Fernandinho completed, OS confirmed
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BobKowalski
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Re: Fernandinho has medical
Ha I've missed this sort of shit...good to see we are getting up peoples noses all over again
LoveCity said:
Ha I've missed this sort of shit...good to see we are getting up peoples noses all over again
Blue Haze
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Re: Fernandinho has medical
Nothing worse than an 'analyst' with an opinion about City who doesn't watch the games
LoveCity said:
Nothing worse than an 'analyst' with an opinion about City who doesn't watch the games
Re: Fernandinho has medical
Appreciated! Would love him to come as well, but I would be rightfully called spoiled if I started complaining after the start we've made to this window.<br /><br />-- Wed Jun 05, 2013 1:54 pm --<br /><br />Danamy said:
Appears to be a British Chelsea fan.samharris said:
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Re: Fernandinho has medical
A good Manchester City side were swatted aside by Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United in a season in which they'd have expected to come far closer to defending their Premier League title than they actually did.
The club's solution? Wholesale change.
Roberto Mancini was fired. Manuel Pellegrini is reportedly inbound. The managerial switch constitutes an upgrade or, at least, it should -- Mancini's glaring lack of motivational skills looks to be one of the prime factors behind his squad's sharp decline last season -- even though it did not meet with a universally positive response from City fans. But while changing the coaching staff makes sense, the transfer policy that the club has adhered to so far this summer does not.
In has come Spain international Jesus Navas, for the cool sum of €25 million plus wages. Shakhtar Donetsk's Fernandinho is to follow, for somewhere around €30 million (nobody seems to have made up his mind on just how much he costs quite yet). These are big, expensive purchases, and would upgrade most teams in the league. But they don't really make very much sense for City.
Neither Navas -- who can be not incorrectly described as the Spanish equivalent of Aaron Lennon -- nor Fernandinho rank amongst the world's elite players. They're in the second tier of very goodness. In lesser sides they'd be (and are) stars. But at City, a team which intends to compete for domestic and European glory, they are, or should be, part of the supporting cast rather than front-liners.
Although Navas and Fernandinho will help the squad, with Navas serving as the true wide option City have been missing ever since Adam Johnson was found out to be distinctly mediocre and Fernandinho serving as a midfielder who is definitely not Gareth Barry, they're not superstar signings, nor are they youngsters with room to grow (Navas is 27, Fernandinho 28).
These are stop-gaps, players brought in for a few years to shore up the squad rather than taking it to the next level.
For the amount of money that City have thrown at/are throwing at their new acqusitions, they could have signed a superstar player fairly easily. While it's too early to say just how this summer's market will develop, the likes of Eden Hazard, Javi Martinez and Luka Modric were all available last year for not wholly unreasonable prices.
Those are the sorts of names that could catapult City ahead of their competition. The likes of Navas and Fernandinho will merely serve to arrest the club's early decline.
A good Manchester City side were swatted aside by Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United in a season in which they'd have expected to come far closer to defending their Premier League title than they actually did.
The club's solution? Wholesale change.
Roberto Mancini was fired. Manuel Pellegrini is reportedly inbound. The managerial switch constitutes an upgrade or, at least, it should -- Mancini's glaring lack of motivational skills looks to be one of the prime factors behind his squad's sharp decline last season -- even though it did not meet with a universally positive response from City fans. But while changing the coaching staff makes sense, the transfer policy that the club has adhered to so far this summer does not.
In has come Spain international Jesus Navas, for the cool sum of €25 million plus wages. Shakhtar Donetsk's Fernandinho is to follow, for somewhere around €30 million (nobody seems to have made up his mind on just how much he costs quite yet). These are big, expensive purchases, and would upgrade most teams in the league. But they don't really make very much sense for City.
Neither Navas -- who can be not incorrectly described as the Spanish equivalent of Aaron Lennon -- nor Fernandinho rank amongst the world's elite players. They're in the second tier of very goodness. In lesser sides they'd be (and are) stars. But at City, a team which intends to compete for domestic and European glory, they are, or should be, part of the supporting cast rather than front-liners.
Although Navas and Fernandinho will help the squad, with Navas serving as the true wide option City have been missing ever since Adam Johnson was found out to be distinctly mediocre and Fernandinho serving as a midfielder who is definitely not Gareth Barry, they're not superstar signings, nor are they youngsters with room to grow (Navas is 27, Fernandinho 28).
These are stop-gaps, players brought in for a few years to shore up the squad rather than taking it to the next level.
For the amount of money that City have thrown at/are throwing at their new acqusitions, they could have signed a superstar player fairly easily. While it's too early to say just how this summer's market will develop, the likes of Eden Hazard, Javi Martinez and Luka Modric were all available last year for not wholly unreasonable prices.
Those are the sorts of names that could catapult City ahead of their competition. The likes of Navas and Fernandinho will merely serve to arrest the club's early decline.
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Re: Fernandinho has medical
You've been on here two and a half years now. Never mind this Brazilian whatshisname, we need pics of the totty at the gym. Get on with it!gordondaviesmoustache said:In fairness to him I did post "is is finally sinking in?" rather than "is it finally sinking in?" in my post, although in my defence I was at the gym at the time and as I was posting on my phone I was somewhat distracted by something that caught my eye on the running machine next to me.80s Shorts said:jimharri said:
Luv that gif. Be kind, he got the too and to correct.
She didn't seem to notice me for some strange reason.
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