Kylian Mbappe

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JimmyNJ said:
If Mbappe and his family told Monaco he was leaving this year, then City will be there bidding until the end with Madrid. I think thats why you hear so much about us selling players to fund the summer. Many may be sad to see Roberts, Iheanacho etc be permanently sold, but we need the $ incase Mbappe and Sanchez are both there to be had. I don't think City have ruled out signing them both if they are able.
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How do you fit Sane, Sterling, Sergio, Jesus, Sanchez and mbappe into the same team?
 
Manchester_lalala said:
How do you fit Sane, Sterling, Sergio, Jesus, Sanchez and mbappe into the same team?
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Raheems the designated bench player, Pep got him used to that at the end of the season. You rotate Sane, Sergio, Jesus, Sanchez, Mbappe into your 4-3-3 or 3-5-2 in three competitions. You can realistically fit 4 of them into a 3-5-2. But it's not my job to sell the players on it. Part of this would need the younger players to really buy into our 'project', which every club has, and fit into this offense and mature together (sane, jesus, mbappe, sterling) and be the future. I think the money could be there for this though.
 
Look at Bayern Munichs bench for their last Champs League game: Bernat, Rafinha, Kimmich, Coman, Costa, Muller. If we want to compete for Europe we need a deep squad and world class players will see the bench depending on form in the season and rest days.
 
JimmyNJ said:
If Mbappe and his family told Monaco he was leaving this year, then City will be there bidding until the end with Madrid. I think thats why you hear so much about us selling players to fund the summer. Many may be sad to see Roberts, Iheanacho etc be permanently sold, but we need the $ incase Mbappe and Sanchez are both there to be had. I don't think City have ruled out signing them both if they are able.
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If both are avail, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be dependent on a sale to generate the £
 
mosssideblue said:
If both are avail, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be dependent on a sale to generate the £
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I'm not sure how people are arriving at this conclusion. If we sign 3 or 4 fullbacks at the kind of prices mooted, then where is the extra 170 mil for Mbappe & Sanchez coming from ?

People have been chucking figures around for this huge spend but was our profit not fairly low after last season's outlay ? How can we suddenly afford to spend 100 million more, without selling ?
 
Neville Kneville said:
I'm not sure how people are arriving at this conclusion. If we sign 3 or 4 fullbacks at the kind of prices mooted, then where is the extra 170 mil for Mbappe & Sanchez coming from ?

People have been chucking figures around for this huge spend but was our profit not fairly low after last season's outlay ? How can we suddenly afford to spend 100 million more, without selling ?
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Lose change behind the couch :). Selling Roberts and Nacho would only produce pennies when we would need pounds.

I'm sure the bean counters at City could manipulate to accommodate
 
mosssideblue said:
Lose change behind the couch :). Selling Roberts and Nacho would only produce pennies when we would need pounds.

I'm sure the bean counters at City could manipulate to accommodate
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It's been said on here for some time now 'we're going to spend 300 mil' but it must surely be dependant on gettting in decent money for all the Harts & Nasris etc.

Otherwise our financial situation has gone through the roof since last season & the next set of books must be absolutely jaw dropping.

It would effectively mean we have generated 300 million to spare.
 
Neville Kneville said:
It's been said on here for some time now 'we're going to spend 300 mil' but it must surely be dependant on gettting in decent money for all the Harts & Nasris etc.

Otherwise our financial situation has gone through the roof since last season & the next set of books must be absolutely jaw dropping.

It would effectively mean we have generated 300 million to spare.
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Guess it all depends on how it is accounted for and armortisation
or it came from the Pie price increases :)
 
Neville Kneville said:
I'm not sure how people are arriving at this conclusion. If we sign 3 or 4 fullbacks at the kind of prices mooted, then where is the extra 170 mil for Mbappe & Sanchez coming from ?

People have been chucking figures around for this huge spend but was our profit not fairly low after last season's outlay ? How can we suddenly afford to spend 100 million more, without selling ?
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We have freed up a huge amount in wages and new signings will be put on 5 year deals so whilst £300m is a lot of cash - it can be done but will restrict our spending in future years.
 
Neville Kneville said:
It's been said on here for some time now 'we're going to spend 300 mil' but it must surely be dependant on gettting in decent money for all the Harts & Nasris etc.

Otherwise our financial situation has gone through the roof since last season & the next set of books must be absolutely jaw dropping.

It would effectively mean we have generated 300 million to spare.
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That's not how it works though. It's spread over the life of the contract. A guy signed for £40m on a 5 year deal is accounted for at £8m per year. £8m, not £40m. Our profit doesn't need to be £300m to buy £300m of players.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
That's not how it works though. It's spread over the life of the contract. A guy signed for £40m on a 5 year deal is accounted for at £8m per year. £8m, not £40m. Our profit doesn't need to be £300m to buy £300m of players.
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Well if that is the case, have we not just done that last season, with the 190 mil or whatever it was, & would now be putting another 300 mil on top of it, when our profit last season was about £20 mil ?

We have moved Sagna, Zabba, Clichy, Willy, but we have Hart, Nasri, Mangala,Bony, all currently coming back on the wage bill, as well as Nolito, Fernando, Delph etc.

I don't see how we can spend this, without recouping money & I suspect that's why we are hearing rumours about Iheanacho etc.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
That's not how it works though. It's spread over the life of the contract. A guy signed for £40m on a 5 year deal is accounted for at £8m per year. £8m, not £40m. Our profit doesn't need to be £300m to buy £300m of players.
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Yep and I think sales all count in the current year, so the £10m for Mooy would mean the first year of a £50m player on a five year deal (ignoring wages)
 
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