It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Which you could say tells you one of a couple of things. Otherwise, the club would have gone in and signed Cucurella no matter what, paid what it takes and got him in, when they did that with all the other targets.

Either the club aren't really in the market for a LB and are intereated in Cucurella or others down the list purely as a replacenent should Zinchenko leave.

Or Brighton are looking for too high a value, and the club are happy to be patient and stick with what they have, unless their arm is twisted by something like Zinchenko leaving.

Alternatively it’s already more or less done and Brighton are looking for a replacement

 

[chaddblue]

I expect this to be our main signing next year. See how Palmer develops we may also see a winger.

Would be funny as the dippers have convinced themselves he’s joining their cult

 

[WallyA]

We are selling Zinchenko because he wants to go
There is no other reason he simply wants more game time
Which is fair enough

Umm okay, why are you replying to me?

That had absolutely nothing to do with my entire post.

 

[goater1985]

This is impressive

With zinky £30m that’s £68.5m in the bank
£45m for Cocu
£23.5 in the netto!

In
Erling Braut Haaland (£51.2m, Borussia Dortmund)
Stefan Ortega (free, Arminia Bielefeld)
Kalvin Phillips (£43.9m, Leeds United)

Out
Jayden Braaf (free, Borussia Dortmund)
Pedro Porro (£7.2m, Sporting Lisbon)
James Trafford (loan, Bolton Wanderers)
Gavin Bazunu (£12m, Southampton)
Fernandinho (free, Athletico PR)
CJ Egan Riley (free, Burnley)
Taylor Harwood-Bellis (loan, Burnley)
Ko Itakura (£4.5m, Borussia Monchengladbach)
Gabriel Jesus (£47m, Arsenal)
Darko Gyabi (£5.2m, Leeds United)
Tommy Doyle (loan, Sheffield United)
Romeo Lavia (£10.5m, Southampton)
Diego Rosa (loan, Vizela)
Ryotaro Meshino (free, Gamba Osaka)
Callum Doyle (loan, Coventry City)
Raheem Sterling (£50m, Chelsea)
Kwaku Oduroh (free, Derby County)
Lewis Fiorini (loan, Blackpool)

Manchester City total spent to date:£97.9m
Manchester City total received to date:£136.4m

Manchester City net transfer balance:£38.5m

Alvarez?

 

[City Raider]

So Brighton appear to have us over a barrel and reported fee is £10-15m too much. But if it sorts our long-standing LB problem, it will be the best extra £10-15m we’ve ever spent.

 

[bluenova]

Alvarez?

As with Torres - he was last season (we bought him in January and loaned him back to River Plate till July).

 

[kun]

Alvarez?

Bought him in January, when we also sold Ferrán for more than 3x what we paid for Álvarez

 

[goater1985]

As with Torres - he was last season (we bought him in January and loaned him back to River Plate till July).

Ah course.

I'm really excited see him bed in. I'd imagine he'd come in as 'back up' to foden/mahrez/grealish out wide and be CF whenever haaland doesn't play.

Could turn out to be an absolute bargain

 

[samuelyeboah]

It is kind of weird that Blackburn reported literally today that zinchenko might not leave. Like apparently he's already traveled to their training camp, idk what info he got but it's weird that someone who's briefed by the club would be so obviously wrong like that

 

[Shaffer92]

It is kind of weird that Blackburn reported literally today that zinchenko might not leave. Like apparently he's already traveled to their training camp, idk what info he got but it's weird that someone who's briefed by the club would be so obviously wrong like that

Shit happens. It's certainly plausible that Zinny was indeed having second thoughts and Blackburn was told as much by a source of his.