Nicolas Otamendi | City Player

Status
Not open for further replies.
I'd be surprised if we siGned 2 centre backs,Evans will go and Jones smalling rojo McNair will compete to partner who ever comes in. Also have Carrick and blind as emergency options. Have we any prospects in the youth setup to get a look next season ?

I'd rather see us keep Evans than play an average midfielder in defense. What had Mcnair done to deserve a chance?

We can easily accommodate 2 CBs. Rojo, Shaw LB, Stones, Otamendi, Jones and Smalling as CBs.
 
I'd rather see us keep Evans than play an average midfielder in defense. What had Mcnair done to deserve a chance?

We can easily accommodate 2 CBs. Rojo, Shaw LB, Stones, Otamendi, Jones and Smalling as CBs.

Hes done ok, looks a decent prospect. Rather we invested in him than kept Evans about
 
Mutv 5secs ago, newspaper columnist they have on also said "good sources" within the club have dissmissed this one also.
 
Bloody hell, Otamendi and Gundogan. Looks like we're keeping who we are interested in close to our chests then.

They could be wrong though, it's still an express columnist rather than the actual channel saying it, it seems foreign news sources have been more reliable than the UK press since LvG's arrival here, but thought it was worth mentioning what was said regardless.
 
Can we field a team full of spanish speakers?

De Gea

Valencia
Rojo
Valdes
Rafael

Herrera
Mata
di Maria
Peirera
Nani

Chicharito

If we play Valdes at centre-back, Rafael at LB then yes we can indeed, even with Henriquez on the bench
 
De Gea

Valencia
Rojo
Valdes
Rafael

Herrera
Mata
di Maria
Peirera
Nani

Chicharito

If we play Valdes at centre-back, Rafael at LB then yes we can indeed, even with Henriquez on the bench
Rafael and Pereira speak Portugese.
 
In order to help our boys with their transition over to Madrid, we should make Spanish compulsory from academy up to first team level.
 
If Hummels is a no go and we aren't interested in Otamendi the field is practically barren for any CB's of experience.
 
Is that true? Because french and Spanish are close but most french or spanish can't converse in both languages.

From my experience, I'd say it's truer for the Portuguese speaking Spanish than vice-versa. 'Most' would be pushing it though I reckon.
 
Is that true? Because french and Spanish are close but most french or spanish can't converse in both languages.
Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish pretty well, not so much the other way around.
 
"SSN Sources" say he's signed for 35m£.. Just came on Twitter..


EDIT: Oh it was a fake account.. "move along, nothing to see here"..
 
Last edited:
This one has gone quiet which is worrying with barges like Dante and Howedes floating into view.
 
If the recent media reports are to be believed it seems like our main targets were Otamendi and Hummels but the price is getting in the way so apparently we're looking for cheaper options now in Dante and Howedes. If this is true then i guess that shows that our transfer budget isn't exactly unlimited. Those people wanting us to spend 100m on Pogba or Bale, oh you will be so so disappointed lol.
 
If the recent media reports are to be believed it seems like our main targets were Otamendi and Hummels but the price is getting in the way so apparently we're looking for cheaper options now in Dante and Howedes. If this is true then i guess that shows that our transfer budget isn't exactly unlimited. Those people wanting us to spend 100m on Pogba or Bale, oh you will be so so disappointed lol.

That's the problem..... media reports with us are usually way off the mark.
 
If the recent media reports are to be believed it seems like our main targets were Otamendi and Hummels but the price is getting in the way so apparently we're looking for cheaper options now in Dante and Howedes. If this is true then i guess that shows that our transfer budget isn't exactly unlimited. Those people wanting us to spend 100m on Pogba or Bale, oh you will be so so disappointed lol.

And yet there are other reports that we offered £110m for Varane and Bale....nobody knows anything.
 
If the recent media reports are to be believed it seems like our main targets were Otamendi and Hummels but the price is getting in the way so apparently we're looking for cheaper options now in Dante and Howedes. If this is true then i guess that shows that our transfer budget isn't exactly unlimited. Those people wanting us to spend 100m on Pogba or Bale, oh you will be so so disappointed lol.

IF the reports are true, and that's obvioudly a big if. Then three reason for us 'going' for the likes of Dante etc will simply be to drive down the price of our actual targets. We certainly don't have unlimited funds, this is the Glazer's were talking about here.

If woodward hasn't got the best deal possible for these players he'll be in trouble.

The way the dante stories came out do easily suggests to me they were planted, probably by us. They came too quickly after the Valencia president started banging on about 50m euro release clauses.

Its going to be a long summer. We'll get our targets.
 
I'm surprised there hasn't been more rumours of a swap deal with Rojo, who could step into Otamendi's LCB spot at Valencia, speaks Spanish and who will be 4th choice at CB and maybe 3rd at LB if we sign Otamendi and a CM (Blind getting less starts there, and he outplayed Rojo at LB).

Could cut the fee from 50 down to 30ish, and we could find a cheap new 4th CB for the next year or two or persist with Evans or McNair and hopefully one of Tuanzebe or Fosu-Mensah, who are both 17.5, could be our 4th CB by the start of the 2017 season, when they will be close to 20.
Why would we swap Rojo who has been good for us so far?
 
That's the problem..... media reports with us are usually way off the mark.

I wont be surprised if its true though. There's so many roles that need strengthening that we simply cant afford filling them with 40m signings each.
 
If the recent media reports are to be believed it seems like our main targets were Otamendi and Hummels but the price is getting in the way so apparently we're looking for cheaper options now in Dante and Howedes. If this is true then i guess that shows that our transfer budget isn't exactly unlimited. Those people wanting us to spend 100m on Pogba or Bale, oh you will be so so disappointed lol.

No-one has ever said our transfer budget is unlimited, but certain positions have to be prioritized, especially if truly world class players are available in that position.

Plus the media here generally have very little idea of who we're going to sign, pretty much until the last minute. The majority of our signings last summer weren't exactly drawn out affairs.
 
And yet there are other reports that we offered £110m for Varane and Bale....nobody knows anything.

If you look into this story is actually quite interesting.

It's actually come from 2 separate Spanish sources. One said we had enquired, the other said we had actually bid. It could be that one is just re-stirring the others' storey and making it sexier. But what makes me think there might be something in it is that how vehemently both articles stated that Madrid said categorically no. They didnt need to print that, or even ask Madrid.

It actually sounds like madrid wanted that part of the story out.
 
Dunno if this has been posted or not, but Ballague(who's usually spot on these days with the La-Liga transfers) reported that the only reason we're leaking that we're not interested in Otamendi is that because we want to keep the price down. Otamendia has many teams fighting for him but he wants to join us.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.