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Fuck MC.
I wonder if Afcon is the reason Pep does not sign African players. City never looses anyone to Afcon
Man Utd fans all congregate at airport to ensure the keeper gets on that plane 😂🫣
Spurs will have a tough time then, without Sarr and Bissouma. And Nottingham losing 7 players also got to hurt them.
I did not realise Sarr was with Shit.
Has he beed good for them? I liked him at watford. He reminded me of Di Maria , he seemed a little one footed and not as clever with his passing to be a top 4 player.
Im not sure if he developed more since i saw him
Not that Sarr.
Spurs would have the whole midfield missing
Thankfully Ghana look like hot garbage. US disposed of them easily 4-0 the other night.
Damn, that’s a whole lot of Traore out there
Man City miss none…
Let’s hope for no injuries
City don’t have Africans in the team🧐
Partey misses 50% of our seasons i swear
And I’m so relieved we finally have depth so it doesn’t even hurt us really
Exactly why I was so pissed off when we didn’t accept the Saudi bid. And that’s not even taking into account his erratic performances and off the pitch stories
Thats why we had to go all in to sign Rice in the summer window. We probably wanted to stop the gap earlier by getting Caicedo in the winter, but aint complaining now haha.
He’s a bloody Part-timer.
And the 50% he does play only 50% of that is he great. So we typically only get a great Partey 25% of the season! Sell in the summer for me
He’s our Kyrie Irving without the antivaxx flat earth genius baller part
Okay so he’s not Kyrie at all
Tbf - most of the time it’s an injury related cause. He hasn’t missed out too much of our seasons due to AFCON… Ghana hasn’t gotten too far in the competition
He went to AFCON in 2021 and wasn’t set to miss a premier league game, until he got a 5 minute red card against Liverpool in the carabao cup
So Burnley and Man City are the only two without eligible players. Interesting.
Burnley is on there. Newcastle and Man City are not listed.
If Mbeumo and Wissa are both off to AFCON, Brentford will probably be even more reluctant to sell Toney in January I assume . They’ll probably still get a decent fee in the summer
Tottenham without a midfield in Jan
Think Bentancur might be back by then and he’s very good tbf. But with him and Maddison, they still might be missing a decent 3rd midfielder
Lo Celso and Skippy still exist and can carry their weight for a month or so. However, along with a new cb, we maybe should look at a cm in the January window.
Lo Celso and Skippy will drop you a few points. Relishing this
What do you mean? Skipp is clear of Rice.
Using a pet name for a 💩 player, you disgust me.
they still might be missing a decent 3rd midfielder
Lo Celso and Skippy still exist
Yeah I know
Lo Celso was brilliant in 2019 and in 2021 when he played for Villarreal. Skipp has shown flashes of promise as well. I think under Ange’s guidance, they can become a lot better.
I admire youre optimism, but they both seem pretty bang average to me, mate
This is why the afcon literally hurts careers. Tottenham cannot afford to sign another African midfielder
Been saying this for a while. Afcon makes African players less valuable. If you take an equally good African player vs anyone else you choose the other because of this in season tournament.
Every little advantage helps, it’s probably not too surprising that city have no afcon players.
If a player is good enough then AFCON is negligible to clubs. See Osimhen’s current situation. Also don’t act like Mahrez wasn’t just at City for 5 years.
Saying they’ve had 1 relevant African player in the last 5 years really doesn’t support argument
Point was Mahrez was a player that was good enough so City didn’t care that he was off to AFCON.
City not having more African players probably had to do with the lack of truly world class options rather than Pep not buying because of AFCON.
Was 3rd string
No he absolute was not
You’re honestly going to say Mahrez at City was 3rd string for 5 years?….
Don’t gotta lie to make a point.
I’d take Salah over any RW except Saka, AFCON or not
That’s just untrue, Drogba Kalou Obi Mikel at Chelsea for years, the Toure brothers at top clubs for most of the 2000s, Inaki Williams at Athletic. Could go on and on. African players are not less valuable because of AFCON, this sounds like you’ve made up an argument in your head and are working backwards to justify it, rather than basing it in reality.
Athletic is a bit different, since they rarely sign players from other clubs.
But, anyway, if you have the choice between two players who are similar, and you know that you’ll miss one of those two players two months every 2 years, who would you objectively choose? I’d choose the one who isn’t going to the Africa Cup.
Right, that’s what YOU would do. But I don’t think football clubs operate with that rationale, and that’s my point. Everyone is saying “this is what I, a fan, would do” and I don’t think that’s what large footballing clubs are thinking about.
This isn’t from a fan perspective, but from a management perspective. If I can get two assets, one that is regularly working and one that stops working for 2 months every two year I get the one that is regularly working.
Right, but it’s not like they stop working for shits and giggles. They stop working to go represent their country at a prestigious international tournament. So it’s a little bit different and you would be a callous manager to deny that.
No son either, AFC
If Bentancur is fit by then they could play a midfield 3 of him, Hojbjerg, and Maddison, which could be pretty good.