Philippe Sandler

Feyenoord1908 said:
He has an air of arrogance when he is playing, which has led to a couple of mistakes last season, but he has improved ever since.

He has the talent to be a top-notch Dutch defender, and could definitely succeed at City if he gets the proper guidance.

The reactions in Holland at this transfer are quite negative though because the sentiment is that another Dutch top talent has been prematurely signed by a European topclub .

His personal manager is Mino Raiola by the way. A rather controversial figure in the sports because of his dominance and negotiation tactics. Ibrahimovic and Pogba are also in his portfolio.
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Raiola seems to be a cnut
 
Sandler reminds me a lot of Ake in the way he looks and plays. So far he has been promising in what is nowadays a very ordinairy league. For a CB he has age on his side. I like to think their manager, John van 't Schip, the former Melbourne City manager, played a part in informing City about the young lad. Too early to tell if Sandler will become first team material. To be fair, I didn't expect Zinchenko to get where he is now. It's hard with young players to tell where they might end up. The one and only young top defender that we should chase in the Dutch league however is Mathijs de Ligt from Ajax, but what do I know.
 
Ever since we were linked I’ve watched the last 3 games and I can see why he wanted to make sure he wasn’t just loaned around everywhere. 2 Out of the 3 games he’s stood out as clearly the best defender on the pitch and the other he was just abused and too nonchalant against PSV. The PSV game he started out well but after the GK got sent off his levels severely dropped and he Luuk De Jong got 2 goals past him in a 4-1 game. Frenkie de Jong is a MF that’s now playing CB these days but Sandler is a straight up CB who is comfortably able to dribble all the way up the pitch into the final 3rd and pick a pass on numerous occasions. Hopefully he cleans up his play a little more when it’s time to handle adversity but he’s young.
 

Finally found a highlights video of him. Does anyone know if the players who participate in the world cup is available for preseason games? If not, a back 4 consisting of Maffeo-Tosin-Sandler-Angelino would be interesting
 
That highlights video showed lots of his tackles where he was going to ground to tackle. Reminded me of Ota in his early days with us. Personally I would prefer a defender to stay on his feet. Ota has improved in that respect, hopefully Sandler can do the same.
 
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