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Jules Koundé
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01cravend
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Lots of clowns with no understanding of transfers or negotiations on this thread.
If you run a successful football club, like any business, a key part fo what you do is to try to get value for money with all your purchases. That's Txiki's job and he's done it very well so far. If we were to just panic and throw the asking price at every player we were interested in we'd be the club that many ill-informed balloons already accuse of being: a wealthy Arab plaything who inflate the transfer market. And we'd get done in every transaction we made.
We are clearly going to be signing a centre half and the club's track record is more than enough for me to be relaxed and judge them after the window closes. Many big deals - and these are worth enormous amounts of money - take time. You can't negotiate by appearing desperate.
I mean surely we've just inflated the market with signing of Ake as correct me if i'm wrong, he's the most expensive player from a relegated team of all time.
Didsbury Dave
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The problem with that is that as we learned last season there's a limited number of players able to play in central defence for a title winning side
Of course. So we make sure we sign one who is good enough. I believe we will.
JimmyGrimble10
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So sensitive....This was a shady thing to say, dissing our team
Sevilla Director of Football, Monchi: "If they [#ManCity] came back [for Jules Koundé], we would listen to them again and reply to them again. Knowing Koundé, I'm sure he's thinking more about Lewandowski, Muller, Sane or Gnabry than other things." [via
@eldesmarque_sfc
On the other foot, a bad game against Bayern would certainly get 90% of this forum to moan and not want him anymoreFor what it's worth, a standout game vs. Bayern would certainly add to his price, so I hope we sort this out before then.
I just feel we have another prick to deal with now. First ADL and now this guy. A professional sporting director doesn’t go out in public with comments like these. He just wanna look like a macho man. Could never see Txiki do the same.
And he seem to refer to the release clause of 90m euros. There’s no fucking way we’re paying that money for Koundé. He looks promising but we could have gotten De Ligt last summer with that money.
Let’s hope for a few own goals and a red card then.For what it's worth, a standout game vs. Bayern would certainly add to his price, so I hope we sort this out before then.
I just feel we have another prick to deal with now. First ADL and now this guy. A professional sporting director doesn’t go out in public with comments like these. He just wanna look like a macho man. Could never see Txiki do the same.
And he seem to refer to the release clause of 90m euros. There’s no fucking way we’re paying that money for Koundé. He looks promising but we could have gotten De Ligt last summer with that money.
what? that's a completely benign statement lol
Ancoats blue
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I've seen it quoted as "I'm sure he's thinking more about defending against Lewandowski, Muller, Sane or Gnabry than other things".
For context, Sevilla just qualified for the Champions League and Bayern are European champions so it's not necessarily a dig at City.
Yep, his words were just aimed at their upcoming confrontation in the UEFA Super Cup on Thursday with Bayern, and wouldn't have been any kind of dig at City.