Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

[manimanc]

I suspect he might be being a little bit sarcastic haha

Sssh let him have his hissy fit :)

 

[PragueBlue]

Increased to €100M with the contract renewal.

I assume the only reason you are selling is due to not making the CL group stages and therefore will accept less than his release clause?

 

[cjn]

In defence we have the “L. A.D.S”, like it!

I was on the fence about this one, but you've won me over.

 

[Gumzy97]

Honestly taking a guess here but i think he was our Main target if you think about it. Scouting him for 18 months, we sent scouts to the porto game earlier this year as well. Only problem with getting him was the 100 million release clause. Which is probably why we didnt think about going for him. But then Benfica go out of the champions league and need money. Meaning Dias for the first time was attainable

 

[omri]

Honestly taking a guess here but i think he was our Main target if you think about it. Scouting him for 18 months, we sent scouts to the porto game earlier this year as well. Only problem with getting him was the 100 million release clause. Which is probably why we didnt think about going for him. But then Benfica go out of the champions league and need money. Meaning Dias for the first time was attainable

koulibaly I think number 1.

 

[p.taker]

Honestly taking a guess here but i think he was our Main target if you think about it. Scouting him for 18 months, we sent scouts to the porto game earlier this year as well. Only problem with getting him was the 100 million release clause. Which is probably why we didnt think about going for him. But then Benfica go out of the champions league and need money. Meaning Dias for the first time was attainable

I have not read about this possibility in the media or on Twitter, therefore I am uncertain of its validity.

 

[manimanc]

Koulibaly is going to have to take his clothes out of his case coz them creases will take ages to iron out.

 

[cjn]

Honestly taking a guess here but i think he was our Main target if you think about it. Scouting him for 18 months, we sent scouts to the porto game earlier this year as well. Only problem with getting him was the 100 million release clause. Which is probably why we didnt think about going for him. But then Benfica go out of the champions league and need money. Meaning Dias for the first time was attainable

Yes, we wasted three months talking to Aurelio De Laurentiis just for fun and then decided to sign the guy we wanted all along after the season started. I don't know why some of you are so desperate to pretend Dias was the first choice when he extremely obviously was not.

 

[blueparrot]

Yes, we wasted three months talking to Aurelio De Laurentiis just for fun and then decided to sign the guy we wanted all along after the season started. I don't know why some of you are so desperate to pretend Dias was the first choice when he extremely obviously was not.

Did we talk to him for 3 months as we apparently never put any bid on the table for him.

 

[WallyA]

All 4 of out CBs are pretty young. Cant remember the last time we didnt have an oldie in there.