Virgil van Dijk

[Helmet Cole]

You really seem to not get what a buyout clause is. If he has a buyout clause we won't pay more than £25m, that's literally the function of the clause, it means a club has to accept that much money for the player.

The player-City negotiations are completely separate and our usually pay structure would probably be more than enough to convince him to choose us over any other clubs, not to mention the Pep effect and near-guaranteed CL football.



And we all know what would happen then - VVD would turn to shit and Denayer would become the best defender in the country. I'm not giving up hope on Denayer, he's still got 3 1/2 years left on his contract and he's only 21.

Happy to be wrong if that's the case.

 

[mancityscot]

get him city, at all cost get him. cant take much more of otamendi

 

[AshLunn92]

If I'm honest I actually haven't seen Van Dijk play a lot this season other than against us. Has he really been that good? Everyone seems to be discussing wether or not we can get him but not wether or not we should get him. All I know is when I was watching denayer play alongside him at Celtic I thought denayer was by a distance the better player

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

This has all the hallmarks of the Bony transfer if it happens

January transfers very rarely work out well, looking good for Southampton (or Swansea) is a lot different to being under the microscope at one of the top clubs in the country

We should wait until the summer and pick up the world class centre back that we so badly need

Until then Pep needs to pick a settled back four / three and get them drilled on the system he has implemented

 

[blue wang]

the lad is class, very little doubt that he will be a success.

Trigger the clause.

 

[domalino]

This has all the hallmarks of the Bony transfer if it happens

January transfers very rarely work out well, looking good for Southampton (or Swansea) is a lot different to being under the microscope at one of the top clubs in the country

We should wait until the summer and pick up the world class centre back that we so badly need

Until then Pep needs to pick a settled back four / three and get them drilled on the system he has implemented

And what Hallmarks are those?

I can't see any way in which the VVD transfer is similar to Bony except by virtue of both being January signings.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

Player will still have to really want the move for it to happen in Jan and the agentvwill only push him that way if it's a big price . Agent would probably rather play a few clubs off against each other for six months and get more dosh in the summer. We need a cb more than soton need the money - sellers market, pants will be pulled, bumming will be dry.

Got to be on the wind up

 

[toffee balls]

I am told we are all over him like a rash for this winter.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Get him in 01/01/17 for £25m plus personal terms it's a no-brainer.

Surely with Pep etc we can 'win' the battle against the dippers etc of this world and nail him down.

Then in the summer pick up the Italian guy, 4 centre halfs those 2, Kompany if he can get fit and Stones should be a winning defensive spine.

 

[jaiguruKun]

He is too similar to Stones, we need someone more experienced and physically stronger than him. Would rather we went all out for Bonucci.