelli?
I'm not saying don't sell. I'm just saying don't sell to Chelsea or Nited.
I'll be happy to bet that this will never happen.
jauganaut said:JoeMercer'sWay said:would be silly to sell to a rival.
Yes. How the hell do you sell a 27 million pound player to a Rival?
Imagine if we had sold Robinho to United or Chelsea, how about Balotelli?
I'm not saying don't sell. I'm just saying don't sell to Chelsea or Nited.
I'll be happy to bet that this will never happen.
Finally someone with some sense. He's turned into the worlds greatest striker overnight. Have people just forgot about that spurs game where he was an absolute disgrace. He doesn't care about city no more.taconinja said:It's interesting in every conversation about Dzeko, it always devolves into his fans doing their best to imply without outright stating two things. First, that Mancini was some sort of maniac for resting him for one game in the middle of multiple international and league fixtures. God help someone so fragile if he's put in a Mourinho squad. Second, that he dragged us to second place despite a maniac of a manager along with a general sentiment that several squad players have a personal vendetta against him, which in reality it's likely that they didn't trust his inconsistent first touch.
Let's just say I disagree with the assessment that the only reason we finished second was through the Herculean efforts of Dzeko.
scarty10 said:Love the way everyone slaughters Dzeko for playing awful and not even trying towards the end of the season, scream out for us to buy Cavani in place of him...
.....then five minutes later, Chelsea want Dzeko and all of a sudden we'd be mad to sell him to them!!
Is he gonna play much for us? Probably not.
Is he on 150k odd a week? For sure.
Can we really have a strikeforce consisting of Cavani, Dzeko, Aguero and Tevez? No chance.
Something has to give? You bet.
Would we get decent money from Chelsea? I expect so.
Sometimes you have to take a punt. He might do well there, he might not. But I doubt very much he is going to play for us much, so we can't just hoard players for the sake of it, just to stop other teams getting them.