Kylian Mbappe

[Tevez City]

From the few games I saw of Gabriel Jesus and Mbappe, I think Mbappe is way ahead of Jesus.

Maybe Jesus will turn out to be the better player, but until now Mbappe is the best young forward in the world.

 

[adaminho]

Amazing player but where the hell would we play him, we really dont need a striker who HAS to play every week we have enough in Jesus and Kun.

 

[Marvin]

From the few games I saw of Gabriel Jesus and Mbappe, I think Mbappe is way ahead of Jesus.

Maybe Jesus will turn out to be the better player, but until now Mbappe is the best young forward in the world.

I don't know how you make that out. Two outstanding young forwards but I don't think I would swap jesus for any player in the world given his age. That includes Mbappe.

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

I don't know how you make that out. Two outstanding young forwards but I don't think I would swap jesus for any player in the world given his age. That includes Mbappe.

I agree..Jesus has the potential to be our very own Galactico

 

[M18CTID]

Amazing player but where the hell would we play him, we really dont need a striker who HAS to play every week we have enough in Jesus and Kun.

Yeah, you don't pay over £100 million for a player to have him sat on the bench getting splinters in his arse!

 

[CityStu]

I don't think we can reasonably accommodate Aguero, Sanchez and Mbappe whilst giving enough game time to them, as well as Sterling, Sane and Jesus. All 6 would want to play in the majority of games and that's not possible.

Therefore, I think we'll get two of the three. Either Khaldoon's making up stories for reasons I can't understand and Kun's looking to leave or, more realistically, Mbappe is seen as an alternative if Alexis stays at Arsenal or goes to Bayern.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

Yeah, you don't pay over £100 million for a player to have him sat on the bench getting splinters in his arse!

I think the benches at the Etihad are better maintained than that.

 

[andyhinch]

I don't think we can reasonably accommodate Aguero, Sanchez and Mbappe whilst giving enough game time to them, as well as Sterling, Sane and Jesus. All 6 would want to play in the majority of games and that's not possible.

Therefore, I think we'll get two of the three. Either Khaldoon's making up stories for reasons I can't understand and Kun's looking to leave or, more realistically, Mbappe is seen as an alternative if Alexis stays at Arsenal or goes to Bayern.

I'd think if we get him we'd drop our interest in Sanchez

 

[rapidCT]

Aguero, Jesus, Sane, Sterling, Roberts, Iheanacho + B Silva and de Bruyne that can play in a front 3. Just how many do we need up front?

 

[PragueBlue]

Aguero, Jesus, Sane, Sterling, Roberts, Iheanacho + B Silva and de Bruyne that can play in a front 3. Just how many do we need up front?

We want 2 quality players per position. I suspect Roberts will be loaned out and Iheanacho sold. If we were to get all of our supposed targets (extremely unlikely), we could have for example:

Central striker - Aguero and Mbappe

Left sided attacker/winger - Sanchez and Sane

Right sided attacker/winger - Sterling and Jesus

2 creative players ahead of the DM/pivot - Gundogan, Silva x 2, KDB

DM/Pivot - Yaya and Fernandinho

RB - Walker and Fernandinho

LB - Mendy and Kolarov

CB - Stones, Otamendi, Kompany and Laporte

GK - Bravo and Ederson

Problem is that this leaves us with 18 foreign players by my reckoning. So in the unlikely event that we got all of those signings, we'd have to replace one of them with a HG player (most likely Kolarov or Bravo I would have thought) and it still doesn't allow us to bring in a new DM like Fabinho unless there is a decent HG one knocking about.