Jonny Evans

[Jazzman]

Maybe Mangala doesn't want to be fourth choice and would rather leave and play somewhere else where he'd feel valued.

Having said that we should be looking at other options though.

Presumably our budget is prioritized for other targets though. Jonny Evans is presumably regarded as a cheap but viable temporary solution and will replaced with a top CB in a future transfer window.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

As opposed to pep not fucking thinking lol

I'm sure he would have weighed it up. He's now reading this thread like

 

[Neville Kneville]

Agree.
In May, I watched him make mistake after mistake at the etihad. Bullied by aguero and Jesus. If he were to play in chimps league a disaster.

Tbh, he would be better than Tosin imo, who isn't ready & needs to go out & learn to play v senior pros.

I don't like stop gap signings at all, but we've clearly made a fucking mess of signing a cb & perhaps Evans is the only one who might be available.

 

[J_MCFC21]

They rejected 20m so now we offer 25m ?

 

[Neville Kneville]

They rejected 20m so now we offer 25m ?

Now we forget the smokescreen & dive straight in for Phil Jones.

 

[Bozo]

What the fuck is going on

 

[MarsLlama]

So why is he not already at a top four side? In fact why did Utd let him go given he's superior to so many other cbs?

Because West Brom want to keep hold of him and when he's there he can be the captain and MVP (if you'll excuse the term). United let him go because they had far better defenders then than they do now, Evans would walk into their team ahead of Lindelof and Smalling in my opinion, and would partner Bailly.

 

[MarsLlama]

I see that as a damning indictment of defenders in the Premier League.

For the most part they're shite. I mean, Joel Ward? Really?

 

[Marvin]

no...we add a third quality centre half so we have rotation without a huge drop off in quality..which is what we will have with evans....the squad depth is constantly spoken about on here....this signing doesnt add to it

All that bothers me is can he do a job for City in the absence of Kompany, and I think he can. VVD would make me even more confident but if we do that, we push back Stones. It's a good move for City. On paper anyway. Especially if it allows us to go for a striker. That is an aspect that is being ignored here. At the weekend Pep said he wanted 1-2 more players. This is part of the package. I cant compare Evans to VVD and say that Evans is better, but it's not as simple as that.

 

[GX Blue]

I wonder how many people will get EVANS on the back of there new City shirt?