Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal

[philjoneswho?]

Think he’ll be a player lots of people will like. Tackles, can spray a pass and looks to keep it simple. An air of NDJ about him. Think it’s a shrewd buy from the club

 

[richards30]

Can't imagine why ?

i wonder which clubs in the premier league would have gone for him though? dippers?

 

[stonerblue]

Didn’t realise until today that my nephew played with him at various levels when they were younger, including for Huddersfield’s academy. Not really important I know, but he couldn’t have been more fulsome in his praise for him as a person. A really nice guy by all accounts.

Been told his Dad is, er, 'interesting'.

Great signing and glad Pep took my advice..

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Meanwhile, on RAWK:
'Thought he might have more about him than taking the blood money from such a horrific regime. Obviously not. This just smacks of buying him so no other PL team could sign him, and also by buying up the England team it obviously helps with the sportswashing.'



To be fair you are looking at closer to 250mill for those three when you factor in agent fees for Haaland’s move.


They really have absolutely no grip on reality whatsoever and certainly no sense of their own spending. When they buy anyone, the net spend calculators immediately come out. When we buy anyone, they are thrown away, sales ignored, and the agent fee, add ons and wages are all added. Still, it is great to see that we are causing so much anger and frustration.

Whenever anyone on that cult-like forum posts anything derogatory about any other club, it should auto fill in the following:

‘But our club had fans who indulge in murder, tarnishing the English game as a result, so we shouldn’t really comment on anything we perceive as negative about any other club’

 

[01282]

Look at how many games Ferna played last season. I’ll trust the club but I’ve been saying for a while I can’t see where he’ll fit in.Very slow and ponderous. Reminds me of Barry and De Jong and we’ve evolved a lot since those 2 left. The bits I’ve seen of Lavia suggests he could fill in for Rodri against lesser teams at home. It’s this crazy home grown rule again forcing prices up.

 

[Trickyblues]

Look at how many games Ferna played last season. I’ll trust the club but I’ve been saying for a while I can’t see where he’ll fit in.Very slow and ponderous. Reminds me of Barry and De Jong and we’ve evolved a lot since those 2 left. The bits I’ve seen of Lavia suggests he could fill in for Rodri against lesser teams at home. It’s this crazy home grown rule again forcing prices up.

There’s a reason Ferna didn’t play much last season. Love the guy but his legs had gone meaning we over played Rodri. Phillips is a massive upgrade on the Ferna of last season imo.

And Lavia is no where near ready.

 

[glyntowen]

Look at how many games Ferna played last season. I’ll trust the club but I’ve been saying for a while I can’t see where he’ll fit in.Very slow and ponderous. Reminds me of Barry and De Jong and we’ve evolved a lot since those 2 left. The bits I’ve seen of Lavia suggests he could fill in for Rodri against lesser teams at home. It’s this crazy home grown rule again forcing prices up.

Barry was really under-rated, one of those players that didn't get the praise they deserved. By all accounts a model pro that I haven't heard anyone in football have a bad word against.

yes he turned like a boat but he played a huge part in the team and club we have become as did crazy Nige

speaking of Nige, he rates Phillips very highly as well, one of the parts of his game is winning the ball quickly in their half which certainly ticks one of Pep's main requirements

 

[Thenumber1blue]

Whenever anyone on that cult-like forum posts anything derogatory about any other club, it should auto fill in the following:

‘But our club had fans who indulge in murder, tarnishing the English game as a result, so we shouldn’t really comment on anything we perceive as negative about any other club’

Spot on, of course they did nothing against Madrid the other day, wasn't their fault for a change

 

[Berts Neck]

Definitely a bad signing. Pep rarely gets it's wrong in the transfer market we've done unbelievably well in the windows since Peps arrival at the club. We've had some really bad signings over the years and sometimes numerous bad signings in one window under previous managers.

I think we can let Pep away with the Mendy one.

True. You can only say a signing was bad with the benefit of hindsight. Mendy, when bought, had great potential. Clealy had two injuries, His ACL then a torn meniscus. He seemed to be quite positive about City and proactive on social media. Perhaps he had too much time on his hands which led him to mix with the wrong crowd and do very stupid things. We will find out in due course.
As for Kalvin. Well, like a few, I am not sure. I imagine he will tackle less than at Leeds so perhaps less injury prone at City. Will need to learn some of the dark arts that Fern had. I am sure his passing skills will improve under Pep.When he signs, I will support him whatever. I feel he may prove some of us sitting on the fence to be wrong about him. I hope so.

 

[TheBlueDune]

Don't really know enough about Phillips but do know that if Rodri had a bad long term injury then we'd kick ourselves for not having a decent backup in place.
Gundog would be likely but don't believe he's the alternative.
With Phillips we have a backup but we also now have the option of playing both him and Rodri if and when we want a 4-2-3-1 formation.