*Transfers Special* Which players should Manchester City buy and sell in the summer?

Lets see how he performs on the pitch.

Their last two big money CB signings have failed spectacularly.They were also very highly rated.If you go through their CB signing history,they've mostly been flops bought for big money.

City are fast acquiring the reputation of becoming the deathbed for centre-backs.

Deathbeds of players in general, tons of overpayed players wasted there the last few years. Its like Madrid in the 2000's

Douglas Costa: "Pep has a clause that says he cannot sign any players from Bayern."

Those sneaky bastards! So they decided to let Pep do the dirty work to dismantle Dortmund and asked him to go for the BVB players instead of Bayern's!

I have a hard time believing that. What's more how would Douglas Costa know what's in Pep's Manchester City contract?

Not to mention i don't see many relevant Bayern players wanting to join City anyway except maybe Thiago and even that i don't really believe.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I have a hard time believing that. What's more how would Douglas Costa know what's in Pep's Manchester City contract?

Not to mention i don't see many relevant Bayern players wanting to join City anyway except maybe Thiago and even that i don't really believe.

Not only that, he took the City job as his contract with Bayern was expiring, no? So what say would Bayern have in the matter? I really doubt they have the power to put a clause into his contract such as that... after his contract has ended? I mean if he broke his contract with Bayern and this was a resulting stipulation then maybe so

Maybe it is a gentlemen's agreement

Yeah its a gentleman's agreement more than anything

Why do you even need to put clauses for things like that

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I have a hard time believing that. What's more how would Douglas Costa know what's in Pep's Manchester City contract?

Not to mention i don't see many relevant Bayern players wanting to join City anyway except maybe Thiago and even that i don't really believe.

Full quote:

Costa:
"Yes, I would be open to an offer from City if Pep called me.
But he has something in his contract, a clause which says he cannot sign any players from Bayern.”

Source

Though, like S said, it's probably more of a gentleman's agreement rather than an actual clause.

It could have been in his initial Bayern contract, similar to a standard non-solicitation clause in an independent contractor/employment agreement, effective for a specified period after termination of the agreement.

Though, as with all things, there are ways to get around it.

I don't see how that's even legally possible. Officially it would be Manchester City making transfers and not Pep. The parties involved would be Machester City, Bayern and the player in question.

So, yeah, gentleman's agreement.

It's probably not even a 'gentleman's agreement' lol. Because what does it even mean, 'cannot sign players from Bayern'

Of course he can't sign them if they are contracted to Bayern. If he wants to buy them he can ask them and us like anyone else.

Silly quote which frankly I doubt is legit. Then again, Costa would be a fine Jesus Navas replacement.

Hapless_Hans wrote:It's probably not even a 'gentleman's agreement' lol. Because what does it even mean, 'cannot sign players from Bayern'

Of course he can't sign them if they are contracted to Bayern. If he wants to buy them he can ask them and us like anyone else.

Silly quote which frankly I doubt is legit. Then again, Costa would be a fine Jesus Navas replacement.

When I made the comparison 6 months ago, people were laughing.

I've come around

It would probably be a verbal agreement.

And id assume now that he'll be calling all the shots in regards to the market so taking that into consideration,he probably wont go after Bayern players during his City tenure which wont be longer than 3 yrs anyway.

He'll probably sod off to Qatar after that to earn €80M a year.

I still say Costa is talking out of his ass and there's no agreement of any kind.

Getting Stones as well for 45m GBP apparently



Pep  right now

Spoiler:

Otamendi and Mangala together cost them something like 90 mil and both of them are going to be shown the door (eventually)
Another 90 mil thrown and they have a new pairing in Laporte and Stones. Citeh.

Glory wrote:Otamendi and Mangala together cost them something like 90 mil and both of them are going to be shown the door (eventually)
Another 90 mil thrown and they have a new pairing in Laporte and Stones. Citeh.

Yep, it's absolutely incredible. Spending 200m € on centre backs within a couple of years lmao. The club is run terribly tbh.

Absolutely irrelevant when they have a bottomless of cash, as long as they are successful and really outside of last season they have been it doesn't matter.

Hapless_Hans wrote:

Glory wrote:Otamendi and Mangala together cost them something like 90 mil and both of them are going to be shown the door (eventually)
Another 90 mil thrown and they have a new pairing in Laporte and Stones. Citeh.

Yep, it's absolutely incredible. Spending 200m € on centre backs within a couple of years lmao. The club is run terribly tbh.

Nowadays I have to read  twice when I see a post of yours to check whether theres a hint of sarcasm or a dig hidden in it. And even then I fail to say for sure. And here I am, once again wondering whether you are through this comment getting one at us once yet again.
Let me see. United signed Rojo and Darmian .. okay. No. No sarcasm/dig detected. Let us laugh at them together.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Absolutely irrelevant when they have a bottomless of cash, as long as they are successful and really outside of last season they have been it doesn't matter.

Yep. The one thing I really wonder is though.

WTF happened to this thing called FFP

Is is COMPLETELY gone now? How come City can now spend whatever the *bleep* they want?

FFP has always been a joke tbf, the minute PSG got the way that become obvious.

Funny thing about it all is teams were for some reason abiding by the rules which in hindsight was absolute stupidity.

FFP was doomed...  It's against both EU and WTO laws.  UEFA was told to ease off or they would be destroyed in court.  You can't put up trade barriers for equity investment.  It's just not possible.  Football is like any other business.  It cannot have a separate set of rules.

Germany is lucky that nobody can be bothered about taking up a legal case against only Germans being able to buy football clubs there... that's illegal too.

If you don't want tariffs and regulation against your country's goods abroad, then you better not have any domestically. That's the whole idea behind these trade treaties.

I think only one of Otamendi and Mangala will be sold and with Laporte injury maybe none. For some reason I can see Pep making Mangala a FB

I don't give two flying fracks what Costa or whoever said of Bayern's players. They're not going anywhere. The only way Bayern will sell you a player is if they are not needed or request to be transferred.

Honestly, outside some elite clubs or if you're not getting playing time or something, no sane player would leave for Bayern to City.

City? Gundogan is a good start, but there's a hell lot of work to be done, like revamping the defense. This will be Pep's first real test in the transfer market, because it's the first club he hasn't inherited complete beasts from and actually has a lot of mediocre players.

Plus, we all know of his legendary record with transfers.

Anyways, frack City and I hope Pep fails

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