Summer Transfer Tweets 2016
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So they're going for both Laporte and Stones?
Would be good for them to spend alot of their money on him, not saying he's crap but he's never world class.
Hope they paid £40-50m, and knowing them they probably did.
Great news.
News of a transfer between two English clubs of an English player doesn't break in Spain with absolutely nothing being said about it in the English press.
Hhhmmm, if true it'd make you wonder was Bailly our back-up option to Stones?
Don't care as long as they have paid crazy money for it
Fantastic young English talent, I was hoping we'd sign him.
So city spends at least £60m (on the lower side surely) on CBs just after they spent £70m on CBs in the past two seasons.
Wow.
Wow.
What a relief
Someone i never heard of, claiming that someone else is very reliable....
I don't mind if it's true though.
I don't mind if it's true though.
City's director of football is Spanish, as is their manager. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
I also think Stones is the sort of CB Pep would love (probably sees him as a Pique type).
This. Oh well, hopefully they paid a ridiculous fee for him at least.
Yep, and Everton are hardly easy, quiet sellers either.
I'm not sure if he's the answer to make them stronger at the back. He could be very good under the right manager but I think his ceiling is quite low.
Guardiola wants him because he's more comfortable on the ball than the average centre-back. It's a disaster waiting to happen, especially in England.
Can't see Everton letting him go. They'll get Laporte though.
City need two centre-backs to be honest.
I bet they would let him go for £40-£50 million. Every team has a breaking point for a player and City have more money than sense when it comes to young English players.
Sterling comes to mind.
It's funny to me how the same ones that shit on Stones every week are all excited about Bailly, an equally young, raw and error prone CB who will also disrupt the back 4 when he goes off for 5 weeks in the middle of the season for the ACON.
Disappointingly quiet for us at present. Last summer you'd leave the caf for an hour and 3 new pages of tweets would pop up. Tame by comparison this year.
If true, Stones is a good move for them IMV. Would be for us too.
Instantly. We rejected City twice but £49 million was too good to turn down considering Sterling had made it clear he wanted out.
Considering Otamendi and Kompany would expect to be starters I wonder how both Stones and Laporte fit into the side. Also, it will be interesting to see how Pep manages Otamendi and Kompany, both of whom are quite average when it comes to ball distribution.
For the prices, both Stones and Laporte would be seen as starters despite Otamendi costing a fortune.
Stones/Bailly stat comparison last season: http://www.squawka.com/comparison-m...ackles_lost/fouls_suffered/fouls_committed#90
It was the only right choice for you guys, in my opinion. He wasn't particularly impressive this season, eh?
Stones has been far more error prone this past season. So much so that he was dropped. He is also being touted to go for mega money.
He is an Ideal CB for Pep though . But his defending levels are very weak.
On phone so can't see this. Who is better?
They are still both error prone and Stones was coming off a summer of turmoil, the bottom line is both are young and have raw aspects to their games, but the double standards for the English player is clear.
I don't think the price tag represents a right to be in the starting 11 especially in the case of Laporte who would need time to adjust. Moreover, Kompany is the club captain and has the summer to recover from injury, surely he would be starting given city's impressive defensive record when he's on the pitch.
Fairly even overall, any passing stats?
No not really but it would have been interesting to see how he would have done with Klopp in charge. I've always felt that he'd thrive in a central attacking midfield role.
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