Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

[Bernardo20]

Benfica will announce Otamendi at 6pm local time. He arrived yesterday at 11pm. Dias should be announced today too. Remains to be seen if the quarantine applies to football players - if so, he can't play saturday.

There was some delay. Otamendi's announcement ceremony is about to start. Dias should be announced soon too I guess.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Highlights video will need a bit of editing.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

PiGMOL are already polishing the cards,.

Saving the one Sadio Mane red card from last night for Dias’ debut. Not even reviewed by VAR. Stored.

 

[omri]

ake was in 7.30 and torres was in 8.00.

I think dias will be in 7.45.

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Mendy looked good on signing - however has had two horrendous injuries. He may not recover to be the player we brought or he may need time to get sharpness and fitness back. Seems to be forgotten in the slagging Mendy always seems to get. IIRC he was brought in to play in a back five however the injury prevented that ever being able to be done as Delph and Zinchenko (the alternatives) we in no way wingbacks.

The player we have now sadly is not the player we signed who was up there with the best for Monaco and took us apart. However I believe that is a result of serious knee injuries rather than bad recruitment.

He had a poor injury record before we signed him and we has always so-so defensively at very best. He was always signed for his attacking output, and he's not even delivering that now.. while being a complete defensive liability.

Our recruitment defensively has been shocking, however we try to rationalise it.

We played with Delph at left back for the bulk of that 100 point season and we were no worse for it. Probably better in fact.

 

[Neville Kneville]

He had a poor injury record before we signed him and we has always so-so defensively at very best. He was always signed for his attacking output, and he's not even delivering that now.. while being a complete defensive liability.

Our recruitment defensively has been shocking, however we try to rationalise it.

We played with Delph at left back for the bulk of that 100 point season and we were no worse for it. Probably better in fact.

Delph is the only half decent left back we've had for years.

 

[wolviedinho]

I don’t get this hammering we receive with buying defenders. The only stand out bad buys were Mangala and Mendy if he does not turn it around.The rest have did ok.

Komps injuries caught up with him.
Stones we all know has it but mentally has suffered.

Ota’s time was up due to age and we got bit money back.

Boateng was good but pussied home.

Nastasic decent but too slow and young at the time.

We won trophies along the way and the club grew in 12 years. A lot of buys were a must as we could not attract top tier early on.

Basically we get far too much shit for this. If the club was established like it is now 10 years ago maybe the judgment can be questioned. Overall we have bought very well.

It almost like the media have decided we are not allowed to buy anymore cb because we spent money in the past? Another stick to beat us with....fuck them all.

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Positionally dodgy with no pace, but he's good with the ball at his feet.

Great. Sounds like what we have plenty of already.

And he's coming from a league that is absolute toilet and is going to be expected to hit the ground running in a shambles of a defence. What could go wrong.

I'm going to be patient with this lad. But I fail to have confidence in this move.

 

[bumbleblue]

Will this be announced tonight or will it be tomorrow now do we think??

 

[ctwrd]

I don’t get this hammering we receive with buying defenders. The only stand out bad buys were Mangala and Mendy if he does not turn it around.The rest have did ok.

Komps injuries caught up with him.
Stones we all know has it but mentally has suffered.

Ota’s time was up due to age and we got bit money back.

Boateng was good but pussied home.

Nastasic decent but too slow and young at the time.

We won trophies along the way and the club grew in 12 years. A lot of buys were a must as we could not attract top tier early on.

Basically we get far too much shit for this. If the club was established like it is now 10 years ago maybe the judgment can be questioned. Overall we have bought very well.

It almost like the media have decided we are not allowed to buy anymore cb because we spent money in the past? Another stick to beat us with....fuck them all.

No acknowledgement that yes we have signed cancelo and Danilo but one was sold to sign the other.
Or that all our full backs required replacing when he first joined.
It’s just the stick it’s been found to beat him with.
The style of play is such that the defence can be exposed.
We could play a more conservative style but we would not have been as exciting to watch. It’s a trade off. But these media wallys aren’t interested in nuance or truth