Sebastián Coates

I suppose the more promising young defenders you have the more likely it is that at least one will make it, and this guy certainly sounds interesting. Proabaly not likely though.
 
As long as he's not a complete dud and seeing as he's 6' 6" I'm sure Stoke will buy him off us for circa £3-4m after a couple of years so we'd get our money back on him ;-)
 
IF true it would seem that Boateng and Onuoha are definitely off, with Boyata going out on loan as well. We'd then have adequate numbers at centre half with Kompany, Lescott, K.Toure, Savic and this guy, the latter two not needing to be registered because of their age. Hardly seen any of this guy or Savic play though, so who goes may depend on how 'ready' Mancini thinks they are.
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Both need to be registered to play CL although under 21 they won't have played for our club for two years, they would both need to go on A list.
 
Believe me, i'm probably liking this rumour more than most. However, the validity seems unlikely. Why? Simply because we all know of Arsenal's defensive situation and Wenger was more than determined to get tall defenders. This on top of our current surfeit of defenders just makes it more and more unlikely.

On the flip side however, I've loved city's physical dominance. It's an attribute unique to city in the top four of the premier league. The FA cup proved just how amazing this advantage can be (E.G. when we played Notts county, 2nd leg). If we did sign Coates and continued to use this height caveat, all doubts of city ever bringing HUGE presence in europe would disappear from my mind. Such a style would be unique to a European team.

Who would REALLY suffer from this height you ask? hmm, not teams that are that strong to be honest, Barcelona, Ac Milan, Inter....
 
as it stands we have Kompany, Lescott, Toure, Boateng, Savic, Onuoha, Boyata who all play centre half... Richards can also do a great job at cb (with dunne he was top) lescott has a few years left whereas kolo only has 2 or 3... if we sell onuoha and boateng then we may need 1 more... but i dont see the point in loaning boyata, hes good enough already, jus look at the chelsea game at right back
 
I generally don't say this based strictly on youtube, but this kid is going to be the dawgs bollocks
 
Dax777 said:
I generally don't say this based strictly on youtube, but this kid is going to be the dawgs bollocks
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kiss of death there my friend, you got to think people were buzzing when we signed samaras and coradi and all that heyp was based purely on youtube evidance. lets hope your wrong though.
 
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