City ain't getting a proven quality cb for under 70 Mil, so God help us if their baulking at 60mil.
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hilts
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Unfortunately the scouse back line is better. I’m not convinced about maguire and stones development is a tad worrying. I haven’t seen Angelino play recently if I’m honest so I cannot judge him fairly at this time. I think as of today things haven’t changed greatly. Our midfield pisses on them, attack is similar if they get lucky with injuries again, defence they are ahead.
Bill
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i think we will get him. he will force the move here.
Agree with that.
richards30
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Agreed bill
Think will be done 65-70m
cleavers
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Thankfully City do, when did we last over pay for a player ? Maguire is not, and never will be an £80m footballer, he's a good defender, but it has to be very special for that kind of money, and Maguire isn't in that category, reports suggesting Pep is happy with what he's got, and if that is the case, then I'll let him get on with it, as he seems to have a fair idea what he's doing.
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They're probably balking at 60m because it's only Maguire. I reckon we'd be willing to go considerably higher if it was a top tier defender who suited our style of play.
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You could argue our defence is better, for a start we don't play with 2 DMs every game, we only play with one, hence more attacking football, we played significantly more games than them last season, had more injuries to key players, yet only conceded 1 goal more than them in the league, so I don't see how the dippers have a better defence than ours.
roy.or.r
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It's because of the Ainfield atmosphere, la.
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That's strange, how will he force a move here if we don't want him ?
kaz7
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You live in an entirely different universe with not much understanding of the way we play or manage our transfers
Of course we want him. Duh.
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Ok il put it another way, "we don't want him at that price, which will be 75 - 80m, he's not worth it and we have a budget.
That's not a statement - he'd have been asked that question from a reporter, probably at a press conference. What would you like him to say?.
In case you missed this important line: "I think he can do it, but his position is as a midfield player.”
The difference being that Vinnie wasn't too crash hot in the middle of the park, and he moved to CB at young age. Again, Fernandinho is one of the best in the world in his position, one in which quality is as rare as hen's teeth and he is very close to retirement, having played his entire professional career in midfield.
It's pure Football Manager, fantasy thinking coming out again to propose for him to move to a position he's barely played before at this stage in his career. If we have CBs, he does not need to play there and nor should we expect him to.
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So predictable, taking the one and ONLY sentence completely out of context in consideration to Pep’s whole 3 minute answer (the video is on YouTube) and trying to use that as justification behind your reasoning.
Pep even started Fernandinho at CB, despite having Laporte at LB and Stones on the bench.
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oakiecokie
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A wolf in sheeps clothing maybe. ;)
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They turned down the rags @ 70m the other day.
this is where maguire will have to push Leicester , as was mentioned by Tolmie a while back
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