Welcome Joao Cancelo

[Trojan63]

yep its the option we badly needed and the shape can be anything at the back

I’m sure Pep will have ideas about formations - it’s one of the things he never tires of - innovation - I said in the thread about a back 3 - surely we don’t need a back 4 when we play park the bus teams who hardly get in our half (probably about 70% of PL teams) and 3 man defence in those games would allow us to get more men forward to break teams down

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Danilo valued at £34M
WTF!

Simon Rag Stone still writes it up as a City Sign Cancelo for £60m when it really cost us £26m!

 

[OskeeWowWow]

Yes! What a tremendous addition.

 

[7evens]

Same here. I’ve never seen him kick a ball but we seemed very keen on him. That said, we were very keen on Mangala once upon-a-time.....

A different era.

 

[kinky's boots]

I’m sure Pep will have ideas about formations - it’s one of the things he never tires of - innovation - I said in the thread about a back 3 - surely we don’t need a back 4 when we play park the bus teams who hardly get in our half (probably about 70% of PL teams) and 3 man defence in those games would allow us to get more men forward to break teams down

Tbh, our 4-3-3 is more of a 2-3-2-3 when attacking, because of our full backs dropping inside. When we attempted 3-5-2 we looked to have too many men spare at the back, with little attacking advantage apart from Mendy's low crosses. It also negated Sane's attacking play

 

[Chi-town blues]

Cancelo out !

 

[Ric]

Also, don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this about Danilo, but not a bad return for games to trophies ratio: he won a trophy every 12th game he played!

60 games, 2 titles, 2 league cups, 1 F.A. Cup

Is that the best return for any player at City?

Think Foden might beat that!

 

[citytill1die84]

Think Foden might beat that!

Mendy beats both.

 

[Trojan63]

Differnt options but I'd rather go for the first one:

Aguero Sterling
Mendy Bernardo Rodri De Bruyne Cancelo
Laporte Stones Walker
Ederson

Sterling Aguero Bernardo
Silva Rodri De Bruyne
Mendy Laporte Stones Cancelo
Ederson​

Interesting team selections - but look at the quality of players who would be on the bench and don’t make it into those teams - Sane Jesus Silva Zinchenko Fernandinho Angelino Foden Otamendi

 

[Chi-town blues]

Ffs no song for him yet ?