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Kyle Walker
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Roy Munson
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Why on earth are people losing their minds over us 'releasing' our fullbacks?
They were all out of contract. Everyone with any passing interest in football knew they were out of contract.
What exactly was the alternative? Offer them all new deals until we bought replacements? What then? About £15,000,000 in wages for an additional year, on top of the wages of any new signings, that's what.
Maybe we could have just asked them all to keep quiet and pretend they still had a contract with us. I'm sure they all wouldn't have minded hanging around the training ground whilst not getting paid.
They were all out of contract. Everyone with any passing interest in football knew they were out of contract.
What exactly was the alternative? Offer them all new deals until we bought replacements? What then? About £15,000,000 in wages for an additional year, on top of the wages of any new signings, that's what.
Maybe we could have just asked them all to keep quiet and pretend they still had a contract with us. I'm sure they all wouldn't have minded hanging around the training ground whilst not getting paid.
The blue phantom
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Well he sold Modric to Real Madrid for less than Cesc Fabregas went to Barcelona for, and only £2m more than Mata cost Chelsea from a Valencia that had to sell in order to stay solvent in the same summer, so that was a shit deal.
And then he sold Bale for a world record. Woah, there's no way anyone else could have managed that!!!! Any mere mortal would have just offloaded bale for 50m or something!
It's a bullshit legend built by Levy. His shit negotiating stance of "not for sale" is probably why his best CB has a buyout clause in his contact for pennies next year, and has probably cost Spurs plenty of other players.
Not to mention the players they've lost over the years because he refused to pay a tiny bit more, or suddenly reduced his offer (Willian).
As i said earlier, do you think we'll walk away if levy trys to rinse us for another £10-£15 million?
richards30
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Well we're closer than ever (even closer than when we had two RBs) and Alves still hasn't signed, so not sure it's really making any difference tbh.
Sounds good! Cheers mate
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Walker will be a success for City. Bring it on
I like the cut of your jib.Why on earth are people losing their minds over us 'releasing' our fullbacks?
They were all out of contract. Everyone with any passing interest in football knew they were out of contract.
What exactly was the alternative? Offer them all new deals until we bought replacements? What then? About £15,000,000 in wages for an additional year, on top of the wages of any new signings, that's what.
Maybe we could have just asked them all to keep quiet and pretend they still had a contract with us. I'm sure they all wouldn't have minded hanging around the training ground whilst not getting paid.
As i said earlier, do you think we'll walk away if levy trys to rinse us for another £10-£15 million?
I don't mate. Walker is our transfer target and he wants to leave.
Trippier is their first choice RB now.
It's just going to take patience to see who backs down first
Why on earth are people losing their minds over us 'releasing' our fullbacks?
They were all out of contract. Everyone with any passing interest in football knew they were out of contract.
What exactly was the alternative? Offer them all new deals until we bought replacements? What then? About £15,000,000 in wages for an additional year, on top of the wages of any new signings, that's what.
Maybe we could have just asked them all to keep quiet and pretend they still had a contract with us. I'm sure they all wouldn't have minded hanging around the training ground whilst not getting paid.
People are just being idiots. Doesn't take a fucking genius to work out that City weren't gonna have any FBs come the end of the season, even several months ago. The idea that our bargaining strength suddenly changed a few weeks back is nonsense.
People are just being idiots. Doesn't take a fucking genius to work out that City weren't gonna have any FBs come the end of the season, even several months ago. The idea that our bargaining strength suddenly changed a few weeks back is nonsense.
Top sales people don't do deals based on assumption fella
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