It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[prealish_stan]

This is most likely it. They’ve lost Bissouma already so he’s probably just keen not to lose someone else so easily.

But they lost him for only 25 mil. It's just not fair that they demand 50 mil plus for a player that had 2 goals and 1 assist last season.

 

[Trickyblues]

But they lost him for only 25 mil. It's just not fair that they demand 50 mil plus for a player that had 2 goals and 1 assist last season.

They have every right to demand 50m for a player with 4 years left on his contract

 

[prealish_stan]

Agree the situation is more Walker than Kane.

I guess we'll sign him for 47m plus 5m add ons. Or something like that.

Would be a decent deal for both sides imo. Cuc is very young and technical, assuming that he won't be twxrking of Barca after a couple of years, reckon this transfer would be amazing for us. Brighton get 3x the money they paid for him only a year and half prior

 

[Sleeping_Easy]

But they lost him for only 25 mil. It's just not fair that they demand 50 mil plus for a player that had 2 goals and 1 assist last season.

The only thing that’s fair is the price they ask for. He's their player and they have every right to set the valuation. If they end up with an unhappy player at the end of the window then that’s their choice.

It’s like trying to buy someone’s house who doesn’t want to sell and then being upset that they want more than the market rate for it

 

[supercity88]

Benzema scored 2 penalties.

City lost the tie 100% due to biased refereeing, injury crisis and an unfair playing field between PL and La Liga. Madrid didn't even play to the weekend prior to playing man city. City battered Watford that Saturday.

I couldn't disagree more with that. We lost the tie because we were wasteful in attack and sloppy in defence. We should have been 3-0 or 4-0 up at home inside 30 odd minutes. But switched off and got pegged back. We didn't have the nous to see the game out in the Bernabeu when 2 goals to the good with minutes left. Then Real played out ET with no issues because they just play acted. It was a lesson in how to see out those moments. We were frantic and shocked. When they got the first goal, we didn't pause and take breath. Someone should have gone down injured and given everyone a chance to reset. Instead we just got sucked into the atmosphere and momentum.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

But they lost him for only 25 mil. It's just not fair that they demand 50 mil plus for a player that had 2 goals and 1 assist last season.

Not sure that " fairness " comes into the transfer business tbh

 

[prealish_stan]

They have every right to demand 50m for a player with 4 years left on his contract

Maybe I'm being naive but isn't a player's transfer value is determined by his performance on the pitch? Extending a contract doesn't mean the club can charge extortionate amount for the player. Might as well 50 mil for zinchenko then? After all he had 3 years on his contract and has won 10 trophies in career playing majority of the games as well

 

[shevtheblue]

Selling Zinchenko to get in Cucurella is madness for me. We need both, considering Cancelo covers both right and left we should have got in Cucurella to fight for that LB spot. Mendy has never held the position, now that he's completely out of the picture we should be replacing that position. Cancelo is amazing, but having a right footed LB doesn't work against every team and you can tell Pep really wants someone there. But Cucurella should be the replacement of Mendy, not Zinchenko who should have been given a bit more freedom to fight for other spots next season.

 

[DrBlueBob]

I wish I could get some of my bits to fucking stand up.

Spray starch? No need to thank me Oakie. :-)

 

[RayCTID]

We are covered in Zinny's primary position the only weak spot is LB which Cucurella (or alternative) is brought in for.