Scott Sinclair To Citeh?

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Manchester City have made an opening bid of £5million for Swansea's Scott Sinclair.

Roberto Mancini's Premier League champions have been heavily linked with the 23-year-old in recent weeks, and have now finally put their money on the table.

The Swans have yet to make a decision on whether to cash in now or hold out for a bigger fee.

England Under-21 and team GB Olympic winger Sinclair has already told the club he wants to leave and is refusing to sign a new contract .

The way is open for Sinclair, dropped to the subs' bench by manager Michael Laudrup for the opening day clash at Queens Park Rangers on Saturday, to get the transfer he wants now City have made an official approach.

Sinclair, a £1.5m purchase from Chelsea in August 2010, signed off his Swansea career in style when he came off the bench to net the final goal in the stunning 5-0 win at Loftus Road.

Swansea remain in the hunt to snap up Valencia wideman Pablo Hernandez.
 
rcoobc said:
Decent English player.
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And the key word there is the middle one. They're clearly getting their English quota up so they meet the homegrown rules without having to include a load of no-mark players from their academy.
 
Swansea will replace him with Pablo Hernandez from Valencia who has already told Valencia president Manuel Llorente that he wants to go to Swansea.
 
Maajid said:
Swansea will replace him with Pablo Hernandez from Valencia who has already told Valencia president Manuel Llorente that he wants to go to Swansea.
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Again, that would represent great business by Swansea. Strange one for City. You'd have to see Sinclair as a notch down from Johnson, no?
 
He's an idiot for wanting to go there.
 
Maajid said:
Swansea will replace him with Pablo Hernandez from Valencia who has already told Valencia president Manuel Llorente that he wants to go to Swansea.
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He's going to cost £4m apparently. fecking hell, Swansea can find a bargain.
 
Michael Laudrup is a great pull for Spanish players mix that up with Swansea's football and it's a very desireable place to go for them.
 
Indeed. He'll have three of them if he signs Pablo, but then again he has also signed Ki from Celtic so he acknowledges the need to have strong players in your team as well (Michu looks very strong too). We could have a mini Barcelona here if he keeps this thing going.
 
Can't see Swansea letting him go for as little as 5m. He is a decent English winger.
 
They won't get much more than 5m for him as he's refusing to sign a new deal with his contract up at the end of the season. Unlike under Rodgers, he seems dispensable now too. Even before they bring anyone else in, Dyer outperformed him last season and Routledge looks unrecognisable to me as a Swansea player. He finally seems to be seeing the right options.

Sinclair's still not proven at Premier League level for me, in regards to attracting attention from the big clubs anyway. I really feel he could do with just one more season starting every week. Listening to Nathan Dyer talk, it sounds like he'd have a better chance of performing well under Laudrup too, who's working with the wingers for them to take up positions further inside to make them less predictable.

Sinclair doesn't have great ability to go past his man, he's really reliant on his pace for that. Once his limited selection of moves have failed to take him past his man, he can look lost and really ineffective, his confidence seeming shot for a few spells last season. His strength is his knack for arriving in great positions to finish off moves, his finishing ability is great for a wide player. I imagine that's why City are interested in him as for all their ability in midfield, they probably don't get as many goals from there as they should. He probably stands a better chance of performing well in that City team where other players will do the skillful work for him, but sitting on the bench for the amount of time as he will, I think he'll suffer from not having that confidence of having previously performed at the highest level to call upon.
 
Rodwell to City
Sinclair to City
Song to Barcelona

3 most pointless transfers of the summer.
 
one dimensional. may have ONE extra stepover and yard of pace than Downing. other than that, can't wrap my head around it.

at least Johnson got a winners medal!
 
Mad move for him, stick with laudrup get a load more games under your belt otherwise you'll be johnsons replacement and he didn't play too often did he?
 
KanieKaned said:
Mad move for him, stick with laudrup get a load more games under your belt otherwise you'll be johnsons replacement and he didn't play too often did he?
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Laudrup might not want him to stay though, he has Routledge and Dyer and wants to add Pablo.
 
Will have to take him out my FF team if he moves, playing time will massively diminish.
 
Not bad as a backup player. Will probably start on two or three occasions and play something like 7-8 times as sub (in the league).
 
Ole's_toe_poke said:
Rodwell to City
Sinclair to City
Song to Barcelona

3 most pointless transfers of the summer.
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The Rodwell signing was far from pointless. If he stays fit he'll get plenty of minutes. They only have 4 central midfielders. 1 of them wants to leave, 1 of them has an international tournament halfway through the season the other is Gareth Barry.
 
Jonno said:
Sinclair really should not go there, just like Adam Johnson really should not have gone there.
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Playing about 40 games a season for a side who won the FA cup and a title leading to 11 England caps has really fecked his career up compared to the chance to lead Middlesbrough to a mighty 7th place finish in the Championship. :wenger:
 
ICIP said:
Playing about 40 games a season for a side who won the FA cup and a title leading to 11 England caps has really fecked his career up compared to the chance to lead Middlesbrough to a mighty 7th place finish in the Championship. :wenger:
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He would have had a whole host of clubs in for him though that could have been better options. Didn't he leave on a free?

You have good points in what he has won since he's been there, but since his first season his progress has been completely disjointed due to his limited chances.

It reminds me of SWP at Chelsea. As soon as Chelsea hit the big time he was disregarded and fell to shit as a result. Just like him, Johnson is going to end up in mid-table mediocrity for the rest of his career.

Edit: Actually, looking into it, it seems SWP joined them the year after they won the league. I still stand by it being a similar sort of transfer.
 
Woodzy said:
He would have had a whole host of clubs in for him though that could have been better options. Didn't he leave on a free?

You have good points in what he has won since he's been there, but since his first season his progress has been completely disjointed due to his limited chances.

It reminds me of SWP at Chelsea. As soon as Chelsea hit the big time he was disregarded and fell to shit as a result. Just like him, Johnson is going to end up in mid-table mediocrity for the rest of his career.

Edit: Actually, looking into it, it seems SWP joined them the year after they won the league. I still stand by it being a similar sort of transfer.
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Better example would be his second stint with City and being marginalised and sold asap as soon as the likes of Silva were willing to come in
 
You lot are Reverse-Xenophobes at their very worst. Well in City
 
Woodzy said:
He would have had a whole host of clubs in for him though that could have been better options. Didn't he leave on a free?

You have good points in what he has won since he's been there, but since his first season his progress has been completely disjointed due to his limited chances.

It reminds me of SWP at Chelsea. As soon as Chelsea hit the big time he was disregarded and fell to shit as a result. Just like him, Johnson is going to end up in mid-table mediocrity for the rest of his career.

Edit: Actually, looking into it, it seems SWP joined them the year after they won the league. I still stand by it being a similar sort of transfer.
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Left for around £6 million I think. If all these clubs were in for him why did he leave Boro in January rather than the summer following their relegation?

I'm not having this limited chances argument either. Unless you think he had/has the talent to be a key player in our team like say Kompany or Toure, then he's had a fair amount of chances. Johnson had 38 (26 league) appearances compare that to Nasri 45 (31), Balotelli 32 (23), De Jong 29 (14), Dzeko 40 (28) and so on. He was a part of the squad in the same way a lot of more talented players were.

Johnson had every chance at City. It's not our fault he never bothered with defensive discipline or put the fitness work in that would have took him to another level.
 
True - you can claim that Johnson played 26 league games - which doesn't seem too bad. But if you look further at the numbers - he played a total of 1136 minutes and suddenly thing changes. That means - he was involved in 2/3 of their league games BUT - when he played - he averaged pretty close to 45 minutes pr game he played in. And to compare - Dzeko played almost 450 minutes more than Johnson

So while I understand that he left Boro for City - I can also understand if he wants to leave.
 
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