Josko Gvardiol

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not my fault! said:
I just can’t see us paying it, we don't work that way at all. I sadly feel this is one of those drawn out deals that’ll fail to get done and someone else will swoop in and just pay the fee they want. I get the principle of the club, I genuinely do but I sometimes feel we need to just get the player we want rather than stringing it out,
Rice is the perfect example (I wasn’t convinced about him to be honest and stated it many tInes) we offered £80m + £10m, so we valued him at £80m but were willing to extend that by another £10m if we achieved certain goals that guaranteed us a financial return. If he was who we really wanted though we could of still valued him at £80m and paid it, but increased the £10m to £20m and strung it out over a longer period which in turn would of meant financial rewards for us having achieved the triggers that require us to pay it.
It made zero sense to walk away over a figure that could have been justifiable long term.
The media can spin it how they like but the initial fee before bonuses is our valuation, the rest is a sweetener based on us succeeding and whoever the player is doing so too.
What did we win this season? £295m? lets hypothetically say we win £400m over the next two seasons under Pep and let’s take Rice as an example again, that’s £20m over those 2 seasons extra in payments we’d have to pay out of the £400m return.
It was a no brainier, we had nothing to lose as the extra bonus payments were only payable had we hit our goals and collected further trophies.
Anyway back to Gvardiol, I think he’d be an outstanding addition but I suspect he needs to a) publicly declare his ambition to sign for us, b) City need to go in hard with a genuine and realistic offer, and c) we need to wrap this up in days not weeks.
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Whilst I really admired this lad at the world Cup, why not keep Laporte and give him more game time?
 
Coatigan said:
As much as we'd love to see it get done quickly, hard to see. For a start, the player is currently injured, and undergoing recovery. Delays any possible medicals etc. Then there is the fee, which will be huge. Then there is also potentially knowing what's happening with Laporte as well. And longer term, someone needs to free up a space. A few things need to click into place.

They are in a stronger position, when it comes to the fee. There is a 100m release clause next year, so it is pay that now, or wait a year and pay it anyway. That said, it seems like there is some understanding there as they are away securing a replacement.

There doesn't seem to be anyone else competing, he doesn't seem interested in anyone else if you go by the reports, so it is a bit of patience and letting the clubs do their thing. And hopefully a but of good will beteeen the clubs too, over helping them out with Angelino when they 'struggled' to pay us the fee for him.
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I’m usually a wait it out and see guy, no rush it’ll happen when it happens etc etc, but for some reason I feel differently about this one.
 
100 million euros for Gvardiol is a bargain, really don't understand why Leipzig are not asking for more, he's going to be the best CB in the world if he continues at the rate he's improving.
 
Tevez City said:
Thats my maximum valuation for him.

I wasn't impressed with him when City faced them in the CL, he was eemmM Ok player
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He did better than Haaland when he faced us. Outside of putting Ruben on his arse once, he was invisible. Gvardiol scored against us, and did ok against Haaland, but his team was horrible, so there is only so much he can do...
 
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