Kevin de Bruyne

[ParNolio7 285]

David Silva is a wide playmaker. It'll be Silva - KDB - Sterling.

De Bruyne usually wide playmaker as well, from the right. If I were City I'd keep the Silva-Yaya momentum in the center going and move KDB to the right so Sterling - Silva - KDB imo

[ParNolio7 285]

They've got steel in midfield with Yaya and Fernandinho.

Not a big Fernandinho fan though, I think that's probably the only region where they could still do with reinforcement. They'd finally have a chance even in the CL then.

[ParNolio7 285]

At wolfsburg, he has free license to roam all around whether it's on the wings or thru the middle, but at City, with a playmaker like Silva already there it will be difficult for KDB, similar to the situation with Nasri. Nasri is a really really good playmaker, but at City, he was always restricted because of the tactics employed there.. KDB might suffer the same faith as Nasri.

There is some truth in that, you also see it in Belgium where the combo Hazard-De Bruyne still doesn't really work.

Long term I think City mainly see him as a replacement for Yaya who's doing his last season at City anyway. Remember how City already wanted to take him in the January window last year to replace Yaya but didn't go through in the end.

In that respect he'd be an excellent signing for them, but it's true that he may struggle a bit as long as Touré AND Silva are around.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Not a big Fernandinho fan though, I think that's probably the only region where they could still do with reinforcement. They'd finally have a chance even in the CL then.

If they get like a Javi Martinez instead of Fernandinho...

[ParNolio7 285]

If they get like a Javi Martinez instead of Fernandinho...

hasn't gotten much game time though recently, not sure if he'd be able to pick up the pace

[Jase 43,479]

If they get like a Javi Martinez instead of Fernandinho...

If Martinez is available, we need to raid Bayern for him.

[Tomo 21,733]

Because he's clueless ... I just said it! ;-)

No, we just have to deal with the fact that about 90% of us Chelsea fans and maybe 70% of English football watchers in general, will eternally regard KDB as an overrated, unprofessional, self-centered, lazy excuse for a footballer because they were indoctrinated by our beloved manager Mourinho, who never gives chances to cheap new players anyway (Cuadrado, Salah, De Bruyne, the list is endless) but needed particulary good excuses for dismissing De Bruyne who was already regarded internationally as a hot prospect when at Chelsea.

Anyone, however, who's actually seen De Bruyne play on a regular basis, for Genk, for Werder Bremen, for Belgium, for Wolfsburg, knows that he is a consistent world-class player. But seeing how none of these teams are English, Chelsea & PL fans in general see no reason to change "their" mind, which is actually Mourinho's mind, or not even Mourinho's mind but just what he said in order to have a proper excuse.

And that, my friends, is the one and only truth on De Bruyne vs The English Public.

So I really hope the City deal will come through and he'll become a PL legend, even if it means he'll have to score and assist twice as much as anyone else in order to convince the stubborn herd of Mourinho sheep.

So are Barca fans who aren't bothered about Yaya Tours or Ibrahimovic Guardiola sheep? Or Sanchez and Cesc Luis Enrique sheep?

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Man City are mental if they spend £50m on De Bruyne!

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Surely they would have to sell SOME players to accomuliate the money spend on Otamendi, Sterling and now De Bruyne.

[sutro 1,026]

Man City are mental if they spend £50m on De Bruyne!

money doesnt matter for them and fpp even less

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Fair Play?

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

50.4M hahahaha what a rip off.. good player but never worth that money. The pressure is gonna be on him from the start again, something which he never dealt with completely well at Chelsea, despite not being a 50M transfer here.

FFP is a fucking joke.

[Tomo 21,733]

Surely they would have to sell SOME players to accomuliate the money spend on Otamendi, Sterling and now De Bruyne.

They have made £38m so far on sales, and with Jovetic and Dzeko there are contingent permanent sales that could be used for account purposes this season, so for the purposes of the account books at City, the sales figure could reach £64m.

[Tomo 21,733]

50.4M hahahaha what a rip off.. good player but never worth that money. The pressure is gonna be on him from the start again, something which he never dealt with completely well at Chelsea, despite not being a 50M transfer here.

FFP is a fucking joke.

As I said to Zansnake, the £64m on their account books from sales plus the tv deal will more than cover their transfers.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

So damn irritating. This whole FFP is absolutely laughable.

[Special Juan 27,431]

50.4M......

[Tomo 21,733]

So damn irritating. This whole FFP is absolutely laughable.

The tv deal has made FFP an irrelevance in England, only a transfer splurge beyond anything seen in football before will see an top PL team in trouble.

[Thendo 1,088]

City have their very dodgy UAE deals aswell, which ffp somehow allow. It's all a big joke.