Barrettinator

Why on earth would he want to join City though? Aguero, Sane, Bernardo Silva, David Silva, Jesus, De Bruyne, Sterling. That's 7 bloody attackers already in the team fighting for 3 positions. Not to mention how sh*t Manchester is compared to London. Come to Chelsea mate.

Care to explain what a "taran" type of striker is?

What is a "taran type striker"?

Official photos leaked.

".....but if a player decides to leave, as has happened in previous years, then at the end of the day he has to go, because we don’t keep anyone against their will." Bit different from Bayern's statement on Lewandoski, ehy?

THE most reliable in my opinion. Never says anything unless it's credible.

Isn't that who Di Marzio works for?

Madness if true. No reason we should go beyond that, especially since Koulibaly is available for fairly less.

Well he has asked to leave and Real aren't particularly interested in signing him so he's going to have to go somewhere else. I'll be massively disappointed if we don't make a bid.

If they reject it, we should walk away. He's not worth any more than that.

Didn't we already make the bid?

He's way more accurate than Di Marzio. Never seen him get anything wrong.

Matic for a guy who's 6'4 is one of the worst players in the league at aerial duels. Bakayoko couldn't possibly be worse.

It's probably just an error.

According to Torres' recent account of that period, the board at Liverpool cared more about the money than keeping Torres. They smeared him when he left to save face. This might be the toughest league in the world when it comes to signing players from direct rivals bar Barca to Real transfers. Most people don't consider City as rivals.

That's because City have no real rivals. Even their supposed biggest "rival" United will sell to them (Tevez). I imagine Spurs are indifferent towards City. They're definitely NOT indifferent towards us.

Where's that from?

What's funnier is those of you that actually believed.

You should know Chelsea enough to know that this will be our last bid. When Juve asked us for 89m for Pogba after we'd submitted 75m, we walked away. We're not putting anything more than 75m down for Lukaku either, you just watch. And no, Madrid wouldn't let Marcelo go for any price, not least because he's one of Ronaldo's closest friends. And the small fact that he's the #1 LB in the world at the moment and they like having the best (which is what we're aspiring to right now). Also, how can you call this a saga when it's barely been on for a week or so? We've made 3 or 4 bids in that times span and this is likely our last bid. After this, it's up to Sandro to push for the move and if he doesn't, we'll likely offer Monaco something for Mendy (though I haven't seen us strongly linked with him). Madrid obviously have quality all over the team but they don't win 3 CLs in 4 years without having the best full back pairing in world football. There's a lot of holes left by Ronaldo/Bale/Asensio that need cleaning up and those two have performed immensely in that regard.

"BOOM!!! Cavani to Chelsea done deal!!" - Tancredi

First of all, Madrid took Coentrao off at half time because it was clearly a stupid decision to play him (especially when Marcelo had played most of the CL campaign). Marcelo was part of the reason they turned that game in their favour, he even scored. Lichsteiner has been quality for Juve and is only on the bench these days because of old age. And they didn't win it either. Also, notice how the Dortmund you mention lost against the team that had Alaba and Lahm? And I didn't say we bid 40m. I said we overlooked Rodriguez and bid 40m MORE on Sandro (seeing as Rodriguez was 17m-20m). And no, there's almost no one else close to Sandro's quality who's available. Only person worth mentioning is Mendy who won't come cheap either. Again, not sure why you lot are complaining when we're trying to get quality. Would you prefer we keep buying the Djilobodjis of this world for 10m? Heavy spending is what set up our team between 2003-2010. Gave us a strong spine and all we had to do was add one or two players every other summer. If the club is making bids like this, it means we can handle it. So again, why are you complaining? Let them get in the best players they can for the team. It's not coming from either of our pockets.

Rodriguez hype has been all but dead for a while and with good reason. His overhyped performances started to tail off. Like I said, he's a solid LB. Definitely not world class. World class is Marcelo, Sandro, Luis, Alaba, etc. Rodriguez is not in that class. I'm sure the board and Conte knew he was attainable before deciding to spend 40 odd million more on Sandro. That should tell you all you need to know. But you're free to believe whatever.

Moses is a much smarter player than Traore. We don't have time to "work" on players like this. We need quality right now. Hopefully this is a nonsense rumour.

I expect this is the absolute limit we'll reach. Didn't even expect us to bid this much but fair play. If they reject this one, we need to move on.