Florian Wirtz - City withdraw interest according to Jack Gaughan and others (p543)

[Coatigan]

Very true, but I think, for example, getting Koulibaly instead of Dias would have been a massive mistake even though Ruben was supposed to be our third choice.

It was a joke. But yeah, agreed.

 

[eastmanc]

It was a joke. But yeah, agreed.

I know but I was just reiterating the point.:-)

 

[BluestBlue]

It's not entitled to want us to sign the best players and not have to rely on the genius of our manager to pull us out of the shit every season. At least give him a chance. The time we seriously invested in the squad in one summer with the players Pep wanted, we went on to get 100 points and followed it up with the domestic quadruple

Idk how anyone can argue with this take. The board never give Pep what he wants and he’s always been forced to turn water into wine. But he’s also made mistakes but not seeing that this squad and system was outdated. He also started to make bad judgement calls but i think after magically winning 4 in a row he wanted to retire but couldn’t because he’d leave us in a worst state than Ferguson did with his team. So now he has to make sure we have the best possible players so we can still try be successful after he leaves. Wirtz would guarantee success like Haaland did and it wouldn’t matter who takes over after him. Thats how I see it

 

[BluestBlue]

if Wirtz cannot be done, I would rather we build up Echeverri as he may be Yamal level of youngster but he needs to be given a chance.
instead of looking at plan D, plan E, plan F and end up a strange Wirtz alternative like we went from Bellingham to Nunes.

Fairs but Yamal is generational. Lot of pressure to put on a kid who’s never played in England let along Europe. Cherki is right there for 30m I beg you lot watch atleast 5 of his games this season

 

[BluestBlue]

The only plus side to losing out on Wirtz is that atleast we won’t have a player who doesn’t like us. He isn’t in love with us the way Haaland or Dias does. We tried everything maybe we’ll get lucky and someone will bang so hard for us we’ll look back at this time and laugh. Barca were horrible for a bit now they have the 2 of the best players in the world. You never know what can happen in football.

 

[BluestBlue]

Someone on Twitter put it perfectly: if we’d signed Wirtz now, Bayern would’ve just taken him from us in 2-3 years anyway. Honestly, I’m fine it didn’t happen — I’d rather avoid the endless circus every transfer window with Bayern tapping him up.

Ffs it would’ve been like signing Barca player. Those rumours and links would never go away

 

[M12Blue]

if Wirtz cannot be done, I would rather we build up Echeverri as he may be Yamal level of youngster but he needs to be given a chance.
instead of looking at plan D, plan E, plan F and end up a strange Wirtz alternative like we went from Bellingham to Nunes.

Not sure I follow, have we missed out on plan B and C too?

 

[bell_mcfc]

It’s also far too soon to believe a lot that’s going round. We’ve had all this before and although it’s probably likely he’ll go to Bayern I’ll wait for for concrete links

 

[bugsyblue]

if Wirtz cannot be done, I would rather we build up Echeverri as he may be Yamal level of youngster but he needs to be given a chance.
instead of looking at plan D, plan E, plan F and end up a strange Wirtz alternative like we went from Bellingham to Nunes.

I agree about not panic buying and settling for an expensive B player but what makes you think Exheverri is anything close to Yamal?!

 

[01cravend]

Not sure I follow, have we missed out on plan B and C too?

What's plan B and C after missing a generational talent?

I agree with Dam, we've let too much talent go recently and ended up buying worse players. Give Echeverri a go, and the u21s ect(Mukasa et al) that's brimming with attacking talent.