Kalidou Koulibaly

If Pep has got any sense he will give this guy a miss ..... for one thing he's too old ... and for another , from what I saw of him against Barcelona tonight , he's absolute crap ... he's probably even worse than anything we've already got, and that's saying something!
 
I’m going to be as nice as I can...

I can’t imagine KK in our team. The bits I’ve seen of him that I like I don’t think would suit us. The bits I’ve seen of him that I don’t like worry me in that I think he is prone to big rash errors and will cost us.

I trust City and Pep but I don’t see what they are seeing. Personally I wouldn’t buy him at all at any price so if he comes I hope I’m wrong.

Is there such a thing as a young Van Buyten out there..that’s what I’d like.

I’ve never known such a dearth of good centre halves.
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
It's genuinely sad, mate. Once a great position now seems an afterthought. What we would give for a Dave Watson or Vincent Kompany.
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Vinny learned to play there at PL level though. He was bitched by Peter Crouch when he first tried moving back there from midfield. And he was a bit David Luiz in his younger days at cb pre City

But he had the required stuff to work with.

Why we fuck around trying to teach little no marks like Garcia to defend I just don't get.

If it's not Koulibali, or another big singing, find a Vinny shaped character, with a brain & skill & teach him to defend instead of wasting time with a shit slow kid.
 
Curious how the other options have been doing since covid. Diego Carlos is the only other target I remember.
 
Neville Kneville said:
He's playing in a team he should already have left. They were a mess.

We have actually seen it many times in the past, when we were a mess, with players who have left City.

I don't believe we will sign him tbh but I hope we do.
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Gabriel said:
I'd agree with that. Looks to me as if he could do with a 4-5 weeks to get up to speed both with the system and the different pace of the game. I imagine the plan must have been to have Garcia and Laporte see us through until he was ready, so presumably, now, Fernandinho/Ake/Laporte will have to rotate until October.
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Koulibaly would be more at home in City's side on his first day than in this Napoli side. His performances have been going downhill the further the team get from Sarri's football, and I would imagine he'd love to go back to a side which dominates possession, plays a high line and presses like mad.

Throw in a bit of "his head's gone" type stuff, and IMO a bizarre penalty decision and you get tonights game.

It's not ideal to be getting someone who presumably is going to be a little low on confidence though, and I'm still slightly worried about the fact he's been a left sided player 90% of his career? Just adding difficulty to the transfer.

But Diego Carlos plays like a kid on FIFA who doesn't realise there's a standing tackle button as well as the slide tackle one. He spends 30% of the game on his backside.
 
Cobwebcat said:
I’m going to be as nice as I can...

I can’t imagine KK in our team. The bits I’ve seen of him that I like I don’t think would suit us. The bits I’ve seen of him that I don’t like worry me in that I think he is prone to big rash errors and will cost us.

I trust City and Pep but I don’t see what they are seeing. Personally I wouldn’t buy him at all at any price so if he comes I hope I’m wrong.

Is there such a thing as a young Van Buyten out there..that’s what I’d like.

I’ve never known such a dearth of good centre halves out there.
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Sorry, you've spent the last 10 years watching Mangala, Demichelis, Otamendi and Stones (and Laporte in the CL last year) and you can't imagine a CB in our side because he's prone to big rash errors???
 
Neville Kneville said:
Vinny learned to play there at PL level though. He was bitched by Peter Crouch when he first tried moving back there from midfield. And he was a bit David Luiz in his younger days at cb pre City

But he had the required stuff to work with.

Why we fuck around trying to teach little no marks like Garcia to defend I just don't get.

If it's not Koulibali, or another big singing, find a Vinny shaped character, with a brain & skill & teach him to defend instead of wasting time with a shit slow kid.
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Least with Vinny he had the physical attributes......although so did Mangala.

But Kompany had the fucking minerals and the brains.

Yeah, happy for Barca to take Garcia at the right price. I don't think he's the correct fit for us.
 
domalino said:
Koulibaly would be more at home in City's side on his first day than in this Napoli side. His performances have been going downhill the further the team get from Sarri's football, and I would imagine he'd love to go back to a side which dominates possession, plays a high line and presses like mad.
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Completely agree. He was absolutely brilliant under Sarri and was best defender in Serie A.

I really do think its because of Gattuso. If Koulibaly was playing in a team like ours under a manager like Pep, i really think his performances would change dramatically.

He had no problems under Ancelotti either. Seems to have gone downhill ever since Gattuso took charge.
 
domalino said:
Koulibaly would be more at home in City's side on his first day than in this Napoli side. His performances have been going downhill the further the team get from Sarri's football, and I would imagine he'd love to go back to a side which dominates possession, plays a high line and presses like mad.
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There is no point in them kerping him imo.

They will just finish him off early.

But equally, we should be buying at a reasonable price or walking away, for the same reason.
 
Neville Kneville said:
There is no point in them kerping him imo.

They will just finish him off early.

But equally, we should be buying at a reasonable price or walking away, for the same reason.
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There's atleast enough doubt that the 90m evaluation is way too much.

Take the 60-70 and if not, then we should back out.
 
I've had my head bitten off on countless occasions over the last 350 pages, for daring to question the transfer fees involved with Koulibaly and daring to question whether any one player can make such a big impact on our team. I think tonight puts the debate to bed for me, he's clearly a good player, a very good player but if anyone believes he's worth anywhere close the fee De Laurentiis says he wants, then they're living in unicorn and fairy world in my opinion.

I'm not judging him off one game, I've been constant in my assessment throughout since we were originally linked but tonight I would say he was bordering on unprofessional. Maybe it was just a very poor performance but it looked half hearted, it looked like his commitment was lacking and I never thought I'd see that from him. Hopefully I'm wrong but that just didn't seem the Koulibaly who I think is a very good player usually, if his heart wasn't in it, then I do not want him here even on a free transfer as that crosses a line I don't like from any player, irrelevant of the circumstances.
 
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