Marouane Fellaini

[FantasyIreland]

I love how people like to pull out signings made by other teams and use them as a benchmark that our signings should be judged on.

Do you know for a fact that we didn't bid for Dembele and offer him a nice contract? or do you think this is Football Manager and Fifa where no other factors apart from money are taken into consideration. Which would mean we would have the pick of every player in the world.

Who knows what relationship he has with some players in our team or maybe his missus doesn't like Manchester etc.

In an ideal world I would have signed Dembele, Vertonghen and De Rossi during the summer. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that and players will reject us and move elsewhere because of many different reasons. The sooner many people realise that and in doing so stop banging on about who we didn't sign and blaming Marwood etc the better.

I understand your view point but we blew 16-20 m on a player who isn't upto the job,thats what hurts,why didnt we just keep the money,and squad place,for the right player when available........

We are now in a position where we have to buy again or risk falling further behind the Rags due to a lack of squad quality.

Dembele was available,i obviously cant be sure but i believe had we been in for him the rejection would have been public knowledge by now.

Lets be honest the contract Garcia is on will certainly be more generous than the respective contract Spurs gave Dembele,so we can discount personal terms for being a reason.You are correct though that another valid reason beyond our control may well have been responsible of course,i just find that hard to believe it could have been kept under wraps given the tabloids love of bashing us.......

Marwood,i blame for nothing.

 

[MSP]

Mate, I figured out recently that you would be perfectly happy in replacing approx. half of the squad that won the league last year :)

I guess you should accept the fact that we'll see much more Rodwell/Garcia signings than Aguero/Yaya/Silva ones in the future.

Those days of few 25m signings each transfer are gone, you'll see them here and there only now. One per year or something like that, dependable of current squad departures, aging etc..

Dembele is good player but I clearly remember many people here were saying that he's nowhere near City quality last season. Now suddenly, many think we should go for him. As somebody already pointed, we can't get any player that is good.

I want Fellaini though, lol, sell FantasyIreland and get that guy :)

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

No if's or but's, we have to buy this lad in the summer, him and yaya would shit the life out of any side,and I mean any side.

 

[Matt the Giant]

No if's or but's, we have to buy this lad in the summer, him and yaya would shit the life out of any side,and I mean any side.

A side like Barcelona or Real would easily pass their way right through that midfield. They are not the most mobile lads.
But I agree, against most PL sides they would be very dominant.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

I love how people like to pull out signings made by other teams and use them as a benchmark that our signings should be judged on.

Do you know for a fact that we didn't bid for Dembele and offer him a nice contract? or do you think this is Football Manager and Fifa where no other factors apart from money are taken into consideration. Which would mean we would have the pick of every player in the world.

Who knows what relationship he has with some players in our team or maybe his missus doesn't like Manchester etc.

In an ideal world I would have signed Dembele, Vertonghen and De Rossi during the summer. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that and players will reject us and move elsewhere because of many different reasons. The sooner many people realise that and in doing so stop banging on about who we didn't sign and blaming Marwood etc the better.

I understand your view point but we blew 16-20 m on a player who isn't upto the job,thats what hurts,why didnt we just keep the money,and squad place,for the right player when available........

We are now in a position where we have to buy again or risk falling further behind the Rags due to a lack of squad quality.

Dembele was available,i obviously cant be sure but i believe had we been in for him the rejection would have been public knowledge by now.

In fairness though Garcia looked a very very good player at Benfica and there was no indication he would turn in to a snail in mind and body once he got to City
Lets be honest the contract Garcia is on will certainly be more generous than the respective contract Spurs gave Dembele,so we can discount personal terms for being a reason.You are correct though that another valid reason beyond our control may well have been responsible of course,i just find that hard to believe it could have been kept under wraps given the tabloids love of bashing us.......

Marwood,i blame for nothing.

 

[GeekinGav]

he still got 3 and a half years left on his contract, if he was worth £25m now, Everton would want more cos he could be worth more within the time his contract is still with Everton.

Thats why clubs wait till 12/18 months left on the contracts, so the club selling the player dont have much bargaining power re: the transfer amount in case they lose the player for nothing when the contract runs out.

 

[Fallingbostel Blue]

I know it's twitter but just seen this on my timeline.

<a class="postlink" href="https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56</a>


Fellaini is signing for Man City. (Don't shoot the messenger)

 

[Tevez City]

I know it's twitter but just seen this on my timeline.

<a class="postlink" href="https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56</a>


Fellaini is signing for Man City. (Don't shoot the messenger)

I will shoot him because he is a liar.

 

[Ducado]

I know it's twitter but just seen this on my timeline.

<a class="postlink" href="https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56</a>


Fellaini is signing for Man City. (Don't shoot the messenger)

I will shoot him because he is a liar.

To be fair it's not an fake agent account or the like, this rumour has been around for quite a while now

 

[MSP]

Cheeky, Cheeky, sign him up :)