It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I think the overwhelming majority of the Bluemoon community can see quite clearly that tolmie’s info is legit, but for some weird reason, the Twitter community don’t hold him in the same regard.

So I just want to give props to tolmie as wayyy before the window even kicked off, he said it’s Gvardiol, Kovacic and Bellingham. With Rice as the Bellingham back up. And that is precisely how it’s then played out.

Thanks mate. I'm on for a Treble of my own here, but I can't compete with Twitter, there will always be people who have nothing nice to say about anything or anyone.

 

[Sky Blue]

It's the evolution of Peps squad , brilliant technical ability and power. Is an incredible combination.

Losing Gundo and Bernie diminishes our technical ability.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Think it might mean more game time for Phillips if he stays. My thinking is if we have Rice and Rodri then we are planning on setting up a different way, Phillips would be more likely to play in rotation with a 2 of Rodri and Rice than he was playing on his own as a Rodri replacement.
So 2 from Rodri, Rice , Phillips. With Kovacic further forward rotating with KDB and Foden.

Consequently Stones party in midfield would come to an end and
Walker, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Dias, Aké, Gvardiol would cover 3 spots?
Even if Walker would leave, bit much that.

I hope Rice replaces Phillips.
I even think WHU insist on Phillips in a deal as proven and affordable midfielders are quite rare.
And, honestly, Phillips can enjoy all his medals and now go out and try to win them on the pitch as well. He has to play more football.

 

[SWP's back]

Does the bid for him include Kalvin?

Because that's the only way I can make sense of potentially signing him. He's not a box-to-box midfielder like Ilkay was so he'd be added to the stable along with Rodri and Phillips. If he's coming to be Rodri's backup then it makes a hell of a lot more sense. If Kalvin is staying then I think we have far bigger needs elsewhere in the squad.

We aren’t spending £100m for a DM backup mate. Tells me Bernie is off.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Kovacic, Gvardiol and Rice would be one hell of a summer.

Still think we’d need one more attacking option for out wide, but I’m happy for it to be a bit of a project player, doesn’t have to be a big hitter.

 

[Mr-Mertle]

Was going to like this then saw the last sentence.

Still have people who put their personal opinions on a player above Pep and the boards ability to know what's right for the team. It's insane to me.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

If you had to bet, who’s he playing for next season? Us or Arsenal?

I don't bet. I can give you an educated guess, based on what City are doing, but I have no insight into how others will respond.

 

[Gumzy97]

Don't want to sound arrogant but surely if your Declan you choose City. If you want to win the highest honors and improve as a player you choose us. Rice goes up a level under Pep.

 

[Lee1983]

Sign Rice please if only for the Vanilla ice song we could reword & sing, thank you.

 

[Sky Blue]

Don't want to sound arrogant but surely if your Declan you choose City. If you want to win the highest honors and improve as a player you choose us. Rice goes up a level under Pep.

All well and good but Rice's 6 month old son wants to stay in London.