Ilkay Gundogan - Done Deal

[Crooked_rain]

Let's see!

Hopefully it is. I'm usually not one for players returning but he's a different case.

He definitely has another year or two in him.

 

[KS55]

Rinus Michels played for the old Ajax manager, Jack Reynolds. Reynolds was from Prestwich and was on City’s books as a youth player (his Brother played for City).

At Ajax’s old De Meer stadium, they had a stand named after Reynolds. There’s a hospitality suite at the Amsterdam Arena named after him now.

Ajax and Total Football - The Jack Reynolds story — Ajax Daily

It is nearly impossible these days for anyone to remember Amsterdam as anything but a modern vibrant city where nearly anything goes. However in the years after the end of the Second World War, the Dutch capital was a very conservative and staid place. Writing in his 1955 book ‘The Fall,’ French...

www.ajaxdaily.com

I’ve been trying for ages to recall that name. Thanks.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Let's see!

Hopefully it is. I'm usually not one for players returning but he's a different case.

He definitely has another year or two in him.

Even if for just the sentiment I’m absolutely fucking buzzing.

Ultimately football is just pointless, a load of millionaires kicking a ball around.

If you can’t get emotional and sentimental what’s the point.

Bring it on!!!

 

[McfcBibby]

So excited by his potential return. Love the man

 

[eastmanc]

The players chose him, so they see something in him. FWIW I'd personally have gone for Ruben, in Gundo's absence.

He's a massive personality in the changing room and the players love him. That's including Gundo. Remember them both hugging after the Champions League final in the changing room.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Even if for just the sentiment I’m absolutely fucking buzzing.

Ultimately football is just pointless, a load of millionaires kicking a ball around.

If you can’t get emotional and sentimental what’s the point.

Bring it on!!!

Absolutely

That's what I say, you're meant to get carried away with football, that's the best way to enjoy it.

 

[FMwkdsoul]

Gundo is too professional to do it, but a scorched earth interview about Barca would slap.

 

[KS55]

Yep. It's a great (and surprising to many) connection. And hardly anyone knows about it. Total football coming home indeed. I wonder if Guardiola knows the connection? It's one of the reasons "I would love it, just love it" if the legacy was continued at City for another generation beyond Guardiola.

This is the sort of thing that would be commercialised all over the place if it was United or Liverpool. The club does seem to often miss opportunities for self-promotion.

There is another connection. Gustav Sebes was the coach of the magical Magyars who played a version of total football with a false 9. It was copied by Les McDowell as the Revie Plan. So Pepball is our second version of total football.

 

[Citizen1961]

Let's see!

Hopefully it is. I'm usually not one for players returning but he's a different case.

He definitely has another year or two in him.

Totally agree. This guy is different gravy. I always felt he had another couple of good years left in him and he is the sort of character who will help the squad on and off the pitch in what will be a long and hard season.