It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Garcia mate, Laporte will come round eventually, he’s just not used to being on the bench.

Laporte to Barca rumors exist:

Man City Star 'Would Be Delighted' To Sign For Barcelona This Summer - Club 'Would Welcome' Arrival of Player

Manchester City centre-back Aymeric Laporte "would welcome" playing for Barcelona next season, according to Spanish journalist Miquel Blazquez.

www.si.com

I simply thought that such a deal went through having misheard in-game Euro commentary.

 

[doobyedoobye]

I don't really get this - if we lose Aguero and Bernado and replace them with Kane and Grealish, I think it's a step down in quality.

I get the shiny and new and English thing, and that Aguero didn't play much last season, but I don't buy in to this idea that we're getting massive upgrades to our squad.

If anything, the starting 11 is going to look weaker on paper next season that it has since Pep's first season.

I love Bernardo but he's hardly set the world alight recently and his issue with the climate etc .. has potentially hampered his development so I'm sticking my neck out to predict Grealish would have more impact next season on an upward trajectory.. and I just didn't see Sergio staying fit enough to make a long lasting contribution

 

[himalayan_blues]

Apologies

So here is Bernardo Silva's

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Grealish still = fuck all!

our club has passed the stage when we need winners to build a winning mentality. Our whole team is winners now. Any loosers who coome to this team will have a winning mentality.

 

[Coatigan]

It's all gone tits up on here, where the fuck is Tolmie?

He's still on Argentina time.

 

[Chi-town blues]

You don't buy footballers at our level and worry about resale value. You buy them because they're good enough to play for us.

With the academy players we're selling/sell on clauses etc we can easily make £50m a season nearly every season now. So you can write off a loss if you need to. Kane might get injured and not deliver. Haaland might join and get a career ending injury. You don't know what will happen there. Kane does have a history of problems but has still come back and scored a lot of goals each time.

I‘m not basing my opinion on unpredictability of injury coz its a contact sports after all but more along the lines , what if his playing style doesn’t fit as we hoped for ? what if he does Ibra the long nose ?
There are some many variables even at this level where the club is atm .
Theres a book we need to balance at the same time .

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[LongsightM13]

Neither would have made it with us so can’t really blame them, we would only have been extending to loan out and then sell. I suspect Bernabe will return to Spain, Barca B have been rumoured among others including David’s Real Sociedad. Felix has been linked with several Championship sides and Celtic but he may well try to piggyback the buzz around his brother’s Germany U21 success and look to the Bundesliga

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

I don't really get this - if we lose Aguero and Bernado and replace them with Kane and Grealish, I think it's a step down in quality.

I get the shiny and new and English thing, and that Aguero didn't play much last season, but I don't buy in to this idea that we're getting massive upgrades to our squad.

If anything, the starting 11 is going to look weaker on paper next season that it has since Pep's first season.

IMO
Grealish > Silva
Aguero > Kane - except that Aguero is in the twilight of his career and as of late, is frequently unable to start due to injury.

Anyhow, I rather doubt that we'll sign Kane, because Levy is - predictably - being entirely unreasonable.

 

[xgorton]

It's all gone tits up on here, where the fuck is Tolmie?

Wimbledon

 

[nmc]

It's all gone tits up on here, where the fuck is Tolmie?

Sat between these two on centre court !