You’d hope it was that we have alternative targets already lined up. We needed Guehi in the summer, it’s massively apparent we still need him. So we have someone else in mind… surely? 
I would have thought that given the way Guehi conducted himself he would have come here had we made a comparable offer.
Interesting that the same fella has tweeted again since this one, saying £300k a week wages.
Then why not pay $20M to get him in? It seems like a no brainer. And no, a manager doesn’t dictate who we bring in, per se, but you better believe there is influence there. They work as a unit on signings. It’s just hard to understand why we wouldn’t do this, ego aside.
yeah, i just saw that as well
Its not 35 million only.
City apparently are the only club willing to pay both the current transfer fee and the sign on bonus he would’ve earned as a free agent in the summer.
Our story about this all through the summer came across as a transparent bargaining position (this is a take it or leave it offer that we are happy for you to not accept), and then after it collapsed the same message felt like face saving. Except it is entirely consistent with how we have acted. The confusion is just why we’re so sanguine over our defensive situation this year.
This is where I am. It makes little sense not to have an alternative lined up if Guehi suddenly isn’t the guy.
You can be pissed off with this situation (I am pissed where not signing anyone) but you mentioned Leoni, so the volte face that you aren’t criticising him is incorrect.
Nope, it simply means weve got no money. Y’all saw how much we spent in the summer right.
Well we had enough to buy him in the summer.
ok i will play… please make me understand how i have criticised the kid?
Presumably because there is someone else already being lined up for that position in the summer?
Although, for all we know City’s offer could have raised his salary expectations to a level beyond which we were comfortable paying.
No incoming manager is going to think twice over accepting the job because we sign Guehi this window.
This wouldn’t be a fee that wipes out the budget or makes it impossible to replace and/ or move him on if no longer wanted.
There’s the transfer fee. Then there’s the sign-on fee…
The total sum is probably north of 70 million for a player who is a free agent in 4 months.
This is what soveriegn wealth fund gets you…Nothing to do with ego I suspect…
Good job they dont have 115 charges hanging over them…
Why did you mention spending 20m on Leoni? Where is the case that Leoni would get injured? Where is the reasoning that if it wasn’t for Glasner he would have been here.
There was simply no need to mention Leoni as we need another CB even with him.
Nose cut off.
I’m not sure that this will turn out a good move for the player, but it’s not of our concern anyway.
From Cheaty’s perspective, it’s a sound move. They get a reinforcement, and potentially weaken us at the same time. Their funds are illimited, so why shouldn’t they try to hamper our transfer business?
We’ll find other targets, but as it increasingly looks like, not before next summer. Our transfer kitty is probably skint after having spent so much on Isak last summer. 
At the end of the day it is all speculation by us supporters. I guess we will see!
It doesn’t make sense. Guehi wasn’t the most exciting option, but at this price and with our injury situation he’s a no brainer. Plus, he is homegrown too.
We better have some alternatives in place, because if the club hierarchy is prepared to risk CL qualification on the hope that no one else gets injured, we are in bigger trouble than everyone thought.
