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MCFC Info ‏@MCFClnfo 13m13 minutes ago
City have raised their offer for Torino right-back Bruno Peres to £15m in recent days. [@Toro_News]

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worsleyweb said:
Just read his wilkepdia - seems mediocre - Watford also after him. Seems we are not signing superstars this summer!
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Yeah, because Kante, Payet, and Mahrez are all mediocre as well?!

It shouldn't be about 'superstars'. Falcao was a 'superstar'. I seem to remember a few on here losing their fucking minds that we missed out on him. How did he turn out again?

We should be bringing in players who excel in a system. We already have match winning 'superstars' in Aguero and De Bruyne (and arguably Silva if he gets his fitness levels back) who need complimenting with hungrier players who work for the team and fit into Pep's way of playing. We also have potential 'superstars' in Kelechi and, if Pep can sort his head out, Sterling. This doesn't even include some of the academy lads, who are recognised by many as some of the best players in the world at their respective age groups.

Seems to be that when some people say 'superstars' they actually mean 'big names'. Perhaps we should have signed a 34 year 'galactico' old on 300k a week?

I'm not having a pop fella. Just frustrating that so many on here seem to be desperate to bring in big name players as if it's some kind of guarantee of success.
 
Roy Munson said:
Yeah, because Kante, Payet, and Mahrez are all mediocre as well?!

It shouldn't be about 'superstars'. Falcao was a 'superstar'. I seem to remember a few on here losing their fucking minds that we missed out on him. How did he turn out again?

We should be bringing in players who excel in a system. We already have match winning 'superstars' in Aguero and De Bruyne (and arguably Silva if he gets his fitness levels back) who need complimenting with hungrier players who work for the team and fit into Pep's way of playing. We also have potential 'superstars' in Kelechi and, if Pep can sort his head out, Sterling. This doesn't even include some of the academy lads, who are recognised by many as some of the best players in the world at their respective age groups.

Seems to be that when some people say 'superstars' they actually mean 'big names'. Perhaps we should have signed a 34 year 'galactico' old on 300k a week?

I'm not having a pop fella. Just frustrating that so many on here seem to be desperate to bring in big name players as if it's some kind of guarantee of success.
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Good shout Roy. There is also the aspect that old superstars are not easy to mold into a a new system. Does anyone think Zlatan would change his way of playing to fit into a Pep system, for example?
 
Roy Munson said:
Yeah, because Kante, Payet, and Mahrez are all mediocre as well?!

It shouldn't be about 'superstars'. Falcao was a 'superstar'. I seem to remember a few on here losing their fucking minds that we missed out on him. How did he turn out again?

We should be bringing in players who excel in a system. We already have match winning 'superstars' in Aguero and De Bruyne (and arguably Silva if he gets his fitness levels back) who need complimenting with hungrier players who work for the team and fit into Pep's way of playing. We also have potential 'superstars' in Kelechi and, if Pep can sort his head out, Sterling. This doesn't even include some of the academy lads, who are recognised by many as some of the best players in the world at their respective age groups.

Seems to be that when some people say 'superstars' they actually mean 'big names'. Perhaps we should have signed a 34 year 'galactico' old on 300k a week?

I'm not having a pop fella. Just frustrating that so many on here seem to be desperate to bring in big name players as if it's some kind of guarantee of success.
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Our shitshow last season, Leicester, Madrid coming good when they dropped James and Isco for Casemiro, Iceland and Wales at the Euro's.

If football fans have learnt anything from 2016 it should be that the right players in the right system are much more successful than 11 stars squeezed into a team.
 
Jazzman said:
Good shout Roy. There is also the aspect that old superstars are not easy to mold into a a new system. Does anyone think Zlatan would change his way of playing to fit into a Pep system, for example?
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It's not even just an age thing mate. I think some would like us to sign superstars and use them as some kind of status symbol for bragging rights.

We are at the point in our evolution as a club now where we should be creating our own superstars.

We need to be catching players on their upward curve and who have the right mentality.

I would argue that Yaya and Silva weren't superstars when we signed them. We brought 2 players who had something to prove and who were ready to step up to the next level (Yaya, that Barcelona were wrong to let him leave, and Silva, that for all his achievements for Spain and Valencia, he still wasn't given the recognition he deserved by many observers).

It's no coincidence that as soon Yaya got to the point where he was seen as our biggest name and our match winning, superstar performer, he switched off and decided he didn't have anything else to prove anymore.
 
worsleyweb said:
Just read his wilkepdia - seems mediocre - Watford also after him. Seems we are not signing superstars this summer!
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What a ridiculous comment, he's a right back, was zabba a superstar when we bought him? The guy looks a top fullback who is very quick and will be ideal in a pep team
 
Roy Munson said:
It's not even just an age thing mate. I think some would like us to sign superstars and use them as some kind of status symbol for bragging rights.

We are at the point in our evolution as a club now where we should be creating our own superstars.

We need to be catching players on their upward curve and who have the right mentality.

I would argue that Yaya and Silva weren't superstars when we signed them. We brought 2 players who had something to prove and who were ready to step up to the next level (Yaya, that Barcelona were wrong to let him leave, and Silva, that for all his achievements for Spain and Valencia, he still wasn't given the recognition he deserved by many observers).

It's no coincidence that as soon Yaya got to the point where he was seen as our biggest name and our match winning, superstar performer, he switched off and decided he didn't have anything else to prove anymore.
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I can't disagree with any of that mate, well put :-)
 
peres last season was dynamite!!! think he would be a great option and can play left back by all accounts. would love peres right back and either rodriguez or hector for left back
 
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