Gerard

I just hope he can keep goal as well.

Just watched that, the bloke that sits in front of me at the KP is going to have a heart attack.

Funnily enough I was told this in May in Denmark by a Brondby fan that Leicester had an interest in him, the Brondby fan rated him.

Years ago I used to play for Wicksteed Park Rovers and one lad who was about 16 cycled to training and matches from 12 miles away. He was an odd character and used to openly masterbate in the showers trying to get the rest of the team to join in a mutual masterbation sesh. We got sick of him and just told the park we were going to train elsewhere. We never told him and he never showed up again, to this day I still don't know what happened to him.

Not a lot of upside in "Option to buy" for the selling club, it's usually reserved for players you want to get rid who have little room for improvement of like Praet, Ghezzal, etc It's disappointing to not buy this lad but giving us an option to buy isn't good business for Man City as he could be the best defender by a street in this division and we have already agreed a price or if he was terrible we just send him on his way.

All depends on Maresca, if Iheanacho doesn't make his first XI and there is every chance of that then selling your 26yo Championship squad player in the last year of his contract is good business. I think a lot of people underestimate the Championship thinking certain players will look like men against boys. I'm happy to go with what the manager decides as far as Iheanacho goes and it looks like Forest and £8m have been plucked out of someone's arse rather than a genuine link.

So you're saying hypothetically we should sell Barnes to Newcastle for £10m less than Villa offer because we got buttons combined for Tielemans, Maddison and Söyüncü? I don't understand the correlation or logic, please explain?

Would you rather sell you house for £400k to the couple you don't know or £500k to the bloke down the pub you don't particularly like? If the club decided to flush £10m down the toilet then that is gross negligence.

Musa, Maguire, Fofana and Chilwell.

Barnes doesn't really fit in the team optimally if we play a back three unless we play 3-2-4-1 like Pep does but then that negates our full backs which is a strong point for us. It would also concern me that the new manager is trying to be a clone of his old boss rather than have his own ideas. It was one of the reasons I didn't want Shakespeare as a permanent boss early on as he just took the Ranieri blueprint and ran with it, the 1-6 home defeat by Tottenham showed himself up to be clueless, I had no idea what the formation was or what he was trying to do at 1-3 as he just seemed to put more attacking players on without direction. I'm a big fan of Barnes and in many ways he reminds me of Mo Salah but if he's a square peg in a round hole for our new formation then I wish him well and approve of the sale. I'm always aware how a 25yo Butland was England No1 a few months before Stoke got relegated, never got his move and his career went to shite after that.

That's nonsense thinking. Me? I'd rather the club have £10m more in the bank.

One year left on his deal and if the manager doesn't fancy him as first choice then happy to see him go and I care what the fee is not the destination.

And you've also had him for free in those three years and made £5m on a player who has proved to be worth at least £25m. I'm not a fan of buy back clauses as it really favours the bigger club and sets a ceiling on how much reward you can get. He could become a £60m player but your reward has a ceiling. Also it's really good business for the selling club as most players who look great at that age don't really kick on to become an elite player so they'll have a safety net on the buy back for a player that becomes a star but many of these players end up in the Championship at 25. As an example just look at the England U21 squad from 10 years ago, the best young players in the country but only Henderson, Rose and Zaha became players who were good enough for elite clubs. The rest became PL plodders at best, at that time you'd probably have predicted Josh McEachran would be the best player out of this lot but he's 30 now and at MK Dons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_UEFA_European_Under-21_Championship_squads

Terrible ain't he, considered blocking him on twitter but I just now tolerate his bullshit.

It seems like anyone in Man City's U23 side the bidding starts at £10m

Even if your £60k per week is right then if we're loaning him out and paying half his wages then it still only costs us £30k per week more to keep him for the season. The figures make no sense.

But would they make it worth our while? If not it won't be happening.

So if Ricardo was on £90k a week then and had his contract reduced to 50% on relegation we pay him £45k per week. If we send him on loan and the wage reduction is waived we still have to pay him £45k per week. So our choices are send him on loan at a cost of £45k per week or keep him here and play him for £45k per week. No brainer then on that logic, zero benefit to us.

Only 19 but 77 apps at L1 and Championship level. You'd like to think Marescu would know a lot about him but he's been on loan for two years so it wouldn't be that much.

Who told you? Assuming he was on 90k a week and his wages are now 45k a week. If we're paying half his wages and the loan club are paying the other half then it saves us 22.5k per week in wages. So the conundrum is do we have Ricardo for the season at a cost of £22.5k per week or not? It makes no sense whatsoever to loan him out on those terms when if he stays fit he'll be head and shoulders the best RB in the league. Personally I'd like to keep both Ricardo and JJ and ease them in by rotating them playing once a week at RB whilst Thomas and VK play LB.

Why on earth would we loan out such a high quality player for no fee and cover half of his wages for the privilege? Makes no sense whatsoever, where have you got this information from?

Next season is all about promotion, if he improves the GK spot then happy to have him on loan. We could get promoted and still keep him on loan next season if Man City can't give him enough games.

Never seen him play but reading about Trafford he sounds like he has the potential to be world class at best or at worst mid PL class. Man City don't sell their best youngsters, least of all to us. When we signed Iheanacho we should have known Pep knew he wasn't top class, they would never had sold us a 17/18yo Foden. I highly suspect this would be a loan but if it was a purchase at least our manager knows him inside out.

Surely by definition we only do deals that we think benefits us?

No VAR in the Championship? It will be nice to fully celebrate a goal again and not on 85-90% because in the PL it's not really confirmed as a goal until the other team kick off.