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Ruben Dias signs for Manchester City

Tucker

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I'm reading that as 'too expensive before any dialogue has taken place'. If Mourinho wants him we have ITK that Levy will try.

Read to me like us leaking that we have no intention of paying what they are currently asking. If they have money problems they will have to lower their prices.
 

Hotspur88

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Ali is a mouthpiece for the club, we give him exactly what we want to give him and there will always be a motive behind it. In the current climate, we are hardly going to tell him that we're willing to deal with Benfica for the rumoured £80m. Levy as mentioned is taking advantage of some other clubs financial difficulty due to the pandemic and Benfica fall well within that category so if a deal can be done for around £40-50m then I think we would sanction the deal as it was suggested that the money is there.
 

worcestersauce

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I told you. also have no idea how a lot of you came up with the idea that Benfica had a need to sell. sure, missing UCL is a setback but Benfica has been a well run club for a while now, having made enormous sales in the recent past so there was no reason to believe they would have had approached the market banking on the fact that they'd qualify for UCL. they will probably be sellers (and Vinicius might well be the striker we go for since Jesus doesn't rate him) but Dias is their best player (in my opinion of course, considering the state and balance of the squad) and his departure for a negotiated price would be detrimental for Vieira's (Benfica president) candidacy.
There was ITK that their spending this year was based on staying in the Champions League, I can't remember if it was verified or unverified ITK but that's why people are thinking along those lines.
 

JoaoPereira

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There was ITK that their spending this year was based on staying in the Champions League, I can't remember if it was verified or unverified ITK but that's why people are thinking along those lines.
what ITK? anything close to Benfica? haven't seen any myself and I'm pretty well informed (as Portuguese, difficult not to be when the sports media spins around them). also that would have been borderline amateur. it doesn't fit the overall narrative of recent past either.

I should add that I haven't seen any reports from Portuguese sources about a possible Dias departure.
 

worcestersauce

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what ITK? anything close to Benfica? haven't seen any myself and I'm pretty well informed (as Portuguese, difficult not to be when the sports media spins around them). also that would have been borderline amateur. it doesn't fit the overall narrative of recent past either.

I should add that I haven't seen any reports from Portuguese sources about a possible Dias departure.
I don't know their sources I'm just telling you why some people came up with the idea that Benfica might sell.
 

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dagraham

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I’m not sure their version of negotiable will tally with ours :D
 

JoaoPereira

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circular reporting really. the article adds absolutely no information, just echoing the reports from English media (which is already very vague, we know Mourinho fancies him but no bids have been made as far as known) and filling the papers with Benfica news. the usual. sorry to be pessimistic but I don't see a world we make this happen during this window. the Portuguese article states that Benfica might be willing to negotiate but it is worded as purely exploratory. best case scenario I see, they are willing to go under the release clause but would never ask for under 75M or something along those lines. at that point are we even willing to match the valuation?
 
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alexis

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From latest ITL dragon saying if we sell Foyth to Leeds, CCV and Aurier that would pay for Dias - noice!! (although little concerned letting Aurier go at moment as only leaves us with Doherty).
Japh ?
 

double0

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Benfica are in a bit of financial bother but like I said before their fans and Jesus would riot if Dias is sold so it would have to be rewarding enough for them to buy another decent CB.

They didn't go to all the trouble to bring in Jorge Jesus just so that they'd sell their best players.

Either Levy stumps up 40m + or he has to get very creative.
We could give them 55M-60M plus Toby and allow him to rekindle the Vertonghen partnership.
 

Gspurs11

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jpascavitz

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Seems fairly simple to me: Foyth and CCV aren't in Jose's plans. If we keep Aurier then Tanganga will be fourth choice CB, if Aurier is sold Tanganga will slot in as backup RB and we'll bring in a new CB.

Personally I think I'd prefer that we sold Serge and tried to upgrade the CB position. We could obviously stand to improve the play of our current CBs, Aurier is full of mistakes and Tanganga was excellent in his appearances last season. I think the scenario of bringing in Dias (or potentially someone the club rates even more highly, as Dragon mentioned) and shifting Tanganga to RB leaves us stronger overall than keeping Aurier and not upgrading the current starting CBs.

Totally agree with this. Tanganga looked solid at RB and could suit Jose's formation we currently play if he wanted to flip the direction and have Reguilion at LWB and Tanganga as the "third/right-back" hybrid position.

Tanganga can then plan to move into the CB line as Toby comes to the end of his deal.
 
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