Rodrygo


Likely just about Isak if its akin to any of his last 20 teasers.
Some reasoned thoughts but in the end it comes down to who would you rather have Rodrygo or Savinho? 40+ G/A in CL at 24. That's not Savinho...
A good point but we should not judge a 20 year old who played one season with a Champions league club on his CL returns.

2 years back we ran Madrid off the pitch. Better team in essentially every facet of the two legs. Now we are targeting their outcast whom they don't want to pay. Not exactly inspiring from my perspective.
 
Some reasoned thoughts but in the end it comes down to who would you rather have Rodrygo or Savinho? 40+ G/A in CL at 24. That's not Savinho...
Alright I agree I really do but it seems too tricky to balance.

I still believe getting a really good RB and giving Savio x Doku one more season to prove themselves and only then if they haven’t buy a winger.

Adding a winger complicates things far too much. The squad still has players that haven’t left. Our defence is still shaky. Rodri isn’t fully fit yet. We haven’t used Haaland to the best of his abilities. A winger signing esp like Rodrygo seems like a cherry on top signing when all is done.

Would I be mad if he came ? Not really just confused… but best believe I’m not missing a single match
 
Rodrygo has a lot in him and was always in the shadow of Vinicius, lately Bellingham and Mbappe too. he fucking killed us in 5 minutes at Bernabeu when we were much better in the tie.

to step out of the shadow and become a power house performer in PL for City and in CL, thats big motivation imo for someone like him. he would set up Haaland and can score on his own too.

also surprised he is just 24, had him as bit older.

there were rumours about this early on even in June, but then nothing happened for weeks. maybe now Xabi Alonso after a few weeks of CWC and pre season decided if he wants him around or not, maybe he wants to go wingback system and already have Vinicius to somehow use who is favourite of F. Perez.

expensive buy, brutal salary for sure, but we lose the salary of Grealish, KDB, Walker so far. also didnt pay off much bonuses last season, could be significant savings that way compared to 22-23 or 23-24.
Trafford, Cherki, it Nouri, doubt they are on elite salary, 100K maybe 150K. Reijders maybe 200K?
also McAtee, Savinho could offset salaries a bit.
I'm not against signing him but I thought we were over our quota, so 1 NHG in & 1 out doesn't seem to make sense.
 
I rate Rodrygo.

But he is identical in profile to Marmoush.

An inside forward on the left, yes I know Rodrygo CAN play wide RW but has made it clear at Real Madrid (his camp vocalized this) that he doesn't want to play there.

So if Savinho is sold, and Rodrygo potentially comes in, the only way this makes sense in my brain is that we play a wide winger wide fullback system where Nunes or Bobb hold the width on the right, and Savinho is redundant.

I could potentially see a double striker system consisting of any 2 of Haaland/Marmoush/Rodrygo, with RAN/Doku wide left and Bobb/Nunes wide right.

But this has a knock on effect on Reijnders/Cherki/Foden having to play a bit deeper to accommodate (which I'm okay with)

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But I have left out Bernie/Gundogan/Kovacic because how do you fit them in if you need Reiinders/Foden/Cherki to play.
I appreciate how much thought you put in this and hopefully people see the light on how this transfer literally doesn’t make sense.
 
I would absolutely love this signing. Jude Bellingham I believe said last year he sees Rodrygo as the most talented player in the Madrid squad.

He’s so skillfil and is a great finisher.

I’d say he fits our system better than Madrid and he could be great cutting inside and causing damage.

Haaland ahead of marmoush, cherki and rodrygo would be truly insane.

As Mahrez mentioned in a recent interview. Last year we lacked killers, those 3 would absolutely get lots of goals and assists.

Then you’ve got a plethora of talented midfielders behind.

Time to get even more excited.
Mahrez knows a killer when he sees one.
 
That twitch streamer that has pushed Rodrygo to city on her last livestream said it’s not city pushing it , she’s just heard from Rodrygo camp that he doesn’t want to leave Madrid but if he has too the only club he wants to go to is City. Arsenal and Bayern are second choice and if he has to leave he’d go to them.

Also followed up with that Madrid players see the only club outside of Madrid to join is Man City.

Which makes sense with how their players talk about us as a club. The guy on there said said as well that the game against City at the City’s ground the Etihad where Madrid were in his word Humiliated. Made an impact on a lot of Madrid players the atmosphere the chants even Vini was overcome by it.

Which he said you can see in Vini Jrs documentary where he says about the Kevin chants.
Ikkle citeh mashing the place up.
 

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