Gunner89 wrote:

Hazard obviously not as good as his immensely talented brother but a very capable winger at a cheaper reported price than Fraser.

I dunno, Hazard looks a bit Kolasinacy to me in terms of his level. Not sure he'd be up to much in the PL.

Weird comparison but agree Hazard is way too flaky. Disappears for months on end

None of our business, apart from the fact that Sane would be a dream Emery winger, but it's interesting to see bayern employ barca's tactic on city.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/matthaus-expects-leroy-sane-to-make-bayern-munich-switch/view/news/336801

Except Barca don't do it to other clubs' bench players.

Sané is too good to be wasting away on a bench because he doesn’t fit a specific vision of football. Imagine Sané on our team ahead of Mkhi or Iwobi. 3rd would never have been in question.

Absolutely. He's as good as Mane and with more potential.

Bold Tone wrote:

None of our business, apart from the fact that Sane would be a dream Emery winger, but it's interesting to see bayern employ barca's tactic on city.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/matthaus-expects-leroy-sane-to-make-bayern-munich-switch/view/news/336801

barca tactic? at least bayern has a plan for the players they're going after. no one can say sane wouldn't be better off at bayern vs wasting away on city's bench. they did it before with jerome boateng and he, the club and country were better off for that move. at the end of the day they aren't signing german players just to ruin them. at least it also helps the national team.

Qwiss! wrote:

Absolutely. He's as good as Mane and with more potential.

No way is he as good as Mane. People are in love with his pace but he has so many shit games where hes a complete passenger.

He's a lot younger than Mane though and his end product, which is pretty insane, is already better despite being in and out of the side. He's also technically a lot better. I'd take Sane every time.

His end product isn't better, Mane is the leagues top scorer this season ffs. He outscored him both this and last season despite playing in far weaker attacking teams

Sane: 14 goals and 14 assists in 2262 mins, that's a goal or assist every 81 mins
Mane: 26 goals and 2 assists in 4148 mins, that's a goal or assist every 148 mins

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

Sane is a beast. I’d be happy to see Pep make a mistake and lose him. Just not for 70m pounds

Neymar dembele swap. ..lol. That'd be something.

I think a powerful runner like Sane is the kind of player Barca should be chasing.
Their transfers have been shit since Xavi left and now they're totally dependent on Messi.
They've stockpiled midget technical players upon midget technical players which is okay for La Liga but not enough at the sharp end of the Champions League. No denying the MSN potency but the rest of the team was average. I also felt that Neymar's individualism would've been more suited to RM.

They can have Lo Celso, but Ndombele is far too good for them.

Ndombele would be a massive upgrade on the bumper cars they currently deploy in midfield.

Surely he has higher ambitions that Spurs

Their fall back to where they should be will be so sweet

Seems like Liverpool are making a move for Pepe

We are busy outsmarting the market.

I think the result today will only confirm that certain targets or players are definitely out of our reach. I’d expect we have identified and are already wrapping up deals for the non CL pre-condition players.

Cos he won’t?

Clrnc wrote:

Lo Celso is an interesting one. Very good player very similar to Arthur

Is this the same one that played for PSG? Admittedly I've barely seen him but against Madrid he looked dreadful for them last year.

That'd be him. He's been really good this year and was already a good talent at PSG. I was surprised both that they let him go on loan to Betis and that they set the option to buy that cheap.

It's a good pickup from a sinking Empoli.

We should try to get Bennacer back, see if Empoli bite. They might struggle to pay his wages in Serie B.

Klaus wrote:

It's a good pickup from a sinking Empoli.

We should try to get Bennacer back, see if Empoli bite. They might struggle to pay his wages in Serie B.

How do we let a baller like him leave for 1m? Liverpool would have marketed and sold him for 20m.

Clrnc wrote:

Klaus wrote:

It's a good pickup from a sinking Empoli.

We should try to get Bennacer back, see if Empoli bite. They might struggle to pay his wages in Serie B.

How do we let a baller like him leave for 1m? Liverpool would have marketed and sold him for 20m.

No idea Clrnc, but it's a little damning that we gave up on him so quickly while we were stockpiling Elnenys in the first team squad.

Bloke's a good footballer; essentially what people thought Torreira was last summer when they christened him "Santi Kanté". Bennacer is not the finished product but there's good potential in him, and I think Napoli are eager to get him alongside Di Lorenzo. They almost got him in January. Rumour in Italy is that we still have a first buy option though, and if we do I hope we use it. There's a drive in his football that appeals to me. I think we're going to miss that trait badly without Ramsey.