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And if he does, he'll make Cleverley his bitch if he's in their team.

My boner-meter is steadily rising now that some reputable outlets are starting to report things. When BBC and Sky start tweeting things like they are now I get excited.

I was expecting to wake up and be disappointed when checking twitter. Thought I'd see something like "We received a bid far below our valuation from an English club and it has been rejected" from Benfica. Guess it's good that didn't happen at least. Would be brilliant to have him for the United match. At least on the bench.

No updates?

Still not gonna get too excited until it's confirmed, but just thinking about what some of the other high profile midfielders have gone for recently or are valued at now, this seems like brilliant business. Modric was £30m+ Witsel was £40m Illaramendi was £30m+ Midfielders like Gündogan and Pogba are being valued at astronomical fees. This could be a very shrewd buy at this price. Fingers crossed.

I don't know. Just feel like we'd be getting one over on them for this price, haha. For a player with so much potential and as good as he already is it's just strange to see he may only cost £20m. In this day and age that's really not that much.

Can't see a bid that low being accepted. Can anyone?

That pic was apparently taken before the match.

Wank players like Ashley Young, Stuart Downing, and Jordan Henderson were bought for that amount. In this day and age you have to pay for young, highly talented players. Especially when you're buying a player who's so important to the selling club.

Again, 35m minus more than half of that if the reported KdB fee. Not bad at all. What do you people expect to pay for a top class player these days? Did you seriously believe we'd get Benfica's best player for 15m or something? Fucks sake. Stop bitching.

Exactly.Still not believing this rumor yet until I see it tweeted directly from Chelsea, but the de Bruyne money will pay a bunch of it. Even if it didn't I wouldn't care. We desperately need him.

Don't mind if Liverpool finish in the top 4 as long as we do too. Anyone but United. Hope Arse collapse and Everton can take their place too. My dream top 4: 1) Chelsea 2) City 3) Liverpool 4) Everton

It's gonna be SO nice next season watching us with strikers who can score regularly. Makes me sick watching City and Liverpool and United last season having numerous strikers who can score at will. When you think about it, it's AMAZING how we're able to stay near the top of the table and compete with almost ZERO contribution from our strikers.

Should've been saved, that. Mignolet is wank.

He's missed 6 games and still has 22 goals. We'd be top of the league by double digits if we had him right now.

So I called a Suarez hat trick. Any moment now...

Suarez is absolutely unstoppable. Best striker in the world.

So that's three, THREE unbelievably lucky goals for Liverpool today.

OHHHH! Liverpool with some AVB defending!

Man United get a couple of jammy, lucky goals yesterday, City get massively lucky today, and now Liverpool get the two flukiest goals in a single half I've ever seen.

Wow, Liverpool. I can smell a Suarez hat trick coming.

Oh get up, Nasri! You just got hit in the knee with his laces. He's rolling around and screaming like a grenade just exploded next to him!

WHAAAATTT? Disallowed!?

Like us, City have a midfield that creates a shit load of chances but unlike us, they have instinctual, top class finishers who are always in the right spots and can finish clinically. If we had Rooney or Falcao or someone like that teams would be scared shitless before the ball is even kicked like everyone is of City right now.

This is how I hope we are next season. Any of City's strikers can slot in and score loads. Any of their 3 strikers would walk into our current team and be our best striker.