It's Quiet the £250m return

leighton said:
I think Rico Lewis will stay he's still what 21 and had a bad season like everyone at the club he has more potential to be Walkers long term replacement than Nunes does.
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Rico is still only 20. He does not use up a squad place and Pep obviously rates him. So many on here just want to get rid of him because they don't like him. Fortunately, Pep decides these things and not the haters.
 
Wouldn’t surprise me if we got Rico to sign a new deal, then loaned him out to a mid table Prem side to get more minutes/games under his belt.
 
Ste68 said:
Agree 100% with this. Not sure it will be our Midfield but that's his position. Great at finding space and excellent touch but not seen him do enough with it yet. However, if we are looking to shore up a lead and see a game out can see him put on to do just that - retain possession , kill a game.
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Our midfield options for next season should be

Bernardo , Rodri, Nico , Rico, Reijnders

Really good spread of ages and they all bring something a little different

Depending on the formation we will play 2 or 3 of these in every game

Over the course of the season that’s up to 180 games across 5 players

Rico should get plenty of game time next season and like you say would be used to kill off games and keep possession
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Rico is still only 20. He does not use up a squad place and Pep obviously rates him. So many on here just want to get rid of him because they don't like him. Fortunately, Pep decides these things and not the haters.
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He is expendable however in a good structured team who maintains possession well, he's a great option off the bench to keep it ticking along as that's the part of his game that is good enough for us when in control of games, tidy on the ball.
 
The problem that let's Rico down is his physical attributes. He's too small and too weak for the fullback role.

Look at someone two years younger than him in Myles lewis skelly he's the same technically as rico but is taller and stronger. Can hold off a winger just by using his strength.

Rico can read a tackle but he can't hold off a Winger or full back who's bigger than him. Too many times he ends up on the floor, ref won't give it as a foul either.

Most of the top level fullbacks have both attributes of physicality and technical ability, Nuno Mendes an example strong,fast and technically sound.
 
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I think without sounding obvious we’re going through a squad transition like we haven’t seen under Pep since he signed. We have signed 10 players since last summer - 9 of which Pep hadn’t managed before (gundo). He’d come from inverting Lahm into midfield at Bayern, to trying it with Angelino or Maffeo(?) whilst playing Kolarov as a ball playing CB. Looking at Rayan and possibly Tino at RB, we may be going back to overlapping fullbacks like Mendy/walker/Danilo. Maybe a Pep Reinders influence…but Pep has done this before in 17/18. Pep is a genius, constantly innovating, but sometimes overthinks and gets it wrong - 6 leagues in 9 shows he gets it right more often, than wrong. All the signs are he’s re-invigorating the squad and its age, to being challenged with a raft of new coaching staff with their own ideas. Reinders reminds me a bit of Arteta in that sense. Even with Nunez at RB (and I think that’s a fantastic option) I wouldn’t change our first 11 for that of L’pool or Arsenal. I don’t even think that would change if l’pool signed Isak - which ironically, means if we got Tino, I cannot for the life of me believe Newcastle would allow Isak to go.
 
simon23 said:
If Rico Lewis and Gundo are part of our midfield options at any point in the season from now, then the transfer window has been a failure.

Same can be said for Nunes or Rico at right back
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Especially when arsenal are just about to add Gyökeres, Zubimendi and Eze to their ranks with hardly any noise about it? Makes them a lot stronger in their necessary positions and will be a real problem to us next season as it proved the other night that our issues still remain. We have allowed the pack to not only catch up but potentially in the blink of an eye go past us slightly
 
Damocles said:
Frimpong, who many here wanted us to sign before Liverpool signed him, is 5"6'.
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Theres a difference Xabi Alonso and Frimping himself said in their title winning season that he was in the gym more had bulked up going from 60kg to 68kg to BILD which resulted in his best ever season. Before that he had the same problems being out muscled.

Also did 1 on 1 sessions to improve his explosiveness which he said in an interview with Leverkusen.
 
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I normally a very optimistic person when it comes to City and how we'll do...

Unfortunately it seems like there's a gap appearing between ourselves and the dippers, Plus Arsenal are making very good signings this summer too if they get them over the line, Both clubs have strengthened really well.

We are going through a transition and it could well be one that will take a few seasons, Who knows...

We need to sell an awful lot from the squad and still bring in 3 or 4 top players, Right back and Centre back needs to be a priority.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Wouldn’t surprise me if we got Rico to sign a new deal, then loaned him out to a mid table Prem side to get more minutes/games under his belt.
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He played 3160 minutes across 44 games last season. That's in the top five across England for players who were under 20 at the start of the season. You'd have to be playing nearly every game at a club that's not in Europe, or going deep into the cups, to beat that - McAtee, for example, didn't get anywhere close to that number of minutes when he was on loan.

So, unless City think he's being pushed a long way back down the pecking order, it wouldn't make much sense.
 
bluenova said:
He played 3160 minutes across 44 games last season. That's in the top five across England for players who were under 20 at the start of the season. You'd have to be playing nearly every game at a club that's not in Europe, or going deep into the cups, to beat that - McAtee, for example, didn't get anywhere close to that number of minutes when he was on loan.

So, unless City think he's being pushed a long way back down the pecking order, it wouldn't make much sense.
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Yes, but it was far too many minutes for us last season, and he looked out of his depth for the vast majority of those games. If he played that many minutes for us this season then something would have had to have gone massively wrong.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Yes, but it was far too many minutes for us last season, and he looked out of his depth for the vast majority of those games. If he played that many minutes for us this season then something would have had to have gone massively wrong.
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I know you've mentioned a loan deal in a previous post, Personally I don't think he will ever get himself into the starting 11 regularly as I don't think he's good enough.

We would all love Rico to succeed especially coming through the academy and being a blue, Unfortunately we still don't know what his best position is for us, Maybe the coaches are partly to blame for that? He's obviously been playing as an inverted right back alot of the time along with playing as an attacking midfield on a rare occasion like against Forest in the cup.

He's turning 21 in November, Maybe he'll want a move away too for regular first team football...Football is a short career so he'll surely want to make the most of it.
 
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