Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

[cleavers]

So about now?

I think you mean "then".

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

you're A glass half empty sort of guy then.How about wait and see first.

I'm going to wait and see, just not confident in the move.

Kounde looked the better option for what we need, and by all accounts Seville were expecting us to come back with a compromise bid, but it didn't happen. Feels like we've compromised with a back up choice for a priority position.

I'm not going to write someone off before they've played for us, just have my doubts about the move.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

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.

You didn’t need to declare your patience. It shone through in the body of your comment.

 

[kaz7]

I'm going to wait and see, just not confident in the move.

Kounde looked the better option for what we need, and by all accounts Seville were expecting us to come back with a compromise bid, but it didn't happen. Feels like we've compromised with a back up choice for a priority position.

I'm not going to write someone off before they've played for us, just have my doubts about the move.

Read the first post on the thread, we have watched him for over a year

 

[wolviedinho]

Stones was a shambles at Everton, and they were happy to get rid before his performances damaged his early hype and value any further. He had one purple patch of about 3 months here in a team that was absolutely flying, besides that he's been gash. Toilet. A more polished version of the dodgy centre half that was at Everton. This wasn't hard to predict. He was a homegrown signing that was a punt, predominantly based on nothing more than his ability to play it out the back and the hope that Pep could turn him into a competent centre half because he was still fairly young. Hasn't happened, to the surprise of few.

I don't even want to get started on the others but the Stones signing is a good example of how we've taken punts on these big signings at the back, when there were clear question marks over them already and we just seemed to hope Pep could work miracles with them.

Our recruitment deserves criticism. It's been piss poor.

It also deserves praise. All of the cb purchased were deemed good players. Transfers are at best 50/50. Injuries and mental issues are something we cannot prepare for before purchasing.

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

You didn’t need to declare your patience. It shone through in the body of your comment.

Apparently I did because happy clappers like yourself assume being uninspired by a signing means you won't show him patience or you've already written him off.

Not as simple as that, but crack on with your mate Kaz.

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Read the first post on the thread, we have watched him for over a year

We clearly track several players in multiple positions over a period of time, as all clubs do. As evidenced by our other moves all summer, he evidently wasn't first choice.

I don't think Benfica failing to qualify for the CL disproves that.

 

[BlueDejong]

what was that

 

[Bernardo20]

Oh well at least that's a positive.

(Oh and the majority of them probably are pissed.)

Pissed off, sorry :)

UPDATE: Benfica staff told journalists in the event there are still some small details to align so that both players can be announced at the same time.

 

[waspish]

what was that

City paying most of Otimendi’s wages