The Italian/Brazilian trio of Jorginho, Barella and Verratti increasingly took the p out of our centre midfield.
Our CM was outclassed.
[Football] Kalvin Phillips to Man City
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The Italian/Brazilian trio of Jorginho, Barella and Verratti increasingly took the p out of our centre midfield.
Our CM was outclassed.
southstandandy
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Problem is, will he get much game time with them? Ake went to them for £40m and doesn't appear to play that often. Be interesting to see how many games he actually starts next season.
Icy Gull
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Sidwell doesn’t seem to have been bothered by spending 90% of the time on the bench for league games when he went to Chelsea. Big wage packet trumps playing football for so many nearly elite footballers. Hard to believe for fans like me.
Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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Absolutely baffled by the total rewrite of history that he was no good in the Euros. What are people watching? Yeah he didn't have a good final but other than that him and Rice were excellent and a big part of why our defence was so solid.
Textbook Man City this, blow the best part of £50m on a player they don't need just so nobody else can have him. What a competitive division we have.
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Textbook Man City this, blow the best part of £50m on a player they don't need just so nobody else can have him. What a competitive division we have.
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Baldseagull
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The thing is, that even if they are not playing the big games, they are training and kicking a ball around all week for fat wages.
dadams2k11
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White and now Philips, two best buds, getting big money moves after playing for Leeds 3 Seasons ago in the Championship.
#LivingTheDream
#LivingTheDream
Milano
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I’m quite surprised City didn’t go in large for Rice, who is the far superior player. Perhaps they do need to pretend to adhere to FFP.
Icy Gull
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nwgull
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Agree with you on both points. Would’ve been easy to pick Grealish or Foden alongside Rice, but Phillips in the CDM position gave the flair players and wingbacks a much better platform. And people say that Southgate has a pro Villa bias.
As for City, they’re just pissing me off now. FFP was supposed to stop clubs overspending and going bust, but it should also prevent one club from hoarding all the best talent in the world. They’ve won 4 of the last 5 titles and are now looking like spending another 150m this summer - and no doubt increasing their eye-watering 350m per year wage bill. The EPL has become like the SPL in terms of competitiveness and excitement. I wish the Super League clubs had ****ed off last summer so that the rest of us can have our game back from the oil-rich owners, even if it did mean the level wasn’t quite the same.
AmexRuislip
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saafend_seagull
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What about a loan swap deal with caicedo?
junior
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Does Kalvin Phillips get a say in it?
saafend_seagull
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A guy who isn’t playing? Would assume he’d snap your hand off at that opportunity
Nah Phillips wants to play for England, won’t do that under Southgate if he’s a Brighton player
a truly cunning plan that would not go down well with Arsenal
pornomagboy
wake me up before you gogo who needs potter when
would love to get get him on loan for the season
World of Sport
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Southgate's overated 'show pony'
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Kalvin won’t be able to forever claim that he personally ‘won’ things.
So no, he’ll stay.
So no, he’ll stay.