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#281870 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Real Madrid are apparently now arguing that the LFP's clocks are wrong.

Can't imagine the LFP are not going to take too much to convinced of that 'fact'.
#281847 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Obviously I'm biased but this transfer window has been brilliant, it's had everything!

I'm really enjoying the European window shutting early, its showing up journalist for the staggeringly gigantic morons that they are.

John Cross at the mirror just put up an article about how some Turkish side were going to make a huge bid for Oxlade-Chamberlain not realising that the Turkish window had actually closed an hour before his article went up.

It's led to some decent drama as well, as opposed to the usual anti-climax of the SSN wankathon.

I think the rules will be changed when clubs as big as Madrid and United are involved. It'll still go through I reckon.

They do usually get what they want over there.
#280963 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Surely it'd be better for KdB to prove he's not a one-season wonder and he can do it again for Wolfsburg. But then clearly football culture is now about hyping up anyone who has one decent season to preposterous levels.

Better in what way, though? I'd say he's done pretty good to be moving to a team with better team-mates and a significantly bigger pay cheque. I'm not sure how much he can improve on that with Wolfsburg, I can't imagine another successful season there would see him get much more than he is going to now or improve significantly as a player.
#280890 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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£60M is fucking ridiculous.

I guess i can't really comment as I've not seen him play, but £60M for a player who couldn't get into Chelsea's first team. Really? I don't know what happened with him at Chelsea but that much money is a massive risk.

Granted he's had a brilliant season in the Bundesliga, but after failing once in English football, will he settle in and do well this time?

Seriously, Sam, this is a really daft sentence.
#280201 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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It's disgusting and foreign.

I prefer my heroes like Leighton Baines valiantly running 70 yards to make suggestions to our referees. It's what Thatcher would have wanted

Clearly, if they care so much about the booking they should learn English and harangue the referee verbally.
#280179 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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Yeah, thats what I've always found strange about it.

What do people think they're saying to the referee if not asking for a card?

Exactly.
#280176 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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Never understood the taboo nature of it. What's wrong with wanting to get another player on the other team booked if you feel they deserve it?

Or more importantly, what's so bad about gesturing for it rather than just saying it to the referee?
#278952 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Otamendi appears to have had his medical with City.
#278811 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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That was a lot of fun. Pretty much everybody played well to which was a very pleasant surprise.
#278265 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Mike Williamson told to find a new club

What a day to be alive.

Shola's going to be fuming.
#278127 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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I can't believe that not only is Willy not in contention with him he's actually never been capped.

Argentina are always weird as fuck with goalkeeper's though. Ustari was quite close to going in 2014 despite being Sunderland's 3rd choice, behind Westwood and Mannone.

I think at the time Caballero was playing for Malaga in the knockouts of the CL.

It's just a ridiculous level of favouritism and who they played for in Argentina. If you play/played regularly for Boca or River, you'll probably get in. If you were a regular for the manager's old team you stand a decent chance too. The number of former Estudiantes players who were picked by Sabella was incredible and Martino hasn't shied away from picking former Newell's players either (Nahuel Guzmán for one).

It ends up with talented, in-form players like Rullí, Caballero and Marchesín being ignored for the likes of Agustín Orión (a 34 year old nutter who has never left Argentina) and Mariano Andujar (a bang average keeper but a former Estudiantes player).
#277634 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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He's Argentina's first choice, he can't be that bad.

Somehow. They've got two or three keepers as good or better than him.
#277337 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Romero will be our new first choice.

Good luck with that.
#277156 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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I think City need a new striker with Jovetic and Dzeko leaving. Not sure who though, although Sterling through the middle didn't work at Liverpool so fuck knows why that might be an option.

The plan at the moment seems (it's too soon to say for certain, obviously) to be to play 4-3-3 with Aguero, Bony and Kelechi Iheanacho as the strikers and Sterling as the back-up. A more senior striker would strengthen us but I think it's a position worth ignoring, especially if it means we are actually going to give a young player a chance in competitive matches.

To be fair on talent alone I think Dzeko is better than Bony.

That was never really the problem with Dzeko though.

To be honest, my comment wasn't really about talent, I was surprised somebody thought Dzeko and Jovetic were a good fit for City. Dzeko has had four years to prove himself and hasn't done so fully, and Jovetic has never looked remotely like he fitted in. Bony ain't all that but he seems like a better fit than either of those two.
#276945 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Still think either of those would be better than Bony!

Seriously?
#276179 2015/16 Pre Season thread
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City currently 4-0 down against Stuttgart. It's not even half-time.
#273653 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
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Somehow they've managed to get the Etihad's capacity wrong in that.

Would've been better if they had done it on actual attendance rather than tickets sold.

Yeah. Imagine that would have been much more difficult though, not many clubs announce the actual attendance.
#273622 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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The BBC are reporting it as well.

I remember when only the very best players got bought for £30m or more, like Zidane or Buffon. Now we get players like Benteke, Carroll, Luiz and Sterling going for that much. What a world we live in.

Aye, inflation's so strange.
#273283 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Sterling has finally been confirmed.
#273101 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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I'd have to be an Arsenal fan to be either of those

And yet you've always seemed to manage.
#273029 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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£49m for a very good prospect but one who hasn't been tested on the biggest stages (WC and CL knockout stages etc) is never okay in my book.

Other countries really must wonder why our players are so overpriced, especially when the national team is dire.

I doubt it, it's pretty obvious why they are over-priced. A combination of home-grown quotas, a relatively small supply of good players meeting those quotas and a ludicrous TV deal (plus, in my opinion, a footballing culture with more emphasis on improvement through transfers than coaching).
#272762 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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You think he would have started matches outside of the cups?! Realisation can dawn at any time.

Yes, because I'm not a complete moron and I actually watch City on a regular basis.

Shame.

I had my 'Manchester City sign Fabian Delph for undisclosed reasons' all lined up and ready to go

It would have been a good line.
#272725 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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A player choosing to actually play football rather than sit on a bench?!

No, dickhead. Somebody deciding to back out of a transfer at the last minute despite everything (apparently) being agreed and completed apart from a medical, that's a little odd.

Dunno why the last minute change, he'd have to have been deluded to think he would've been a starter.

It's going to be interesting to hear what caused the change of heart.
#272719 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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#272702 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Goodbye Delph, we probably wont be seeing you again for a while. How many English players do Man City have? Don't you need a certain amount for the squad registrations?

You don't need any English players whatsoever. If you want a 25-man squad then you need 8 home-grown players. City probably aren't going to have a 25-man squad (and they're probably going to be using a few U-21s too) so they won't need 8 home-grown players.
#272557 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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If you don't want your midfield to defend then sure

Fernando was hardly great at that by the second half of the season.
#272535 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Why on earth would Delph go to City That's the last we'll hear about him for a while.

Think he could get a decent amount of game time to be honest. Yaya's going to need somebody to do his running for him and Delph can't be worse than Fernando, surely?
#272180 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Good discussion. A+

Not my finest I admit, but when your post boils down to "they'd find a way if it wasn't Barca", without actually providing any ways FIFA might do that I'm not going to try too hard.
#272168 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Honestly, if it wasn't Barca involved they'd have found a way to enforce it. But since they're the golden club and can basically go about doing anything they want an alternative "transfer ban" was delivered.

Yeah, you're just talking shite now.
#272104 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
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Then they'd just make gentleman's agreements with players to move after the transfer ban is over.

It's impossible to police.

Exactly.