Jonny Evans

[blue by birth]

I’ve spoken to more than a few ‘Irish rags’, most of whom wish they had held on to Evans.

Well tell them he's available ... hopefully he might go back to the rags.

He's not quick enough to defend high up the pitch...he looks ok defending with a defensive minded team but I can see him getting skinned for pace if he tried defending high up the pitch which he would have to do with the way we play the game.

 

[blue by birth]

He made one good tackle, just about. Otherwise he was his usual awful self.

Mangala was one our best players v girona...he's not the greatest player but not as bad as you make him out to be mate.

 

[urban genie]

Yeah course mate. Not one mention of Maguire in 400 pages before Match of the Day now a whole raft.

Just coincidence obviously

I mentioned him alongside Keane as an example, of if we were after homegrown why didn't we go for either wasn't a comment exclusively about him, also as this is the Evans thread and at least 300 of the 400 pages of people calling him a rag doubt the actual discussion on alternatives had been covered.
Name homegrown CB available this summer at around 20M and only 2 come to mind McGuire and Keane so as examples of similar players to evans of course I mentioned them, regardless of MOTD which I hardly watch as shearer is a **** unless I am awake on a sunday morn

 

[Willie Wontie]

Up to £30 million now according to the Times

 

[richards30]

Up to £30 million now according to the Times

Fuck that!!!! Don't want him here anyway, let alone for anything close to that. Could dinho not drop back into CB if required?

 

[Neville Kneville]

My feeling is that Kompany may very well prove to be a weak link in this defensive lineup if he plays on the right not in the middle. If he does we'll be in a right mess.

'A' weak link rather than 'the' weak link surely.

Just watching the rags yesterday & how obvious it was that Mourinho has spotted what a bunch of galumping oafs most central defenders are & has planned a selection of runners to exploit it.

We are building a back 3 to fit in with his plan.

 

[MarsLlama]

Was this not available to them when they purchased Mangala, Bony, I don't need to list the other flops but you get my point, you can't use that as a reason to big up Evans when it plainly has failed to spot all the other shite signings.

20-30m

Tyrone Mings 24yo
Craig Dawson 27yo
Ben Mee 27yo, solving all the home grown issues in a stroke no less.

If we were in need of this centre half all summer why did we allow Everton a free run at Keane an ex red but 5 years younger and with improvement still to come, fee 25m rising to 30m.

Also to base the Evans signing on the slight possibility that we sign Sanchez and Mbappe inside the next month is a bit of a joke in itself, if the case was FFP related it would be better no to waste the damned money on a player in the first place and maybe just maybe Pep can use his vaunted ability to make Tosin the centre half he desires, I mean he is a top coach, famed for plucking that German kid from the lower leagues and making him an international, get it done at City please.

I'm getting really sick of saying this but if Tosin isn't mentally good enough then there's very little Pep can do. Players who cannot concentrate for more than twenty minutes at a time are too risky to play in the Premier League.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I'm getting really sick of saying this but if Tosin isn't mentally good enough then there's very little Pep can do. Players who cannot concentrate for more than twenty minutes at a time are too risky to play in the Premier League.

That's Otamendi fucked then.

 

[Marvin]

This is what happens when you leave making such a key signing until a week before the end of the window shuts. Back-up for Kompany was a key requirement because he's vulnerable to injury, and the other central defenders go to pieces without him. However, I have no problem with Evans. He's the ideal type of player who could come in and replace Kompany and organise our back 4. He's far better than the critics on here suggest whose prejudice against him comes down entirely to the team be used to play for.

Seems to me a deal has fallen through and we now have the money to do this.

 

[Steve68]

Just noticed Harry Maguire went to Leicester for an initial fee of £12,000,000. It knocks me sick that we're going in for Evans when we could have had Maguire. We'll probably sign Maguire in 3 years for silly money.

We could have had Stones for seven mill from Barnsley at a time his potential was well known.

We could have had Dijk from Celtic.

Sometimes we just don't seem interested in what's going on in our own backyard.

Anything above 20 mill for Evans is both taking the piss and signalling everyone else to take the piss.