Guardiola joins Man City

Definitely see some bids for Griezmann

 

Lawwell will have to look elsewhere then if Ronny walks.

 

I bet ye utd must be absolutely gutted they couldn't get him.

Will have to settle for Mourinho or Diego Simeone now

 

You would have thought Pep was Taylor made for utd

 

Honestly thought he would have went for United.
They seem a more traditional big club, like Bayern and Barcelona.

None of this money made guff like Chelsea or city.

Oh well, love the guy, but will struggle to hope he does well at city.

 

Hope he does well, Verratti and Griezmann would be outstanding buys. They badly need central midfielders though. Goo footballers, who can pass, a great first touch and can control games. So that probably rules out anything they have

 

Bayern will fight him tooth and nail for him. He'd be expensive.

Guess it depends on what Ancelloti has to say. But it's interesting, Pep has quite a bit of time left there to try and talk players into going with him.

Kingsley Coman looks like he could be some player.

Wonder where Pellegrini will go. He's probably best back in Spain.

 

Should mean that Manchester City are good to watch next season.

 

That looks like a Champions League team. Very attack minded too, pure Pep. I like Koke and Thiago behind the strikers. Not a bad front 3, clever enough to play interchanging attacks. How much would that cost City?

What about Alaba as a full back?

Has Pogba agreed to sign with anyone yet?

 

And Man Utd won't :smiley-laughing002:

 

Wonder who he'll get rid of, I think Fernandinho could do ok as a back-up for the holding role. Bony has no future for sure, Mangala is a big diddy he'll probably punt him definitely not got the class on the ball to play under Guardiola. Toure is past it physically he'll not be an option for sitting in midfielder and he's not really got the legs for the centre-mid either, he might get moved on. He'll probably keep one each of Sagna/Zabaleta and Kolarov/Clichy as back-up but I think he'll want 2 new full-backs. Navas i'd imagine will be moved on.

Up front he'll want another goalscorer/world class player.

Going to be good to see how it develops and who he signs, also be interesting to see how a Guardiola team would do in the English League if they can dominate games as easy as they did in Spain and Germany.

I'd like to see something like

Coleman > Sanga
Hummels > Mangala
Pogba > Toure
Thiago > Fernando
Reus > Navas
Griezmann > Bony

Would cost about £240million though could probably get about £30/40million back on those players leaving and the wagebill might not change too much.

 

Yes, given that Mancini and Pellegrini won the league and a cup each, lets see if he can better that!

 

Big money is creating an elite group and overall it's bad for the game but can't deny it's very interesting that we'll see another team to compete with Madrid, Barca, Bayern and PSG.

Anyone who's ever played Fantasy Football has always thought about the unlimited budget :smiley-laughing002:

Messi, Suarez, Neymar, £450
Iniesta Pogba £100
Busquets Thiago £100
Tierney Boetang Godin Alaba £130

£780m

Hope they're in the right positions

 

I think it'll be his first failure imo. You can see utd have spent nothing this window leaving a massive budget for a total overhaul with a new manager in the summer (mourinho?) Going to be an exciting season.
Along with the new increased tv deal kicking in the budget for most of England will be huge. Going to be the most crazy transfer summer yet.

 

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I'd like to see something like

Coleman > Sanga
Hummels > Mangala
Pogba > Toure
Thiago > Fernando
Reus > Navas
Griezmann > Bony

Would cost about £240million though could probably get about £30/40million back on those players leaving and the wagebill might not change too much.
That's £240 LVG should probably have spent. Thiago and Pogba the two most expensive are £60m+ ? Griezmann must be £35+? Coleman must be the cheapest £25+?

I have no idea how much the German players would costs. Hummels last rumoured to be £40m.

I think Navas should go back to Spain. He was much better.

 

For me he has to win the CL this year. Rummenigge and the Bayern directors expected that he would win it, but at Bayern so far he's not done it and he took over the season after Heynckes won the treble.

 

Man Utd squad is dire in compairson to City though. They are already miles behind. City only need like 3 world class additions to be on the coattails of Bayern/Barca/Real. Man U need 3 world class players just to get close to Man City as they are the now.

It'll be hard for Man U to attract players too, especially if Mourinho is the one who ends up there as a lot of people probably don't like him or want to play for him, so if they have the option of joining City with the likes of Kompany, Toure, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling, Aguero and Guardiola or Man U with Mourinho with a bunch of diddies and De Gea then probably every player would knock back Man U for City.

Man U for me don't have a single outfield player who should really be getting a game for them, massive work needing done there.