Nathan Ake (Close to signing for Man City, £40m fee)

TheReligion said:
I'm very glad that is the model they run and that United have important academy graduates in every successful campaign as opposed to hoardes of expensive purchases.
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Without a doubt, despite me having absolutely no part in developing the likes of Rashford to watch him come through the ranks and achieve great things is much more gratifying.
 
I think City and Utd have both spent a lot of dud signings but yeah, it does seem that City can then just pay more money to replace those until they get it right (Bravo, Mangala, Danilo, , Boateng, Savic, Nastasic, Angelino, Mendy, etc..)

We can't really do that and we end up stuck with those players for a while.
 
MongeySpangle said:
Your starting lineup against Leicester cost £430million and you had another £140million on the bench on top of that. Your squad is hardly inexpensive itself.
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I'm not disputing that, and again that's where I go back to my point that city and pep fans get defensive on this. .. I'd love if we could spend another 50m to get a better version of Fred who could pass, or another 40m for another cb, or another 50m to get a ball playing awb on top of what we have

I wouldn't complain at all esp if we had pep in charge of doing that
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Edit: saw your next post regarding ake and kinda acknowledging it so fair play
 
HerbT said:
Haha great comedy comments - I love the nonsense, keep it up.

It’s got absolutely nothing to do with Stones being resurgent or otherwise.
Ake’s a left sided defender who’s been out injured for most of the season and Stones is a right sided centre back.
Of the 10 games that Ake’s been fit to play in he’s played in 5, which is very good going for a player in his first season at City.
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You must watch awful comedies.

He's been a crock for you and when he is fit he will barely feature, just like most of us said when you went for him, because it was obvious.
 
Solius said:
I think City and Utd have both spent a lot of dud signings but yeah, it does seem that City can then just pay more money to replace those until they get it right (Bravo, Mangala, Danilo, , Boateng, Savic, Nastasic, Angelino, Mendy, etc..)

We can't really do that and we end up stuck with those players for a while.
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They also tend to move those players on quite quickly though. Do they get good fees for them?
I always think we hold onto players too long and dont get good sales, with the exception being Lukaku.
 
Solius said:
You do realise the bolded part can also make someone a bad buy. You just drop it in like you're talking about a bad game but he's missed almost his entire first season, that's mad.
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He has been out injured / only available for 10 games and has played in 5 of those in his first season at a club where the complexity of game play mean that many players take a season to settle in.

You can yeah but yeah but all you like but it’s a fact.

What part of that don’t you understand?
 
HerbT said:
He has been out injured / only available for 10 games and has played in 5 of those in his first season at a club where the complexity of game play mean that many players take a season to settle in.

You can yeah but yeah but all you like but it’s a fact.

What part of that don’t you understand?
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I understood it perfectly mate that's why I said it's mad he's missed almost his entire first season with injury.
 
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