Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal

[Sunset]

guys this is the yorkshire pirlo were talking about. SHow some respect!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It’s not risk free when he’s taking up squad space and will mean we don’t get someone actually, you know, good. Oh, he knows the league? Let me start listing players from the same position who didn’t and beyond excelled in the league… starting with our own club…

I can't imagine squad places are going to be an issue. We're crying out for more players at the moment. We currently have 19 first team players plus kids. That's almost certainly going down by 2 (Gundogan and Fernandinho) and possibly 3 (Jesus or Mahrez). We've used two of those so far (Haaland and Alvarez). And we absolutely desperately need players in that deeper-lying, reliable passer role. But I agree that we shouldn't sign players just because they're available for cheap. I can't say I've watched Phillips enough to have a strong opinion, other than for England, where he's always looked very good. Obviously the Bielsa style is an argument in his favour too and the price is a bargain.

Ndidi would still be my ideal signing from the PL, but he'd cost a lot. Bissouma would be another good option available on the cheap (although I seem to remember some issue with him recently). Declan Rice if you really want to blow the budget.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Obviously the Bielsa style is an argument in his favour too

We have “two” former Bielsa players in the squad, Laporte and… Benjamin Mendy. I honestly don’t think it adds to much at all.
I would go looking outside the league…

 

[SWP's back]

I don’t think you understand my point. Pep works with a limited amount of players. You bring one, that’s one less that will come. If you told me Phillips wouldn’t stop more from coming, then I wouldn’t oppose.
I wasn’t talking about homegrown players

He wouldn’t stop anyone from coming. We are full in the squad in terms of foreign players but we have 3 spare slots for association trained players.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

He wouldn’t stop anyone from coming. We are full in the squad in terms of foreign players but we have 3 spare slots for association trained players.

Do we? Or only homegrown?

In the CL, I know only 4 of those slots are for association-trained (Walker, Sterling, Stones, Grealish) and the rest have to be club trained. Not sure about the PL.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

He wouldn’t stop anyone from coming

How do you know that?!

 

[Keeper!]

?Would be a clever addition in terms of squad and budget planning

So IF he is available for 30m, you think his wages will be cheap?

I would say the opposite, his demands would be sky high

 

[SWP's back]

How do you know that?!

Because he doesn’t take a foreign spot and we only have 19 outfield players, several of whom are leaving.

 

[SWP's back]

So IF he is available for 30m, you think his wages will be cheap?

I would say the opposite, his demands would be sky high

They’d be higher than he currently gets and about 1/4 of our highest earners.

 

[Tevez City]

No thanks