Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

[The Fat el Hombre]

SACK TXIKI SIGN ED

 

[oldius]

Judging how we went to bid for Koulibaly, Gimenez, Kounde and now Dias. You can keep your head in the sand. Doesn’t change the fact that we failed to sing our main target and ended up with a choice close to bottom of our list.

I haven't heard the Koulibali song but I shall sing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Ruban Dias get it singed.

 

[razman]

Press briefing in full flow

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I know we're all a little disappointed by this potential signing but, if he does come, there are a lot of positives. He's a leader and gives us some much needed physicality in defense. If we are going for a Kompany replacement, Dias is probably the closest you'll find to Vinnie's skillset. There's no point being too disappointed, he's the man the club think is right so let's get behind.

Speak for yourself, I'm sure there are plenty who aren't so picky.

 

[Edwin Edwin]

Stagnated for a while now..Would stay away from players coming directly from the Portuguese league too,he's got Lindelöf written all over him

 

[leo_city]

Not entirely true is it.

Scouting is based on realistic, attainable targets who fit the mould. We've never gone the easy route of taking world class players for majority of our signings, bar 2 I can recall in recent memory, and that being KDB and Walker, polished players who've become even better. I would say our scouting has been a success at large, the one signing that was bad for us in recent memory was Nolito, and that was on him, being a moron.

 

[oldius]

Lindelof written all over him

Is Dias a fan?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Lindelof written all over him

Nope they are definitely entirely different players

 

[cjn]

how is he target number 4 lol ???????

unless you sit on the board how do you know what target he is ?? Cos of twitter reports ha ha ha ha ffs

He's obviously at least our third choice. Otherwise I'm not sure what we were doing with Napoli all summer or why Monchi would say we bid for Kounde. It doesn't really matter one way or the other but he very clearly wasn't first choice at the start of the window, or even last week.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Speak for yourself, I'm sure there are plenty who aren't so picky.

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