It's Quiet the £250m return

Dream signings? Well I think we need

2 full backs

Frimpong
Theo Hernandez

At least 2 midfielders. So of these 3.

Wirtz
Tchouaméni
Cherki

I also think we need at least 1 winger. Either:

Rodrygo
Leao
Who do City think they are going for Cherki? Do we have a child in charge of the transfers? Are we playing FIFA?
 
Grealish, Foden, Haaland? Some have the engine to get up and down the park and press consistently (Reijnders), others do not (Cherki).

For what it's worth, precious little, the French papers still appear to have Dortmund as front runners. They had a deal in place and Cherki wanted to go in January, but it was low and left OL insufficient time to find a replacement. Wouldn't be surprised if the news is OL just trying to drive his price up.
Doesn't have have a release clause?
 
I have zero knowledge of any deal set up for Rodrygo, don't know where the certainty has come from in some quarters?

It could be one of those deals willed into existence because the player and his agent now do all the running but not something City have driven.
very good player and before we signed marmoush I thought would be a very good signing because of his ability to play across the front 3. Now I don't think we have a burning platform for another wide player due to marmoush, Bobb coming back and better midfielders breaking the line and hence facilitating more room for existing wide players
 
I wonder what costa thinks about the fact that he isn’t even the first choice but I think he is overrated anyways

We'll be checking availability & costs for multiple players at the same time. He'll just know we're interested and what we'd offer him, that's about it. I don't think we'll be telling him he's our second choice option.
 
If pep got cherki working hard then pep will get a statue in every corner. Cherkis talent with a mad man's mentality would grant us a bonafide superstar for a decade but I just don't see that happening. He'll revert a lot and would be a bit part player who will still be good but not elite and pep will eventually get annoyed at him.
 
The problem before January was that there was only one centre half fit most of the time other than the first few games of Khus's stay there was then two to three fit.

Guardiola was always going to prefer someone who understands his system, can speak English so will communicate well over a young new arrival at the back.
He regularly takes a long time to integrate hew players
Nobody who has not been watching training regularly has a clue whether the money spent in January is good or bad.
From the very small glimpses we have seen of them there is nothing to suggest it has been poorly spent but we really can't know.
And for those exact reasons, khus was massive. He came in and did much better than any of us imagined especially after that chelsea game.
 
Lazier than others, let's say!
Mate, everyone knows exactly what you meant. When we discuss professional sports players we are not comparing them to your average human, we are comparing them to their contemporaries. Of course they all worked hard to get there but he quite clearly doesn't work as hard as his other professional athletes on the pitch and he doesn't have to a lot of the time because he's simply better but to accommodate that at city's level, they better be messi and Ronaldo levels of production or bare minimum salah/haaland.
 

The most similar player to Wirtz statistically

Isn't he supposed to have a very questionable character to say the least.tge club normally does extensive checks on personality so if that's the case I don't think he would be a target
 
If pep got cherki working hard then pep will get a statue in every corner. Cherkis talent with a mad man's mentality would grant us a bonafide superstar for a decade but I just don't see that happening. He'll revert a lot and would be a bit part player who will still be good but not elite and pep will eventually get annoyed at him.
At the price he is minimal risk though.
If we signed him and he was crap, I'm sure we could still sell him at a profit
 

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