It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

Chopper2115 said:
He’s always been a great player for us, but we need fresh legs in the team to improve.
Gundo is 32 going on 33 and has only contributed to 2 goals and assists in the prem, the reason why we are linked to Maddison is because pep wants more goal contributions from midfield.
He could get into many teams in Europe and have a starting role ,which he shouldn’t be getting next season, I just believe it’s the end of his time at city now.
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He probably won't be a starter next season. But players like Gundo are very valuable to a team. He's similar to Lampard David Silva Modric and Kroos, neither of them are graced with pace. But the one thing they do have in common, is having a great footballing brain when it comes to controlling a game
 
Chopper2115 said:
If we get reported targets the midfield will be:
Kdb
Foden
Bellingham
Maddison
Rodri
Phillips
Gundo
Where is he going to get a game, why would he be happy sitting on the bench when he can start in a different league where his wife prefers the culture there to Manchester.
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Hes doing all his coaches badges at the moment. So maybe apart from a role in the team, he's been promised a role with the coaching side of things as well
 
Blue and true said:
Along with Maddison, these are two worrying links. Players that aren't the requisite standard and are never far from the treatment room. It's the Phillips signing all over again. I pray it's just rumour-mongering in the wake of a quiet window for ourselves.
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We need world class players
 
Chilwell in terms of pure ability would solve our LB issue. Given the options in the market, there are few LBs better and even less that will actually move.

The massive risk is his injuries and I think the club would need to tread carefully with this.

I've seen Chelsea fans completely dismissive of the links and staunch that they wouldn't entertain it, but they will absolutely need to sell players in the summer or risk failing FFP. Chilwell is their best LB and lights ahead of Cucurella, but they just spent £60m on the latter, have a good talent in Hall breaking through and have another excellent propsect in Maasten doing well at Burnley.

I think, given the unknown nature of whether he'll ever get back to his best, that they could be tempted to shift him this summer. But it won't be cheap - fully expect to pay something in the realm of what they bought Cucurella for - and again, that's a huge risk with the injuries.

Chilwell at his best would be an asset to City though. A very well rounded player.
 
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bell_mcfc said:
What left back is world class? It does seem like a very small selection.
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Exactly my point. Even the very best LBs have their weaknesses.

There's no real stand outs in the position, so there's no point in us getting hung up about signing a 'world class' LB because we are very unlikely to be getting that unless we unearth a gem.

We just need a solid, orthodox LB that gives us 7/10 performances. I think the club have been too cautious over who to sign for years, when we could have just signed someone like Tagliafico a couple of seasons ago who would have just done a job for us.
 
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Theo Hernandez probably counts. And I like Lucas, his brother. Other than that, there's not much out there that is better than Zinchenko, who we let go. I was okay with letting him leave when he did, but I am starting to think it was a mistake.
And, unfortunately, if you're going English your basically looking at Kieran Tierney or Ben Chilwell
 
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