My understanding is that it kicks in on a certain date and expires after the length of the players first contract. I think I read that Lavias kicks in after 2 seasons, so summer 2024. We are then obligated to accept £40m from City but other teams in theory could bid more and we could reject
The deal with Larios is apparently that City have first refusal, i.e. they can match any bids from other clubs. They obviously think a lot of him too!
I do wonder how many other players from city are potentially being lined up for bids due to the Shields connection. And how long does that last for before that well is tapped? Exciting And it will be interesting to see where else his reach spreads. Someone else mentioned something about him having links to Aribo from his days scouting south london (I assume for palace)
No doubt some of the replies will be the typical Twitter ones of - why loan when he only has a year left - we should sell! If he isn’t in our plans at all (and hasn’t been match day squads at all) then any wage contribution is effectively a saving. I’d expect Besiktas to get at least halfway
To be fair, would be a quick profit but I understand the rejection. I suspect bigger bids will be in next summer
No use having that money on deadline day though. When we sell him it will be early in the window to give us time to replace him.
Because Chelsea must honestly believe we are that stupid ? You see , I can do serious posts , I just don’t like doing it
It would probably take a bid of 80mill+ for us to consider. City's buy back clause isn't activated until 2024 so we don't have to sell.
I know we don’t have to sell, but it would be naive of us to think we can keep him if the big teams come sniffing. Fofana and Chelsea comes to mind
I wonder if this prompts our scouts to go back and look for others in that area. Because if an even bigger bid comes in next summer we will probably accept before being bounced I to accepting 40m the summer after - assuming that is how the clause works (I expect it doesn’t activate until summer 2024 and City wouldn’t have expected anyone to bid drastically more than 40m prior to that) Remember Liverpool will be desperate in that position next summer as well. They might pass straight over Bellingham. Or Chelsea might go for him next summer since he was completely unavailable this summer I did see a journalist (or maybe an ex player) suggesting that Chelsea would t go back in for the ajax midfielder they failed bidding for on deadline day because the Chelsea owner was out of him mind We could be looking at huge bids for stand out performers a season earlier than we would usually exp expect. At least the Fofana fee sets some kind of precedent. Because he was worth that after only one season of football
Its early days but considering we were apparently willing to spend £20m on him, Liam Delap isn't up to much at Stoke. No goals and a pretty poor avg rating (6.4) on whoscored after 4 starts and now just been subbed off after 75 mins against Reading. Wonder if we dodged a bullet with City refusing to sell.
Apart from it being a baffling choice to loan him to when Burnley were interested. I appreciate that they didn’t want to sell and also didn’t want a buy option so that rule us out I also expect that they play nothing like city ever will. When we were first linked with Delap and McAtee as potential loans in January I read an article by a local city journalist who was convinced they would never loan them to us as we played too differently from the Man City possession based style and they wanted the players they ultimately wanted to keep to have experience playing that. Doesn’t seem true for Delap. Unsure how Sheffield United play with regards to McAtee
