Full Backs?

[Ric]

Matarrita

Just seen a tweet saying that he is in Manchester doing an internship with City:

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

Just seen a tweet saying that he is in Manchester doing an internship with City:

Anything to this, Ric? I see Shane has replied saying a number of NYCFC players are expected to train with the team but not to move.

Shane Burns ‏@MediaShaneBurns 17m17 minutes ago
@City_Chief and also expected to go to Manchester with a number of NYCFC players to train - like last year. Not to make any move.

However, why would he be pulled from the national team just to train with City?

 

[The Riot Club]

Well spurs and the arse have coverted Ginter in the summer and was considered one of the top defenders last season, I watch the german league on telly and both the dortmund players are alright in my opinion, as for the other 2 douglas would be a gamble but rodriguez at werderhas been consistant, we don't need super stars or worlds greatest, we need people who can do what's needed and can play as FB and wing back, which these can.

Not saying they are the best out there but the best won't be for sale so we have to look at the next best.

Everyone has a price though, and if anyone in world football can afford it it's Sheikh Mansour. It just depends how much Pep wants the players.

He's worked with Alaba and made him one of the very best in the world, he'd be the best left back signing we could make, and worth every penny of what I assume would be around £50-£60m. But would the club think that, or prefer to spend less than a third that amount on a full back? In which case we may as well stick with Sagna and someone from the EDS for next season. Sign a real class upgrade or save the money. We've bought too many average players recently.

Not sure about right backs, I like Kyle Walker but no-one else on here seems to rate him. His combination of pace and aggression are exactly what we need in my opinion. No idea what Pep wants though, someone better at passing I guess.

 

[Bruun]

Wouldn't mind Matarrita. He was actually one of the few good players from Nycfc. And he's good bombing forwards!

 

[urban genie]

Everyone has a price though, and if anyone in world football can afford it it's Sheikh Mansour. It just depends how much Pep wants the players.

He's worked with Alaba and made him one of the very best in the world, he'd be the best left back signing we could make, and worth every penny of what I assume would be around £50-£60m. But would the club think that, or prefer to spend less than a third that amount on a full back? In which case we may as well stick with Sagna and someone from the EDS for next season. Sign a real class upgrade or save the money. We've bought too many average players recently.

Not sure about right backs, I like Kyle Walker but no-one else on here seems to rate him. His combination of pace and aggression are exactly what we need in my opinion. No idea what Pep wants though, someone better at passing I guess.

If we could get Alaba I would be over the moon, unfortunately there isn't a great number of full backs of his standard and ones like him I cannot see their clubs selling for anything but silly money.
But if the badstuber rumour is true then we are resigned to that fact that alaba and the like are unatainable, so we are looking at good players that can play peps way, maybe not the 4 I said but I just think we as fans need to be realistic that we may not get the players we want, I could have listed others that are considered to be good young prospects like
Ricardo pereira, Kyle Walker, Jairo Riedewald, Tete, but having only.seen them briefly I cannot say if they are good enough or not.

 

[DClarkMiamiU]

Wouldn't mind Matarrita. He was actually one of the few good players from Nycfc. And he's good bombing forwards!

I've watched quite a few NYCFC matches and he's definitely good- but that's against the MLS and Concacaf.... so figure English Championship level competition.
-IMO too big of a jump to make from MLS to EPL. maaaaybe have him as a squad player for the rest of the winter and see what happens, possibly return him in the summer to NYCFC

My guess, he's just coming over to off-season train at the campus.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

Everyone has a price though, and if anyone in world football can afford it it's Sheikh Mansour. It just depends how much Pep wants the players.

He's worked with Alaba and made him one of the very best in the world, he'd be the best left back signing we could make, and worth every penny of what I assume would be around £50-£60m. But would the club think that, or prefer to spend less than a third that amount on a full back? In which case we may as well stick with Sagna and someone from the EDS for next season. Sign a real class upgrade or save the money. We've bought too many average players recently.

Not sure about right backs, I like Kyle Walker but no-one else on here seems to rate him. His combination of pace and aggression are exactly what we need in my opinion. No idea what Pep wants though, someone better at passing I guess.

I think he is good too but we probably don't want to do business with Spurs.

 

[Bruun]

I've watched quite a few NYCFC matches and he's definitely good- but that's against the MLS and Concacaf.... so figure English Championship level competition.
-IMO too big of a jump to make from MLS to EPL. maaaaybe have him as a squad player for the rest of the winter and see what happens, possibly return him in the summer to NYCFC

My guess, he's just coming over to off-season train at the campus.

Even three months until the MLS starts, not even as a registered player, but just to assess him wouldn't hurt.

 

[Dax777]

for a right back i would buy Rick Karsdorp from Feyenoord. Pace, technical ability drive, passion and amazing going forward. I think he would great for us under Pep.

I'm inclined to agree. Like his drive more so than anything.

 

[royalblue]

Always impressed by Charlie Daniels at Bournemouth. I am sure lots will turn their noses up at him but he is a lot better than the left backs we have.Running Arsenal ragged tonight. Pity he's 30.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

Looks just as good as maffeo and we just fucked him off too.

That is utter bullshit and you should know it.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

We could do with some more English players and for me Rose and Clyne are two of the best young full backs around. Would cost a mint, but could save some issues with home grown players down the line. Probably wouldn't come, but I'd be ver happy if someone could let Pep know that I'd like them. Thanks

Why do we need more English players? I don't see this as a problem anymore.

 

[kun]

Right-backs:
Sergi Roberto
Danilo
Fabinho
Elseid Hysaj
Kyle Walker
Šime Vrsaljko
Stephan Litchsteiner
Serge Aurier
Joshua Brenet

Left-backs:
David Alaba
Raphaël Guerreiro
Juan Bernat
José Luis Gaya
Alex Sandro
Alex Grimaldo
Danny Rose
Migel Layún
Sead Kolasinac

2 left-backs, 1 right-back

Kolarov, Clichy and Zabaleta out. New 1 year deal for Sagna.

 

[domalino]

Why do we need more English players? I don't see this as a problem anymore.

We could do with some club trained players, as we've got 0, and as for just association trained HG players we have Sterling, Stones, Clichy and Delph - so 2 of those 4 might leave in the summer.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

We could do with some club trained players, as we've got 0, and as for just association trained HG players we have Sterling, Stones, Clichy and Delph - so 2 of those 4 might leave in the summer.

Oh I know...I expect though that Clichy is the only one that will leave. Iheanacho is now club trained. Maffeo is right behind him and Garcia is as well. Angelino is in the mix for next year as is Tosin, Gunn, Denayer, and Roberts. For me its not so much the numbers who are association/club trained but the number of players who are legit first team players. If Maffeo isn't old enough to count but gets in the squads as a U21 and is a regular part of the first team it doesn't matter if he technically qualifies as club trained yet. The only question that matters is:

Are we limiting our squad size because of these rules? I don't think we are anymore (or at least we won't be next season imo).

 

[domalino]

Oh I know...I expect though that Clichy is the only one that will leave. Iheanacho is now club trained. Maffeo is right behind him and Garcia is as well. Angelino is in the mix for next year as is Tosin. For me its not so much the numbers who are association/club but the number of players who are legit first team players. If Maffeo isn't old enough to count but gets in the squads as a U21 and is a regular part of the first team it doesn't matter if he technically qualifies as club trained yet. The only question that matters is:

Are we limiting our squad size because of these rules? I don't think we are anymore (or at least we won't be next season imo).

If Clichy leaves then we desperately need Maffeo or Angeliño to be squad players.

If we can have Garcia, Tosin and 1 fullback from the academy actually playing a decent role then we're sorted for HG players completely and for years to come. No need for people like Clichy with those future HGs in there.

I definitely think it's a problem we won't have for much longer and in 5 years time people will have completely forgotten about weighing up HG and foreign spots when discussing future transfers.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

If Clichy leaves then we desperately need Maffeo or Angeliño to be squad players.

If we can have Garcia, Tosin and 1 fullback from the academy actually playing a decent role then we're sorted for HG players completely and for years to come. No need for people like Clichy with those future HGs in there.

I definitely think it's a problem we won't have for much longer and in 5 years time people will have completely forgotten about weighing up HG and foreign spots when discussing future transfers.

Completely agree.

 

[Steve68]

If Clichy leaves then we desperately need Maffeo or Angeliño to be squad players.

If we can have Garcia, Tosin and 1 fullback from the academy actually playing a decent role then we're sorted for HG players completely and for years to come. No need for people like Clichy with those future HGs in there.

I definitely think it's a problem we won't have for much longer and in 5 years time people will have completely forgotten about weighing up HG and foreign spots when discussing future transfers.

In five years time we all might be having to deal with treating EU players as Foreign and having to apply the same eligibility rules.

 

[domalino]

In five years time we all might be having to deal with treating EU players as Foreign and having to apply the same eligibility rules.

EU players are already treated as foreign. The HG rule has nothing to do with nationality.

 

[Steve68]

EU players are already treated as foreign. The HG rule has nothing to do with nationality.

Foreign players need to meet government work permit criteria regarding caps, appearances in competitive international games and the like. EU players, like any EU worker, can just rock up.