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Champagne Football

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Bollocks...there are two elements as to why we weren't involved.

1) The player definitely wouldn't have wanted the move, given where he is and where we are. He is a legit wonderkid, and as such should only be moving to a club who can blood him into a successful setup...and we can't offer that.

2) We won't be sleeping with Raiola again.
Exactly this. James Robson needs to be placed in the Tier 4 of the reliability list.
 

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I'm not the most avid Serie A watcher, but when I've seen him he's looked good; loads of potential. What's the deal with him?
 

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He's worth 25 million minimum. Not a chance even us would sell him to these shysters for 15 million or less.
18 months ago Laporte cost City £57m.

Some would say he is in top 10 in the world

He is the same age as Bailly and granted has not got the same injury record, but statistically you can see Bailly might be underrated

Per game
Tackles
Bailly (B) 1.3
Laporte (L) 1.2

Interceptions
B & L 1.1

Fouls
B 0.4
L 0.6

Clearances
B 3.1
L 2.7

Blocks
B&L 0.3

Bad control
B 0.4
L 0.3

Dispossed
B&L 0.1 each

Dribbles
B 0.3
L 0.1

Key Passes
B 0
L 0.4

Passing accuracy
B 87.1
L 92.3

Passes per game
B 25.2
L 85.6

Long Balls
B 1.6
L 4.9

Yellows
B 0
L 0.1

Red
B 0.1
L 0

In summary, Bailly looks a marginally better defender, but not as good at passing or providing long ball options, but hard to read into that given the possession based game of City so more of the passes are probably low risk and the long balls to high energy wingers.

This is based off a relatively small sample of games for Bailly, so hard to read into it, but i do think the potential is there. If he can avoid injury and keep discipline he could be a useful asset.
 

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Bailly's positioning is fecking horrendous. That's not something that can be captured by stats. He's constantly getting us into trouble by wandering into no mans land. He's absolutely not underrated, if anything some of our fans still overrate him.
 

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I've no idea what Bailly ever did for us for so many to still rate him, he's regressed basically every season he's been here.
He was decent for his first month or two and he's a bit mad. That's caused people to get attached to him.
 
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