Ross Barkley

[TheFinnFan]

City are clearly leaking stuff to the press in preparation for a big push for Barkley in the summer.

ofcourse they are

yaya--->ross

 

[Pabbers]

Of course he is but we aren't strapped for cash anymore and we've got the chance to nurture both him and a potentially brilliant young core of players together. Plus we kind of want to dispel this selling mentality.

Agree with all of that, but 60 million is a title pushing amount if spent wise.

We dont need to sell to survive, but to kick on we may need to sell when the offer is silly.

 

[blue4eva77]

Heart says no, head says yes. For £60m we could come out of it a lot stronger.

*sigh*

We are not in the same position we were 10 years ago and that farce over Rooney. On and off the field we area lot stronger. Whilst 60m is a lot of money, its of my opinion that Barkley is on the cusp of becoming world class. We now have a spine at our club that could really blossom and take us places we havent been for many years. Stones, McCarthy, Barkley and Lukaku is that spine and all so young.

Losing Barkley, a piece of that spine, would 60m be enough compensation??

The lad hasnt even got going yet so its impossible to tell. I'd risk saying its not enough and I wouldnt even flinch at that money quoted.

 

[bluemangroup]

Agree with all of that, but 60 million is a title pushing amount if spent wise.

We dont need to sell to survive, but to kick on we may need to sell when the offer is silly.

We may disagree, but it sends the wrong message to the rest of the team to me. Not to mention public perception of us coughing up our brightest talents. We also can't guarantee successfully integrating 2/3/4 players we'd be buying to strengthen. I think the 60m is to ward off potential suitors though, because Barkley although very good is far too raw a player to be throwing that sort of money at.

 

[blue4eva77]

Agree with all of that, but 60 million is a title pushing amount if spent wise.

We dont need to sell to survive, but to kick on we may need to sell when the offer is silly.

Its not a title pushing amount. No way.

60m to add to what we have NOW ... maybe. But that includes Ross.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Its not a title pushing amount. No way.

60m to add to what we have NOW ... maybe. But that includes Ross.

This ^

 

[Dutch Toffee]

*sigh*

We are not in the same position we were 10 years ago and that farce over Rooney. On and off the field we area lot stronger. Whilst 60m is a lot of money, its of my opinion that Barkley is on the cusp of becoming world class. We now have a spine at our club that could really blossom and take us places we havent been for many years. Stones, McCarthy, Barkley and Lukaku is that spine and all so young.

Losing Barkley, a piece of that spine, would 60m be enough compensation??

The lad hasnt even got going yet so its impossible to tell. I'd risk saying its not enough and I wouldnt even flinch at that money quoted.

Imo and again that's just my opinion, I'm not convinced that Barkley will reach the level we all want/hope/pray him to reach. No doubt a very good player, but not so sure he'll be one of the worlds best at some stage of his career. I' d have no problem him staying with us for the rest of his career, but as I doubt that he's prepared to do that £60m is an awful lot of money.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Imo and again that's just my opinion, I'm not convinced that Barkley will reach the level we all want/hope/pray him to reach. No doubt a very good player, but not so sure he'll be one of the worlds best at some stage of his career. I' d have no problem him staying with us for the rest of his career, but as I doubt that he's prepared to do that £60m is an awful lot of money.

Completely agree with you Dutch. He needs to step up one more level, in maturity and I'm not convinced he will.

 

[bluemangroup]

Completely agree with you Dutch. He needs to step up one more level, in maturity and I'm not convinced he will.

I'd like to see if he can at our club though.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I'd like to see if he can at our club though.

You'll get no disagreement on that from me.

 

[toffee matt]

I think Stones is More mature and more complete as a player than Barkley at this present time

Barkley lacks consistency presently

 

[bluemangroup]

You'll get no disagreement on that from me.

Please?

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Please?

I'll treat you as its Saturday.



Nah lad flog him to the highest bidder he'll not make the step up.

 

[Eggs]

.. there's a basic principle that you don't sell your best players, Saying that everybody has a price and it will be down to RM (and not Bill) to determine if EFC are getting value for money.

 

[Vaughan]

If we keep hold of ross, coleman, stones, mccarthy and lukaku and they all develop the way they should. Then things could be exciting for us in a few years time. Id prob add baines to that too.

Footballers are different breeds to what they were years ago. I can see baines' physical attributes being just as good as they are now in 4 years time. The sport science is unreal now and the lads a tremendous athlete anyway

Weve also got a whole host of promising lads coming through the youth like garbutt, galloway, ledson, walsh, green, browning, long etc.

Keep hold of our best players, keep hold of roberto, nurture the talent we have and keep adding to the squad and theres no reason why we can't do something special in a few years

The premier league is a crazy league. As it stands now i think us at our best last year would come 2nd atm, city, arsenal, united, liverpool and spurs are poor

The players i mentioned at beginning have potential to be top 3 in the world for their position. Keep hold of them, nurture them, and it won't matter what city spend, theyre unlikely to have a better player

Keeping hold of them is the struggle however