Jorginho

[jrb]

Red Cafe loving this.

Just like they did when they signed Sanchez.

The rest is history.

Let him and his family have money, London and nothing else.

We move on. We will buy another player. And as Pep does, he will make him into a better player.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Frenkie De Jong?

 

[jrb]

Weaker because our only defensive midfielder is now 33 and had no preseason.

We've gone from a fresh 32 year old Fernandinho with old Yaya as an emergency to....33 year old knackered Fernandinho with no cover.

There is no way you can spin that into being better.

Knackered?!

F*** off, knee jerk reaction fan.

If f***ing hate City fans like you. You obviously have a short and ungrateful memory.

 

[domalino]

Knackered?!

F*** off, knee jerk reaction fan.

If f***ing hate City fans like you. You obviously have a short and ungrateful memory.

Yes knackered as in exhausted, extremely tired. As in, 33 years old, played 50 games this season and hasn't had a summer break.

Also there's no fucking point in putting asterisks in your swearwords, your mum isn't looking.

 

[Heart.net]

Weaker because our only defensive midfielder is now 33 and had no rest - the same midfielder who took 6 months break from playing well in 2014 because he was knackered after the last world cup.


We've gone from a fresh 32 year old fresh Fernandinho with old Yaya as an emergency to....33 year old knackered Fernandinho with no cover.

There is no way you can spin that into being better. A replacement is obviously needed - hence why Pep wanted Jorginho for £60m in the first place.

+1

 

[abu13]

Some people get way too worked up when a transfer falls down, I wanted him as much as the next fan but he has decided to go to London under a manager he knows well. we will identify an alternative and go from there, we have 4 weeks to go yet so no need to panic yet.

 

[LIBlue]

I continue to feel John Stones would make the perfect defensive midfielder, but whether Pep could teach him.

But he’s been solid in defense this wc and do you think pep would risk losing that?

 

[bellsouth]

Don’t you mean it’s more like the truth so you can tell yourself he chose money over glory? I don’t like London, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that he or his wife prefer that location. Add to that the fact his current manager is also moving there. Chelsea are a pull. For whatever reason it is, London seems to be too. We don’t have divine right to players just because we’ve started to win things

No you misunderstand me, I mean that it sounds like Chelsea offered more to Napoli (probably for both Sarri and Jorginho) - not that that player chose anything over anything.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Knackered?!

F*** off, knee jerk reaction fan.

If f***ing hate City fans like you. You obviously have a short and ungrateful memory.

Whooaah...

WTF?

Fernandinho is clearly knackered, as he would be, having played football continuously for two years.

As for Sad Cafe, there's no need to run off to see what they think, the penny hasn't even dropped yet that Jorginho going to Chelsea just makes United making top four all the more difficult.

 

[BigOscar]

Always seemed like Napoli were just playing for time, knowing that they were going to "sell" Sarri to Chelsea so they were obviously never going to sell Jorginho to us before the rival bidder came in, unless we offered way over the odds. At the end of the day, we had a price we wanted to pay and they've gotten a much bigger bid, so we've walked away. Just like Sanchez, and just like Sanchez I think it'll be the right decision.

I'd really be testing Wolves resolve for Ruben Neves tbh, offering Zinchenko plus big money. He's got everything to play that position for us and also has proven to have the physicality needed to play that position over here