His profile is different to that of Kroos and Modric, while his touch isn’t that of Zidane’ s I don’t think it’s an issue, in fact you’re the first person I’ve seen complain about it. I agree he has room to grow, he’s only 21 after all but I like the dynamic we got going in midfield currently, Casimero, Fede and then Kroos and Modric’s eventual replacement( likely Ødegaard ) should be durable.
Not knocking you but I gave up on this kind of thinking after "Benzema and Higuain will have us set up front for the next decade easily". That has not aged well at all.
All I’d say about the set for a decade thing is I have no idea how , if we got him, this Camavinga kid will turn out, I just can’t tell how he will develop at the moment, too early
PSG plan to offer Kylian Mbappe €51m-per-year contract in response to Real Madrid interest https://www.givemesport.com/1546683...-contract-in-response-to-real-madrid-interest
Ronaldo earns 32 ME nett while Messi is getting close to 50 ME. Dunno why AS think they are in the same wage bracket nowadays.
No one is signing extensions with that Manchester City news bomb. We all know PSG manipulated financials even worse than City, so I'm sure the players are waiting for the hammer to drop on them too (it won't).
This is false. There is too much damning evidence for City to evade all punishment. This is reminiscent of when other fans said nothing would happen to us when theu said we participated in the youth player scandal. We didn't really participate but still got a ban. Even if it was shortened. City are dead to rights and they pulled the trigger. With PSG they would never even attempt such because they are in Qatar's pockets. I wouldn't even be surprised if Qatar are the one's who "sponsored" this "attack".
Transfer ban isn't the same as a ban from european tournaments. I'm not saying they won't be fined, but at the end of the day, the CL is losing out by not having some of the best players in europe in the tournament. They backflipped on penalties and fines for PSG and City before.
I don't believe this is the same kind if scenario. At best this gets reduced to one year. The evidence is damning; all they can really argue is the harshness of the punishment.
The case vs City is that they "overstated the income from sponsorship", which for me offers a different dimension: How many of those megadeals that clubs announce with sponsors and have people here going oooh and aaah and "Florentino, do something!" are bullshit?
This hypothetical doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that have City cornered and caught financial doping and have given them a punishment fitting for their crime. Any appeal would be in hopes they gmcan get a year removed and even then that would cause and uproar because the damning evidence. We got our reduction because we weren't really guilty. atelti and Chelsea had theirs upheld because they were. The evidence was damning and consistent. Anyways we will see. However, I don't believe they can escape without at least one year.
You really think they’re going to reduce it completely? I think at best they shave a year off. This is an unprecedented punishment. With a decision of this magnitude, I don’t think we can expect them to just discard it
I'm thinking replace it with a huge financial restriction/fine. Personally i think it's bad for football as well. I'd rather watch City play than Leicester or Sheffield. As "unfair" as it seems, it's the same in Spain. Getafe in the CL is a cute story, but it's a waste of my time. I'm also extremely careful about the whole process, it's about City declaring endorsement deals much higher than they actually were. They were also fined in 2014, but now it's about the years going back to 2012? Seems pretty weird to me. I would like to remind people that nobody is safe, we were laughing at the transfer bans of others, and then got hit with one ourselves.
Please do not underestimate the power of a big company with the best lawyers money can afford. They will get a reduction, but they can't throw the entire punishment away. They might get a year off. As for PSG, they probably already have the best accountants in Europe and probably lawyers to "package" their financial statement. That is what big business do normally and I do not see why PSG has not started fixing it.
PSG were also clever enough to do the whole Mbappe loan now, buy later thing. They know what they are doing, although in the City case it's about endorsements not players transfers or contracts. City are not being chased for spending a lot, they are being apparently caught declaring sponsorship deals of say, 200 mil. but essentially receiving the money from other sources. So if tomorrow somebody finds out that we didn't receive our Fly Emirates endorsement from the company directly, but from one of the company owners/investors, do we have to deal with a european competition ban? Very complicated indeed.
I really do not follow the FFP at all. In general, the big business can get away with things and PSG is the biggest in the football world.
I have, I’m not saying he isn’t a good prospect, I’m saying he’s very young and no one can be absolutely sure which way his career will go from here, I hope it continues on the trajectory that it’s on now ( especially if he comes to us) but at this point it could go in any direction, my view is that, to think right now if we get him we are set for ten years, I’m not sure how anyone can be sure of that at this time.
People called Pogba the "safe bet Balon d'Or post Messi and Ronaldo" as well. Or the panic that ensued here when United signed Anderson and Nani.
Any more news on the Cherki front? I hope we sign that kid before Bayern or PSG snap him up, he’s going to be a special player.
We wasted money on Hazard , Vinicius and Rodrygo instead of just going all in for Mbappe. This is literally the only player out of those 4 that would fit in Zidane's system perfectly.