Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal

[half & half derby scarf]

Not good enough in my opinion, Fernando levels.

Agree, he's very very slow and we don't have much pace in the side as it is.

 

[hilts]

Meh

 

[Homar]

How can you look at a player who has talent, skill and potential who plays for a poor and struggling side- and deem them "not good enough" for us. How much better of a player can anyone be in a side where they have more freedom, better targets and more support? This isn't football manager or FIFA- if we can do the business and get him on the relative cheap we do it. He's rotational anyway- it's not like we're signing him as 1st choice. Of course we do sign 100M rotational players too so maybe that point is moot.

Sorry, but I don’t see anything but an average player. Decent enough for a mid-table side like United perhaps, but not for us. Good players stick out like a sore thumb when playing for average clubs. Take Mane at Southampton, Van Dijk at Southampton, Tevez at West Ham or Di Canio at Sheffield Wednesday as just a few examples.

Also, I don’t think going into the market with the intention of bringing in a squad player is a wise idea. We get enough first team signings wrong to end up with more than enough squad players. We’ve also got the academy to fill in any shortfall.

We should be intending to sign players better than what we currently have. If they work out then great. If not then they’ll get rotated into the side for plenty of games and then perhaps move on after a couple of years.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Sorry, but I don’t see anything but an average player. Decent enough for a mid-table side like United perhaps, but not for us. Good players stick out like a sore thumb when playing for average clubs. Take Mane at Southampton, Van Dijk at Southampton, Tevez at West Ham or Di Canio at Sheffield Wednesday as just a few examples.

Also, I don’t think going into the market with the intention of bringing in a squad player is a wise idea. We get enough first team signings wrong to end up with more than enough squad players. We’ve also got the academy to fill in any shortfall.

We should be intending to sign players better than what we currently have. If they work out then great. If not then they’ll get rotated into the side for plenty of games and then perhaps move on after a couple of years.

Couldn’t agree more. The notion that we can afford to sign an average player because “we have Rodri” doesn’t fly with me. Imagine Rodri gets injured, we have to play the average player. Just picture Phillips in the latter stages of the CL

 

[RayCTID]

Sorry, but I don’t see anything but an average player. Decent enough for a mid-table side like United perhaps, but not for us. Good players stick out like a sore thumb when playing for average clubs. Take Mane at Southampton, Van Dijk at Southampton, Tevez at West Ham or Di Canio at Sheffield Wednesday as just a few examples.

Also, I don’t think going into the market with the intention of bringing in a squad player is a wise idea. We get enough first team signings wrong to end up with more than enough squad players. We’ve also got the academy to fill in any shortfall.

We should be intending to sign players better than what we currently have. If they work out then great. If not then they’ll get rotated into the side for plenty of games and then perhaps move on after a couple of years.

I totally agree with your point but sometimes situation dictates otherwise (Brexit and the Premier League rules). If there is a Relegation buyout clause then it does make some sense. Fingers crossed Phillips wages are reasonable.

 

[RayCTID]

Couldn’t agree more. The notion that we can afford to sign an average player because “we have Rodri” doesn’t fly with me. Imagine Rodri gets injured, we have to play the average player. Just picture Phillips in the latter stages of the CL

Yep agree as well but Rice is out question with what West Ham are demanding

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Yep agree as well but Rice is out question with what West Ham are demanding

I didn’t say anything about Rice

 

[RayCTID]

I didn’t say anything about Rice

He would of been better option than Phillips to be honest

 

[Deleted member 87819]

He would of been better option than Phillips to be honest

Well yes, hardly anyone would disagree I think. But the thing is, we talk Rice and that’s what they’ll say “those who don’t want Phillips want superstars or someone massively expensive!” when in fact it’s the opposite, it can be younger, cheaper and with more potential

 

[RayCTID]

Well yes, hardly anyone would disagree I think. But the thing is, we talk Rice and that’s what they’ll say “those who don’t want Phillips want superstars or someone massively expensive!” when in fact it’s the opposite, it can be younger, cheaper and with more potential

Yep I agree again there are more smarter moves but somehow the club is going with Phillips option (going off reading this part of the forum).