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There's been this attitude of "why would he want to leave" from most mags I know. Seems that way from the club aswell, he has a contract yes, however most people fail to see that contracts are used for both parties, protection for the player, and guaranteed fee for the club.
Done well it can strengthen you longer term but they’re like man children the owners
 
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If that Hackney deal goes through then it just shows how important promotion was for us. Having the ability to splash £20m in the Championship on a single player if we go down is just a cheat code.

aye, ability to whack that kind of money at that level is a huge advantage, strange they throw it away on hackney…..good player don’t get me wrong but not a difference maker and not a 20m player in my opinion
 
Yep , all football logic says he goes.

But this is political. For the Saudi government, and make no mistakes that is what we are talking about here, it will be humiliating . That's why I think they will dig in. This is them being put in their place, and they won't like it.

I have always been sceptical about them being there in the really longer term. This is a litmus test of their intentions.

I don't know mate, their big thing is promoting Saudi as a country. If that's the case the mags themselves might not be that important for it to be considered as a humiliation.

The aim now seems to be getting things there and promoting the place for tourism and inward investment. It's why they've spent so much on LIV golf, high profile boxing matches, Formula 1 and are heavily sniffing around tennis. The players they've signed to play in Saudi seems to be all about improving their league and raise it's profile. They have the big one in being awarded the world cup in 2034, so there's going to be loads of focus on that for the next few years. Add in whispers of eventually bidding to host the Olympics and you can see all the major focus is directed there, not promoting via an external body.

I agree it's a litmus test, if they let Isak go without adequately replacing him you'll see the mags slip in importance to them. I guess only time will tell.
 
With his age and a year left on his desk we’d probably be talking a relatively low fee. City won’t be looking to take anyone’s eyes out. The bigger question is wages. However he’d be a good bridge for a couple of years while we get established.
Seems the most sensible option of the two, it’ll probably be someone completely left field like :emoticon-0102-bigsm had come round the idea of ramsdale but that link seems to have disappeared
 
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Seems the most sensible option of the two, it’ll probably be someone completely left field like :emoticon-0102-bigsm had come round the idea of ramsdale but that link seems to have disappeared
Think ramsdale the player was always probably okay. The issue for me was always the deal it would take to get him. North of £20m would be the expectation. Now you’d probably get him on a loan towards the deadline but we shouldn’t wait that long. Even before the Patto injury it was a bad idea to make a keeper change mid-season. Also we should be saving loans for a bit of stardust. With ortega likely to be available for a third of the price of Ramsdale (or maybe even less) he represents a more appropriate option imo. Not a star, but a solid solution at an affordable price.
 
Such a clique vibe

all defending a lad because they know, if one of my mates says something and someone doesn’t believe him I don’t go round jumping down peoples throats

now people are jumping on cam for posting links to journalists from Twitter that he’s not making up

end of the day the lad said Xhaka was waiting in Zurich to fly to the UK but he clearly isn’t

that’s fact the evidence is out there
<whistle> All the oldies sticking together :emoticon-0152-heart
 
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