Can we afford letting Laporte or Ake go and not bring anyone? Garcia won’t be here. Assume Ake goes and one of the three gets injured, it doesn’t look good
Why so cheap? No CL?Lyon would be open to sell Housem Aouar for €30m as per @lequipe
Thats a bargain
Surely he's reaching if he thinks he's going to get a pay rise based on his form over the last 12 months!?Spurs can't afford to pay Sterling's current £300k a week wages, never mind his anticipated rise.
Raheem might also have something to say about joining a club without its best striker and no Champions League football to speak of!!
Nice stadium, though!
he is not going anywhere neither is nathan or ferran , some people need to give their heads a wobbleI don’t want laporte to go .
Loads seem to get this wrong!!
Prem rules
We can have a squad of 25 players. All 25 can be HG, but as we have our full allocation of 17 foreign players, plus 4 HG, we can sign another 4 HG players without selling anyone.
CL rules
One difference in the fact that 4 of the HG players must’ve come through at your own academy
Why will it be built for CL rules? We play far more games in the PL than the CL.
Why would a HG player be ineligible for CL when we could just remove Mendy from CL squad?
For one we always have. Secondly No player first team squad will just accept not being included in the champions league squad. There is no way we will sign more than 21 eligible players, other than as I have said a 3rd keeper. Just removing Mendy,even if he is stiil with us which he probably won't be, isn't a real option. Anyway you look at it the 17 non homegrown plus 8 homegrown for the P/L is irrelevant to us. We will go with 17 free places plus 4 Homegrown (possibly 5 at the most if it's a keeper) Plus any club trained/U21.
No they mustn’t. They probably will but they don’t have to. Pretty certain Jovetic fell foul of this in the past, so no reason why Mendy won’t next season. That’s a plain & simple fact. Not my opinion, just a fact.
& I agree that this is unlikely.
You can say what you want (Blue)parrot fashion, but repeating it doesn’t make it a fact.
See what I did there? ;)
Edit.
What if we want rid of Mendy but he refuses to go. Don’t you think the club could say, fine, stay, but you won’t be in the CL squad?
imagine pep being answerable to gareth fucking southgate because raheem isn't playing as often as southgate feels he should :), LOFLHe doesn’t have to “answer to” anyone except his employers. Who are Manchester City FC and not the Spanish FA. What on earth are you talking about?
Not similar at all. I’m stating facts, you’re incorrectly stating something as fact when actually it is incorrect. You said we MUST have one in one out & we really don’t.
PL rules
25 players of which 25 could all be HG, but there is a maximum limit of 17 foreign players, that currently leaves us with 8 spots for HG, of which 4 are already taken this season, leaving 4 spots left for HG.
CL rules are similar in the fact we can have a squad of 25 homegrown players, but 4 have to be club trained. Again you’re allowed a maximum 17 of the 25 to be taken by foreign players, but could also have a squad of 21 HG players should we choose, plus 4 club trained. We currently have 17 + 4 with nobody club trained
So for PL
When Sergio leaves we’re down to 16 foreign players 5 HG as Foden will be over 21. That leaves us with 21, so we could sign another 4 HG players or 1 foreign & 3 HG as per the rules so definitely don’t have to sell anyone
CL
Again, when Sergio leaves: In the CL Foden will take one of the 4 club trained slots next season, so our A list will also include 21 players. 16 foreign, 4 HG & 1 club trained, so again, we can sign one more player, either HG or foreign.
Should we sign Grealish & nobody else, he would be eligible to be added to the CL squad as we haven’t used our full quota of foreign spots. If we sign anyone else, then one player would have to drop out of the squad to facilitate this as the 21 none club trained slots are taken. This does not mean we must sell anyone as you stated.
Ive agreed it’s unlikely, but factually we don’t have to sell anyone to sign another HG player even if we were to sign Haaland
It’s got nothing to do with seeing what happens, your post was factually incorrect, so I was just pointing that out to you as people seem to confuse the CL rules with the PL rules.
What you’ve suggested may well happen, I’ve never disputed that. But what I’ve said is 100% correct & factual, what you said wasn’t.
Apologies if you think I’m being a tit, (it comes naturally to me) but I’m not. I’m merely pointing something out which I’ve seen loads of people get confused about, so just trying to help people understand the rules.
CL & PL have slightly different rules