Summer Transfer Window 2019

[bol-uk]

For who? Surely not us.

SO the story goes

 

[bol-uk]

He's absolutely terrible. He scored some noteworthy goals but those were basically his entire contributions the entire season.

I think he is a late bloomer. Will come good given game time. Strong and quick and can finish.

At thew very least it will stop him scoring against us

 

[orly]

So, guy on Taxi club facecock group saying Origi £40 mil 5 year deal.

I actually think he would be good but not at 40mil

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[Bungle]

You’ve become quite unpleasant since I moved north.

I think I've always been unpleasant, I try to be consistent.

 

[Frang]

You’ve become quite unpleasant since I moved north.

hes always thought you were a tit mush.. ??

 

[bcblue1878]

He’d only fit in if we played Galloway at LB.

 

[ijjysmith]

I think I've always been unpleasant, I try to be consistent.

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[TheBigIguana]

I think he is a late bloomer. Will come good given game time. Strong and quick and can finish.

At thew very least it will stop him scoring against us

His entire career before this season was built on Wilmots, who is an absolute idiot, picking him over Rom for some games at the 2014 World Cup. Now he will continue to have a reputation because he scored a few important goals. But he isn't very good.

 

[Nymzee]

Prefer we look overseas for players, the English system appears overly focused on physical traits as opposed to technical and football intelligence traits.

Sure we need physical strengths, but give me a player with a brain over pace all day long.

However finding a neat and tidy player capable of playing in tight areas coupled with the pace and awareness of getting in space ahead (when to go/stay) and the ability to deliver a cross appears to be a limited pool of players.

On paper Kyle Walker and Seamus possess similar qualities, but both lack a footballing brain - I don’t know who fits the bill but I’d be against throwing money at Wan-Bissaka purely due to the fact he won’t improve us. He’ll do well going forwards and he’ll do well defensively, but he wouldn’t be an improvement on Coleman.

It’s the same stand point I have on the midfielders we are linked with - Would much prefer a player like an Arteta or Frenkie De Jong type over a physical beast. Hopefully Sosa can be this type of player.

We need to make sure the midfield has a level of intelligence to dominate games, no surprise Gomes stood out like a sore thumb last season and inevitably became a focus point for the opposition.

Any ideas on intelligent RB/RWB’s Nymz?

Joakim Maehle
Pedro Porro
Atal
Mehdi Celik (really solid)

I like Michael Murillo too from NY Red Bulls

 

[The Penny Blue]

Lots of people go on about how we need quality back up this, and quality back up that. Well I counted 19 players on that list. Add in 2 keepers and that is a squad of 21 that City relied on last season that saw them win 3 trophies and get close to a 4th. I think most people would agree that it was the depth of City's squad that enabled them to be so successful.

I've said all along that we only need a quality base of around 15/16 players with the remainder of the squad made up from young developing players, such as Holgate, DCL, Lookman, Davies, Henry and Kenny. I would say we need a keeper, 5/6 defenders, 4/5 midfielders and 5 forwards (including wide forwards.

Firstly we need to retain Geuye, and sign Gomes and Zouma if possible. That would give us 5 quality defenders, 3 quality midfielders and 2 quality forwards (I'm classing Siggy as a midfielder but when we play 4231 he could be classed as a forward).

So assuming we keep hold of Gomes and Zouma, we need, as a minimum, another midfielder and 2 forward players one of which should be a wide right specialist. That would give us a quality base of 14, so more work need to be done the following year, unless of course any of our younger players step up in quality.

I think to get away with the numbers that city have we need a higher quality of starters than Zouma Gomes Gana Walcott and even Coleman. We would need Digne Calibre players all over the field that can make up for an injury and playing a sub par back up like Schniederlin JJK Cenk or Holgate

 

[MikeH72]

Joakim Maehle
Pedro Porro
Atal
Mehdi Celik (really solid)

I like Michael Murillo too from NY Red Bulls

You have definitely never ever watched these people.

 

[Bluebonic]

I think he fancies Pogba personally.

Their relationship certainly has a hint of bi-curious about it.

 

[Nymzee]

You have definitely never ever watched these people.

French league (BT), Belgian League (Freesports), La Liga (Sky Sports) & Murillo in the World Cup and MLS YouTube?

Think you’ll find I have ol’ chap.

 

[bol-uk]

His entire career before this season was built on Wilmots, who is an absolute idiot, picking him over Rom for some games at the 2014 World Cup. Now he will continue to have a reputation because he scored a few important goals. But he isn't very good.

He got 6 in 20 this season, almost all off the bench. almost twice the rate DCL and he got many many more minutes

 

[MikeH72]

French league (BT), Belgian League (Freesports), La Liga (Sky Sports) & Murillo in the World Cup and MLS YouTube?

Think you’ll find I have ol’ chap.

You watch the Belgian league and the MLS at 2am? Mate.