Virgil van Dijk

[SPIDERBOY]

Somebody at The Sun, is having a laugh!

MCFC Info‏ @MCFClnfo 7m7 minutes ago
Southampton have slapped a £70m price tag on rumoured City target Virgil van Dijk (25). [The Sun]

If you wiped your arse on the sun,more shit would come off the paper.

 

[dublinblue12]

Headline from metro:
Manchester City to stun Chelsea and Liverpool with £100million Virgil van Dijk transfer package

lol

 

[p.taker]

Headline from metro:
Manchester City to stun Chelsea and Liverpool with £100million Virgil van Dijk transfer package

lol

That number included his supposed offered wage as well.

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Headline from metro:
Manchester City to stun Chelsea and Liverpool with £100million Virgil van Dijk transfer package

lol

Transfer "package" of £100mil...c£50mil transfer fee and £180,000pw on 5 year contract

 

[Cellarite]

So where does VVD fit into the puzzle if Vinny stays fit? Or, to phrase it another way, would we really invest over £50m on a CB who wouldn't be first choice in the position unless injuries happen? (and would he even want to come under those terms?)

I'm all for our interest here, but if Pep is that high on Kompany then maybe this isn't the right target. Vinny's fitness is a gamble in either direction.

I don't get the thinking of a large number of posters on here who seem obsessed with the idea of a first choice 11. There wasn't one last season when the squad was filled with shite. Nobody could ever correctly guess the line up from one week to the next.

It's not the '90's anymore with 1-11 and two subs.

 

[Steve68]

The fees being bandied about are insane but at least we would get a defender who we know can cut it in the Premiership. If we can recoup something for Mangala and Otemendi then it won't be so painful.

 

[fatbloke]

The fees being bandied about are insane but at least we would get a defender who we know can cut it in the Premiership. If we can recoup something for Mangala and Otemendi then it won't be so painful.

Surely we wouldn't let Otamendi go, we need a 4th centre to cover for Kompany, if he got injured and we had let Otta go then we'd be back to square one.

 

[dublinblue12]

Transfer "package" of £100mil...c£50mil transfer fee and £180,000pw on 5 year contract

I could be wrong as I don't usually read news stories on other clubs, but how many other transfer stories does the players wages get included in the overall fee or "package"

 

[RayCTID]

We could use Tosin Adarabioyo (providing he signed a new deal) as the 4th centre back option if we moved Otamendi on. However for that to work we would have to give more game time to the younger player.

 

[MCFC1993]

I could be wrong as I don't usually read news stories on other clubs, but how many other transfer stories does the players wages get included in the overall fee or "package"

Not many, its a typical City article, where they've included the wages to inflate the figures so they can garner support/readers from fans of other English sides.