It's Quiet the £250m return
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Gabriel
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I’d say Gvardiol ahead of Dias.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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All City’s fault. Should have moved him on after a year and accepted he couldn’t fit our system.
bluemoon32
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The spine is great, the rest is where the drop off is
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Strange that we just extended Dias contract to 4 years and Lewis’s to 5 years.
NQCitizen
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Donnarumma
Gvardiol
Dias
Rodri
Reijnders
Foden
Cherki
Marmoush
Haaland
Is as good a spine as Liverpool and Arsenal. Younger too.
People act like having Nunes instead of Connor Bradley or Doku instead of Trossard is costing us a place in the top 4.
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We don't have a small squad, Akanji is leaving because he won't be registered due to our excess of non-HG players.
NQCitizen
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Our only vocal leader and one of the best U21 right back / midfielders in the world who is club trained.
Not that odd imo
Dias, man is in an alarming drop in performance. Was no nonsense dude, and increasingly he is more about tabloids and publicity. Since that new bird of his, which makes his new deal bit surprising. He hasn’t been the Dias we know for almost 2 years.
Love the guy, but we need that First interview Dias when he signed back!!
Love the guy, but we need that First interview Dias when he signed back!!
GazM
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Unfortunately his loan spells at both West Ham & Ipswich have not been a huge success. Whilst his stock has fallen his wages haven't sadly. Can't understand why he was given a 6 year contract - someone needs shooting for that.
He’ll have both.
Gabriel
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But some players need a second year to get Pep’s system…
Phillips, Nunes, and maybe even Gonzalez. That could be the Holy Moly Trinity…
Stoned Rose
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That’s a cracking move for him.
SWPISHOME
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Could have potentially being a swap deal, Akanji a couple of million...
Doesn't also have to be a 5 year deal either, Akanji is currently on £180k a week, Dumfries reportedly earns near £100k a week...
Yet you seem to know what other people are saying without saying it and you also seek to recieve Dumfries pay slip...Good lad.
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So what is costing us? We’re nowhere near Liverpool and Arsenal at the moment, and the gap is getting bigger.
I agree that list is a bloody good set of players, so I’m guessing our main issues are the lack of goalscoring or creative wingers and no decent full backs.
Hmmm I would have preferred to give Dias 6-12 months to regain his level first.
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Looking at yesterday's khus over dias and the comments from pep on the goal.. I wonder if that khus 10 game clause was true and we were playing dias to get him to sign his deal, now hes signed - khus is rightly ahead.
NQCitizen
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So how many years do you expect Dumfries to want at 29? And not to try and get a pay rise as City's starting right back at one of the world's richest clubs?
You said "we should inquire" and I just responded with what it seemed like a market rate would be. Don't really need to be his agent to do that.
Gabriel
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Problem is only 5 of those names were available yesterday and 1 not even fully fit. On paper we have a good nucleus, but getting them fit and playing consistently is another matter.