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It's obvious that this signing will not work for number of reasons : - He is a 38 year old fullback. This is one of the youngest positions on the pitch where you do a lot of running. You barely see any 30 plus starters here let alone 38. He may be the oldest fullback in the top5 leagues. - His...

The meritocracy of signing a 38 year old Alves that couldn't stand out for Sao Paulo?

Alves is no Zlatan. He's a guy who was even getting benched in Sao Paulo recently. No parallel. And he's a full-back, one of the youngest positions on the pitch... Insanity

So you think he has regressed? Or that he's not as good as he used to be? If you do think he has got worse or have any criticisms of his playing profile other than 'he got benched for a run of games after 6 seasons starting and playing great' then crack on. I'm pretty sure every player in the...

The facts are he has started for Pep's City, THE most competitive side in the world, for 6 seasons now and racked up 205 goals and assists in the process, a remarkable number especially in the Premier League, and this is his first season where he's been on the bench. Just because he's starting 1...

And Sterling is not a past prime old man either. He's in his prime years and lightning fast. Literally everything about the signing makes sense. We would be total fools to turn it down, if there is an opportunity (I doubt).

The signing of Alves is unmerited. He is probably gonna be the oldest fullback in LaLiga and didn't stand out even at Sao Paulo, what makes Xavi think he can contribute here? Because he's a club legend?

'No end product' Sterling has over 200 goals and assists in 300 appearances under Pep's City but because he started 1 season on the bench he's not good enough for the current Barca

'Since Pep Guardiola's arrival at City in 2016, Raheem Sterling has made 307 appearances, scoring 116 goals and registering 89 assists, as the England international established himself as one of the Premier League's best players.' Now that he found himself on the bench for one season in...

"He is a great footballer and has started for City and England for many years now. Now that he's struggling a bit for playing time this is the perfect opportunity to snap him up."

Pep doesn't rate him? He's literally been an undisputed starter since he came to City. Where did we get this new found pickiness from? Since we went into 1 billion debt? He is a great footballer and has started for City and England for many years now. Now that he's struggling a bit for playing...

Absurd to say sterling hasn't got the level for Barca. He's 100x better than what we have been playing at the position in recent games. If the opportunity to sign him for cheap comes up we grab it with both hands, it won't be often a player of his calibre will sign for a team playing EL next season.

Xavi is allegedly very impressed with Collado and thinks he can be useful next season and gain prominence. *Remember he cannot be registered in January as Liga rules forbid the reregistration of a player after they have been deregistered in the same season.

Busquets wasn't playing lone DM in that game btw

Well he is right Newcastle dont want him for 55m as they only have 50m to spend in line with FFP. Doubt they would spend their whole budget in Ter Stegen, instead they will do like us and go for free agents and people out of contract soon for low transfer fees and they can give them high wages...

If we are lucky one of the Gavi Nico Balde etc will turn out to be world class. We've been down this road before. It's a long looooong way from scoring against u19 village teams.

It's the same thing every time, the new manager will crack down on the amigos and on the club culture etc, Koeman is a club legend and he was meant to do it and didn't. Even Setien was known at all his other clubs for being a very demanding coach with a super high intensity in training and it...

When you have older players of course they're gonna have interests on the side and extra sports activities. If you think it is affecting their performance you can deal with it on a case by case basis, or if you apply this rule to everyone the only players you will have left is the 19 year olds...

Usually when manager tries to implement these rules with a bunch of massive egos it doesn't work. If these rules will genuinely be followed many of our should be starters will be bench or sent to the stands. So this will he a rebuilding period where youth is integrated and the cows are out of...

I doubt the rumours of Umtiti to Benfica have any truth anyway, he would need to take a big pay cut and I have my doubts on if he'd even get minutes with their CB leaving.