Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

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By my maths that's nearly £400 million on 12 defenders since Pep has arrived - arguably only 2 (Walker and Laporte) have made the grade, ok we have not seen Dias and not much of Ake performing for us yet.
However the 8 others - Mendy, Zinchenko, Danilo, Stones, Garcia, Sandler, Angelino and Cancelo have overall not performed consistently well enough for us over the years.
Some of these buys represent staggering incompetence in our buying and recruitment - the main lesson being we are paying ridiculous fees for average players.
And in summary where has it got us now? The answer a poor back line with no discipline and kamikaze defending.
I find the figures above staggering and we have regressed to an extent where the league looks over after 2 games.
 
Im very excited for this singing looks like we have finally signed a Leader and a CB who has the potential to be world class , hes brilliant for Portugal so i cant wait to see how he fits our team.



 
BLUEMATT23 said:
By my maths that's nearly £400 million on 12 defenders since Pep has arrived - arguably only 2 (Walker and Laporte) have made the grade, ok we have not seen Dias and not much of Ake performing for us yet.
However the 8 others - Mendy, Zinchenko, Danilo, Stones, Garcia, Sandler, Angelino and Cancelo have overall not performed consistently well enough for us over the years.
Some of these buys represent staggering incompetence in our buying and recruitment - the main lesson being we are paying ridiculous fees for average players.
And in summary where has it got us now? The answer a poor back line with no discipline and kamikaze defending.
I find the figures above staggering and we have regressed to an extent where the league looks over after 2 games.
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Garcia, Sandler, Angelino can't be counted as young academy products or for Sandler a player that will be moved on.Zinchenko was a cheap midfielder that has done a job there, Danilo we got decent value. That leaves Mendy and Cancelo, Mendy has had 2 bad injuries annd wasn't a ridiculous price, Cancelo we'll see.
I don't beleive we have a poor back line now but as we haven't seen Walker Dias Laporte Ake play as a back 4 we don't know for sure yet. None show staggering incompetence.
 
blueparrot said:
Garcia, Sandler, Angelino can't be counted as young academy products or for Sandler a player that will be moved on.Zinchenko was a cheap midfielder that has done a job there, Danilo we got decent value. That leaves Mendy and Cancelo, Mendy has had 2 bad injuries annd wasn't a ridiculous price, Cancelo we'll see.
I don't beleive we have a poor back line now but as we haven't seen Walker Dias Laporte Ake play as a back 4 we don't know for sure yet. None show staggering incompetence.
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Sorry mate Mendy has been a joke since he arrived - people will only remember him for his off field antics.
Playing wise he is terrible.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Sorry mate Mendy has been a joke since he arrived - people will only remember him for his off field antics.
Playing wise he is terrible.
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He was injured soon after he arrived, in the first few games he looked great, you can't predict an injury never mind 2 so whatever happens he can't go down as a bad or overpriced buy.
 
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