Lucas Paquetá

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Exceptional player, no doubt, but I can’t see how he fits in now after getting both Kovacic and Nunes. Pretty sure both will play a lot more next season, quite few of our signings hit the ground running immediately. Most need a season to adjust, and they’re both starting to show glimpses of what they can do

We need another DM and that’s all we need in midfield in my opinion. For DM we’ll have Rodri and presumably someone new in the summer, as b2b midfielders we have Kovacic, Nunes, Bernardo and Rico, and as the more attacking midfielders we have Kev, Foden and Bobb. That’s 9 players for 3 positions. A few of them might play out on the right every once in a while, but then again we’ll most likely see either Neto or Savio joining in the summer. Feels like we shut this door when we signed Nunes
 
Delphinho said:
Exceptional player, no doubt, but I can’t see how he fits in now after getting both Kovacic and Nunes. Pretty sure both will play a lot more next season, quite few of our signings hit the ground running immediately. Most need a season to adjust, and they’re both starting to show glimpses of what they can do

We need another DM and that’s all we need in midfield in my opinion. For DM we’ll have Rodri and presumably someone new in the summer, as b2b midfielders we have Kovacic, Nunes, Bernardo and Rico, and as the more attacking midfielders we have Kev, Foden and Bobb. That’s 9 players for 3 positions. A few of them might play out on the right every once in a while, but then again we’ll most likely see either Neto or Savio joining in the summer. Feels like we shut this door when we signed Nunes
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Probably instead of Bernardo, plus we’ll have to start nursing KDB though the season.
 
Delphinho said:
Exceptional player, no doubt, but I can’t see how he fits in now after getting both Kovacic and Nunes. Pretty sure both will play a lot more next season, quite few of our signings hit the ground running immediately. Most need a season to adjust, and they’re both starting to show glimpses of what they can do

We need another DM and that’s all we need in midfield in my opinion. For DM we’ll have Rodri and presumably someone new in the summer, as b2b midfielders we have Kovacic, Nunes, Bernardo and Rico, and as the more attacking midfielders we have Kev, Foden and Bobb. That’s 9 players for 3 positions. A few of them might play out on the right every once in a while, but then again we’ll most likely see either Neto or Savio joining in the summer. Feels like we shut this door when we signed Nunes
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We'll sign him and look to offload Nunes.
 
blueparrot said:
Probably instead of Bernardo, plus we’ll have to start nursing KDB though the season.
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Even if Bernardo left we’d have
Rodri, new DM
Kovacic, Nunes, Lewis
Kev, Foden, Bobb
for 3 positions. If the DM is Kimmich I could see us playing him and Rodri together in most of the important games only leaving 1 spot for another midfielder. Would make more sense to me to replace Bernardo with a RW. Looks like Pep views Foden more as a midfielder now than he did at the start of the season
 
Bluewonder said:
We'll sign him and look to offload Nunes.
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It'll be Kova out of the two i reckon IF they look to move one, (unlikely) Saudi and Turkish teams interested.
 
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Bluewonder said:
We'll sign him and look to offload Nunes.
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Can’t see that after only 1 season. Nunes has actually had some great performances without ever getting a good run of games and possibility of building form. Kalvin was shite whenever he walked on to the pich
 
Delphinho said:
Even if Bernardo left we’d have
Rodri, new DM
Kovacic, Nunes, Lewis
Kev, Foden, Bobb
for 3 positions. If the DM is Kimmich I could see us playing him and Rodri together in most of the important games only leaving 1 spot for another midfielder. Would make more sense to me to replace Bernardo with a RW. Looks like Pep views Foden more as a midfielder now than he did at the start of the season
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Delphinho said:
Even if Bernardo left we’d have
Rodri, new DM
Kovacic, Nunes, Lewis
Kev, Foden, Bobb
for 3 positions. If the DM is Kimmich I could see us playing him and Rodri together in most of the important games only leaving 1 spot for another midfielder. Would make more sense to me to replace Bernardo with a RW. Looks like Pep views Foden more as a midfielder now than he did at the start of the season
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Doubt we’ll buy Kimmich, we will need at least 3 AM to rotate Foden KDB , Paqueta or somebody else. Bobb will play wide when he plays and think Nunes will be used more wide.
Don’t think there is much doubt we are looking for a midfielder Paqueta or somebody else.
 
blueparrot said:
Doubt we’ll buy Kimmich, we will need at least 3 AM to rotate Foden KDB , Paqueta or somebody else. Bobb will play wide when he plays and think Nunes will be used more wide.
Don’t think there is much doubt we are looking for a midfielder Paqueta or somebody else.
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Nah, we will buy another dm type player, Rodri needs his rest
 
Bluewonder said:
Maybe not, but as he was signed when Paqueta became unavailable, and is evidently inferior, I won't we surprised if we try.
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Hopefully the FA will also follow suit if this is all true and drop their investigation because surely they can't have anything credible now, after all if higher up crime organisations with much more clout to dissect these accusations can't find owt wrong what can the FA do?

Personally I never believed Nunes was a Paqueta alternative I believe we mainly signed him because we knew that Cole Palmer had decided to leave, Nunes can still potentially become a good backup player if he improves like most do in their second season.

Lucas Paqueta though is the versatile player we wanted and need in midfield who can rotate with others, he can come in and graft like Bernie while still being silky with added strength, he can make the forward runs and intelligent passes of Gundogan, or just like Stones double pivot right next to Rodri helping build attacks if needed, he can even play out wide too there's so much versatility in this player without any real dropoff in quality.

We've not been scared to delay for a year when signing the right player for the right role, for me Gundogan is another legend that we've had to delay replacing for a year due to these accusations. Paqueta if he now joins in the summer will be an instant impact player like Dias was, someone we can rely on straight away as he's a got a winners mentality and would fit in perfectly.
 
Bluewonder said:
Maybe not, but as he was signed when Paqueta became unavailable, and is evidently inferior, I won't we surprised if we try.
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In a perfect world I think Pep would rather Kovacic & Paqueta last summer, with a CDM replacement for Philips.

Nunes is now a spanner in our works which we either need to keep faith with or move him on as we may have better midfield options come the summer.

Nunes never made sense to me & in my honest opinion, I don't think he suits the level City are at.
 
i like him but he`s way to expensive for the alternatives we already have...spending £200m for KP,Kova,Nunes,Paqueta is underwhelming....i even doubt Bernardo will leave this summer (not much money around in Europe & the french League won`t be his destination)
 
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