It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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tolmie's hairdoo said:
Sterling sounds like it could be a bit longer yet, talks not opened as yet with Foden.

But yep, expect all three to be done at some point before the summer is out.

Stones is more urgent.
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Foden is a reward based new contract so no hurry there, Sterling is agent change impacted so could be a little while stones I agree is key currently for a couple of reasons.
 
Coatigan said:
Pretty much. We are at full capacity as it is. Sergio frees up a squad space. Dinho if he leaves frees up another. Any new player, englishnor otherwise takes up one ofnthose two spots. So there is room in the squad, just not as HG players. If we ignore the fact carson exists, like most do, that frees up another space in the squad, but not a HG spot as we'd still have 4.

In summary. Currently, no space in squad (giving carson the benefit of existance). 2 spaces for incoming players replacing Sergio and dinho, irrespective of nationality (or age, if we expect them to play CL). Anything above that requires people leaving.
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Wonder if the Mahrez rumours will turn out ot have any relevance on this......
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Sterling sounds like it could be a bit longer yet, talks not opened as yet with Foden.

But yep, expect all three to be done at some point before the summer is out.

Stones is more urgent.
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will Sterling renew though? He might keep his options open and run down his contract
 
blueparrot said:
H.G Stones, Sterling, Walker, Ake. guess Carson my go. Club trained Foden
Non H.G Ederson, Steffen, Cancelo, Mendy , Zinchenko, Dias, Laporte, Rodri, Bernardo, KDB, Gundogan, Torres, Mahrez, Jesus
14. Which as far as I can see leaves 3 spots whether homegrown or non homegrown, Aguero and Fern replacements 3rd keeper, Or we promote an academy keeper and have one spare space.
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Cant really see us promoting a keeper from the youth team.

Muric has been acting up a bit lately to say the least and I'm not sure City like what they see there. Showed up drunk for international duty and was sent home.

Bazunu looks promising and had a great debut for Ireland. He'll be strongly considered for Ireland's next no.1 (not saying much, but he'd be beating the dippers Kelleher to the spot).

Not sure being 3rd choice is what's best for his development though... probably why City have favoured retirees.
 
blueparrot said:
H.G Stones, Sterling, Walker, Ake. guess Carson my go. Club trained Foden
Non H.G Ederson, Steffen, Cancelo, Mendy , Zinchenko, Dias, Laporte, Rodri, Bernardo, KDB, Gundogan, Torres, Mahrez, Jesus
14. Which as far as I can see leaves 3 spots whether homegrown or non homegrown, Aguero and Fern replacements 3rd keeper, Or we promote an academy keeper and have one spare space.
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Yep. 2 spots if carson stays, 3 if he leaves and is replaced by an academy keeper that counts as club trained in CL. More likely we bring in another keeper with experience though and leaves 2 spots.
 
I know it's unlikely but if Sterling doesn't want to renew I wonder whether City will look to offload him this summer? Foden's taken his place and whilst I still think he's a class player, relatively young etc, I can't imagine City will be comfortable with him running down his contract. Plus with our unexpected financial loss (I know this was partly down to Covid) could we see him sold to help bring in other players?
 
domalino said:
I wasn't really even considering if there would be foreign spots free, just pointing out that because we're already oversubscribed in association HG players, Grealish is going to take one of those foreign spots unless 2 of the 5 current HG players leave, so he's no different to Aouar in that respect.

What we really need are some more academy players coming through and taking squad roles so we can tap into those 4 club trained slots that have been empty since Micah left.

If we can do that then we'll never have to worry about foreign squad places again, because Pep and most other modern managers only want about 21/22 players in the squad.
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academy players coming through onlynfrees up foreign spots if those academy players replace the foreign ones.
 
simon23 said:
He has already turned us down....no point
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No he hasn't, he said when as an 18 year old signing for his home city team, he turned down Manchester.That doesn't mean if he leaves Paris as a 21 year old Manchester is still ruled out. Think he would prefer Spain but that might not be an option. I think he's unlikely to come to us but I wouldn't rule it out either.
 
Coatigan said:
Maybe, but we'd still need a 3rd keeper that counts as club trained. Must have 3, part of CL rules.
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2 goalies surely on the A list, there's no requirement to even put in a B list.

Edit:-

If a club cannot count on the services of at least two goalkeepers registered on List A because of long-term injury or illness (i.e. one that lasts 30 days), a club can temporarily replace him at any time during the season.

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All you need to know: Champions League group stage squads | UEFA Champions League 2019/20

The group stage squads were submitted on Tuesday – we explain the process.
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blueparrot said:
No he hasn't, he said when as an 18 year old signing for his home city team, he turned down Manchester.That doesn't mean if he leaves Paris as a 21 year old Manchester is still ruled out. Think he would prefer Spain but that might not be an option. I think he's unlikely to come to us but I wouldn't rule it out either.
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I think he turned down City, not the city of Manchester - it was specifically our club. The club, not the geography.
 
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