Kylian Mbappe

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Plain Speaking said:
Last season we missed lots of chances. I would be surprised if Pep was content not to get another player who can provide goals after letting Nacho go. There is also the possibility of a transfer ban? Who can we afford? A good CB and Mbappe?
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It appears he would prefer more upfront, but the question is whether it's a preference or a necessity.

If it was all important & we also needed fullbacks, we could have gone without Bernardo Silva & spent the whole remainder on Mbappe &/or Sanchez.
 
Neville Kneville said:
If some of the cbs had the same mobility for example, then the fullbacks being forward would be less likely to end in disaster, against big, fast cfs.
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Is it an english thing to never be satisfied with defense? Honestly. You want cb's with the pace of a fullbacks, to be for sale, and for us to buy them (multiple)?
 
If we are going to sign either or both Mbappe/Sanchez it will drag on until the last few days im sure..IMO it's one or the other! We definitely don't need both.. I just really doubt anything will be happening anytime soon as there's a lot of complications in the way for both players. I do believe Mbappe wants to join us though. I'll take either of the 2 and another defender which will make our squad strong in every department and the best it's ever been.
 
ADegenerate said:
Is it an english thing to never be satisfied with defense? Honestly. You want cb's with the pace of a fullbacks, to be for sale, and for us to buy them (multiple)?
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It's a football thing. Rarely a team wins much without it.

If possible pace yes & great in the air. That would be a dream situation in the future.

It's taken nearly ten years for a manager to realise it's a good idea at fullback. So we are half way there.
 
Neville Kneville said:
It's a football thing. Rarely a team wins much without it.

If possible pace yes & great in the air. That would be a dream situation in the future.

It's taken nearly ten years for a manager to realise it's a good idea at fullback. So we are half way there.
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What teams have CB's with the pace of fullbacks? That's not a football thing that's fantasy stuff. As far as fullbacks we have pace and height ... and we paid 100 million. Who do you want? Ramos and boateng? 200 million and 350k a week wages.

Edit: 126 million. Lol. Forgot Danilo.
 
Neville Kneville said:
It's a football thing. Rarely a team wins much without it.

If possible pace yes & great in the air. That would be a dream situation in the future.

It's taken nearly ten years for a manager to realise it's a good idea at fullback. So we are half way there.
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Mancini won the league with Lescott and Pellegrini won it with Demichelles.
 
argyle said:
So is it less likely we'll sign him now?

Saturday it seemed so positive.
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People are hyper reactive. He was in Manchester yesterday, now he's not. Gahhhhh!

Joking aside. From the 'news' we had today it's trended downwards. There's another good two weeks left of this.
 
ADegenerate said:
What teams have CB's with the pace of fullbacks? That's not a football thing that's fantasy stuff. As far as fullbacks we have pace and height ... and we paid 100 million. Who do you want? Ramos and boateng? 200 million and 350k a week wages.

Edit: 126 million. Lol. Forgot Danilo.
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Vinny used to be reasonably quick, lescott was 'ok' for pace when younger & Kolo was fast.

Real Madrid, Barca, Spurs, Utd, Bayern Munich all have some cbs quicker than our fullbacks for the last ten years bar Richards have been, never mind cbs. Liverpool may soon have VVD, Arse have Kosidoodah, just off the top of my head.

Utd had Staam & Ferdinand, Arse had Kolo Toure, Sol Campbell etc.

We used to have Dunne & Distain who could give these guys a 3 yard start & beat them oner 15 & once, for a brief wonderful time, we had a fully fit Keith Curle, who could let Gary lineker & Dean Suanders try to beat offside catch them up without breaking sweat, if he got it wrong.

This team, with that kind of defensive pace if we could ally it to football ability, with Jesus Sane Aguero etc up front, would win the Champions league,whilst smoking a pipe each.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Vinny used to be reasonably quick, lescott was 'ok' for pace when younger & Kolo was fast.

Real Madrid, Barca, Spurs, Utd, Bayern Munich all have some cbs quicker than our fullbacks for the last ten years bar Richards have been, never mind cbs. Liverpool may soon have VVD, Arse have Kosidoodah, just off the top of my head.

Utd had Staam & Ferdinand, Arse had Kolo Toure, Sol Campbell etc.

We used to have Dunne & Distain who could give these guys a 3 yard start & beat them oner 15 & once, for a brief wonderful time, we had a fully fit Keith Curle, who could let Gary lineker & Dean Suanders try to beat offside catch them up without breaking sweat, if he got it wrong.

This team, with that kind of defensive pace if we could ally it to football ability, with Jesus Sane Aguero etc up front, would win the Champions league,whilst smoking a pipe each.
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I'm sold. What now? Where? How do we unload and how much might the new guys cost?

I'm not being condescending either. Show me something realistic and I'm in. Simple.

We're city we can't really afford to take total punts. Have you factored that? (Mangala/Otamendi as an example)
 
ADegenerate said:
I'm sold. What now? Where? How do we unload and how much might the new guys cost?

I'm not being condescending either. Show me something realistic and I'm in. Simple.

We're city we can't really afford to take total punts. Have you factored that? (Mangala/Otamendi as an example)
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Kalidou Koulibaly, send Napoli Mangala and 45M?
 
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