Kyle Walker

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Personally I really hope Kyle Walker stays as he will offer something different if we ever had to change the style of play away from the 4 centre backs we will be using.

Pavard does fit the bill in respect that he would suit our current style of play.

Either way I trust the transfer policy as they've been spot on over the last 10 years plus.
 
CWMCFC said:
Don't agree with these comments on Pavard.

He isn't the defender that Walker is, but no player in football is to be honest. We're never getting a like for like replacement.

Pavard is very much in the mould of defender that this new system is leaning to - versatile and very capable at either RB or CB. I'd say a better fit than Walker in pure terms of the direction our system is going, but obviously Walker has a very specialist skillset that will be missed.

Very experienced player at the highest level with a world cup, CL and multiple leagues under his belt.

Reasonable pace, very good passing and ability on the ball and a solid defender.

Expect he won't be very expensive too with a year left on his contract.

We could be doing a lot worse and think this could be another Akjani type transfer - doom and gloom and then he shines under Pep.
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agreed! Walker just doesnt suit the new system Pep wants and i imagine if Walker does indeed want Bayern they will be two easy transfers to do?
 
It’s a a good move for all parties, though we will miss the 1 on 1 pace matches from Walker

Kyle is picking up more injuries that are stretching longer for recovery than before and going to Germany will be less stressful than playing in the premier league.

It always seems alarming and worrying when great established players leave. We have seen icons such as Silva, Kompany, Zabba and Fernandinho leave in recent seasons.

One thing hasn’t changed and that is we keep winning. I doubt without the players that left before last season started Raz,Zin and Jesus and those that replaced them we would have been anywhere near a treble

I always feel sadness when players who have contributed so much leave. The one thing no one should doubt is how well run we are and Pep will be 100% involved in who comes and goes
 
CWMCFC said:
Don't agree with these comments on Pavard.

He isn't the defender that Walker is, but no player in football is to be honest. We're never getting a like for like replacement and if Kyle fancies a new challenge nothing we can do about it.

Pavard is very much in the mould of defender that this new system is leaning to - versatile and very capable at either RB or CB. I'd say a better fit than Walker in pure terms of the direction our system is going, but obviously Walker has a very specialist skillset that will be missed.

Very experienced player at the highest level with a world cup, CL and multiple leagues under his belt.

Reasonable pace, very good passing and ability on the ball and a solid defender.

Expect he won't be very expensive too with a year left on his contract.

We could be doing a lot worse and think this could be another Akanji type transfer - doom and gloom and then he shines under Pep.
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100%. He is way more accomplished than Akanji was before joining us. I reckon he could surprise a few. His stats are exceptional. He could thrive in our system. There aren't any better players available out there to replace Walker.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Possibly, but just as difficult standing still with players who have mentally checked out or are a year older.

Players leaving will also send a message to other good players that City want them to be No.1, like when we convinced Haaland.

Foden needs more opportunities in the ten and right wing.

I think if we wait, we fall in to the Liverpool trap.

All these lads have been great for us, but they have achieved their dreams and a change of scene is understandable.
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Difficult balancing act, Tolm. Multiple changes isn’t an insurmountable problem, it’s more that the players leaving/touted to be leaving, are all top quality operatives who offer us something different to their colleagues. Gunders, Bernie, Walker, Mahrez. Gonna be very difficult to replace all 4, without losing something from the whole.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
It's hard not to be fearful when we are losing such great players. But I understand where you are coming from. In Pep we trust.
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Txiki and co are often in a bit of a ‘damned if they do, damned if they don’t’ situation on here.

All players will move on at some point and need to be replaced (either like-for-like or with a different type of player to allow for a new style of play or new tactics). And at a top level team like us—now demonstratively the very, very top level—you can’t have two world class players at every position, because one of them (or both) won’t be happy playing half or more the minutes they would elsewhere (which is likely the case with Walker; also see Cancelo, aka ‘when you accidentally bring in a slapped Arse’), especially as they near the end of their careers.

If our management wait until the players are past their prime to let them leave and find suitable replacements, fans slate them for being too slow to pull the trigger on a revamp and weakening the team (and chances for future success) by carrying deadwood.

If our management allow players who want to leave to go out for reasonable deals (especially ones at the wrong edge of their prime), whilst looking to bring in younger replacements (or decent, older stop gap talent to allow us to promote and blood players from the academy, which also has demonstratively the best talent in the whole of England, and arguably Europe) they’re slated for letting players go too early and weakening the team.

All the while, they are trying to realise the best strategy of letting players go when they want to leave and when it makes sense for maximising future success (which is more than just the next season).

And no matter how successful we are, no matter how much we win, no matter how many truly world class (some the best that have ever played in the PL, or any league in the case of a few), no matter how many times fans are proven wrong with their fears about incoming players (Yaya, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Ake, Rodri, Grealish (I hold my hands up there), Akanji, etc.), they won’t get anything but criticism and the chicken little riot from some supporters.

I feel for Rodri when he retires — who would want to be Txiki? ;-)
 
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