It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[Gumzy97]

Spot on. Especially the last 2 lines. Being hungry to play for City is one of the major intangibles that I suspect we look for in players.

With Phillips, and I felt the same way in when people talked about Kane last summer, there's a bit of tribalism that creeps in. Everyone prefers the exotic foreign player rather than the 'known' fella from the league. In all the players that we signed from other PL teams, only Grealish bucked that trend. Walker, Stones, Sterling were all classed as over-priced, not worth it, not good enough etc.

Phillips seems like a nice guy as well, watched a few interviews on YouTube, seems very down to earth. He still plays Sunday league with his mates.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Spot on. Especially the last 2 lines. Being hungry to play for City is one of the major intangibles that I suspect we look for in players.

With Phillips, and I felt the same way in when people talked about Kane last summer, there's a bit of tribalism that creeps in. Everyone prefers the exotic foreign player rather than the 'known' fella from the league. In all the players that we signed from other PL teams, only Grealish bucked that trend. Walker, Stones, Sterling were all classed as over-priced, not worth it, not good enough etc.

Stop being so sensible! It’ll annoy people ;)

 

[samuelyeboah]

Milinkovic, Lotito non fa sconti a nessuno: la strategia della Lazio

No del centrocampista serbo ad Arsenal e Newcastle. Gunners e Magpies disposte a fare ricche offerte, ma il Sergente sogna i top club di prima fascia. La società biancoceleste non accetta proposte al ribasso

www.corrieredellosport.it

Just saying, Milinkovic-Savic is 27 year old and is available for 50m.
I keep hearing in this thread that there's just no other options..

 

[DeBlueLou]

Milinkovic, Lotito non fa sconti a nessuno: la strategia della Lazio

No del centrocampista serbo ad Arsenal e Newcastle. Gunners e Magpies disposte a fare ricche offerte, ma il Sergente sogna i top club di prima fascia. La società biancoceleste non accetta proposte al ribasso

www.corrieredellosport.it

Just saying, Milinkovic-Savic is 27 year old and is available for 50m.
I keep hearing in this thread that there's just no other options..

You made the common mistake of thinking every midfielder can play defensive mid. Savic definitely cannot.

And it actually underlines the positives in Phillips... 50m for an inconsistent foreigner at the same age with a temperament issue. Makes the Phillips deal even more sensible.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Milinkovic, Lotito non fa sconti a nessuno: la strategia della Lazio

No del centrocampista serbo ad Arsenal e Newcastle. Gunners e Magpies disposte a fare ricche offerte, ma il Sergente sogna i top club di prima fascia. La società biancoceleste non accetta proposte al ribasso

www.corrieredellosport.it

Just saying, Milinkovic-Savic is 27 year old and is available for 50m.
I keep hearing in this thread that there's just no other options..

It's very telling that the 2 teams from the PL that are showing interest in him are Arsenal and Newcastle.

 

[oldhamblue]

Maguire under pep would have been completely different. He was really good at Leicester and i think would have been great for us.

 

[samuelyeboah]

You made the common mistake of thinking every midfielder can play defensive mid. Savic definitely cannot.

And it actually underlines the positives in Phillips... 50m for an inconsistent foreigner at the same age with a temperament issue. Makes the Phillips deal even more sensible.

I know savic isn't purely a 6, but he is 3 times the player Phillips is and he absolutely is more than capable of covering that 6 position 10 games a season. he's absolutely brilliant

 

[samuelyeboah]

It's very telling that the 2 teams from the PL that are showing interest in him are Arsenal and Newcastle.

It's really not. he's an unreal player and just had probably the best season of his career.

 

[BillyShears]

Milinkovic, Lotito non fa sconti a nessuno: la strategia della Lazio

No del centrocampista serbo ad Arsenal e Newcastle. Gunners e Magpies disposte a fare ricche offerte, ma il Sergente sogna i top club di prima fascia. La società biancoceleste non accetta proposte al ribasso

www.corrieredellosport.it

Just saying, Milinkovic-Savic is 27 year old and is available for 50m.
I keep hearing in this thread that there's just no other options..

I haven't seen many people at all say there are no other options available. I've seen lots of people, rightly, say that Phillips is clearly the club's main target. The two things are very different.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Nice!? media bullshit for another 10 weeks.

Followed by another 42 weeks of the same