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Kalvin Phillips
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The price is a pretty good for a current English international with english tax.
I mean if it was any more than that it wouldn’t be a great deal tbh
Would he be happy? Place in the England team, WC coming up…
If it was any more, it would have been us buying him.
i don't see southgate changing the formula this close to to the WC, so unless bellingham has an incredible start to the season or phillips gets hurt I expect to see the same safe boring midfield pairing of Rice and Phillips starting.
To be fair City did need to get signings in to improve them further so they can catch us in the league, oh wait...
Up to £50m according to Sky. He has 2 years left on his contract.
Same feeling
Have to say thought he’d be a little more expensive . England international (regular) , selling to a top 6 club , 2 years of premier league experience and in mid 20s. That’s a good price for city.
There is lot of difference to play in mid table team and being back up and fighting for his spot in man.City team. Players confident enough in their ability will goto better team. Nothing new here.
Of course money is a big factor but I appreciate his attitude to go to a big team to fight for his place. He already not sure about his place in England team and want to prove it in big club to earn his place is better attitude in my opinion.
He’s better than Rice but still really average so not overly concerned with this tbh.
Buys Murtough another month or so to prepare a bid.Yes great news and leave De Jong alone for us
Thank God for Pep 
He will be like Ake. Maybe even less game time than Ake as he can only play in one position. He is miles behind Rodri in terms of ability. Still City can afford to pay 50m for fringe players so I doubt they will care.
Declan Rice? Better than him?
He will never know his ceiling unless he challenges it at the highest level. It also took Mahrez a season to adapt/get into the city first team. There is also a chance he can be the next drinkwater as well.
Kalvin signing his new deal
Stuff like this just rustles my jimmies. We're behind other teams and in desperately in need of more recruitment than them, and lo and behold, it's them consolidating and strengthening their positions with multiple signings and we're stuck at the sum total of zero. Might change in a few days, but my goodness, the clouds are dark as shit.
Kalvin Philips has been playing under Bielsa's 433 for 3 years so it shouldn't be too hard for him to adapt to Pep's 433 as a #6.
Nope, can’t say I give a flying rats ass.
In a market where Kalvin Phillips costs 50m, 80-85m for FDJ is apt...
Could you imagine United being able to have struck a deal for £45M....?!?!
Not on your Nellie, we'd have been looking at £70M.
How do City do it? everybody knows they have billions in the bank but they always get a decent deal. 42m for Philips is a steal.
So how exactly do Phillips and Rodri fit in the same team? Doesn’t seem very Pep like to have 2 DM’s.
They don't.
City have it so easy don’t they. We have so many rivals who would never sell us a player and yet nobody gives a feck about City. Nobody even tries to squeeze more money out of them.
KP will need to challenge Rodri for a starting place. Pep plays with 2 #8 and it is highly unlikely it will change for KP.
Will sit on the bench a lot. 50m for nothing more than a depth guy with the bonus of being English for their minimum player count. They did need midfielders though. Never been a huge fan of him as a player anyway.
Saying that, them already securing a midfielder and haaland after winning the title while we've done feck all right before pre season starts says it all about the 2 clubs
Saying that, them already securing a midfielder and haaland after winning the title while we've done feck all right before pre season starts says it all about the 2 clubs
They don't he'll be a squad player. There squad is ridiculous now.
Steal is a bit much, his price was always quoted around 50m last season.
With two years left on his contract it isn’t really.
The take away is how City conducted their transfer business. Efficient, no drag on, and get it done before team training starts.
Obviously the real price won’t be £42m, but it’s £42m for FFP purposes
Man Utd don't have a single defensive midfielder. Man City now have two international defensive midfielders.
Says it all.
Says it all.
Yup I’ve seen plenty of both and Phillips is the better player IMO out of the two.
Squad game innit, and Fernandinho leaving
McTominay has been bulking up on summer holiday
How much do you want them to pay 80-100m? 50m for Philips is already over paying for me. I mean if it was United signing him at that price you wouldn't be happy now, would you?
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