It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[not my fault!]

we speak to player first
Hey Oddy, want to come and win some trophies and play with your bestie Earl?
Thought you would
Go tell Lego pep you want to go to city

We’d get done for tapping up, Arsenal hate us as is never mind trying to poach a player through dubious ways.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

We’d get done for tapping up, Arsenal hate us as is never mind trying to poach a player through dubious ways.

Ironic as Lego Pep was poached and his list of targets is our squad.

 

[Centurions]

All this faffing around on sub level players. We should have tested Arsenal’s resolve and put £120m on table for Odegaard .
Getting him would also weaken our closest rivals and would provide us with long term Kev replacement.
He also must be close friends with big Earl
Not withstanding the piss it would boil

We've already got Kev's long term replacement and he didn't cost a penny, let alone £120m.

 

[not my fault!]

Ironic as Lego Pep was poached and his list of targets is our squad.

Pep isn’t a player there’s no rules in that, however there is with approaching players as suggested. We don’t need that added shit on us. If an agent approaches us that’s different but we wouldn’t just ring a player and ask if he fancies a move. It doesn’t work like that.

 

[Goatmeal]

We’d get done for tapping up, Arsenal hate us as is never mind trying to poach a player through dubious ways.

Pretty much every player gets tapped up. Some blatantly, without going through agent

 

[not my fault!]

Pretty much every player gets tapped up. Some blatantly, without going through agent

Do they… can it be proven or is it just ‘X’ wannabes saying Y club has Z players commitment, bid due shortly. Or is it that possibly the club approach the other club & express interest to then get permission to speak to the player?
As I’ve said previously, I’ve been lucky to know several premier league footballers in my time who have moved clubs & I’ve seen the process play out many times. Some of those were big names on their day making big moves. It’s a myth we just approach a player without some nod, regardless of what’s posted on social media.
If Bayern had approached Walker before asking City we’d of had them for it. We’d of hinted we want him to stay but he’s free to listen to their offer. They sort that then officially bid.
Does tapping up go on? Of course but if found guilty it’s fines, transfer bans, points deducted etc. trust me, many clubs would love to get us over for that & would do at any chance. It’s not something we as a club do. We may well leak we like a player who’s agent then contacts us for confirmation but we’d not approach them directly first, it’s too risky.
Not everything is dodgy or a conspiracy.

 

[Goatmeal]

Do they… can it be proven or is it just ‘X’ wannabes saying Y club has Z players commitment, bid due shortly. Or is it that possibly the club approach the other club & express interest to then get permission to speak to the player?
As I’ve said previously, I’ve been lucky to know several premier league footballers in my time who have moved clubs & I’ve seen the process play out many times. Some of those were big names on their day making big moves. It’s a myth we just approach a player without some nod, regardless of what’s posted on social media.
If Bayern had approached Walker before asking City we’d of had them for it. We’d of hinted we want him to stay but he’s free to listen to their offer. They sort that then officially bid.
Does tapping up go on? Of course but if found guilty it’s fines, transfer bans, points deducted etc. trust me, many clubs would love to get us over for that & would do at any chance. It’s not something we as a club do. We may well leak we like a player who’s agent then contacts us for confirmation but we’d not approach them directly first, it’s too risky.

Iv read many books of ex footballers and chairman
The consensus is there is no point bidding for a player unless there was interest in him wanting to come.
I know the rules but seldom are they adhered to.
A lot of time the player gets a pay rise out of it.
It happens in real life all the time not just in the football world.
Tapping up is extremely difficult to prove. The player being tapped up is hardly going to admit to it.

 

[not my fault!]

Iv read many books of ex footballers and chairman
The consensus is there is no point bidding for a player unless there was interest in him wanting to come.
I know the rules but seldom are they adhered to.
A lot of time the player gets a pay rise out of it.
It happens in real life all the time not just in the football world.
Tapping up is extremely difficult to prove. The player being tapped up is hardly going to admit to it.

I never said we don't talk to players in advance of a bid, but we’ll do it with his clubs knowledge via the agent. No point bidding if a deal can’t be agreed.
As I say I’ve not read stuff I’ve been with them during calls, the same way when the Paqueta charges broke I said that players bet on anything from who gets to training fastest or who’s ice cube melts quicker. They are a strange & very bored breed.

 

[daztrueblue91]

I expect signings like Doku to become more of the norm for us now with the market being the state it is in. I mean this in the sense that we will buy good talented players directly from abroad rather than waiting until they are proven in the PL.

There was a time when the likes of Southampton and Wolves would snap up top talent from Europe for around £30 million, develop them into PL proven players and sell them for a huge profit.

The rationale behind this market seems to have disappeared this window. Paqueta and Nunes both had underwhelming seasons last year. Both in relegation battles and Nunes got 1 more assist and 1 more goal than Kalvin Phillips managed for us in the PL. Yet, the prices on them still reflect the price of if they’d have been in the PFA team of the year.

The ‘PL development tax’ is still being applied on these players, despite them not really developing in the PL.

It makes more sense for City to save £30+ million by competing for the likes of Paqueta and Nunes before they move to the PL, which is something we’ve done with Doku.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

Pep isn’t a player there’s no rules in that, however there is with approaching players as suggested. We don’t need that added shit on us. If an agent approaches us that’s different but we wouldn’t just ring a player and ask if he fancies a move. It doesn’t work like that.

Players get tapped up on every international break. There are lots of ways to approach players. There’s no Queensbury Rules. There probably isn’t a professional club guilty of poaching. “That shit” is already on us, Arsenal and most if not every other club.