Josko Gvardiol

[mosssideblue]

Rag KFA reporter at the BBC.

Not a chance he has an inside track on this ahead of other reporters.

He's manage to convince the flappers on here that it's gospel and they're all at 30,000 ft

 

[Chi-town blues]

No biggie , we won the treble without him and will go again with or without him. One winger and we are good to go.
Come on city.

 

[Kamaro011]

Time to persuade Laporte to stay, move on and allocate those 100 mil on two wingers and a RCB.

He will never get more minutes again just like he did last season which only pissess him further. Another Cancelo situation waiting to happen next season.

 

[mosssideblue]

They have changed the terms of how it is to be paid at the last minute.

They want 90 per cent of the fee upfront. Snidey bastards.

Will we accommodate that?

 

[Any1aBlue]

Rag KFA reporter at the BBC.

Not a chance he has an inside track on this ahead of other reporters.

Thank you.KFA? (Does everyone talk in code nowadays?)

 

[vanchi]

I saw that too.

Don't feel like it quite makes sense. Usually release clauses come down (if anything) as the years remaining on the contract reduce. They only usually go up if the player signs a new contract. I've not known them to go up during a contract, but I guess it's possible that his contract says that at certain ages the clause will increase.

And I wondered if it meant the release clause is higher next season than it is now, but that wouldn't make sense as we'd just pay the release clause now probably. So it means next year the release clause is higher than what we are currently offering?

All just seems weird.

Anyway,at least Laporte looks happy in the tour photos I've seen so far.

there is no release clause this year. i think gvardiol was very clear about wanting to leave, official request submitted and all.
i have no doubt whatsoever that he genuinely wants to play for city and that he was presented with a very good plan.
sure, money is great but he did not push leipzig like this when chelsea wanted to buy him.

 

[CC1]

When we are told the value the selling club puts on a player when we enter negotiations we have 2 options. Walk away immediately if it is over budget and move on to the next target or try and negotiate it down.

Trying to negotiate a fee for months knowing that the selling club isn't going to drop their valuation and then walking away is a waste of everybody's time.

But the “rumours” are that the selling club are trying to get more …..rumours like every other post. We don’t fall for that. We have a squad that can cope - we’re not desperate

Anyway. We have to agree to disagree re our views & opinions on this issue

 

[ayrshire_blue]

We've had no concrete links to any other player besides Gvardiol.

Surely if we wanted a winger and we wanted a midfield player, we would have seen a lot more links to players?

I know you'll say, but City do things quietly... Well we all knew months before our targets were Bellingham, Haaland, Cucurella etc over the past year or so. That has been very clear.

I personally don't think we will bring in anyone to replace Mahrez (might be wrong). I just don't think Txiki and co fancy any player on the market in that position right now.

But the Mahrez situation only recently became apparent and has developed fairly rapidly, I don't see that as a failure. Infact, as with your last sentence, if Txiki and co don't see any player in the market of value and that position then that's reassuring. I wouldn't want us being reactive and and buying players for the sake of it - if they see fit that Alvarez/Bernardo/Foden/McAtee whoever is going to be our main player for down that right hand side then so be it, that's good enough for me.

 

[mosssideblue]

Thank you.KFA? (Does everyone talk in code nowadays?)

Know fuck all

 

[waspish]

Time to persuade Laporte to stay, move on and allocate those 100 mil on two wingers and a RCB.

Silva stays Laporte stays we fine with Oscar bob and Mcteer to play a few games