I won't live that one very well.
Kevin De Bruyne
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
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This is going to annoy me even more than when they signed Silva
Hopefully not true, their attack would be a deadly combination of technique and speed.
Until Aguero inevitably gets injured... at which point it's a combination of technique, speed, and Wilfred Bony.
I was really hoping they wouldn't sign him, fingers crossed it's false. Their attack would be crazy.
Would be a very good signing if true. Perhaps the fee is too big to refuse for Wolfsburg but they could definitely use De Bruyne in the CL.
£48m for a player that Chelsea sold for £18m a few seasons ago , has he improved that much ?
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Silva - De Bruyne - Sterling
Would be unstoppable. Hope it doesn't happen.
Silva - De Bruyne - Sterling
Would be unstoppable. Hope it doesn't happen.
That looks great on paper,but will that work with Yaya pushing forward and lack of support cast for those attackers up.
If we sign De Bruyne and we can find a settled partnership at the back from Mangala, Kompany, Denayer and Demichelis I'd put us as favourites for the title. All depends on what happens at the back though. People say our midfield needs improving as well and while that is true if we're ever to win the CL, domestically Fernandinho and Toure is still powerful enough to win a league, for sure.
Wouldn't solve their key weakness though. Touré can't defend and won't run around, and Fernando/inho are mediocre. Obviously they would've upgraded their attacking options, and brought in some much needed young blood at the same time, but they'd be better off with either Sterling/De Bruyne, and a central midfielder to play behind them. Arguably their obsession with getting the (admittedly perfect) Pogba in that slot has prevented them from going for a less ambitious but more realistic target.
City think they have solved the issue of Kun's muscle injuries.
Last season he missed 8 games with a ligament injury whereas in the previous 2 seasons he missed 19 and 12 games respectively.
I'll take a 'deadly combination of technique and speed' for 30 PL games
If they get De Bruyne as well, we could be fecked.
Their frontline would piss all over ours, and then some.
Their frontline would piss all over ours, and then some.
a century of goals again
They'd still have problems with their MF 2 with one of them being Yaya! Who's going to defend for them?
with such an attack a "5-4 over 1-0" may be expected
With the amount of goals that front 4 would score, I doubt it'd be that much of a problem.
Aguero when fit pisses over any striker, and then Silva obv, but the rest are hardly that inspiring. De Bruyne yet to play well in the Prem and Sterling who was anonymous in half of Liverpool's matches last season?
Sterling is a fantastic talent, unfortunately. And De Bruyne has been ripping the German league to pieces has he not?
Aguero/Silva/Sterling/De Bruyne is a scary proposition, and miles better then what we have, no matter how you look at it.
That front 4 would be crazy, hopefully it doesn't happen.
De Bruyne is not the kind of player city needs. In fact we shouldn't sign him either. He wouldn't fit in the premier league IMO
Holy white sheets.
Compare that ours and it gets worse.
Pretty depressing stuff really.
Just hope this doesn't happen. We're going to struggle to break the top 3 as it is.
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Depay - Mata - Pedro
IMO is equally as good.
Aguero is better than Rooney(but probably won't feature half of the games) as Silva than Depay, but Mata and Pedro are better than KdB and Sterling.
I don't think Sterling will turn to be that good for them as well.
It really isn't.
I have to disagree with Mata being better than De Bruyne. Perhaps equal but definitely not better after De Bruyne's terrific season (10 goals and 20 assists in 34 BL games).
And Mata had two great seasons with Chelsea while KdB for whatever reason didn't click in Prem so far. He had one terrific season, question is will he be able to build on that, while Mata has been around for quite some time and is still only 3 years older.
You have to get the ball for those 4 to be able to influence the game. We struggled to provide Rooney/RVP/Falcao with any decent service last season because the team was unbalanced and weak in MF. The same could happen with the City MF.
It's what we were saying last season with Rooney/RVP/Falcao/ADM in the lineup, never quite worked out that way.
Who knows, Depay could take to the PL like a fish to water and become an instant beast. One player reaching top levels could transform the look of an attack. I believe.
City's defence isn't that bad. Didn't they still have the 5th or 6th best defensive record in the league last season?
And it was Mangala's first season, and Kompany had a tonne of injuries. 2nd season for Mangala and a summer off for Kompany, they will be better.
Can you imagine how crazy posters would be going if it had been us who sold him? There would be no end to the rants.
Come off it mate. It's not even close.
Am I the only one who is struggling to understand City´s transfer strategy? They have one of the very best #10 with Silva, but lack quality and youth in 6 or 7 other positions. Now they want to spend a record fee on another #10? KdB is outstanding and deserves all the praise in the world, but City is the one club in the world that doesnt really need him. I doubt that this transfer is going to happen, but I´d be very curious to see how KdB and Silva would play alongside each other.
Why does everyone keep instisting he can only play as a #10, hes plays on the right for Belgium.
It doesn't really matter which individuals are better, its how they play together as a team, which we don't know yet since half the players mentioned have yet to competitively play together or against one another.
Silva primarily plays on the left and de Bruyne would come over the right or through the center if Agüero leads their attack. He would be an immense upgrade over Navas or Nasri in any case.
That being said, there seems to be nothing in the German press so far about this signing so I doubt it's true.
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