Transfers and Rumours - old thread
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Don_Andrés
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I'd still be in favour of two new CB's (a Hummels, Subotic, Kompany, Verthonghan type and a Martinez, Marquinhos type). Abidal has yet, still to be offered a contract for next season and if he did stay, how many games could you Abidal & Puyol starting next season? I think their roles would be that in a rotation/back-up role.
ZenI
Professor Balthazar
At least we agree on Ogbonna (who can also play LB), but why do you discredit Höwedes and Ranocchia?
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Don_Andrés
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Forget Thiago Silva
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rivaldo10
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i believe that silva will go to city
i think we should sell pique and use the money for kompany and hummels
i think we should sell pique and use the money for kompany and hummels
Ronnie10
New member
We have only Pique, Mascherano and Bartra. Other 2 doesnt play.
fcbdna
Banned
Höwedes is a great defender, very strong, committed, good aerially and competitive. . . . Just don't know how he would fair with our play style. He seems to prefer playing deep.
Ranocchia: Can't get a starting place in Inter's dwindling and fumbling defense . What makes you think he'd be good here?
Plip
Cardenal de Catalunya
Forget Thiago Silva
Or Hummels for that matter, as we already have two CBs with an uncannily similar profile to Hummels'.
What we need is a CB that would fit Piqué's / Bartra's style of play and be more of Puyol's mould, i.e. fast, agile and physical defender. Leadership skills would be a plus, but I very much doubt there are exact carbon copies out there that wouldn't cost us a fortune.
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fcbdna
Banned
And how many of those 3 are good enough to help us win the Champions league?
Barcilliant
Senior Member
People seem to forget one important fact. You can buy the best in-form players in the world BUT they still have to integrate well into the side. Cesc, Ibra, Villa-all world class players. All have been underwhelming. I thought Villa would be the perfect fit for Barca but I was wrong. Ibra was ok but didnt fit in. Cesc has been on and off.
Hell, Rijkaard looks like a genius in the trf market compared to Pep and Tito. Also Zubizaretta is an idiot and our scouting is shit. Dortmunds team was assembled for less then 40 million Euros. Thats called good scouting. Just buying big names is not good enough. Neither is buying someone like Kerrison for 12 million. The guy is so bad we wont even let him into the B team.
Hell, Rijkaard looks like a genius in the trf market compared to Pep and Tito. Also Zubizaretta is an idiot and our scouting is shit. Dortmunds team was assembled for less then 40 million Euros. Thats called good scouting. Just buying big names is not good enough. Neither is buying someone like Kerrison for 12 million. The guy is so bad we wont even let him into the B team.
fcbdna
Banned
Kompany or Höwedes would be good. . . But as I stated earlier. City might not wan't Kompany to leave, and can Höwedes adapt?
Plip
Cardenal de Catalunya
Pretty much this. City are never going to sell Kompany for anything less than €30-40m, given they don't really have to (unless of course Kompany himself pushes for the transfer).
Höwedes has looked quite decent from what I've seen of Schalke this season, although I'm not entirely sure whether he would fall into the "fast and agile" brackets.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
List of affordable CB we can go for:
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Höwedes
Ogbonna
Zouma
Mangala
Sakho
Marquinhos
Martinez
Santana
Dmytro Chygrynskiy
Unfortunately it looks this way ,Hummels/Silva/Subotic/Kompany won't move this tbh you can add Vermaleen and Agger to the list too ,and may be Rat
fcbdna
Banned
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