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

[tolmie's hairdoo]

is anything moving at the minute ?

Not hearing so, Kaz.

As we all seem to suspect, probably because the players we are targeting are still involved in European competition.

The Carlos rumours are certainly gathering momentum.

 

[damrider]

KK officially off the rader?

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Tend to agree, as things stand, Ake, Mendy, Cancelo and Zinchenko is more than enough, with no firm suitors for the latter two.

Mendy is the only actual left back in that group and he has had regular fitness issues. I really hope we invest in a left back this summer, we’ve got by with limited contributions in attack from left back in previous seasons but it was an issue this year.

Considering we regularly play inverted wingers we need our full backs to give us width especially against parked buses and only Mendy gives us that. Zinchenko had a pretty poor season after a decent one last year and does look like kicking on. We will have a lot of matches with limited recovery time this season so 2 players per position is a must.

 

[HaalandEffect]

Angeliño says hello.
Zinchenko taking a Delph?

 

[philjoneswho?]

I've not seen anyone post that last bit but if they have, then they're crackers. That said if de Jong did have his heart set on being here, he would be here and not in Barcelona. If I wasn't a City fan, I'd be in Barcelona too.

If I remember rightly he wanted paying more than the likes of Kev and Sergio

Jesus.

 

[ctid1894]

Jesus.

I don't think he's on as much as Kev and Sergio

 

[Larry Stranger]

Mendy is the only actual left back in that group and he has had regular fitness issues. I really hope we invest in a left back this summer, we’ve got by with limited contributions in attack from left back in previous seasons but it was an issue this year.

Considering we regularly play inverted wingers we need our full backs to give us width especially against parked buses and only Mendy gives us that. Zinchenko had a pretty poor season after a decent one last year and does look like kicking on. We will have a lot of matches with limited recovery time this season so 2 players per position is a must.

Width doesn't only have to come from fullbacks if the wingers invert. Take our right side for example it's actually Kev that provides width while Walker only provides the occasional overlap. Mahrez stays wide and Kev does an underlapping run to put in a cross.

So for the left side if say Torres does play on the wing he could basically do the same as Mahrez and have Phil or Bernardo playing as the CM make a run toward the byline to cross. We've seen Dave do it from time to time as well.

 

[kaz7]

Not hearing so, Kaz.

As we all seem to suspect, probably because the players we are targeting are still involved in European competition.

The Carlos rumours are certainly gathering momentum.

Thank you

 

[bluemonkey71]

So we have about 185 million to splash?
How about a sneaky bid for the best midfielder in the league? I’ll get my coat...

 

[WRicko]

Just not something we have looked to pursue.

We don't get to hear half the names we actually express an interest in, Nouri is just another who was flagged up initially by our scouts.

It wasn't advanced, certainly not at the level previous reports had stated.

Are we looking at a left back ?