Manuel Akanji | City close to £15m agreement, 5 year contract

[Cotton Weave Blue]

Is this guy any good? Did he play against us in the CL?

 

[Blue Smarties]

Bit out of the blue, but we definitely need greater squad depth. Just hope the injuries to Laporte and Ake aren't worse than first feared.

Met Laporte in town on Saturday. He said he’s back next week. Then again, it was a big group of us so he probably would have said anything to get us to leave him alone!

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Sounds class on Wikipedia (I know)

"Akanji was widely criticised for his costly errors during Dortmund's failed challenge to Bayern during the 2019/20 season. Akanji was one of the main players singled out as a weak link in the team."

 

[kupest]

3 at the back formation?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I can only think maybe Laporte's injury is worse than expected, or Aké is about to drop a transfer request bombshell because the last month being 1st choice has made him realise he's too good to be 4th choice.

We have 4 incredibly good leftbacks and a big prospect in Mbete who Pep likes and has used.

We have loads of Lb cover between Cancelo, Gomez, Aké and JWE.

Akanji isn't likely to play RB.

Wasn’t the last update on Laporte that he’s out until October? Maybe he may well not play before the WC.

For £20m another body can’t hurt us anyway, if the player is willing to rotate and not play as much as they’d ideally like.

 

[dhruvblue]

Dortmund fans are actually happy that he is off

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Sounds class on Wikipedia (I know)

"Akanji was widely criticised for his costly errors during Dortmund's failed challenge to Bayern during the 2019/20 season. Akanji was one of the main players singled out as a weak link in the team."

Hopefully that’s not a Haaland quote!

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Is this guy any good? Did he play against us in the CL?

Mainstay in the Swiss team and dortmund team, can't be too bad let's hope he's awesome

 

[dadnlad]

does anyone know the agents fees or do i need to wait for Kaveh on the transfer show

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Dortmund fans are actually happy that he is off

I remember some benfica fans delighted with the Ruben deal too