Question - could we have been wrong about Coentrao and Aquero?

galactus?!

implausible!!!

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:There is nothing with maicon imo, just italian medias selling papers, pure imagination based on last summer.

I wouldnt read much into benfica getting fired up in the medias, both clubs are in really really good terms. we arent the kind of club to harass players to sign them, Perez and Sanchez are gentlemen, and Benfica made a lot of money from the Di Maria deal, if anything, they are eager to sell him to us; i have called 20M+clauses rising up to around 30M.

Kun wants RM, not barca. Pathetico contacted barca to offer Kun, but they arent interested in paying the money for him.

I don't think it's just paper talk here, his agent is also speaking about the issue, and has said numerous times in the last week that he expects an offer from Real Madrid for Maicon soon, that Mourinho contacted him for his clients services, etc ...

I hope it's just paper talk though, we could do much better than Maicon, we certainly have the resources for it.

As far as agent talk, clubs tend to keep the trail warm on plan a, b, c, d, etc until something gets finalized. Also, agents talking up offers/potential offers is a way to try and get the price up... Same with clubs denying things.

When there's a lot of blabbering from everywhere, you know there's talk, but nothing final. When things go very quiet and the player has made it clear that he wants to be sold, something is very close.

Redondo backs a diff candidate he gets the chop, Macca from a diff regime he gets the chop, VDB, Hierro (tbh this is the primary reason, this man was prolly my all time favourite player, a man that bleed white and he was treated to a boot out the back door! He didn't even have a proper farewell...) and that's to name but a few players, Then we have the numerous players from the Clown era that were let go and Valdano... X2.

He has put winning above all else. He has allowed his "dream" to blind him. Lets also not forget that he would use Valdano to put pressure on people/coaches when he didn't want to dirty his hands.

aaaaaaaanyways...

I agree with Sportscry above... Which leads to the conclusion that things with Kun may be moving forward...

Ah, I hope so. I honestly hope both deals fall through, then all we need to do is send Top back and kick Kaka all the way to London, and perfect transfer campaign... *rubs hands evilly*

Anyway, I still think that Coentrao at least will end up in Madrid. Not too sure about Aguero yet, but that will become clearer as time passes.

I would love both of Augero and Coentrao deals to fall through, especially Coentrao. I'd like to see us make a move for another CB instead, maybe a young bundesliga one??

If Augero must come, I'd rather see Kaka leave than Benz.

If Lass really wants out, Essien should replace him if he's willing to accept a similar role and maybe the hope that a change of scenery will help him individually enough to push his way into more playing time.

i think it would benefit us more to find a full back that can really play with us, and for a long time some people were even convinced by the coentrao rumors.

are the rumors of benfica getting pissed even true?

anyways the only transfer i wish happens is essien, maybe coentrao

so let me get this straight....

If coentrao does come, its ONLY to play as RB? In that case, I hope he comes, if not then he can stay at Benfica because we have Marcelo

I would take aguero only if benz is leaving.Not too sure about coentrao.

Jeps33178 wrote:so let me get this straight....

If coentrao does come, its ONLY to play as RB? In that case, I hope he comes, if not then he can stay at Benfica because we have Marcelo

I agree.

It wouldn't make sense otherwise, plus Marcelo done well in the LB role the past season and he is still improving. It would be silly for him to make the switch to RB to accommodate Coentrao.

Adit wrote:I would take aguero only if benz is leaving.Not too sure about coentrao.

Knowing how you feel about Marcelo, what are you uncertain of?

Jeps33178 wrote:so let me get this straight....

If coentrao does come, its ONLY to play as RB? In that case, I hope he comes, if not then he can stay at Benfica because we have Marcelo

or probably RW, ala dimaria and then move ronaldo up top...seems feasible imho

What about the strikers ?

in a 4-3-3

we would use one striker, or none at all with ozil taking the 3rd spot

which is why i dont understand the kun(t) rumours

In a 4-3-3 Aguero/Benzema, Ronaldo and Higuain can play together imo.

I'm not sure anymore that we are going to play 4-3-3 and we definitely won't play without striker, that's for sure.