Who’s gone in the summer?

All 3 players are worth £70 mill minimum

Anything less would be a pisstake

Every club takes the piss on selling to us yet we have to give away players at shit prices

We are the best team in England and have been for years yet clubs lowball us for players who have been pivotal to our success all three are world class talents but we are expected to give them away

It fucking stinks and pisses me off
 
The slaughtered lamb said:
He’s also the one who could end up making us look silly. Stick him in a counter attacking team and I’m sure he’ll score shed loads. I still don’t think he would ever be good enough to be main striker for us though. Surprised Spurs haven’t suggested something.
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How would that make us 'look silly', we're not a counter attacking team and we bought him for £28mill(?) 4½years ago. He'd go for £60mill at least with 2 years left on his contract, so it's profit all the way.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Bernie has never really recovered from the Mendy racism nonsense after he was ripped to shreds by the media and subsequently banned by the FA.

Yes, it was a misjudged comment from Bernie, but those media c*nts new exactly what they were doing in trying to unsettle a player who was tearing up the PL week-in-week-out.
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Any player who is affected for so long by that self inflicted incident to me is weak.

If he had done it during the last 12 months, the consequences with the black lives matter movement would have been considerably worse.
 
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BlueMoonRisin’ said:
Just wondering what price the club have in mind for Jesus? If Martial is worth 50M then surely Jesus is worth about 70M.
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I can’t see us getting big money for any of them due to market conditions currently. 90% of all teams in Europe are absolutely skint. I heard on a 93.20 podcast the other day that Real Madrid haven’t bought a player for cash in over 2 years and that many other big clubs are in the same boat. Think they also said that the French tv deal has gone from 1 billion down to 250 million. Italian deal similar.
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
I can’t see us getting big money for any of them due to market conditions currently. 90% of all teams in Europe are absolutely skint. I heard on a 93.20 podcast the other day that Real Madrid haven’t bought a player for cash in over 2 years and that many other big clubs are in the same boat. Think they also said that the French tv deal has gone from 1 billion down to 250 million. Italian deal similar.
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I think you're right, and I can see clubs doing a lot of cash plus player deals in future.
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
I can’t see us getting big money for any of them due to market conditions currently. 90% of all teams in Europe are absolutely skint. I heard on a 93.20 podcast the other day that Real Madrid haven’t bought a player for cash in over 2 years and that many other big clubs are in the same boat. Think they also said that the French tv deal has gone from 1 billion down to 250 million. Italian deal similar.
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And the one thing that unites the European clubs is a total fear of the premiership teams asset striping Europe - we are not in a great place financially as a league but 20 times better off than any other countries teams.

FFP has gone, will be massaged, changed, altered to allow big money to be put into the game - the only problem for the old guard is if they do this they dilute their stranglehold on the game so suspect they are trying to find a way to get money in without losing control - which is why we saw the ESL brought forward AND league level deals being attempted.

Also think back to the furious 8 letter, city’s response was ‘these clubs should pay more attention to protecting the league than going after city’ again it’s all obvious now but wasn’t so much at the time; in Avery similar way to Barca looking at their own dealings rather than at others.
 
blue oli said:
And the one thing that unites the European clubs is a total fear of the premiership teams asset striping Europe - we are not in a great place financially as a league but 20 times better off than any other countries teams.

FFP has gone, will be massaged, changed, altered to allow big money to be put into the game - the only problem for the old guard is if they do this they dilute their stranglehold on the game so suspect they are trying to find a way to get money in without losing control - which is why we saw the ESL brought forward AND league level deals being attempted.

Also think back to the furious 8 letter, city’s response was ‘these clubs should pay more attention to protecting the league than going after city’ again it’s all obvious now but wasn’t so much at the time; in Avery similar way to Barca looking at their own dealings rather than at others.
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Our owners always seem ahead of the curve, perhaps it'll click with everyone else one day. Too late could be the cry...
 
As has been mentioned I just can't see who can afford any of the three who they would be happy to join.

It's not like we're even interested in any players from abroad who we could use in a deal, none of them are going to want to go to Spurs.

I think 2 out of 3 will stay and wouldn't be too surprised if all 3 stayed if we didn't get Kane.
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
I can’t see us getting big money for any of them due to market conditions currently. 90% of all teams in Europe are absolutely skint. I heard on a 93.20 podcast the other day that Real Madrid haven’t bought a player for cash in over 2 years and that many other big clubs are in the same boat. Think they also said that the French tv deal has gone from 1 billion down to 250 million. Italian deal similar.
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It’s not simply a question of clubs being unable to afford transfer fees, they’re also unlikely to be able to match the salaries. Players may well want out, but with few buyers and the prospect of a much reduced salary, sitting tight for a season might become more appealing.
 
Centurions said:
How would that make us 'look silly', we're not a counter attacking team and we bought him for £28mill(?) 4½years ago. He'd go for £60mill at least with 2 years left on his contract, so it's profit all the way.
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I mean in terms of the number of goals he’s likely to score. If he did go to a domestic rival he’d probably come back to haunt us at some stage.
 
Keeper! said:
Any player who is affected for so long by that self inflicted incident to me is weak.

If he had done it during the last 12 months, the consequences with the black lives matter movement would have been considerably worse.
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Weak is a bit of a strong word for it, especially considering the recent instances of high profile of sportsmen and women speaking out about the pressures of being an elite athlete and mental health issues. Who knows what is going on in his head.

We just expect players to be able to perform at their best without taking in to account where they may be mentally (Stones is another example for us, and going back further David White). If his head is no longer in it for City, then probably time for him to move on, which is a shame because he was doing consistently well on the pitch up to that incident.

I have personal experience of this at work where I had to change role because of a culmination of pretty stressful incidents led to a crisis of confidence. It was a role that I really enjoyed, but I just couldn't work through it and found that I was affecting the rest of the team.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Weak is a bit of a strong word for it, especially considering the recent instances of high profile of sportsmen and women speaking out about the pressures of being an elite athlete and mental health issues. Who knows what is going on in his head.

We just expect players to be able to perform at their best without taking in to account where they may be mentally (Stones is another example for us, and going back further David White). If his head is no longer in it for City, then probably time for him to move on, which is a shame because he was doing consistently well on the pitch up to that incident.

I have personal experience of this at work where I had to change role because of a culmination of pretty stressful incidents led to a crisis of confidence. It was a role that I really enjoyed, but I just couldn't work through it and found that I was affecting the rest of the team.
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Sorry but anyone, never mind a high profile sportsman if in the slightest is weak willed should not go anywhere near Twitter.

That is one nasty, vicious bunch of people.

You either have to be sordid , mental or have a good therapist to be on there.

Banter for a sportsman should be kept in the dressing room, not on social media, because it will always end up offending someone in this woke, snowflake world.
 
There's no way we sell all three players if we're not bringing anybody else in. Would be utter stupidity on our behalf regardless of whether they want out or not
 
Fordyboy46 said:
There's no way we sell all three players if we're not bringing anybody else in. Would be utter stupidity on our behalf regardless of whether they want out or not
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I think Bernardo will leave and Jesus dependent upon Kane arriving.

The links with Juve and Jesus have suddenly gone quite, maybe a deal is almost done?
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
Just wondering what price the club have in mind for Jesus? If Martial is worth 50M then surely Jesus is worth about 70M.
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Martial is worth 50m according to who?

A player is worth what someone wants to pay. Its that simple. The best we will get is some sort of loan move with an obligation which is fine, its money on the books which is what we need.
 
Keeper! said:
Sorry but anyone, never mind a high profile sportsman if in the slightest is weak willed should not go anywhere near Twitter.

That is one nasty, vicious bunch of people.

You either have to be sordid , mental or have a good therapist to be on there.

Banter for a sportsman should be kept in the dressing room, not on social media, because it will always end up offending someone in this woke, snowflake world.
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I agree that social media can be a bear pit at times, and if you are a sensitive person, probably best avoided. The problem is that you don't always know you have an underlying mental health issue until it hits you. In my line of work there are a lot of people with undiagnosed/untreated PTSD. Just an small or insignificant incident could easily tip them over the edge; I've seen it many times.

So blaming the issue on 'weak willed' people for going on social media is not really fair.
 
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