Nathan Ake

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

3 years at the club between 15 and 21, that's the rule in short.

Eric Garcia has already qualified to be club-trained homegrown, after turning 21.
Would be painful if he left, in terms of free spots in the squad.

Garcia is valuable to the squad

People tend to forget about limit on foreign places

Ake is very good signing

 

[Neville Kneville]

As far as "back up" options go, he'd be pretty decent. Good in the tackle, has pace and can chip in with a few goals. The price may be a little high but we're mugging Valencia right off with the fee we're paying for Ferran so hey-ho. All in all, it should be another decent piece of business.

50% of Maguire's fee ?

Doesn't seem especially high to me.

 

[meeesh]

Can you imagine if Micah started slating dipper signings, there’d be outrage.

Just the arrogance of him to think he knows best.

Can't believe how high esteem he is held in,not even an international as he spat dummy when not selected,prick

 

[domalino]

Carragher quoted in MUEN saying 2 left sided CBs won't work as Today's Criticism of City. He says its looks strange to have two lefties although two right footers are ok.
I am sure that he was one of many so called professional clowns who didnt have a clue about Eric whem he signed and ss a result didnt praise him whrn his ability became apparent. But as soon as he got injured they were all saying how good he was so they could rub his loss in.

His little brain can't comprehend the idea of signing more than one CB in a window.

 

[domalino]

How's this for a statement of how fucked our CB situation was this season?

It is significant that after the 3-2 defeat by Norwich on 14 September, Guardiola's two most experienced central defenders, Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones, did not start another Premier League game together until July.
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That's with Laporte out for 6 months...

 

[Vienna_70]

Carragher quoted in MUEN saying 2 left sided CBs won't work as Today's Criticism of City. He says its looks strange to have two lefties although two right footers are ok.
I am sure that he was one of many so called professional clowns who didnt have a clue about Eric whem he signed and ss a result didnt praise him whrn his ability became apparent. But as soon as he got injured they were all saying how good he was so they could rub his loss in.

Clutching at straws?

 

[Dirty Harry]

The EDS games when he played for the chavs

Means little now, but the games I saw he was the most impressive player on the pitch Kaz.

 

[City_Sean]

How's this for a statement of how fucked our CB situation was this season?

It is significant that after the 3-2 defeat by Norwich on 14 September, Guardiola's two most experienced central defenders, Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones, did not start another Premier League game together until July.
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That's with Laporte out for 6 months...

I still find it absolutely staggering that the club went into a season with Stones, Otamendi, Fernandinho and Laporte as it's CB options.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Don’t really know how it works but does the £41 mill mean their buyback can be refused? If the player has decided, not sure Chelsea can make him go.

Yeah it's interesting, but quite undefined how it works in practice. Anyone?

Maybe Chelsea could trigger the option as an obligation between B'mouth and Chelsea.
But surely they still wouldn't have a contract with Aké. It would mean the player gave away his right of free choice where to work back then to Chelsea. Such an option would cost 20m+ for a club. Why would a player do that, if not for huuuge money.

Such a first refusal option doesn't make much sense, only if the player wants back to the mother club, for a fixed fee (per option) instead of open negotiations.

I'm not sure though.
I bet tv experts don't drop a word about that topic?..

 

[WickyWain]

Pros:

• Has nice hair

You had me at this

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Clutching at straws?

Honestly, you can see that so many of their fans look to him for an example to follow. His contrived bullshit about acting like he's the bigger man and above everything has been taken on by their fanbase as a whole.

It's all so forced and you can see how thin the veil is because you can very visibly see the blood rushing to his face any time he talks about us.

Not to mention the bullshit like he brought up today about signing two left footed centrebacks. He always seems to act like he's concerned that our transfer dealings don't really make sense and won't go to plan but it's nothing but wishful thinking.

You'd think that after his adopted club finally ended a title drought that lasted around twice the length of his entire career then he'd have perked up a bit but I think his blood hasn't stopped boiling since Sterling fucked them off.

 

[asahartford1]

Whoaaah, don't introduce facts to try and quell a narative

May become a possible future scapegoat. Every narrative has an emerging spring. Don't underestimate that matt

 

[MeatHunterrr]

I still find it absolutely staggering that the club went into a season with Stones, Otamendi, Fernandinho and Laporte as it's CB options.

Pure arrogance by the board after historic season IMO.

Need to be more ruthless in the future when we win stuff, replacing players that easily can be improved.

 

[cjn]

I still find it absolutely staggering that the club went into a season with Stones, Otamendi, Fernandinho and Laporte as it's CB options.

Completely insane decision, and not even with hindsight. How we somehow managed to identify Harry Maguire as the only centerback in the world we could've signed last summer remains baffling to me.

It's similar to the year we decided to only have one DM in the squad after Jorginho didn't sign, or how we've gone Pep's whole tenure with fill ins at left back. It's like building a big beautiful house then deciding the roof should only cover half the building.

 

[Vienna_70]

Pure arrogance by the board after historic season IMO.

Need to be more ruthless in the future when we win stuff, replacing players that easily can be improved.

They really should have learnt from our experiences after Bobby won the title in 11/12.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Need to be more ruthless in the future when we win stuff, replacing players that easily can be improved.

In terms of quality mgmt I wouldn't disagree, but it's quite tricky celebrating trophies together and a week later kick some out. It's an old pattern of keeping the winning team unchanged a bit too long.

 

[cjn]

In terms of quality mgmt I wouldn't disagree, but it's quite tricky celebrating trophies together and a week later kick some out. It's an old pattern of keeping the winning team unchanged a bit too long.

We have a bad habit of handing out extensions for no reason also. A big part of why we couldn't sign a centerback last summer was because it was too difficult to move Otamendi's wages.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Whoaaah, don't introduce facts to try and quell a narative

FFA will become the new FFS.

For Fucks Ake.

 

[Cellarite]

FFA will become the new FFS.

For Fucks Ake.

FFS. FFSM. FFA.

 

[Silva&Silva]

Completely insane decision, and not even with hindsight. How we somehow managed to identify Harry Maguire as the only centerback in the world we could've signed last summer remains baffling to me.

It's similar to the year we decided to only have one DM in the squad after Jorginho didn't sign, or how we've gone Pep's whole tenure with fill ins at left back. It's like building a big beautiful house then deciding the roof should only cover half the building.

Looks like we've learnt our lesson this time around. Seems as if we're still in for a marquee CB even with the Aké signing. So at least we won't be dragged into another all or nothing situation regarding potential CBs. We won't have to bend over backwards to get over Koulibably given we've got Aké (although we probably should).