Summer Transfers

richards30 said:
Steffen
Semedo
Upamecano
Alaba
Auoar
Kane

lots of player exchange there to keep the cost down? Steffen we own anyway, cancelo for semedo, angelino and £25m for upamecano, alaba plus we get £25m for sane which covers the outstanding upamecano money , auoar for £45m and Kane for £100m. Kane offers us something different and spuds will need the cash imo.

out

bravo
Cancelo
Otamendi
Zinchenko
David Silva
Sane
Jack Harrison
Patrick Roberts
And the other 50 odd players we have out of loan could bring in a few quid?
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I do not think Steffen will want to sit on the bench and he is going to attract a lot of clubs wanting to loan or buy he has now his international future to think of.
Was a big fan of Semedo he is very fast but not much good at defending and his football is poor, i would still go for Atal
 
If Upamecano is unattainable I can see us going for Jonathan Tah. There have been some links to him recently. He has the same standout physicality as Kompany and is no slouch on the ball either.

His stock has plummeted since his breakout season, where he was rated as a future world class CB, but second half of the bundesliga season he's been back to his best. He can be prone to the odd defensive misstake but it comes with age and experience I guess. Tah definitely has the raw attributes to be a very good CB under Pep and can probably be bought for a cut price
 
Should we capitalise on the current situation and also perhaps rain in our spending in the current circumstances and go for some free transfers such as Pedro, Willian, Gomes, Vertonghen, Would also allow our youth to have more chance in a year or two
 
WRicko said:
Should we capitalise on the current situation and also perhaps rain in our spending in the current circumstances and go for some free transfers such as Pedro, Willian, Gomes, Vertonghen, Would also allow our youth to have more chance in a year or two
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I think my gran's higher up the pecking order.
 
WRicko said:
Should we capitalise on the current situation and also perhaps rain in our spending in the current circumstances and go for some free transfers such as Pedro, Willian, Gomes, Vertonghen, Would also allow our youth to have more chance in a year or two
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Only Vertonghen would make sense as a Laporte backup
 
WRicko said:
Should we capitalise on the current situation and also perhaps rain in our spending in the current circumstances and go for some free transfers such as Pedro, Willian, Gomes, Vertonghen, Would also allow our youth to have more chance in a year or two
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I dont think there are any good players that you can sign on a teally free transfer these days. Most want a big signing on fee. The scousers even paid £10m for the Milner !
 


In:
Aouar
Telles
Upamecano
Pau Torres
Diaby if Pep wants a like for like Sané replacement/Rashica if he wants another inside forward

We'll have to sell a ton of player to make it work, but we haven't really been big spenders lately except for Rodri so we should have FFP approved money to spend

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Here's how we could line up

 
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Very doable window:
Leon Bailey, fast leftfooted left wing replacement for sane 35m
Konate centre half. A younger koulibaly for me. Big, fast and can pass 40m
Telles good all round left back 30m
Couto. Understudy for walker 6m
Tonali 49m
Doyle promoted. Total 160m

Out
Sane 50m German pigs
Cancelo 32m Barca
Zinchenko 20m wolves
Angelino 15 leipzig
Stones 40m to Newcastle
Gundogan 18m Newcastle
175m
 
It's all fake news. Barcelona are desperate to make it look like He has a buyer. Pep has zero interest in Semedo what so ever.

We spent 90% of last Summer trying to force Juve to accept Danilo and cash for Cancelo.

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How come we didn't even trying it once with Semedo? Or heard any rumours regarding it? Semedo and Cancelo have the same Agent.

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Cancelo signed a 6 year contract and knew walker signed one too. Ignore all the fake news about him wanting to leave. Remember the rumours around Mahrez last year?


City will only sell/swap Cancelo, to force the Issue and take Kimmich from Bayern.
 
while semedo looks a decent player - is he

1. Better than what we have (cancelo or walker - I know Cancelo probably wants to leave however)
2. there are much more higher priority areas we need players for - Cebtre back being the main and for me left back - plus then Leroy leaving leaves us horribly inbalanced with a group fo attackers who are either better centrally or from the right.
 
simon23 said:
while semedo looks a decent player - is he

1. Better than what we have (cancelo or walker - I know Cancelo probably wants to leave however)
2. there are much more higher priority areas we need players for - Cebtre back being the main and for me left back - plus then Leroy leaving leaves us horribly inbalanced with a group fo attackers who are either better centrally or from the right.
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I think it's just one of those moves that is easy to make happen, in a similar vein to what we saw with the Danilo/Cancelo move last summer.

We have a player that wants to leave (Cancelo) and Barca want to shift Semedo. Mendes can make it happen and keep all parties happy.

Semedo is more Walker than Cancelo. He's strong defensively, quick, but more limited going forward - but is probably still a bit of an upgrade on Walker in this regard. Overall, I wouldn't necessarily say he's the better player than Walker, but put him in our system and he could be. Plus he's a few years younger.

I have voiced my opinion before saying that I personally think it's just going to be a repeat situation of what we've seen with both Danilo/Cancelo - one of our two top class RB's will struggle for gametime, become unhappy and force a move. But that was before all the Walker drama, so I don't know where he currently stands in all of this.

If we do get Semedo, you can expect him to be very good under Pep and potentially could beat out Walker in a way the other two before him have struggled to do so.
 
charlie9872 said:
I think it's just one of those moves that is easy to make happen, in a similar vein to what we saw with the Danilo/Cancelo move last summer.

We have a player that wants to leave (Cancelo) and Barca want to shift Semedo. Mendes can make it happen and keep all parties happy.

Semedo is more Walker than Cancelo. He's strong defensively, quick, but more limited going forward - but is probably still a bit of an upgrade on Walker in this regard. Overall, I wouldn't necessarily say he's the better player than Walker, but put him in our system and he could be. Plus he's a few years younger.

I have voiced my opinion before saying that I personally think it's just going to be a repeat situation of what we've seen with both Danilo/Cancelo - one of our two top class RB's will struggle for gametime, become unhappy and force a move. But that was before all the Walker drama, so I don't know where he currently stands in all of this.

If we do get Semedo, you can expect him to be very good under Pep and potentially could beat out Walker in a way the other two before him have struggled to do so.
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The walker "drama" as you put it should have no afect on his playing time. He has been solid for us since his arrival and whatever he has done during lockdown should not detract from them and letting it do so is playing into the media's hands.

I dont disagree on Semedo but i just hope we are prioritising other areas as that is where we need the new players.
 
Ezzy said:
Every single post from me in the transfer forum are all fake news. Barcelona are desperate to make it look like He has a buyer. Pep has zero interest in Semedo what so ever.

We spent 90% of last Summer trying to force Juve to accept Danilo and cash for Cancelo.

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How come we didn't even trying it once with Semedo? Or heard any rumours regarding it? Semedo and Cancelo have the same Agent.

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Cancelo signed a 6 year contract and knew walker signed one too. Ignore all the fake news about him wanting to leave. Remember the rumours around Mahrez last year?


City will only sell/swap Cancelo, to force the Issue and take Kimmich from Bayern.
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FTFY
 
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