Nah, we never made the bid. Lyon did and he went there for £17m.

He was linked to us when he was at Lyon too

I think we might've got him but Arteta convinced Xhaka to stay instead

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 minute ago
Nah, we never made the bid. Lyon did and he went there for £17m.
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I was referring to when he was leaving Lyon. Didn't realise that we wanted him before that as well. Good to know we've followed him for a while.

Morata

If we had Morata for that West Ham game the title would be ours even if we had Welbz we would have got the job done. Jesus and Zinny are City moles

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 9 minutes ago
And how does it look for Arsenal rejecting him for £68m but then paying £100m+ for him?
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Think it is pretty common for "big" teams to pass on an untried player and then to come back for him when they have built up their rep some more. We were linked to Bruno G at 15-20m not that many years ago.
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I believe we were close to making a bid/ or did make a bid for Isak depending on who you believe. I think thats a big difference compared to being interested in apleyr when he was very young.

comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 6 minutes ago
If we had Morata for that West Ham game the title would be ourseven if we had Welbz we would have got the job done. Jesus and Zinny are City moles
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Can't wait for Arteta to give Eddie ANOTHER chance next season 🤠

comment by Billy Bonkers (U3245)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 6 minutes ago
If we had Morata for that West Ham game the title would be ourseven if we had Welbz we would have got the job done. Jesus and Zinny are City moles
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Can't wait for Arteta to give Eddie ANOTHER chance next season 🤠
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Isn't that what he is reported to be doing for Jesus? 🤠

😮

Amazing that in just 2 short seasons Jesus and Zinny are no longer good enough (starters) for our team

Probably never thought we will be competing with City so soon.

Zinny was NEVER good enough

Better than Tierney.

comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 48 seconds ago
Amazing that in just 2 short seasons Jesus and Zinny are no longer good enough (starters) for our team
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Just reached those City levels pretty quickly. They've done a job for us and had a chance to prove that they can contribute in a bigger way to a team at that level, but they've both fallen short. Will be interesting to see if they accept that now and what their next steps are.

Goes back to my question. Have City regressed, or have progressed so much that we are now almost as good?

They weren't starters for City though

Players to be sold:
Ramsdale, Cedric, Zinchenko, Elneny, Nelson, Nketiah then probably one of Smith-Rowe, Vieira.

I don't think they've really regressed, they might not have played quite as impressively but I think they're on their longest ever unbeaten run aren't they?

We'll have issues, we sell all our homegrown players.

Players to be sold:
Ramsdale, Zinchenko, Nelson, Nketiah then probably one of Smith-Rowe, Vieira.

Players that are leaving:
Cedric, Elneny

Arteta HATES ESR

comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 38 seconds ago
They weren't starters for City though
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Yeah and I'm saying now we've reached that sort of level they're not starters for us

comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 22 seconds ago
I don't think they've really regressed, they might not have played quite as impressively but I think they're on their longest ever unbeaten run aren't they?
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Astonishing rise of Arsenal then. Our issues have been glaring. How do City improve?

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by T-BAD (U11806)
posted 22 seconds ago
I don't think they've really regressed, they might not have played quite as impressively but I think they're on their longest ever unbeaten run aren't they?
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Astonishing rise of Arsenal then. Our issues have been glaring. How do City improve?
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replace KDB and Walker