Leonardo Bonucci

[TonyM]

The funny thing about this signing is that while it's good from a football perspective (as is Pogba to utd) it is vastly over priced (as is Pogba to utd) do it'll make most fans happy but a very few will be denied their stick to hit utd with regarding the Pogba deal. :-)

 

[Tez Tosterone]

They have either acted already, starting ages ago & are still acting or won't be acting at all. They won't be starting now.

Sorry. I'm meant to say that City need to act decisively right now.

You are right. City pitched in weeks ago but now need to act with Bayern like efficiency in closing this deal.

 

[MC ID]

The funny thing about this signing is that while it's good from a football perspective (as is Pogba to utd) it is vastly over priced (as is Pogba to utd) do it'll make most fans happy but a very few will be denied their stick to hit utd with regarding the Pogba deal. :-)

You see I've never quite seen this reasoning over the long term regards overspending. We are, consistently (and the PL in general) quoted large amounts for players and we do seemingly often loose out to the likes of Bayern-Juve-Real and Barca. No matter how often we turn away from a deal, whether it be Isco, Hazard etc we are still quoted high fee's - not paying them isn't changing the fact we are being quoted high figures. We don't have the pedigree the aforementioned clubs have to attract the players, and I think this goes a long way into getting lower fee's overall. So really, wouldn't it be more prudent to overspend on a truly world class player, and create a world class team so in the long run you get better dibs on subsequent players? Or, we deny ourselves these players and keep entrapped just outside the football elite.

Overspend now, establish ourselves as the big thing and then our name will make it so much easier.

 

[TonyM]

You see I've never quite seen this reasoning over the long term regards overspending. We are, consistently (and the PL in general) quoted large amounts for players and we do seemingly often loose out to the likes of Bayern-Juve-Real and Barca. No matter how often we turn away from a deal, whether it be Isco, Hazard etc we are still quoted high fee's - not paying them isn't changing the fact we are being quoted high figures. We don't have the pedigree the aforementioned clubs have to attract the players, and I think this goes a long way into getting lower fee's overall. So really, wouldn't it be more prudent to overspend on a truly world class player, and create a world class team so in the long run you get better dibs on subsequent players? Or, we deny ourselves these players and keep entrapped just outside the football elite.

Overspend now, establish ourselves as the big thing and then our name will make it so much easier.

In hindsight I think you are right. Years ago though I'd have been on the side of not overpaying. Maybe if cook hadn't sent that stupid email we'd have stayed on that track?

 

[richards30]

If you had your way we'd have 100 players by now

nope!! we need a leader at the back though as there is no guarantee that vinny will stay fit? we already have Fantastic attacking options but defensively we need work

 

[domalino]

This would be the most important signing we can make in this window. Forget forward thinking players we need to start getting real about being difficult to score against again and this lad would be key to that.

I actually think pep would consider him just as important in breaking down defences. We need a defender who can pass the ball like Boateng did. It gave Bayern so many advantages in attack and really helped them break down stubborn defences.

There's a lot of defenders we could buy to shore up the defence - frankly pep could just coach who we have to give us a good defence.

But that long range passing and moving the ball very quickly from defence to forwards is a massive part of how pep used to break down stubborn defences in Germany and how he beat teams that pressed with intensity.

 

[MC ID]

In hindsight I think you are right. Years ago though I'd have been on the side of not overpaying. Maybe if cook hadn't sent that stupid email we'd have stayed on that track?

At the time I thought we were making the right decision but it's clearly not worked out, I think we need to accept we need to overpay short term now

 

[TonyM]

At the time I thought we were making the right decision but it's clearly not worked out, I think we need to accept we need to overpay short term now

Seems logical.

But it will deny the stick to beat united with :-)

 

[thereWasATime]

 

[razman]

interesting comments....possibility still there