Jonny Evans

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Haha!

 

[waspish]

Fcuk me do people still care about the MONEY.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Fcuk me do people still care about the MONEY.

Can you lend me a tenner?

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Fcuk me do people still care about the MONEY.

A lot of our supporters are accountants - apparently.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Brilliant sums up a lot of feelings on here.

I've gone beyond disbelief and started to find it all funny because what else is left?

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

In a perfect world, we'd all want Sanchez, Rose or Bertrand, VVD & Mbappe if we stood a chance. As it stands FFP is still the spectre on our horizon, so if Pep doesn't want to spunk £60m-£70m on VVD and instead wants Evans as a compromise to keep his powder dry for other targets, who are we to argue?

Pep sees Mangala every day in training & clearly doesn't want him, so is anyone saying that Pep hasn't weighed up Evans and seen him as the better option? WBA fans have all been saying he's been their best & most consistent player over the last two years and several Rags who've commented on the speculation say that out of Jones, Smalling & Jones, Jones is the last one who should have been sold. Apparently even Ferguson openly expressed surprise that Evans was allowed to lead never mind for the £6m ManUre got for him.

Fans will always put local rivalry to the fore, but Pep and his team aren't City fans, they're employees & professionals and just want the best tools we can afford so they can do the best for themselves and ultimately our club. When I first heard I thought Evans to City was just silly media speculation, but now it's obvious it's concrete, I'm prepared to put my faith in our management team that they know what they're doing.

I saw Barca the other day, & they're a pale shadow of the team Pep vacated. He was criticised for some of the things he did in his final season at Barca, but looking back now, it seems he has history on his side. We should trust in Pep's judgement until he gives us a reason not to, & I'm sorry ladies & gents, buying Evans as a replacement for Mangala isn't a good enough reason not to trust Pep's judgement....

Far too sensible for the overriding narrative on this thread but it is a big like from me.

So assuming Evans is finalised, defensively we have vastly improved:

Ederson > Bravo
Walker > Zaba
Danilo > Sagna
Mendy > Clichy
Evans > Kola

Not perfect, paid a fortune as well but I would have snapped anyone's hand off for that at the start of the window.

 

[BlueRockape]

Fcuk me do people still care about the MONEY.

Yes I think they do especially when we are spunking it on washed up shit like evans

 

[Cobwebcat]

Can you lend me a tenner?

Very city like, you could have got twenty there I think.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Very city like, you could have got twenty there I think.

The joke will be on him, because I was only after a fiver.

 

[RandomJ]

Wait it's £27 million now?! Enough to have Txiki submitted for a 48 hour psychiatric evaluation.