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Jimmy Skitz said:
Kante had a buy out clause, Mahrezx doubled his own wages Diabate was bought to join the U23s but was chucked in as he impressed after being recommended by Puel's son who was his teammate and you were trying to price Roberts at close to £30m as part of the deal.

How would I react, maybe I would remember the club I'm at took a chance on me when I couldn't get a game for Le Harve and I have tried and failed to force a move a couple of windows in a row but failed due to a lack of interest and wondered what I was doing to put clubs off, remained professional and turned up for work publicly told my agent to stop talking about slavery when I am making 6 figures per week and understood that the market had shifted and what was a fair price pre Neymar isn't after it.

Oh by the way he withdrew his transfer request so he could demand a "loyalty" payment, and a few weeks before that said he would stay "if the club matches my ambition"

Much like Danny Drinkwater Riyad Mahrez will very quickly come to realize how good he had it here and regret leaving and he's shit on his legacy here to find that out.
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I was trying to price Roberts at £30m? What forum do you think this is? Leicester didn't take Mahrez on through some charity scheme, they took him on because they thought he could become a good player for them, expectations he probably even surpassed. He did remain professional until January this year as I've already explained, if he attempted to "force" a move as you claim before that then he did a pretty half-arsed job considering the antics of Keita, Van Djik, Sanchez, Coutinho etc in comparison that were going on at the same time. Don't know what your point is about Kante's release clause, he did choose to leave didn't he? Vardy was in exactly the same position but didn't, Mahrez signed a new contract. The loyalty bonus talk was nothing more than The Sun/Twitter theorising.

He won you the title and is going to bag you a heap of money, it is you who owes the gratitude.
 
charlie9882 said:
City have been patient to make sure they're getting their targets for the right price. When talks with Leicester started, they wanted £80m, City are looking likely to get him for £60m. When talks with Napoli started for Jorginho, they wanted £65m, City are days away from signing him for £43m.

City have shown they can get it done very quickly when they want to (Bernardo, Danilo), but have shown that they are willing to wait, or even forgo the transfer altogether, if the selling clubs are asking for too much.
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And this is different to us in which way?
 
InLevyITrust said:
Sterling will be more expensive for a few reasons, he is English and he is young. I have no real hate for Liverpool so I do not see how I am biased. If you ask most fans who is the better player, Sterling or Mahrez I would say a good 75% would say Mahrez.
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I know you don't know me but you have no idea how little I care about the majority opinion. I care about the best supported, most representative opinions.

Only Salah and Son averaged more goals/90 from wide positions last year. Sterling takes about 2/3 of his shots in the box, Mahrez only 1/2 -- accounting for the difference in goal rate (they both take about the same number of shots from outside the box).

Sterling also loses the ball less often, has a higher dribble success rate, makes more key passes (and far more if you don't count set pieces) and had a higher assist rate.

He's simply both younger and better. That's why City paid the 2nd largest fee in that year's window. Even that is looking like Liverpool sold pretty cheaply now.
 
RoyTrenneman said:
I know you don't know me but you have no idea how little I care about the majority opinion. I care about the best supported, most representative opinions.

Only Salah and Son averaged more goals/90 from wide positions last year. Sterling takes about 2/3 of his shots in the box, Mahrez only 1/2 -- accounting for the difference in goal rate (they both take about the same number of shots from outside the box).

Sterling also loses the ball less often, has a higher dribble success rate, makes more key passes (and far more if you don't count set pieces) and had a higher assist rate.

He's simply both younger and better. That's why City paid the 2nd largest fee in that year's window. Certainly has worked out better than 54M for Martial has.
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You are completely missing the point, he is playing in a machine of a team, your singling out one season where Stirling got 18 goals previously he has never broken 10. Your condescending tone does nothing for your argument by the way, you just sound arrogant. As a player Mahrez has more to admire than Stirling it’s plain to see from watching him, when City sign him he will show exactly what he can do, he will certainly score more goals than he did this season and assist more.

If Raheem is such a worldly how come he has been an absolute ghost for England? As for your Martial comment, I’d have Martial over Sterling any day of the week.
 
InLevyITrust said:
If Raheem is such a worldly how come he has been an absolute ghost for England? As for your Martial comment, I’d have Martial over Sterling any day of the week.
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Haha well I was going to make a serious reply but then I read this and realized it would be a wasted effort.

You can't do anything with someone so divorced from reality and evidence.

But yeah it's so weird that a young player gets better and has seasons better than ones they had before.
 
RoyTrenneman said:
Haha well I was going to make a serious reply but then I read this and realized it would be a wasted effort.

You can't do anything with someone so divorced from reality and evidence.

But yeah it's so weird that a young player gets better and has seasons better than ones they had before.
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You really do come across as a real nice guy :lol:.
 
endless_wheelies said:
I was trying to price Roberts at £30m? What forum do you think this is? Leicester didn't take Mahrez on through some charity scheme, they took him on because they thought he could become a good player for them, expectations he probably even surpassed. He did remain professional until January this year as I've already explained, if he attempted to "force" a move as you claim before that then he did a pretty half-arsed job considering the antics of Keita, Van Djik, Sanchez, Coutinho etc in comparison that were going on at the same time. Don't know what your point is about Kante's release clause, he did choose to leave didn't he? Vardy was in exactly the same position but didn't, Mahrez signed a new contract. The loyalty bonus talk was nothing more than The Sun/Twitter theorising.

He won you the title and is going to bag you a heap of money, it is you who owes the gratitude.
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was his release clause not just for teams in the champions league and Chelsea actually payed more that year because they were not in Europe. if I were Leicester I would be wanting Roberts in any deal with Mahrez, 60m is a great price for City if that is to be the fee.
 
InLevyITrust said:
You really do come across as a real nice guy :lol:.
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I'm great when people don't call me names or make implications bc I have a well founded view that disagrees with their pure opinion. You may have confused my low post count with meekness. Or maybe you just can't take what you dish out. Either way, I don't really care. You don't like it, ignore me. Rest assured I'll take the same under consideration.

Anyway back to the point, fans of the other top 6 clubs should be hoping that Mahrez starts, bc it means one of Sterling or Sane is being annoyed by not starting, and both are younger and with more potential, and they were both more productive last year. Eventually there are going to be too many cooks in the kitchen there and someone's going to want to go. Personally since they're guaranteed to spend, I don't mind seeing City spend 60M on Mahrez who won't really make much of a difference and may well unsettle players currently in the team.
 
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RoyTrenneman said:
I'm great when people don't call me names or make implications bc I have a well founded view that disagrees with their pure opinion. You may have confused my low post count with meekness. Or maybe you just can't take what you dish out. Either way, I don't really care. You don't like it, ignore me. Rest assured I'll take the same under consideration.

Anyway back to the point, fans of the other top 6 clubs should be hoping that Mahrez starts, bc it means one of Sterling or Sane is being annoyed by not starting, and both are younger and with more potential, and they were both more productive last year. Eventually there are going to be too many cooks in the kitchen there and someone's going to want to go. Personally since they're guaranteed to spend, I don't mind seeing City spend 60M on Mahrez who won't really make much of a difference and may well unsettle players currently in the team.
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Mahrez starting won’t effect Sane..... they don’t play on the same side you turnip.
 
InLevyITrust said:
Mahrez starting won’t effect Sane..... they don’t play on the same side you turnip.
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1. Sane has only played about 53% of his career games as a LW. He played more than half on the RW his last year at Schalke.

2. Sterling is even more versatile through his career, and could easily switch sides leaving Sane out of the lineup if Mahrez was chosen to play on the right.

If I'm a turnip and I could figure this out with minimal effort despite having worked on much more complex problems all day, what does that make you?

Ironically, the only one of the 3 that is more or less limited to a single wing is...Mahrez.

This is why I don't care what 75% thinks...because 90% of people don't have a clue what they're talking about. You can do the math how many of them know that they don't have a clue what they're talking about. :) Hint, they're the ones that don't bother to look things up and have a problem with facts and data.
 
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RoyTrenneman said:
1. Sane has only played about 53% of his career games as a LW. He played more than half on the RW his last year at Schalke.

2. Sterling is even more versatile through his career, and could easily switch sides leaving Sane out of the lineup if Mahrez was chosen to play on the right.

If I'm a turnip and I could figure this out with minimal effort despite having worked on much more complex problems all day, what does that make you?

Ironically, the only one of the 3 that is more or less limited to a single wing is...Mahrez.

This is why I don't care what 75% thinks...because 90% of people don't have a clue what they're talking about. You can do the math how many of them know that they don't have a clue what they're talking about. :) Hint, they're the ones that don't bother to look things up and have a problem with facts and data.
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You are indeed a very silly person, last season Sane played 55 of 57 games on the left, Mahrez played 39 of 41 on the right...... :lol:. Go educate urself, you know little of football. Basically your ideas are writing cheques reality won’t cash.
 
InLevyITrust said:
You are indeed a very silly person, last season Sane played 55 of 57 games on the left, Mahrez played 39 of 41 on the right...... :lol:. Go educate urself, you know little of football. Basically your ideas are writing cheques reality won’t cash.
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Eat it.

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Never mind that even if Sane couldn't play RW, that doesn't mean that Sterling couldn't play LW and Mahrez puts Sane out of the XI that way.

You add nothing to my knowledge, you actually are a pain because I have to deal with the dumb and wrong crap you say, and you insult me on top of that. You're blocked. Go be an ass to someone else.
 
RoyTrenneman said:
Eat it.

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Never mind that even if Sane couldn't play RW, that doesn't mean that Sterling couldn't play LW and Mahrez puts Sane out of the XI that way.

You add nothing to my knowledge, and you're an ass. You're blocked.
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What are you talking about? :lol: I was talking about Sane and Mahrez?
 
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RoyTrenneman said:
Eat it.

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Never mind that even if Sane couldn't play RW, that doesn't mean that Sterling couldn't play LW and Mahrez puts Sane out of the XI that way.

You add nothing to my knowledge, you actually are a pain because I have to deal with the dumb and wrong crap you say, and you insult me on top of that. You're blocked. Go be an ass to someone else.
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InLevyITrust said:
I don’t quite follow?
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The above :lol:
 
So according to the tweet in the Twitter thread, he's due to get a whopping £200k a week a City. Surely that's daylight robbery!
 
TehRed said:
So according to the tweet in the Twitter thread, he's due to get a whopping £200k a week a City. Surely that's daylight robbery!
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You could argue that Sanchez with his 350 - 4.000.000 is also tad to much.
 
I don't really understand this transfer. Does he start if everyone is fully fit? Whose place in the starting XI does he take, if so?
 
Mogget said:
I don't really understand this transfer. Does he start if everyone is fully fit? Whose place in the starting XI does he take, if so?
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He doesn't. They have the money to throw , so are filling up the backup positions with quality players.
He is happy because he has been quality for a few years, but not getting the big money. Now he will. And probably get a PL medal as well.
Club is happy that they have extreme high quality backup, just in case someone gets injured. And that also means other clubs don't get a quality player.

Win-win for both parties involved.
 
I think for the player and the club it makes sense if they have the money to throw. Mahrez will get a monstrous upgrade on his current contract and will have a chance to win Champions league and home league and the two cups, he will be rotated no question but I think it might be quite equally, not to warm the bench much. Bernardo Silva might suffer though and of course Foden but for the club who doesn't care about development of their players but trophies it's okay.. It is quite insane to have B. Silva and Mahrez on the bench though with one of the two Aguero, G. Jesus two.. some attacking options..

It is quite a difference when you consider we have inconsistent Rashford, inconsistent and wantaway Martial, unsettled Sanchez on one wing and on the right, CAM Lingard and no10 Mata, but at least it leaves some space for Chong and we might buy one player anyway
 
TheFlagStaysDown said:
I think for the player and the club it makes sense if they have the money to throw. Mahrez will get a monstrous upgrade on his current contract and will have a chance to win Champions league and home league and the two cups, he will be rotated no question but I think it might be quite equally, not to warm the bench much. Bernardo Silva might suffer though and of course Foden but for the club who doesn't care about development of their players but trophies it's okay.. It is quite insane to have B. Silva and Mahrez on the bench though with one of the two Aguero, G. Jesus two.. some attacking options..

It is quite a difference when you consider we have inconsistent Rashford, inconsistent and wantaway Martial, unsettled Sanchez on one wing and on the right, CAM Lingard and no10 Mata, but at least it leaves some space for Chong and we might buy one player anyway
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Aguero who Pep wanted-away, Jesus who was terrible at the World Cup, inconsistent Sterling who struggles to hit a barn door at times, the average B.Silva with nice touches but little end product.
Depends how you want to spin things, eh?
 
I briefly wondered what is the cost of the player, including weekly wage, transfer free, bonuses and image rights. I then realized my mistake - it is Pep and City so this information is unnecessary.
 
Fluctuation0161 said:
Given the media coverage of the supposed endless millions we spent on Sanchez - it will be interesting to see if the coverage of this is comparable.

£119M for Mahrez...
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It was a big story at the time, especially as it was a swap deal that rarely happens.

Whilst Mahrez will probably be a big fee and wages, it’s not going to create too many waves in the media.
 
ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg said:
It was a big story at the time, especially as it was a swap deal that rarely happens.

Whilst Mahrez will probably be a big fee and wages, it’s not going to create too many waves in the media.
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I think the point he was making is that when it's United, we see figures to describe the deal that are inflated by including sums like wages and image rights whereas that rarely happens when it's about other clubs spending big.
 
shabadu84 said:
I think the point he was making is that when it's United, we see figures to describe the deal that are inflated by including sums like wages and image rights whereas that rarely happens when it's about other clubs spending big.
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I got the point, but the reason that this happens with Utd is because the story is bigger, in particular Lukaku, Pogba and Sanchez, these are massive stories, big big transfers, so the media hype is more and so things like wages are added to sensationalise the story. Mahrez to City won’t be a big story.

So for example I don’t remember any mention of wages for Lindelof or Matic - still £30-40m transfers, but they weren’t big stories.
 
Good signing for City. We're unlikely to sign anyone as good for our right wing while he might only be third choice there, shows what we're up against.
 
Usual nonsense being posted here. 60m is a huge fee and he's on mega wages. I think people have forgotten just how good Alexis is and will be very surprised next season. United don't need Mahrez. Id much rather keep Martial and add someone who will be happy to rotate and can play in a number of positions.

With regards to City.. Peps spend is phenomenal. Money v Pep indeed. Laughable.
 
IrishRedDevil said:
Aguero who Pep wanted-away, Jesus who was terrible at the World Cup, inconsistent Sterling who struggles to hit a barn door at times, the average B.Silva with nice touches but little end product.
Depends how you want to spin things, eh?
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Well well, I know but let's judge the players how they play for Pep and not at the WC, they all played well and scored a lot of goals, made the title compared to our players, but surely Sanchez will get better and Rashford will take another leap in his development. Martial is a big question and the right wing is still a big problem
 
TheReligion said:
Usual nonsense being posted here. 60m is a huge fee and he's on mega wages. I think people have forgotten just how good Alexis is and will be very surprised next season. United don't need Mahrez. Id much rather keep Martial and add someone who will be happy to rotate and can play in a number of positions.

With regards to City.. Peps spend is phenomenal. Money v Pep indeed. Laughable.
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This.

I am constantly amazed at how Sanchez has suddenly become a mediocre player in the caf. I think a lot of people will eat their words next season.
 
GM K said:
This.

I am constantly amazed at how Sanchez has suddenly become a mediocre player in the caf. I think a lot of people will eat their words next season.
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Agreed. Some on here are so fickle. Sanchez is by far the better player and we got him over City. They have ended up with the booby prize; Mahrez.
 
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