Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal

[Matt.D]

In City backup doesn't exist. Why are people talking about backup when we have the thinnest squad in the league? We need to have a HUGE QUALITY midfielder not fuckin back-up. We need something that would be a competition for all the midfielders, no backup. Is Real, Liverpool, or the other top clubs buying backups? I don't think so. "RODRI'S BACK UP" is the most deluded sentence about the potential midfielder transfer.

OK, it wouldn't be your and my problem if Rodri gets injured, but a BIG PROBLEM for the club and I think everyone will be happy with Gundogan as a 6 and zero defensive awareness in midfield :) Amazing. Buying DM is a priority. If Rodri gets injured we have ZERO OPTIONS, coz Gundogan is not an option.

We have had a year to prepare for Fernandinho's leaving.

Last summer Liverpool bought Tsimikas as back up to Robertson. They already have Milner and Keita as back up central midfielders. In Klopp era they’ve bought Origi and Minamino to back up Salah, Mane and Firmino. This summer they are targeting a young right back from Scotland as back up to Trent. It happens.

You don’t have one of the best in the world then buy another HUGE QUALITY player for the same 1 available position in the team.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

You don’t have one of the best in the world then buy another HUGE QUALITY player for the same 1 available position in the team.

First or all, have you been following Real Madrid’s squad? Secondly, it’s only “one available position” if you have a narrow tactical mind.
You are also comparing completely different teams. There aren’t “backups” in our team as there are in Liverpool’s. This isn’t how our squad ia built conceptually. Hence why it is smaller than everyone else’s but also why the average quality is also higher and why we can’t afford drop offs in quality

 

[mdj0520]

I'm happy if we go for Phillips but I hope ward prowse is on the alternative list. Seems like Leeds are going to dig in, and if we are paying a decent amount rather than a release then I'd prefer ward prowse.

 

[DeBlueLou]

I'm happy if we go for Phillips but I hope ward prowse is on the alternative list. Seems like Leeds are going to dig in, and if we are paying a decent amount rather than a release then I'd prefer ward prowse.

JWP can’t play a solo dm. Literally the only thing the new dm need to be able to do, mate

 

[Tevez City]

I'm happy if we go for Phillips but I hope ward prowse is on the alternative list. Seems like Leeds are going to dig in, and if we are paying a decent amount rather than a release then I'd prefer ward prowse.

It seems we have to pick either Nigel De Jong or Gareth Barry.

 

[Kompany Car]

Phillips for any more than £45m (40m plus 5m English tax) seems overpriced to me. I would hope that we are also looking at the likes of Cheick Doucoure from Lens who looks like a high energy defensive mid. Not surprisingly Viera wants him at Palace.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Phillips for any more than £45m (40m plus 5m English tax) seems overpriced to me. I would hope that we are also looking at the likes of Cheick Doucoure from Lens who looks like a high energy defensive mid. Not surprisingly Viera wants him at Palace.

Palace is his level. Not City

 

[mdj0520]

JWP can’t play a solo dm. Literally the only thing the new dm need to be able to do, mate

Don't think that's a foregone conclusion that he couldn't play a deep lying playmaker. And who's to say that Bernardo couldn't play alongside him with kdb Infront?

That's not the only thing a new midfielder needs to do though, is it. We need someone who can take the burden off an aging gundogan with a bad back and an increasingly injury prone kdb.

We don't play a fixed 433 anyway, often times gundo or Bernardo drops in with rodri. It's about having options. Mate.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Don't think that's a foregone conclusion that he couldn't play a deep lying playmaker. And who's to say that Bernardo couldn't play alongside him with kdb Infront?

That's not the only thing a new midfielder needs to do though, is it. We need someone who can take the burden off an aging gundogan with a bad back and an increasingly injury prone kdb.

We don't play a fixed 433 anyway, often times gundo or Bernardo drops in with rodri. It's about having options. Mate.

Citys target’s main function is to play a solo dm. Being able to play in a pivot and half 8 is not totally necessary. Hence Phillips is ideal, can do it all. JWP struggles in his defensive duties and let’s all that off in their current system.

Romeu takes all that for him.

 

[blueparrot]

Exactly, so let's go and buy one thats suitable. Hopefully they move on from phillips if the price and competition is too much and at the moment we have time to do that.

I presume they think Phillips is the most suitable, maybe you know better, we may end up moving on, but I assume they think at the moment they can get the deal done. but the window isn't even open yet.