It's Quiet - a new dawn

[cibaman]

Yeah like said start low and you work up to what you are willing to pay or should we just slap 100m down?

Start low and work up only works if you're the only interested buyer

 

[aguero93:20]

Fair enough, I expect a dip in his scoring rate too, as the managers will start to design particular tactics to stop him. Happened to R9 and Messi in the past as well.

100%, it will happen as teams deny him space in the right areas, this is exactly why is fight for City to keep Aguero this summer - even if Jesus comes back in the same form after his injury he's yet to go through this phase.

 

[Andrew___K]

The conversation that was part of was about Madrid and Perez though.

I meant that if one wonderkid could become the biggest brand in the past, it can be tempting for Perez to repeat it using his Galactico model. I'm not comparing R9's and Mbappe's ability as it is, think their talents are on slightly different levels.

 

[Akiva]

I mean the ability is the most decisive factor, not age. Mbappe has it and will be able to play for Madris in 2 years. And he's already pretty famous, don't you think? Of course, Mardid "has a tendency" of signing mature players, but i don't see any contradiction as Mbappe is a unique, very well may be once-in-a generation player. You can't extrapolate any tendencies to such examples. As for Perez's marketing strategy of buying hyped players, Mbappe suits it fine.

Yes there's a possibility that they will be in on Mbappe, but you can't deny the trend is for Perez to only go after older, established talent. It's part of their persona, this "we can get any player we want at any time we want" feeling.

Example: Zidane wanted Pogba last summer. Perez said no. Turns out Madrid dodged a bullet because he's been shite since leaving the bubble of Juventus in the Serie A. Regardless, that's their policy: acquire talent when it's hit it's prime.

If you want to argue otherwise, you'd have to provide examples of Perez making exceptions to this.

 

[aguero93:20]

You don't get it.

We offered £40m for a 17 year old who'd played 2 professional games.

Real and Arsenal tried to spend 7 figures on him before he signed a professional contract.

people in the game have known about this kid for years and have been making absurd, literally unthinkable offers for him for years.

Obviously the people at the top of the game think he's a once in a generation talent - backed up by the fact he's scored 21 goals in his first season by the way, that's completely unheard of - and want to buy him for whatever it takes *now*.

In 2 years time no one will be able to afford him or he'll be at a club who won't sell at any price.

Perez knows this, and the fact that both Marca and AS had 4 or 5 front pages dedicated to Mbappé in the last international break should tell you that there's already more than enough hype there, the rest will come from the transfer fee and breaking a world record for a teenager.

We'll see. Big difference between trying to pick him up for a few million before he signs a pro contract as we did with Brahim Diaz and breaking a World transfer record.

 

[Blue warrior]

Every top club know he's a super talent even before he had his breakthrough I agree with @domalino he will shatter the record for me.

 

[OB1]

For anyone who's interested I spoke with Graham Hunter earlier about Alexis and his possible move to City.



Will be talking to someone who works at ESPN and BeinSport here in Paris next week about the Monaco players we're being linked with.

Worth listening to :)

 

[domalino]

We'll see. Big difference between trying to pick him up for a few million before he signs a pro contract as we did with Brahim Diaz and breaking a World transfer record.

Can you not read? Not a few million, They were offering over £10m.

That's 20x what we put down for Sancho.

 

[aguero93:20]

I meant that if one wonderkid could become the biggest brand in the past, it can be tempting for Perez to repeat it using his Galactico model. I'm not comparing R9's and Mbappe's ability as it is, think their talents are on slightly different levels.

I'm not doubting he could if he keeps it up, just whether he'd be effective as the biggest brand over a prolonged period of time - even Ronaldo Nazario only had that impact for a few years at any club hence why they moved him on. Maybe in the social media age he could, Tranny has managed it for 7 seasons at Madrid, although I think Madrid themselves have put a lot of work in to make that happen.

 

[Cityfan]

If you want to argue otherwise, you'd have to provide examples of Perez making exceptions to this.

Depends what you regard as Prime, Benzema was 21 when they signed him, Isco 20, both pretty young. If the talent is obvious I suspect Real would bite.