It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Maybe it’s designed to worry Laporte about his playing time

Based on this? Barcelona playing the PR game

Barca will turn to Manchester City and Spain centre-back Aymeric Laporte, 28, if they fail to sign Kounde. (Fichajes - in Spanish)

 

[CityBluez]

Pep mentioned Ake at left back in his last interview.

Not only ake though. He mentioned 2-3 names. Also he said ake in LB only if we can't signed cucurella.
Cucurella - 40-50M (proper LB for years)
Pau torres -50-60M (for what a 4th choice CB)
LB is proper and Better investment at this stage. Makes zero sense tbf

 

[CityBluez]

Maybe it’s designed to worry Laporte about his playing time

Laporte is happy how much he played last season. Said in an interview early on. He is very happy at city

 

[Mad 4 It]

Based on this? Barcelona playing the PR game

Barca will turn to Manchester City and Spain centre-back Aymeric Laporte, 28, if they fail to sign Kounde. (Fichajes - in Spanish)

They’ll try anything to get who they want

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

When two words are combined to form an adjective, you typically stick a hyphen between them for clarity.

You've just made me choke on my Full-English Breakfast!

 

[mccity]

When two words are combined to form an adjective, you typically stick a hyphen between them for clarity.

You are quite right. However, rearranging the sentence and dropping the hyphen we end up with something like "the replay is full match"; which, as far as I understand the rules, would also be correct, if "full-match replay" constitutes proper English. I don't like it.

C'est la vie

 

[Brox blue]

Pep mentioned Ake at left back in his last interview.

Or is 3 at the back a change for this season? We dabbled with it when Mendy came and gives the width to play 2 strikers

 

[Cobwebcat]

Not only ake though. He mentioned 2-3 names. Also he said ake in LB only if we can't signed cucurella.
Cucurella - 40-50M (proper LB for years)
Pau torres -50-60M (for what a 4th choice CB)
LB is proper and Better investment at this stage. Makes zero sense tbf

Tend to agree but I can’t think of a better reason if it’s true. I don’t think Ake is leaving.

 

[citizen_maine]

They’ll try anything to get who they want

They'll try anything to make people believe they get who they want

 

[chesterbells]

You've just made me choke on my Full-English Breakfast!

I could kill for an FEB now

 

[Coatigan]

I suppose City might think that Ake is a good back up to Cucurella but it then creates a hole at CH but they happened to have been offered Torres. There just might be better CHs on the market than LBs.

Or Ake becomes LB instead of Cucurella.

Does seem to be picking up…doesn’t take much though.

Or it really is just misplaced or mistimed nonsense.

A week ako, a lot of people believed we were signing Neymar, so yeah it really doesn't take much as you say.

 

[leo_city]

Keep an eye out on Pau Torres.

There's reports in Spain claiming a transfer to us is close. I'm not sure, some City aggregator quoted it so I saw.




Translated: According to sources close to the club, Pau Torres would be close to signing for Manchester City. The deal, right now, would be 90% closed. The Villarreal center-back would set course for the Premier League.

 

[TonyM]

Maybe (5 CBs & 2 FBs) is better than (4 CBs & 3 FBs) if some of the CBs offer the ability to be decent FBs????

Or or or...

5 CBs & 3 FBs = Torres + Cucurella = :-)

 

[abraham7143]

Hahahahaha

 

[Protein Junkie]

You've just made me choke on my Full-English Breakfast!

Don’t Egg him on there’s not mush room for that type of chat on here.

 

[Daz_Blue]

Ferran Torres: £50m Raheem Sterling: £47.5m Gabriel Jesus: £45m Zinchenko: £30m Bazunu: £13m Lavia: £10m Porro: £7m Gyabi: £5m Itakura: £4m Arijanet Muric: £3m Egan-Riley: £350k

Sales so far

 

[JWCH-99]

There's reports in Spain claiming a transfer to us is close. I'm not sure, some City aggregator quoted it so I saw.




Translated: According to sources close to the club, Pau Torres would be close to signing for Manchester City. The deal, right now, would be 90% closed. The Villarreal center-back would set course for the Premier League.

Maybe 3 at the back?

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Maybe 3 at the back?

Rumours Laporte has had surgery, if so it’s likely why we’ll have moved for a cb

 

[LongsightM13]

We’re not having five senior CBS, three of them left footed and another who likes playing on the left.
It’s horse shit imo

 

[mancityscot]

surely bollocks, another £40m+ cb just doesnt make sense given the options we currently have.