It's Quiet - a new dawn

[BigOscar]

No he's a proper defensive midfielder. Bakayoko is the box to box midfielder at Monaco.

You sure about that? Not many proper defensive midfielders score 10 goals in a season, or generally charge forwards half as much as Fabinho does

 

[Andrew___K]

Is Fabinho a genuine DM? Pretty sure he's a physical box to box player like a giant Fernandinho, not a defensive midfielder

The interpretation depends on the tactical setup I guess - Monaco simply don't use 'pure' DM, both Fabinho and Bakayoko play B2B with emphasis on defending in 4222. But your post makes sense - Fabinho would need to learn some new role to play for us anyway. Can't see Pep using him in N8 areas instead of a more skilled midgets (Silvas).

 

[domalino]

You sure about that? Not many proper defensive midfielders score 10 goals in a season, or generally charge forwards half as much as Fabinho does

12 goals, 9 were penalties.

Fabinho is definitely the defensive midfielder of the two. He gets forward a decent amount because Monaco either dominate possession, allowing him to come forward, or they have a very fluid counterattack where anyone and everyone goes forward in numbers on the counter - but he is the one who sits back and screens the defence.

 

[Nigel De Shlong]

You sure about that? Not many proper defensive midfielders score 10 goals in a season, or generally charge forwards half as much as Fabinho does

He takes le pens

 

[City_Sean]

Why's everybody mentioning Carvalho when @BillyShears And @Zin 'messiah' Zimmer are both telling us that Fabinho will happen?

 

[Akiva]

City now less likely to sign Sanchez than for him to stay, Sky Bet reckons. Dropped to 5/1 in this last hour or so, good odds on a very overt transfer target.

Why's everybody mentioning Carvalho when @BillyShears And @Zin 'messiah' Zimmer are both telling us that Fabinho will happen?

I have no problems with people mentioning that we're linked to Carvalho, I do have problems with people saying this somehow means we're no longer getting Fabinho.

 

[Andrew___K]

I have no problems with people mentioning that we're linked to Carvalho, I do have problems with people saying this somehow means we're no longer getting Fabinho.

We aren't getting both because of foreign spots restrictions, that's for sure. I do hope all the talk about Carvalho is just Pere's advertisement for his client.

 

[robbieh]

Why's everybody mentioning Carvalho when @BillyShears And @Zin 'messiah' Zimmer are both telling us that Fabinho will happen?

Presume that is humour. The only signing we have made pretty much flew under the BM ITK radar.

 

[Akiva]

We aren't getting both because of foreign spots restrictions, that's for sure. I do hope all the talk about Carvalho is just Pere's advertisement for his client.

I agree we aren't getting both, but there's plenty of reasons we might be linked to talks with Sporting over him and there's just as good a chance we aren't interested in him at all.

It's a wait and see at the minute, but one report resurrecting the Carvalho link isn't working enough to outweigh the evidence from all sides that we're in on Fabinho, IMO.

 

[aguero93:20]

We aren't getting both because of foreign spots restrictions, that's for sure. I do hope all the talk about Carvalho is just Pere's advertisement for his client.

Juve were being linked with him for quite a bit and the link to us popped up around the same time as the tuttosport article about Juve going in for Mendy/Fabinho. So we could just be playing silly buggers with them, fairly common tactic for Txiki.