It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[worsleyweb]

Still puzzled why we need to offload Zinchenko. If the official site is correct we only have 16 foreign players. Am I missing something?

it would suggest we are buying another?

 

[Centurions]

Wanna bet ?? I’ll bet you as much money as you like ?

Which shade of blue are you talking about because it's certainly not MCFC blue.

 

[K8babes]

10p?

you owe me 10p

 

[Stoned Rose]

If only we had 4 x Yaya's in midfield now we'd be laughing

Mr Kipling is erect to this post.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

you could argue we should have been doing this for the last 6 weeks


No basis?
So we didn’t accidentally put a reference to koulibaly in our website?

good point re mendy. We should play him every week now rather than let him be shit, financially it makes no difference...bit like him on the pitch!
I said loan out btw not sit in stands

as for alaba not wanting to come ‘by all accounts’ was koulibaly and kounde not our first picks ‘by all accounts’

Yep - no basis. Khaldoon has already stated we have a number of options we look at for each position, so taking him at his word I expect we had three or four angles we were working. It’s not as simple as just picking a player and trying to sign him - there are too many variables for such a simple approach (it would be particularly naive when dealing with ADL to assume anything will do according to plan). So I’m quite sure we were planning to fill the right footed CB position - not just for Koulibaly alone. Dias was part of these plans, clearly.

And our unprofessional media team putting collateral together for a Koulibaly release really has no bearing on our football operations’ plans for the season. I doubt it was ever that close. They were clearly putting together the framework for a cb signing, and used KK as the most likely option at the time. Which emphasises the point on the disconnect!

And I never advocated playing Mendy as first choice - I said I think we’ll bring a new first choice LB in if we can, and Mendy will then be back up. Which will take the pressure off, and allow us to play him in lesser games to try and get some kind of form back into him. No one is going to loan him now, unless we pay most of his wages - they’d basically be doing us a favour - so we might as well try and rebuild him.

And if Alaba ever ends up joining City, I’ll come back on here, apologise to you and admit I was wrong. I believe we looked at him given his contract situation earlier this summer, but signed Ake (who would fill the same left footed cb, and back up lb/dm role) instead. That certainly suggests there was no deal to be done.

 

[Phil1]

but you call him hun......

That’s only to keep up the pretence that K8 babes is a teenage girl and not in fact some overweight bloke in his 40’s living in his mums box room.

 

[Dobsy]

Still puzzled why we need to offload Zinchenko. If the official site is correct we only have 16 foreign players. Am I missing something?

Think I saw an earlier poster explaining something like one of our homegrown actually counts as a foreign spot for some reason. So right now we cant bring in unless we ship out.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Still puzzled why we need to offload Zinchenko. If the official site is correct we only have 16 foreign players. Am I missing something?

I have heard we do have a foreign spot free, so it might be down to the wage bill ?

But then we have offloaded Silva's

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Still puzzled why we need to offload Zinchenko. If the official site is correct we only have 16 foreign players. Am I missing something?

I doubt your missing something mate.....you probably have more than you should have,going off your location ;)

 

[Cellarite]

Haha, couldn't agree more!

I'll add 'Double Pivot' and 'Low Block' into the mix as well.....you know what they mean and what people are talking about, but bloody hell, people just trying to sound clever, trendy and technical....does my head in :)

You can add them if I'm allowed to add "upgrade", "CDM" and "EPL".