Leroy Sané

[CityForever45]

In a pair of years, we'll call this fee a bargain, guy is absolute class.

 

[KiLP12]

KDB, Sane: City 2 Bayern 0
Jesus, Nolito: City 2 Barca 0

xD, it's just fun and games.

 

[Impeccable One]

Are people really moaning about the size of the fee? I would think in the current market 37m represents excellent business from our point of view for a player with his potential and reputation across Europe.

Agreed .. And I'm more interested in what he'll be worth in 5 years after 3 PL titles and 2 CL's !!!

 

[Neville Kneville]

Saw some lose touches there that carried on into hisgame last season. Has to get better with that. Especially now that he is likely to start seeing more park the bus defenses.

I think it's the same with all kids but he has attributes which could open up defences, especially as they have never seen him. The same goes for some of our kids who were never given the same opportunity Sane had.

 

[kaz7]

I don't know why everyone is so quick to believe the £37 mil figure.. It's quoted by Schalke.. Bound to be inflated.. Including bonuses, agent fees etc.. Selling clubs do that to show that they got the better deal

They said it was 40m,city have made it clear via martin b at the sun that it's 37m and add on that might not be triggered

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

In the current market, probably.

And this is what is going over certain posters heads.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Ha, that's the problem though.

Great signing mind, looking forward to seeing him play and for Pep to get his hands on him.

Can't you just be happy with have a shiny new toy and it's not even Christmas ;-)

 

[cleavers]

Are people really moaning about the size of the fee? I would think in the current market 37m represents excellent business from our point of view for a player with his potential and reputation across Europe.

Exactly, as discussed earlier in the thread Benteke was £32m, a year ago, without the hike in TV money !

 

[ADegenerate]

KDB, Sane: City 2 Bayern 0
Jesus, Nolito: City 2 Barca 0

xD, it's just fun and games.

Brought a smile to my face. Feels great.

 

[Cityfan]

I'd rather we just never made the 'take it or leave it' offer to Liverpool last summer if we didn't have the bottle to actually walk away when they rejected it.

It's precedents like that which come back to haunt you. Exactly what we're going through with Stones now as well apparently.

You've got to show you're prepared to walk away when selling clubs take the piss otherwise you'll get the piss taken out of you every time you buy.

Did we issue a take it or leave it offer or was that a press story? Neither of us will know.
We appear to have walked away from interest in Pogba and Aubameyang this summer already. The brutal answer is when we want a player that the other club does not really want to sell we have limited negotiating power. No one on this board knows what the starting negotiating positions were in any bid, we may or may not have done a great job negotiating, only time will tell if they represent value like Aguero De Bruyne(probably) or poor value like Mangala or Jovetic.