Marcos Alonso

[Thor 2,451]

I thought he was fairly average aside from the last bit of action. He has his moments, but I really think he is probably the first player on the pitch for us who should be upgraded.

Is a fantastic squad player to have though. 

[Johnnyeye 7,453]

29 minutes ago, Thor said:

I thought he was fairly average aside from the last bit of action. He has his moments, but I really think he is probably the first player on the pitch for us who should be upgraded.

Is a fantastic squad player to have though. 

who do you think would be a better upgrade on Alonso?

[ja1 1,166]

1 hour ago, Johnnyeye said:

who do you think would be a better upgrade on Alonso?

Sandro, Rose, Alaba, Mendy, Alba, Marcelo (ofc), Luis, Mendy are the obvious ones. A number of players may not be obvious but I feel they'd make us a more dangerous side (Telles, Kolasinac). Failing that at least get some competition /back up for the man, ideally a young player with potential. Theo Hernandez would be that perfect player, alas Madrid got one of the future top full backs for just £22m.

[Stats 7,060]

9 hours ago, ja1 said:

Sandro, Rose, Alaba, Mendy, Alba, Marcelo (ofc), Luis, Mendy are the obvious ones. A number of players may not be obvious but I feel they'd make us a more dangerous side (Telles, Kolasinac). Failing that at least get some competition /back up for the man, ideally a young player with potential. Theo Hernandez would be that perfect player, alas Madrid got one of the future top full backs for just £22m.

I think he meant realistic options. Sandro was the only one who looked realistic and that never happened. Who knows what happens in summer but majority of names you mentioned are/were unrealistic.

[quickpassnmove 924]

34 minutes ago, Stats said:

I think he meant realistic options. Sandro was the only one who looked realistic and that never happened. Who knows what happens in summer but majority of names you mentioned are/were unrealistic.

should have pushed for Mendy and other strong, fast and skilled options more instead of singularly moving for for Sandro.

I'm hoping Kenedy gets time and has 9-10 strong performances this season.

[Georgy 439]

1 hour ago, Stats said:

I think he meant realistic options. Sandro was the only one who looked realistic and that never happened. Who knows what happens in summer but majority of names you mentioned are/were unrealistic.

How exactly was Sandro more realistic than Mendy? We simply put all our eggs in one basked like usual.

[communicate 2,703]

4 hours ago, quickpassnmove said:

should have pushed for Mendy and other strong, fast and skilled options more instead of singularly moving for for Sandro.

I'm hoping Kenedy gets time and has 9-10 strong performances this season.

 

4 hours ago, Georgy said:

How exactly was Sandro more realistic than Mendy? We simply put all our eggs in one basked like usual.

Both are not realistic, I want mendy but City bought him for 53 m, I am not sure we can afford that

[ja1 1,166]

17 minutes ago, communicate said:

 

Both are not realistic, I want mendy but City bought him for 53 m, I am not sure we can afford that

We ending up bidding more than that for Sandro. Agree most of the first list are unattainable but we dug ourselves our own hole there, as someone else mentioned, all eggs in one basket.

[communicate 2,703]

54 minutes ago, ja1 said:

We ending up bidding more than that for Sandro. Agree most of the first list are unattainable but we dug ourselves our own hole there, as someone else mentioned, all eggs in one basket.

I'll be suprised if we are willing to go above that number for Alex Sandro.

Nah I don't believe one egg in one basket. Conte said we are interested in walker but he is too expensive. He end up moving to city for 50 m. From that I can imply that we are not willing to go for that price for a wb.

[Igi26 346]

When someone names Alaba as a better play than Alonso...Alonso is better than Alaba, Alaba has been poor for 2 seasons already. One should look at his reaction vs. PSG where Mbappe sends him to donuts. 

 

[Leif 6,006]

Alonso's become twice the player he was in Italy, but he's still only half of what our stature demands.

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

8 hours ago, quickpassnmove said:

should have pushed for Mendy and other strong, fast and skilled options more instead of singularly moving for for Sandro.

I'm hoping Kenedy gets time and has 9-10 strong performances this season.

Mendy said that he only moved because he wanted to work under Pep.  It it was us, he wouldn't have come.

I don't know if it's just paper talk, but I'm not sure that Mendy was an option.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

2 hours ago, Sideshow Luiz said:

Mendy said that he only moved because he wanted to work under Pep.  It it was us, he wouldn't have come.

I don't know if it's just paper talk, but I'm not sure that Mendy was an option.

No, it's definitely not just paper talk. Monaco's president told the press that Mendy had said that to him. It was reported in quotes so the president definitely said it and, if he was lying or misrepresenting Mendy, you'd expect the Man City man to have commented about it publicly. Mendy has not denied the claim however so I think we have to take this as fact.

[The Skipper 20,593]

3 hours ago, Igi26 said:

When someone names Alaba as a better play than Alonso...Alonso is better than Alaba, Alaba has been poor for 2 seasons already. One should look at his reaction vs. PSG where Mbappe sends him to donuts. 

 

Mbappe sends most people for donuts. Shudder to think what he’d do to Alonso. 

I’d take Alaba. Think he needs a new challenge in a new league. He certainly is better than Alonso still, even if he has had two poor seasons by his standard. 

[positivefootball 195]

Alonso is better than Mendy and Alaba.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, positivefootball said:

Alonso is better than Mendy and Alaba.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

1 hour ago, positivefootball said:

Alonso is better than Mendy and Alaba.

Thats.....Just not true.

 

 

[Johnnyeye 7,453]

On 28/09/2017 at 5:33 PM, ja1 said:

Sandro, Rose, Alaba, Mendy, Alba, Marcelo (ofc), Luis, Mendy are the obvious ones. A number of players may not be obvious but I feel they'd make us a more dangerous side (Telles, Kolasinac). Failing that at least get some competition /back up for the man, ideally a young player with potential. Theo Hernandez would be that perfect player, alas Madrid got one of the future top full backs for just £22m.

from the names you mentioned, realistically i think it will be very hard to get any of them, at the moment they all play for top sides, so you can imagine we would have to cough up silly money to sign any of them, also if the player will want to come to us and the club wanting to sell, you saw the mess we made with Alex Sandro who i thought we had a very good chance to sign, but Juventus played hard ball too, we should have focused on other targets to. I think we will try to get one of them in the summer and we may succeed or not, it will depend on a lot of things or we could find a gem somewhere. Cheers