We could get him cheaper due to his contract just checked and he's got a year left on his deal come the summer
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Lack of pace on the wings
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We could get him cheaper due to his contract just checked and he's got a year left on his deal come the summer
pavelsrnicek
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Of course, that’s what forums are for. I just think some of the reaction to the draw with Everton is a little OTT.No harm in discussing the shortcomings of the squad though.
If someone decent gets hold of him in the next year or so there's probably a very good centre half in thereThis. Don't get why people think Rice will ever be an elite level player. He's miles off. He's a really good footballer, but nowhere near City's level technically. Doesn't have that 360 vision at all and would get caught on the ball loads as a 6 for City. Europa league player, the best for a side like West Ham, but never a PL winning midfielder.
Maddison and Rice would cost a fortune and aren’t amongst the best in their respective positions. It would be Grealish and Phillips all over again. Squad fillers at exorbitant prices.
Hope we’re in for Bellingham, a left back (Davies would be a dream signing) and a speed merchant like Diaby or Leao.
Hope we’re in for Bellingham, a left back (Davies would be a dream signing) and a speed merchant like Diaby or Leao.
Clearly, Grealish is not a squad filler. Judging Phillips already is premature. We know little about Bellingham - I personally felt that his performance in the World Cup were good, but did not strike me as extraordinary and he would be expected to be an immediate world-beater should we pay the fee for him. Davies is a fantastic player and an absolute athlete. Speed merchants need more - we don't play on the counter and there is no space in behind a wall of ten.Maddison and Rice would cost a fortune and aren’t amongst the best in their respective positions. It would be Grealish and Phillips all over again. Squad fillers at exorbitant prices.
Hope we’re in for Bellingham, a left back (Davies would be a dream signing) and a speed merchant like Diaby or Leao.
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rice is the most overrated english player. 50 mil max, would be a rotational player in place of kalvin philips.This. Don't get why people think Rice will ever be an elite level player. He's miles off. He's a really good footballer, but nowhere near City's level technically. Doesn't have that 360 vision at all and would get caught on the ball loads as a 6 for City. Europa league player, the best for a side like West Ham, but never a PL winning midfielder.
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Agreed. Do you think he has that fire in his belly that all the great ones have ? Seems very content to play in a comfort zone (possibly the one Pep has created for him). If his finishing was anything like then he wouldn't have spurned those 2 golden chances at the Bernabeu before RM scored their 2 goals in added on time. I posted after the Everton game that I've given up on him in terms of him being a game changer we need in the final third. Hope I'm proved wrong and he delivers in terms of goals and assists but not expecting it to happen.Agreed that's how it looks, but paying £100m for a player who receives the ball on the touch line, shields it a little and rolls it back to a full back.... bit strange all round - i never thought he had that much more in him. At Villa he ran a bit with it, but he hardly scored..or assisted, hey hardly scored..came in at an age when a £100m player should be a world beater - he isn't and wasn't..hardly got an international cao..£100m seems a really really strange buy...great agent though
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pep says that about half the english players. he calls some of the players in relegation side as world beaters. that is is why we have a transfer team independent of pep. do you remember pep wanted kane but the club refused to go all out for him? instead we got haaland. not always best to defer to pepPep is a big fan and Estiarte has also spoken to him about him.
blueju
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Really? I stand corrected then. We played like it until a couple of seasons ago.That's never been Pep's mantra at City, it was an anecdote from his first few weeks coaching in 2008 from Henry.
If that's true then it's a no brainer.considering he's out of contract in the summer, do brighton accept 25m for trossard right now? Not too bad a shout.