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Blues Forever 1,232 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Alfredo Morelos has signed with Porto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Blues Forever 1,232 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 (edited) Need to wait for John Percy or Sam Lee confirmation. Edited June 25, 2021 by Blues Forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,823 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Quite a few are running with the Jack Grealish to Man City for £100m. It will be interesting to see if they will spend £300M if they are going after Haaland or Kane in addition to Grealish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DH1988 1,352 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Wow, huge transfer for City there. What a player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avrobsws 29 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 And we are still peeling peanuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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R2D2 368 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Just now, Blues Forever said: Hope it happens, need money for Abraham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea_4_eva 1,182 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Kane sweating DH1988 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DH1988 1,352 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 The thing with City is that they end up with so much dead wood and not able to re-sell their players. Its something that Marina and co do very very well, in most cases, recouping £. I struggle to understand how financially they justify the spend on their books ie. £100m+ for Grealish and let's assume £100m+ for Kane, thats a huge amount. Whilst, yes, I know we spent £253m or so, but we had a transfer ban + made incredibly good sales inbetween. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pizy 18,994 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 If Grealish were any other nationality he’d be a £50m player at most. £100m is utterly absurd and he’s nowhere NEAR being worth that. And I don’t even see how he improves City’s first XI much. Slightly, yes. But a transfer record for a negligible improvement? Fernando and LAM09 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Pizy said: If Grealish were any other nationality he’d be a £50m player at most. £100m is utterly absurd and he’s nowhere NEAR being worth that. And I don’t even see how he improves City’s first XI much. Slightly, yes. But a transfer record for a negligible improvement? No kidding. We sold Tomori to Milan for only around 28 million (yes, there was a buy-out fee that was agreed on but we could have easily put a higher fee but didn't) while Brighton are selling White for 50 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomiswave 6,119 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 100 fucking M's for that boy? WTF is wrong with people. He is a class B player for me thats for sure. How does City do it when they never sell anyone? Cuz they sponsor themselves. Let them blow their load on Grealish.......Make no mistake that CL loss hurt them big time and now Pep gonna do what he is so good at, spend till it clicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,888 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 (edited) £100m is a bit much for me but thats the market. Obviously he’s English so thats adds 30m on top of what he would usually cost probably. Very good player for Villa, improved his goals and assists this season but still only got 6 league goals & 10 league assists. Main problem he will have is will he be good at City where they have 65% of the ball and have to break teams down who double up on their wide players every game? A lot of the plaudits he gets for Villa is that he is able to get them up the pitch, very good on transitions on top of providing a moment of magic at times. City don’t play like that though, on transitions, so it’ll be different for him plus you have to buy into the Pep way of getting the ball back and workout hard without it, Grealish is given a license to roam for Villa. Obviously he is great at taking the ball and beating players but the point that Graeme Souness mentioned last season re him taking too many touches/not releasing the ball, I suppose we will finally see if he goes there because they play lots of 1 and 2 touch combinations in and around the box. I really think Sancho would be a better fit for them and Grealish would be a much better fit at United tbf. Suppose depending on Ziyech we might be interested in one of those two yet as well. Edited June 25, 2021 by OneMoSalah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,994 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 So if these strong, reputable links are to be believed we could see City sign Grealish and Kane, United sign Sancho and Varane, Arse sign Ben White and that lad from Belgium Lokonga, and Liverpool already secured that hulking CB from Leipzig. All teams making smart buys that directly address their specific weaknesses. This next season is going to be insanely tough at the top of the table. Hope we aren’t left scratching our balls and looking around like that Travolta gif at the end of the window after foolishly chasing unattainable targets all summer… 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LAM09 7,069 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pizy said: If Grealish were any other nationality he’d be a £50m player at most. £100m is utterly absurd and he’s nowhere NEAR being worth that. And I don’t even see how he improves City’s first XI much. Slightly, yes. But a transfer record for a negligible improvement? City overpaying for British talent. Some things never change. Edited June 25, 2021 by LAM09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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