Matheus Nunes

[mosssideblue]

Clearly, I've never disputed that. I just questioned Keepers rationale that his value has gone up by 25 to 59% based on him scoring 1 goal last season and frankly being poor in a poor Wolves side.

Some on here seem to think we should just pay whatever for a player just because that's what the selling club want and that Chelsea have distorted the market. That's not the way City have operated at all. I just don't see that happening.

I see it happening. We know what wolves want and we negotiate towards that

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

For those of you saying he's right to strike well ok. But have you considered he could go on strike with us if real Madrid were to come knocking this time next year?

I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole - as they say.

He didn't strike

 

[Academica]

How did you arrive at your conclusion that 25% to 50% mark up is reasonable ?

You seem to think that just because a player has been in the PL a year and done nothing , his value should automatically go up a huge amount? Seems a very odd conclusion to me.

Do you think the same applies to Calvin Phillips ?

We have tabled an offer of a bit more than Wolves paid. But personally I doubt we are going to just up the fee to anywhere near that.

Maguire must be worth £120m now.

 

[Sir peace frog]

It does frustrate me that city are so quick to to brag about how much money they have made from selling x,y and z academy products. It just stinks of a very insecure mindset, a desperation to be accepted & admired by the wide football community. We all know that won’t ever happen and the narrative we just spend spend spend will continue.

This transfer window hasn’t gone well and as a result we may just have to suck it up and slightly overpay for Nunes. The market has changed and we will not get worldwide acclaim for refusing to pay above our valuation. Just feels like cutting our nose to spite our face.

As it stands we haven’t got the squad capable of competing for all 4 competitions (which is clearly the clubs aim). An injury to rodri and the season could be similar to the 2019/20 campaign. We have yet another chance to make history by becoming the first side to win 4 prem titles in a row. I just don’t understand why city seemingly are willing to put that achievement in serious jeopardy by hampering pep and weakening the squad.

as has been proven,we have the same amount of players as last season, except for the stones and kev injury its been pretty much like for like .

As for the spend spend spend, there are rules we need to keep to, maybe we are looking at a player for next season when he becomes available so wont go over our budget this season, imagine we wont pay 60m for nunes this window, and splash the cash on wirtz(never seen him play) because we didnt meet the gvardiol,nunes,duko,kovacic fees first wanted by their old clubs, everything isnt black and white, but our board know how to play the game.

 

[not my fault!]

For those of you saying he's right to strike well ok. But have you considered he could go on strike with us if real Madrid were to come knocking this time next year?

I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole - as they say.

Franny Lee did it, Mahrez did it… that’s just two that did it to move to City! It’s not a new concept and neither did it to get a move anywhere else. Not sound logic really.

 

[Sir peace frog]

What about Omar and Ferran? Why is it always txiki’s fault?

because some on here don't know what his actual job is, he might have a say in the negotiations he might not , he finds the players or his department does, presents them to the board, and the board or negotiating team take over however he definitely will not have a say on how much we will go to.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

You have to know when to hold em, know when to fold em

Txiki 2023

(or could have been the gambler)

 

[Sir peace frog]

6 different midfielders not going our way this summer with £100m in our pocked if you include Gundo leaving unexpectedly.

Genuine self sabotage, we'd all be howling if it was United/Liverpool doing it.

The blokes only redeeming asset is being Peps bezzie

you're a bit of a twat ,aren't you

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

The truth is we've already had a good window, right here, right now. Kovacic and Gvardiol appear to have fitted in seamlessly. I'm astonished by it, frankly. I don't remember two players arriving and just looking right at home like this from their very first appearances. You'd say they'd been playing with Pep and the team for years.
We have this lad Doku, who some seem to rate (and who Pep and Txiki must rate, by definition).
In the above context, we get this guy, or not, at our price, or not. No sweat. If not, we keep McAtee, presumably. From my point of view that's only a good thing. I'm hoping he'd be played occasionally, at least in cup matches and, depending on injuries, parts of the odd league match here and there.

 

[domalino]

One thing really can’t stand about this forum is the posters who seem to think there is some huge conspiracy against city. I can promise you they are not investigating Paqueta in some weird attempt to stop him joining city.

The irony of course is that in theory we shouldn't have even known about the confidential investigation into Paqueta, nor West Ham, nor Paqueta and someone at the FA did us a massive favour by letting it out.