Ilkay Gundogan - Done Deal

[Eccles Blue]

Mr Stones will not play tomorrow...













he might get a game on Saturday though :-)

Whoops, see where the excitement has got me.... *lol* Thank you. :-)

 

[hihosilva]

So, he went to Barcelona on a free, earned £20m last season, then comes back to us on a free.

Knowing Khaldoon's mastery of 3-D Chess, does anyone else think that he secretly signed a new contract with us at the end of the 2022/23 season, we paid him last season while he paid all his Barca salary over to us, and that this was just a cunning plan to get the money they owed us for Ferran Torres? Masterstroke if so.

Not sure it was a cunning plan but it certainly looks like things financially have fallen into place.

 

[RayCTID]

Ilkay knows the score on Pep's rotation policy.

Still was a regular when he finished his City career the first time. A couple of years older with a different approach to our style. Not completely doubting him to adapt but it still going to time to fully adapt.

 

[eastmanc]

Not sure it was a cunning plan but it certainly looks like things financially have fallen into place.

The better we get the more lucky we get.:-)

 

[mike1923]

He was a great player. Maybe he can go on forever like Modric at Madrid. Barca obviously don't think he can.

If Barca thought there was a thunderstorm round the corner I’d put suncream on

 

[kippaxwarrior]

He was a great player. Maybe he can go on forever like Modric at Madrid. Barca obviously don't think he can.

Barca are broke. They need to reduce their wage bill and sell players asap just so they can register their new shiny toy Dani Olmo. Plus by all accounts they treated Gundogan pretty shitty. It's got nothing to do with Gundogans age or fitness

 

[Sk@mcfc]

Still a twat, always a ****

Fuckers name shouldn’t even be mentioned on same page as sir whippy’s

 

[manimanc]

Barcelona fans generally seem unhappy with him leaving as one said he was their best player last season. Read he had the most chances created and was in team of the season but seems typical amateur hour at Barcelona with not paying monies owed, buying players they cannot register, wanting everything for nothing as they are skint then blaming his wages being a reason they are happy to let him go, the wages they gave him to join.
Very hard to take that club seriously anymore

Messi messed them up pardon the pun.
They bent over backwards for him and plunged themselves into so much debt just to keep him.
Any other club doing what they've done would be relegated or be in trouble, sounds a bit like the skintboats up the road from us.

 

[RayCTID]

He was a great player. Maybe he can go on forever like Modric at Madrid. Barca obviously don't think he can.

Although La Liga isn't a slow league the Premier League is a little more physically demanding and quicker. Modric may not of lasted long as he did had he rejoined it.

 

[Damanino]

expect it at 16.30 today on OS. so Txiki still has time to do shopping in the afternoon in Asda.