god bless the Caf.You're writing him off before he's even had a transfer window. Never change.
And then they wonder why we never challenge for the big trophies anymore.When City have a player that doesn't work out for them very well, tend to bin them quickly, its ruthless, and here we have people celebrating Mr 15 games a season and saying he's an important part of the squad, and using his personality in the changing room as a reason for a new deal
You seem to have forgotten the other crock CB we gave a long term contract to ie Jones. I don't blame you. Injury prone CB who are quite frankly not good enough are easily forgotten. The same will happen to Bailly. Unfortunately he'll still be on our payroll and Ole will probably have to work with what he's got because 'he's already have enough bodies' as CBs
4 year bumper contract in the works
He does a lot of fine work for charadeeWhen City have a player that doesn't work out for them very well, tend to bin them quickly, its ruthless, and here we have people celebrating Mr 15 games a season and saying he's an important part of the squad, and using his personality in the changing room as a reason for a new deal
If I am wrong on this one then I'd be thrilled. But this guy got promoted despite being part of this disastrous 8 years. Now we're toeing in line to the same moronic strategy that see us tying injury prone players on long term contracts. That doesn't inspire me with confidence.You're writing him off before he's even had a transfer window. Never change.
The guy has only started 7 matches in the league this season (one of them was the 6-1 by the way). "Numerous times" is really a stretch.
Jesus, how many lifetimes do you think we all have?You're writing him off before he's even had a transfer window. Never change.
Some people seem to be physically uncapable of criticising the club. I had people questioning my loyalty simply because of my nationality simply because I criticised Woodward.
You really think he's as good as Maguire? I agree he's on shared 2d, but I really don't think he's more competent than Maguire.
Agree.
Agree.. Make sense if the CB position is neither first nor second priority.
Then we should have given a shorter contract. Alternatively this ultra modern and reformed scouting net of ours led by the brilliant Jon Murtough could find a good CB on the cheap. Both options are perfectly viable. What's the point of tying an injury prone CB?
Retaining someone is cheaper than scouting a replacement, purchasing from a club and paying out fees to the player. If there's no one in that bracket at the moment it makes sense even if as fans we don't like it.
He’s allowed Lindelof to rest in games when he has his back issue and has done so well people have wanted him starting. He’ll be even further down the pecking order next year - stop using Phil Jones as an example - if we needed a 4th choice CB and Bailly played at another club and was free this summer it would be seen as a sensible signing. That’s the context. If we don’t sign a CB and this is what we’re going with then by all means moan. Nothing suggests that’s the case here though.
When will we learn!Does it make sense to tie a player who gives you 8-13 games a year on a long term contract though? All our backup CBs are injury prone (Tuanzebe, Bailly and Jones). United keep on talking about their reformed and modern scouting net with all those data analysts and the experienced Murtough at the helm. Surely he could have fount a decent CB on the cheap who'll have some resale value if something better comes along.
It's a 2.5 year contract isn't it? Unless I've read it wrong. Not long term really if so.
It's a 3+1 contract which is quite long for a 27 year old CB whose giving us less a ridiculously low first team appearances year after year.
who'll buy him?
Are you literally saying we're giving 4 years contract to a 4th option CB who will barely even feature and this is fine ? "Calm down he'll barely even play next season and will be 4th option so it's fine giving him a new long term contract" Are you serious ?
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I think it all depends if we felt we could bring someone in of the same quality. Despite him being MIA he's played well this season with many saying he should replace Lindelof in the first XI.
really? Why would they actually spend money on him? The guy is injury prone and would demand the same salary he's got with Manchester United.
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More seriously an Italian or Spanish club would probably spend £5-10m on him (if his injury record continues to be OK next season as it has been this season)
He only played 15 matches this season, just 8 in the EPL. The guy has got an injury history as long as an arm. With all this talk about our new and modern scouting net and a new DOF, we would actually learn not to tie injury prone players on a long term contract and actually bring players that are useful for us. It seem we haven't learnt anything from Sanchez and Jones's mess.
