Kalidou Koulibaly

[ctid1894]

I'm sure the strategy is to win the CL sooner than later and to provide Pep with sufficiently good signings to do it while he is still here. He might fail to win it but we won't treat him as a stepping stone whose task is to leave a strong team for the next manager. We will sign a ready made CB, not one with bags of potential who may or may not come good in 2-3 years. And among those who have enough CL experience and are quick, Koulibaly is regarded as one of the best. I don't know whether and how much we want Koulibaly. But I can see why we may be after him.

No one said anything about treating Pep as a stepping stone, far from it. That said if Pep doesn't leave a strong team for the next manager, we'll all consider it to be a bit of a failure in part. We've seen what short term planning did at Trafford, Whisky Nose fucked them over royally chasing the last few trophies with old players and left them in a complete mess.

Of course we want to win it sooner rather than later, that's just bloody obvious but we won't suddenly change the transfer strategy which has brought us from nothing effectively to becoming the most dominant team in the country over the last 10 years over a panic buy (which is what Koulibaly would be if the club followed some posters advice to just "give them the money, stop haggling about the price and get it done" on here).

 

[RayCTID]

Have we sent the winning offer by pigeon?

Gone up in the world it is now sent by Telex.

 

[mccity]

Kompany was 33 y.o. when he helped us win the battle with Liverpool. And he had many injuries behind him. Koulibaly looks quite fit and quicker than Kompany. So, he might be pretty good at 33, who knows?

I trust Txiki and Pep to take the right decision whether we really need Koulubaly and how much to pay for him.

I don't think Kompany had even notably dipped, despite his injury and age. He'd play well, get injured, come back, look like he's never been out of the team, and then get injured again. And repeat. Whatever flaws that were present in his game in his later years were there prior for me. It's just he was so injury prone you were gambling on him being available all the time.

So if a crock like Kompany can still keep to his high levels at a later age with a horrible injury record, then there's no reason someone like Koulibaly can't either.

 

[Keeper!]

How do you know they need money and that Koulibaly wants to join City?

Napoli have had a civil war all season, my word the players went on strike.

Covid and no supporters has hit them hard, no massive TV deals to bail them out.

Do you think we would spend months negotiating with a player who does not want to join us?

 

[ctid1894]

The point was a tongue in cheek one, about the “big 8” who signed the pathetic letter, and in particular the east lancs inbreds, I appreciate they didn’t finish in the top 8

Too clever for me, doesn't take much.

 

[Gumzy97]

Napoli have had a civil war all season, my word the players went on strike.

Covid and no supporters has hit them hard, no massive TV deals to bail them out.

Napoli cant buy Gabriel till Koulibaly is off the wage bill the guys on 9million euros a year , their club are also paying Manolas 7million euros a year

 

[Keeper!]

Yes probably. And hopefully our last business with Napoli once this is done.

Never say never.

 

[Parisian]

This is getting boring now.

Abdellah Boulma (first guy quoted by this City twitter page) doesn't know shit.

He doesn't even know shit for us PSG but he wants to make people believe he has some informations about an italian team selling a player to an english one.

 

[skyblues]

If you show concern in the transfer forum the twats come out of the woodwork. You'll get used to it.

I don’t really get why anyone on here would be churlish against a fellow City-supporter but whatever floats their boat. Maybe they increase their badass status here, fk knows!

 

[RayCTID]

I don’t really get why anyone on here would be churlish against a fellow City-supporter but whatever floats their boat. Maybe they increase their badass status here, fk knows!

We are all equal.