Fastest player in the league. Does anyone remember when he completely left Bellerin in the dust? I was shocked!
Leroy Sane watch | Feb 2020: Returning to fitness with City's U23s
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Sane is excellent but Robben one of the best wingers in the past few decades since joining Bayern. Sane would do well to reach prime ADM level.
Think hes going to be a superstar, has everything you would want in a winger, still only young and his decision making will only get better with experience, just sad from our point of view he will be doing it in a city shirt, hopefully he goes to Barca or Madrid quickly.
LOL wouldn't bank on that.
We've mostly hung on to our best players pretty well recently. Vinny, Yaya, Silva and Aguero all stayed 5+ years and counting.
never had any them that was hounded by either Barca or Madrid either,
TFM is the fastest player in the league, you just don't realise it yet.
That's some high praise - if he becomes better than Bale while still at City, I'd be delighted. I think I'd settle for him being slightly below Bale's level as that would still mean he's an excellent player. He definitely looks to have a higher ceiling than Sterling though and has been fantastic to watch this season. Gabriel Jesus is credited with helping give us a much needed shot in the arm following that 4-0 debacle at Everton but I'd say Sane has had a lot to do with it too, and prior to that game he was already starting to show plenty of promise.
Joining Manchester City looks like a good choice for him. Mourinho would have made him defend along with Darmian and also questioned his work ethic in the public, and then asked him to prove himself by pairing him with Rooney.
Yeah Guardiola's really working wonders with their youth players by barely playing any of them.
He didn't mention youth players. Sane and Sterling are doing well at City as wide attackers, they likely wouldn't have the freedom they do if they played under Mourinho.
Or he might just breeze past it. You never know with young players. He's absolutely superb for his age and very very talented.
This is mostly due to the huge wages & off the books bonuses you've been paying. As Mansour is now trying to scale back his investment the likes of Sane & Jesus will see City as nothing more than a stepping stone. Most big players want to play at big clubs.
Sane, Sterling, Jesus? They get regular playtime and aren't doing too bad, I'd say.
He could, but I dont think he's a one in a lifetime talent on the wing, Robben is the best winger of the past generation if you dont consider Ronaldo/Messi. World class potential? Im very certain about that, the kid is good.
He means youth products, I imagine. But the attacking players in general have done well under Pep. The likes of Sane, Sterling, Aguero, Jesus etc. probably enjoy playing in his system which favours them more than the defenders. The likes of Martial and co. would also look better in Pep's system whereas the defenders would probably perform much worse.
Nah - many variables determine the outcome of a sprint between two players, but several times Sane tried to run past Valencia both earlier in the season and the last match, and he looked stationary next to Valencia, and then he pretty much gave up. He's quick, but I would be very surprised if he would beat Bellerin on a regular basis, but Bellerin is up and down - he's lost a race against Depay of all players as well.
My word you're funny. I like you.
I'm a United fan but comments like this are absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately City are a big club whether we like it or not and are similar if not more of an attractive proposition to players than we are currently, regardless of the wages. It's naive to think because people see a few empty seats that they aren't.
Namco - the voice of delusion
Genuine LOL at the bolded bit. There are very few football fans in the world that view City as a big club. They have a rich owner but the 2 don't go hand in hand. Blackburn had a rich owner & won a PL. There was nobody outside of Blackburn that considered them a big club though. There are clubs in the Championship that are bigger than City. How many players out there could actually say they would aspire to play for City over say Bayern, Utd, Real, Barca, Liverpool & many many more.Liverpool. Behave. I'm pretty sure Gerrard is chuffed he played for a 'big club' instead of winning the League. I'm sure that's his biggest achievement (above his CL medal too). Very few players are fans, they just want to play wherever the trophies are heading.
Easy, you sign for City today and you're in a better position to be a legend for them than if you sign for, say, Bayern or Real.
Beyond history and past success, City can hold their ground against any team in Europe. If you're a guy like Sane and City gives you the chance to 1) Earn top money and 2) Claim silverware you have to add the opportunity to become City's Di Stefano or Beckenbauer. Drogba is probably pretty happy of being a king in Chelsea's history and when he signed they were less than City right now. Some people might enjoy more being a King for City than another noble in Real's history
Everybody has been watching him, he plays for City. His consistency is far off for me to make that claim yet. Only his first season in the PL and he's young. Young players have a tendency to be overvalued.
Really needs to improve his passing as well. I find him wasting too many opportunies which Silva or De Bruyne would never do. His assists seem to be mostly sideways passes to an open player or a deflected cross.
I always find it pretty strange how your best players are never in Barca or Madrid's radar. Aguero and Silva in particular, would have fit in seamlessly at either clubs. I still think Leroy Sane will move to Bayern at some point in his career though.
It's interesting that everyone rates him so highly, and he is quite clearly a fantastic talent. Then you read the criticism of our lads like Martial who had a better season in a poorer team in his debut season last year.
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I wouldn't pay attention to the fact it's a poorer team - the tactics were very similar in total freedom in the final 3rd with constriction of the first 2/3. This has now gone and become a team playing very structured. Sane would be better than martial in this team because he is a winger and our lad is not. However sane wouldn't have anywhere near the amount of freedom he would get under possession football.
That's probably why some of our fans maybe looking at envy at rival players and looking down on our own.
I don't see top 3 ballon d'or potential in him, and he would do incredibly well to better a Robben who for me looked better in this league at the same age. I also don't see his ceiling being much higher than Sterlings, certainly not the Sterling who at 18 was already putting comparable performances if not better than those Sane is putting in now, he is a good player with a lot of potential but i don't see him having the star quality needed to be up there with the truly best players in the world, he's a bit bland for me.
Both Silva (Barcelona at time we signed him) and Aguero (Real) have attracted attention from the club's you mention.
Do you think that the players have never been quite good enough?
Your prediction of Sane to Bayern is not exactly radical, is it?
I don't think the top players see it like this though. If Sane turns out to be a star player he's going to want worldwide recognition. He's not going to get this at City as most still view them as a small club. To be seen as a big club City would need to have a period of domination, but it looks like that ship has sailed.
I don't think Barca & Real wanted these 2 TBH. They had better players already in these positions. The Barca MF was part of the greatest club side of all time. Silva wouldn't have added anything to it. Real wouldn't have paid a big fee for Aguero just to be Ronaldo's backup. It's also highly likely that Aguero is the highest paid player in world football. Any move for Aguero would have seriously upset Real's star's.
Aguero isn't the highest paid playing in Manchester FFS
If you believe this you are either naive or deluded. City may report that X player gets this & Y player gets that but that doesn't mean it's true. City are not run as a business like other clubs. If Mansour decides to 'gift' Aguero a few million there won't be uproar among shareholders regarding taking money out of the business, as it's coming from his own pocket. You can't think things like this are not going on at your club. You have alot of form for trying to circumvent the law.
Just curious, are you indian?
Everyones favourite City fan is back. Bluemoon must have got boring. talking about City again!!! 16 posts since March, 16about City. You really love us. You should be banned, had a fan of any other club joined here just to be a dick about United, in every post he would be.
You mean A United fan joining this forum just to be a dick regards City shouldn't be allowed? This a United forum FFS.
What bullshit is this? This is just your conjecture and assumption based on absolutely nothing.
He is already an excellent player, no need to speak in the future progressive tense. Has it all in his locker really, much better than Lingard, Martial, and Depey, miles better than any young player at Liverpool, Chelsea, or Arsenal too for that matter.
There's plenty of laugh at City threads already. United fan, how many posts about United has he? I thought the caf prides itself on welcoming fans of other clubs and not allowing these kind of idiot trolls? Nothing Namco posts suggests he's a United fan or that he knows anything about football.
You mean A United fan joining this forum just to be a dick regards City shouldn't be allowed? This a United forum FFS.
Absolutely!
People should maybe check how many established stars in their primes playing for a big club(madrid, barca, bayern, united, city, psg, chelsea, post-2013 arsenal) have changed team since 2010, and in what circumstances...
I don't need a weatherman to tell me when it's pissing down outside. City have been found to be in breach of the laws numerous times already. Mansour will do whatever he can get away with by fair means or foul to gain an advantage. If you look at how he treats his own people do you really think he would give a second thought about shafting FIFA, The FA & the British people.
This thread seems to be veering off topic now anyway. My OP was that if Sane turns out to be the real deal he won't be at City that long. We all know this. Time to move on.