1 hour ago, ducavis said:

Seems Sterling is staying.. now that is a real mess

Maybe the idea is to bring Sancho in so Sterling has someone to play FIFA with?

1 hour ago, ducavis said:

Seems Sterling is staying.. now that is a real mess

Maybe the idea is to bring Sancho in so Sterling has someone to play FIFA with?

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Hessleboink

Apparently Juve have withdrawn there offer for him.

so let's see how good our directors are. Get united to buy Chilwell and Sterling and in return buy Sancho and put him on no more than 125k a week.

Can he play center back?

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Apparently Juve have withdrawn there offer for him.

so let's see how good our directors are. Get united to buy Chilwell and Sterling and in return buy Sancho and put him on no more than 125k a week.

Still wouldn’t take the deal and it makes no sense. He has struggled in the PL because he has no pace, and can’t beat a man with the ball. His game is built on his positioning and give and go. You ask most Utd fans and they will tell you they think his game is more suited to the middle of the park. Problem there is he doesn’t press, and is a luxury player. Ohh and we are getting Paez and Estevao next season, so what is the plan here?

43 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Still wouldn’t take the deal and it makes no sense. He has struggled in the PL because he has no pace, and can’t beat a man with the ball. His game is built on his positioning and give and go. You ask most Utd fans and they will tell you they think his game is more suited to the middle of the park. Problem there is he doesn’t press, and is a luxury player. Ohh and we are getting Paez and Estevao next season, so what is the plan here?

The deal makes a lot of sense.

- it gets rid of 3 (perceived) problem players - 2 for us, one for utd.

-it gives us 2 genuine options in each position (sancho and Neto being the 2 options for the left wing - a spot which should have been for Mudryk if he could deliver anything)

- it is a player that maresca know and has worked with before

- he is a player who knows and has played with palmer before

- he fits the profile (young, high ceiling, relatively low price, high potential resale)

- the deal would lower the wage bill 

 

I am not saying he is reliable or good enough - but if we are looking from a position of logic, then it makes sense to all parties - likely including the player.

When did Maresca work with Sancho ? I don't think their City timelines overlap at any point ?

5 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

The deal makes a lot of sense.

- it gets rid of 3 (perceived) problem players - 2 for us, one for utd.

-it gives us 2 genuine options in each position (sancho and Neto being the 2 options for the left wing - a spot which should have been for Mudryk if he could deliver anything)

- it is a player that maresca know and has worked with before

- he is a player who knows and has played with palmer before

- he fits the profile (young, high ceiling, relatively low price, high potential resale)

- the deal would lower the wage bill 

 

I am not saying he is reliable or good enough - but if we are looking from a position of logic, then it makes sense to all parties - likely including the player.

and with his reported disciplinary issues there are plenty of rotation options when Maresca sanctions him for being late/pi$$sed/disrespectful/social media tw@t *Delete as appropriate

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

When did Maresca work with Sancho ? I don't think their City timelines overlap at any point ?

Probably hasn’t - he said he knew him very well, which I took to have worked alongside him….but no idea on dates.

2 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Probably hasn’t - he said he knew him very well, which I took to have worked alongside him….but no idea on dates.

He is a mouthpiece for the board so just saying what he is told.

7 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

The deal makes a lot of sense.

- it gets rid of 3 (perceived) problem players - 2 for us, one for utd.

-it gives us 2 genuine options in each position (sancho and Neto being the 2 options for the left wing - a spot which should have been for Mudryk if he could deliver anything)

- it is a player that maresca know and has worked with before

- he is a player who knows and has played with palmer before

- he fits the profile (young, high ceiling, relatively low price, high potential resale)

- the deal would lower the wage bill 

 

I am not saying he is reliable or good enough - but if we are looking from a position of logic, then it makes sense to all parties - likely including the player.

- played predominantly on the RW, even though he can do a job on LW. He has no pace and is lazy in the press. Has disaster written all over him.

- Well Sterling & his agent are saying if all conditions & bonuses were met, his contract is worth £70m. Good luck an exit, I don’t think Sterling is going anywhere.

He just isn’t, I’d rather give those mins to Tyrique George. There is a reason Utd have dropped the fee to £25m for a player they paid £73m for. A few days ago they were demanding £43m from PSG.

It isn’t just the lateness and indiscipline, there was an episode when Ten Haag had to send him out to Holland for months to go train out there during the season. He isn’t anyone a serious club would be looking at. 

8 hours ago, ducavis said:

Still wouldn’t take the deal and it makes no sense. He has struggled in the PL because he has no pace, and can’t beat a man with the ball. His game is built on his positioning and give and go. You ask most Utd fans and they will tell you they think his game is more suited to the middle of the park. Problem there is he doesn’t press, and is a luxury player. Ohh and we are getting Paez and Estevao next season, so what is the plan here?

It smacks of an impulse buy.  If Clearlake have this so called master vision in place wouldn't you think there'd be a plan for Estevao and Paez ready in place for next season, or are we just going to put 2 random players in exile next summer Sterling style?  We should be fine attack wise if we can get striker, more wingers/10s are not necessary.  George and Mudryk are more than enough back up until the great hopes Estevao and Paez turn up to save us.

4 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

When did Maresca work with Sancho ? I don't think their City timelines overlap at any point ?

Sancho was with Dortmund by the time Maresca joined MC.

We’re close apparently. 

4 minutes ago, dermott said:

Sancho was with Dortmund by the time Maresca joined MC.

Yes I know 🙂 

Just trying to coax Notnowjim in the right direction LOL

3 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Yes I know 🙂 

Just trying to coax Notnowjim in the right direction LOL

Jim is uncoaxable. Offer him next week's winning Lotto numbers in return for a kind word about Jacko and he'd choose to stay a pauper.

15 minutes ago, dermott said:

Jim is uncoaxable. Offer him next week's winning Lotto numbers in return for a kind word about Jacko and he'd choose to stay a pauper.

Slowly slowly catchy monkey !

Are we there yet? 😎 I wonder who's going to be told to go to bomb squad when Sancho is signed in the 11th hour.

We really don’t need him. 

1 minute ago, JanErik said:

We really don’t need him. 

I don't know how much more I can take of Mudryk to be fair. 

Why

So, do we have a loan deal lined up for Mudryck?  Because that is the only way that signing Sancho makes sense.  Oh and Sterling being sold too. and probably that other 'winger' Ben.

27 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I don't know how much more I can take of Mudryk to be fair. 

If we sell Mudrk he'll end up as the new Salah / De Bruyne.

Sancho salary is like £300.000 ? How do he fit our wage structure? 

4 minutes ago, Malcolm9 said:

If we sell Mudrk he'll end up as the new Salah / De Bruyne.

Willing to bet my house he doesn't.