Eliaquim Mangala

[kun]

If he doesn't fancy WBA i can't see him fancying Palace, despite having some very decent players and nowhere near the worst team in the league they'll be in big trouble this year. Plus if Mangala goes it all but confirms the nightmare scenario of us actually signing Jonny fucking Evans. Sign Sanchez, Arsenal bring in Evans, we keep Mangala and we sign a left back out of nowhere. That's the ideal deadline day for us.

West Bromwich or London?

 

[venom99]

 

[SWP's back]

"finished article"
Ederson, 23
Mendy, 22
Bernardo, 22
Stones, 21
Sane, 20
G.Jesus, 19

Pep is a great coach but Mangala is unworkable and he certainly did look out of place in preseason.

Stop worrying about money. Oxlade Chamberlain with 1 yr on his contract just went for £40m. Coutinho is going for £120+m

Exactly. His post was a load of bollocks.

 

[nmc]

I'm just starting the car. I can run him down to S London this morning.

 

[cibaman]

I literally can't believe we are contemplating shipping him out and then buying Evans. If Pep is such a great coach, coach him to be a decent fill-in! He played him all pre-season and he didn't look out of place. Yes, he doesn't have world class touch and will never be mistaken for David Silva, but the notion that even a back-up defender has to have world class touch is ridiculous.

City are literally spending hundreds of millions shuffling players through the squad because Pep wants every single player to be the finished article when they show up. He appears to believe his job is just showing them how to enact his tactics. Seriously, the money being spent at this point is obscene!

Sanchez and Evans for £100M on deadline day? Absolute bollocks and only plays into the hands of fans complaining they are being priced out by £50 for a ticket!

I don't think you should take too much from his pre season form. None of of our pre season opponents will have identified him as a weak link in our defence and formulated a game plan to put him under pressure. Its all been very low intensity stuff. Pre season doesn't really test his confidence, or lack of.

 

[Jacob Smith]

Take it!

 

[hihosilva]

Do it Do it

 

[Hungarian blue]

Can't believe it's true, but one can hope.

 

[The blue phantom]

Can't believe it's true, but one can hope.

Think he's still holding out for a loan deal to Milan. Seems to be the in thing to do and its costing us big money. No transfer fees.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Managala does well against the target man, Costa, Lukaku, Carrol etc and I would prefer him as our plan B in defence

But £23m take it all day long