didierforever

i would have mikel over some 10-15mil DM like song. inspite of the shit given to him, he is quite useful, specially in closing out a game. he might not be a good passer, the most adventorous spirit, yada yada yada, but he definitely knows how to close the game down. so unless we are getting a MASSIVE UPGRADE on him like vidal/bastian, i dont want him to leave for someone like song. no thank you.

they wont sell. until winter. they have no backups for front 3 - MSN. they even sold deulofeu for just 6mil euros to everton and let afellay go for free. their only back up is pedro, along with haddidi, infact even their mid looks so light weight. biscuits, iniesta, rocketic. thats it. rafinha and roberto are the only backups.

i like your optimism. but one question - WHO????? not gotze, not reus, not turan, definitely not bale or sterling, not pogba, not varane, not vidal. there are not any more "big players" left on the market. i swear there is no one available. the more i think about it, the more this feels like city's transfer window last season.

so.... its seems we are now down to... lets see.. no one!!!! there's some rumors about juve selling vidal but he seems RM bound. so this seems our transfer window in totality. ins - falcao begovic new LB outs - DD Cech luis hmmm..

he had said that we are not interested in turan.

so... arda is a goner... onto the next shiny toy. i still cant understand how we are going into the next season with hazard, oscar, willian, cuadrado as our AM options. can that be classified as "suicide". the exact mistake that city made last season. i know its been just seven days since the window was open but honestly, is there a player out there that can be the difference between a QF/SF against a CL winner!?? i cant think of any.

nope none. a little worrying tbh.

34mil+7mil add on. thats 29mil. i would have said 25 was the max. but a great replacement for either iniesta/rakitic gets injured/dropped or on the wings. atleast it puts it all to bed. we can start looking elsewhere. honestly, i dont see us buying anyone now. this is exactly what i feared. here's to hoping that jose knows what he is doing.

fuck man!!!

hazard-gotze-willian hazard-willian/oscar-turan i think there will be a massive difference. if we sign turan, then willian is oscar's main competitor. for the CAM spot or maybe willian/turan for the RW spot. in case of gotze, oscar is out of the team cos in no way can we can oscar start over gotze.

hhhhahhahahahhahaha

they actually gave messi the player of the tournament? people/experts actually thought that messi was the best fucking player in 2015 COPA AMERICA!!! UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE...

i honestly think arda will be an automatic starter. hazard-willian/oscar-arda. that would be my first choice. the point is not sterling's talent and adaptation. the point is how well he can carry the pressure of the costliest english player. the pressure of the media going gung-ho everytime he has a half bad game. if sterling had a season like his last one with us, after being sold for 50mil pounds, the medai would have a field day. i agree with what @LDNBLUE said that jose will do anything in his power to not let that happen but considering the numbers involved, the fact that arda would give us that X-factor instantanously, and the fact that we have a bunch of talented kids in the academy (boga, brown, musonda), i would not mind the 3 years of arda that much. 3 years now a days in football is a lifetime. also, contrary to the popular belief players dont go bad instantanouesly after 30. malouda was probably our player of the season in 09-10 and he was 31. all said and done, i would love any player out of arda, raheem or gotze. i just dont want greizemann. 60 mil euros for a second striker/LW when what we actually want is a RW is just bad. i just understand people's obsession with antoine. he is a great goalscorer and a player but not what we are looking at or looking for.

it does. BUT... we can probably win the league with having cuadrado as the 4th AM. i can bet everything i have got that it will atleast be "very close". what we want is CL glory. look at hazard and how inefficient he has been in CL. i dont expect sterling to set the stage on fire at that big a stage. what arda does give to us is experience and the know how of doing it at the biggest of the stages. lastly, IF sterling could have been bought for 40mil, it would be a bad guy, but thats not the case. sterling will end up being the most expensive english transfer at 50mil pounds (currently 70mil euros). thats a lot of pressure and burden for a 20 year old.

while i do understand the point you are trying to make, i just have one question. how exactly does arda not improve our squad but sterling does improve our squad? also, we are bidding 28mil euros for arda (20mil pounds) (barca have bid 25mil). so it will be 25mil pounds for 3 years vs 50mil (pool wont sell sterling for 40mil considering they already have a team who is willing to bid 50mil) for 5 years with no guarantees of if he develops.

i dont think its about FFP, its about the image. arda for 25mil pounds is actually 5mil pounds too much. he is 28 and we should get value for the money. i am sure the club knows what its doing. we do put our success over the money. roman has said it in the past that he does not care about money but its about getting the image of the club. if push comes to shove, we will make those signings at whatever prices possible.

hmmm... would make oscar redundant and cant see that happening with the amount of hype and faith jose has put into him. hazard-gotze-willian would be nice to see.

how many RW/LW/RM/LM are there better than turan in the world at this moment? messi, CR, neymar, bale, hazard, sanchez, robben, ribery, reus. sterling probably has a higher ceiling but is worth twice more which is a joke cos at this moment, arda is a better player and would probably be for another 2 years. so which bigger signing do we want?

courtois, iva, JT, azpi, matic, hazard, costa.

brilliant player. but is he what we need? another CAM who ll have to play as a RW?

salah, josh are available too. cuadrado too if they are willing to pay a lot.

Higuain has now in the last year missed * One on one chance to score in world cup final * Pen to seal UCL place for Napoli * Tap in in 90th minute to win Copa America * Pen in shoot out to win Copa America Nerves of steel this guy.

so...... messi man of the tournament?

if i was the manager, i would bench bale and play james. infact i would not have bought james, considering i had isco. anyways, very very hard to see RM play thru bale with CR cribbing so much. also, hard to see 100mil getting dropped. in short, quality mids like modric/kroos/vidal will be sacrificed.

maybe james in place of bale then. but honestly, cant see them benching 100mil. so... (rest of the team chooses itself)