Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal

[br88]

Forget tonight's game. For me, Phillips is a good solid player and normally tackles and passes well. But I don't think he has the top quality necessary to be an important player for our team. City are full of brilliant players from KDB to Bernardo and the rest and this is why we are one of the best teams in the world. Any new player that we sign must also be absolute top quality (Haaland) and unfortunately Phillips is not a top top player. A player in his position also needs to be very quick around the pitch...and he certainly isn't. Would be a good squad player and the best of luck to him if we sign him.

 

[Mad 4 It]

See the people who don't rate Phillips are wanking themselves silly and the usual pile on fest has begun. Quite funny how the same people who are happy to disregard his performance in an England shirt over the last year or two, for which he won Englands player of the year, are then happy to use a performance in an England shirt as evidence why he’s a pub footballer at best and should be nowhere the club. If only our recruitment department judged players off of one game, we’d of dodge the massive bullets that are Stones and Walker, never would of gone for Kane and would almost certainly never be interested in Bellingham and James. End of the day the pool from which we can buy players from is small, it becomes even smaller when looking for a CDM in peps team, it then becomes minuscule when looking for a player who can play it but is happy to play second fiddle to Rodri. Is Phillips overpriced at the reported (can’t stress this enough) fee? Yes, but who cares less if we go on to win trophies again next year and it allows Rodri some vital rest during the season. To also suggest a young kid can come in a do a job in what is probably the most important position in a pep team after no real senior football is laughable. We’re signing someone for that position and whether that be Phillips or somebody else I have every faith they’ll improve our squad and if they are bang average, Pep is Pep and will polish the turd into something good enough anyway.

PS. We’ve just signed Erling fucking Haaland, regardless of who we sign after this we’ve smashed this window.

You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig :)

 

[samuelyeboah]

what does it say that the only pro phillips arguments here that people can muster are :

a. he's PL proven
b. we should trust pep if he wants him
c. he's at the very least okay
d. come on, southgate's a crap manager
e. pep's a good manager and will improve him
f. who else is out there?

doesn't fill you with confidence, does it?

 

[Mad 4 It]

Forget tonight's game. For me, Phillips is a good solid player and normally tackles and passes well. But I don't think he has the top quality necessary to be an important player for our team. City are full of brilliant players from KDB to Bernardo and the rest and this is why we are one of the best teams in the world. Any new player that we sign must also be absolute top quality (Haaland) and unfortunately Phillips is not a top top player. A player in his position also needs to be very quick around the pitch...and he certainly isn't. Would be a good squad player and the bestof luck to him if we sign him.

£60mill for a squad player and that’s ok is it. Ridiculous amount to pay for a bang average player

 

[Withnail]

How on earth is this guy a £60mill player. What a waste of £60 mill

Bellingham was shit tonight and you are looking at £100m for him.

 

[Constantine]

I watched him carefully today. I don't claim to be a scout but I'm left not impressed tbf.

 

[blueparrot]

I hope I’m proved wrong but at the moment I can’t see this being anything but a complete joke of a signing and at £60mill plus wages. We bought Haaland for less, just let that sink in WE BOUGHT HAALAND FOR LESS

You don’t need to see it , you just need to trust the club and the people that built the team we have now. Only an idiot wouldn’t trust them after the last few years. Haaland is irrelevant we all know he isn’t a £50 mill player.

 

[Mad 4 It]

Bellingham was shit tonight and you are looking at £100m for him.

8/9 years younger for starters

 

[Gumzy97]

Maybe he will be better in a two with Rodri? Just to see out games

 

[Deleted member 87819]

I’m refraining from commenting tonight because as we say in Brazil, it would be like kicking a dead dog. Sometimes nothing needs to be said