Bruno Guimarães

[LondonBlue 814]

5 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

If you give us £100m for him then I am fairly certain we'll be a forgiving bunch. If your lot try a protracted bullshit negotiation starting at like £50m I'd probably just delete your account

 

it think we'll make an offer of X. if you turn it down we'll move on without a follow up bid. If you say how about X + Y we'll consider that and if it's wrong move on. 

 

city don't have time to waste.

 

my best guess is 75.

[PaddockLad 17581]

7 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

The mental thing is I think we have the perfect player on our books for them in Tonali - we and they just haven't seen enough of him in the prem yet to see how perfect.

Neither have I tbh but the signs are good 👍 

[LondonBlue 814]

10 minutes ago, strawb said:

He’s entirely the wrong kind of midfielder for Man City imo, they have plenty of slow, ball playing midfielders.

If they need someone with legs he definitely isn’t the one.

 

yes we need legs with rodri out and gundo done but neither rodri nor gundo were ever exactly speedy.

 

for me, we need a 6 and an 8.  also all city players need good close ball control.

 

i personally have no idea if Bruno is right for us but he usually looks decent the few times i've watched him.

 

 

 

[Dazzler 10286]

1 minute ago, LondonBlue said:

 

it think we'll make an offer of X. if you turn it down we'll move on without a follow up bid. If you say how about X + Y we'll consider that and if it's wrong move on. 

 

city don't have time to waste.

 

my best guess is 75.

I think we’d be massively tempted at £75m like, especially if the player wants the move (which I’d guess he would).
 

I think that gets us our RW as well as our long term Schar replacement and possibly even the upgrade in goal we need. 
 

You get a prem proven midfielder and we improve the quality of our overall squad which might help settle the itchy feet of some of our other prized assets for a spell.

[The Fish 10944]

1 minute ago, LondonBlue said:

 

it think we'll make an offer of X. if you turn it down we'll move on without a follow up bid. If you say how about X + Y we'll consider that and if it's wrong move on. 

 

city don't have time to waste.

 

my best guess is 75.

 

I don't think you've a strong negotiating position. 

 

Bruno would fill a position where you're clearly weak

This is a season where you're doing very badly and need to turn things around with a statement signing or whatever

Bruno is one of our best players (and captain if that makes any difference at all)

We're having an average-to-poor season ourselves, selling Bruno would be awful optics

The more protracted the negotiation is, the more desperate you would surely become?

 

If you come in with anything other than a head turning offer of £100m, I'd hope we'd immediately bat it away.

[LondonBlue 814]

14 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

if you were pursuing and took isak, I'd delete here from your bookmarks.

 

jag pratar lite svenska men oroa dig inte

 

[LondonBlue 814]

4 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

I don't think you've a strong negotiating position. 

 

Bruno would fill a position where you're clearly weak

This is a season where you're doing very badly and need to turn things around with a statement signing or whatever

Bruno is one of our best players (and captain if that makes any difference at all)

We're having an average-to-poor season ourselves, selling Bruno would be awful optics

The more protracted the negotiation is, the more desperate you would surely become?

 

If you come in with anything other than a head turning offer of £100m, I'd hope we'd immediately bat it away.

 

i feel fairly confident that there won't be a protracted negotiation. we don't have the time. i suspect we will approach a select few candidates at the same time. complete one or two and declare (or fail to get any targets)

 

if we fail with our first choice targets i hope we don't slip too far down the list...  bellingham? nope. Rice? nope. Phillips? Yes we've put him in a taxi, hes' on his way now.

 

[sammynb 3483]

6 minutes ago, The Fish said:

We're having an average-to-poor season ourselves, selling Bruno would be awful optics

 

It already looks like Mitchell shit the bed last summer, he would be full aware of how under scrutiny he is.

And unless he had a guaranteed replacement and/or statement signing already in the bag, his job would be untenable.

[LondonBlue 814]

for what it's worth my first choice, given its january and ignoring bruno, would be zubimendi or ederson.

 

in summer it would be Wirtz, Musiala, oh and to bring Frimpong back amongst others

[The Fish 10944]

1 minute ago, LondonBlue said:

 

i feel fairly confident that there won't be a protracted negotiation. we don't have the time. i suspect we will approach a select few candidates at the same time. complete one or two and declare (or fail to get any targets)

 

if we fail with our first choice targets i hope we don't slip too far down the list...  bellingham? nope. Rice? nope. Phillips? Yes we've put him in a taxi, hes' on his way now.

 

 

Vitinha, Zubamendi?

 

I guess what I'm saying is 

[sammynb 3483]

Just now, LondonBlue said:

for what it's worth my first choice, given its january and ignoring bruno, would be zubimendi or ederson.

 

in summer it would be Wirtz, Musiala, oh and to bring Frimpong back amongst others

 

Watching Bremen play St Pauli on the weekend, he didn't do much to impress. pace and that was about it.

[LondonBlue 814]

3 minutes ago, sammynb said:

 

Watching Bremen play St Pauli on the weekend, he didn't do much to impress. pace and that was about it.

 

Think Frimpong might be a little bit about sentimentality. Like if we'd tried to bring Trippier back (obviously too late now). 

[ewerk 31112]

12 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

i feel fairly confident that there won't be a protracted negotiation. we don't have the time.

 

 

So you walk in, turn the player's head then fuck off and leave us with a disgruntled captain. Nice.

[strawb 4354]

24 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

yes we need legs with rodri out and gundo done but neither rodri nor gundo were ever exactly speedy.

 

for me, we need a 6 and an 8.  also all city players need good close ball control.

 

i personally have no idea if Bruno is right for us but he usually looks decent the few times i've watched him.

 

 

 

He’s probably our slowest player, and that includes Dan Burn when he gets going.

 

He's class but his motor is suspect imo

[Holden McGroin 6771]

His motor is good. Wasn’t he top of the Km ran ?  He is essentially just one paced but I think he’d fit into the 6 straight away at Man City. I’m not sure he could play the 8 but then Guardiola normally moulds players into what he wants, so I’d say it’s possible.

[strawb 4354]

Maybe motor was the wrong word, but he’s slow

[LondonBlue 814]

9 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

So you walk in, turn the player's head then fuck off and leave us with a disgruntled captain. Nice.

 

i have no idea how it works. 

 

presumably we approach you not him. and ask for permission to speak to him. you could always give a flat no.

 

 

[ewerk 31112]

Nah, the buying club will generally tap up the player via agents before hand to gauge interest before approaching the club. There's no point in going through the hassle of negotiations if the player isn't interested or has unrealistic wage expectations.

[RobinRobin 11485]

8 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

i have no idea how it works. 

 

presumably we approach you not him. and ask for permission to speak to him. you could always give a flat no.

 

 

That's how it's supposed to work. 

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

Nah, the buying club will generally tap up the player via agents before hand to gauge interest before approaching the club. There's no point in going through the hassle of negotiations if the player isn't interested or has unrealistic wage expectations.

This is how it does work. 

[LondonBlue 814]

6 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Nah, the buying club will generally tap up the player via agents before hand to gauge interest before approaching the club. There's no point in going through the hassle of negotiations if the player isn't interested or has unrealistic wage expectations.

 

if so, its likely that's happened already. city and bruno probably sized each other up last summer or earlier.

[Gemmill 45815]

Pep taps Bruno up every time we play you lot. He's always going up to him at the end of the game and trying to kiss him. 

[LondonBlue 814]

Just now, Gemmill said:

Pep taps Bruno up every time we play you lot. He's always going up to him at the end of the game and trying to kiss him. 

 

Or maybe Bruno is tapping Pep up for the Newcastle job! eh? EH?

[Gemmill 45815]

I'd take that tbf. 

[Dazzler 10286]

Bruno has read this thread and in an act of defiance has dyed his hair blonde again. He intends on stinking the place out for the next 5-6 weeks so Pep loses interest.