Otamendi

[Neville Kneville]

If we do end up signing this bloke, can we play it forwever as him snubbing Utd, irrespective of whether he has or not ?

Just write it into history, so it becomes fact, like they do ?

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

I really cant see us giving up on Mangala so soon but if we did this, it would show we've not been happy with his play and not seeing the improvement we were hoping to see...

Valencia could swap Otamendi for Manchester City’s Eliaquim Mangala
by Tom Conn | Posted on Saturday, August 15th, 2015


Manchester City are now believed to be the favourites to sign Valencia’s want-away centre-back Nicolas Otamendi, but Los Che could ask for Eliaquim Mangala in exchange.

According to the Mirror, Manchester City are not likely to pay Otamendi’s €50 million release clause and in order to get Valencia to lower their asking price, they could be prepared to offer them an immediate replacement in Mangala.

Mangala has struggled since his £32 million move from Porto to the Etihad last summer and with the possibility of Otamendi arriving in several weeks, City have deemed the French international as his replacement to Valencia.

However, despite the recent reports that Mangala is the man to fill Nuno’s back-line, reports in Spain suggest that if they sell Otamendi, Zenit’s Ezquiel Garay will be on his way back to Spain to play for Valencia this season.

Otamendi played 38 La Liga games for Valencia this past season, scoring six goals and being named to La Liga’s Team of the Season.

 

[Seosa]

I think the fact that he missed training yesterday speaks volumes. This could get interesting pretty quickly.

 

[WeaverWonderland]

Because if we spend £30m on Otamendi, we will be pretty much obliged to play him, meaning Denayer will miss out and never get the chance to show how good he is.

Yea your right just like mangala last year and leaving MDM on the bench........

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

I wonder if this deal is more likely to happen as Valencia still owe us money for negrado ?

 

[giokingkladze]

Expect this has already been discussed but a loan of Mangala to Valencia for the season would give him 12 months experience in a top league against the best players in the world and could knock a few million off the transfer fee.

Demichelis will probably leave next summer, to be replaced by a returning, more experienced Mangala leaving us with a good blend of youth and experience in Kompany, Otamendi, Mangala and Denayer. Also, this would have no implication on the non-homegrown quota.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Maybe Otamendi could be a replacement for Vincent.....

 

[aguero93:20]

Don't need him and I'd rather see us spend the €40m on a deep lying playmaker.

 

[bumbleblue]

Could this mean we are permanently moving MD to midfield?

 

[LittleEgg]

Dont see why giving up on mangala is such a surprise?

He had a full season, and never really looked right. He's now 24 so he's at an age where you'd expect his development to be coming to a head...also kompany is yet to convince he's back to his best, and that isn't guaranteed either.

You could end up with this guy partnering demi as a starting two, until demi leaves for river plate. Denayer could also still get plenty of football.

Its a strange situation no doubt because we don't get to judge them from training, but the Chelsea game will be a good barometer.