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...and the saga continues :lol:

Isn't rac1 supposed to be reliable? :rofl1:

Well well well :lol:

Plus Enrique stated that he sees Masch as a DM, and there's also the fact that Masch might leave. Which leaves us with 3 players (Marquinhos, Pique and Bartra) for 2 positions. So yeah, us signing Benatia (or Miranda or some other CB...) is definitely not out of the question.

Source?

We'll overpay, but we'll overpay no matter which CB we get.

I can't speak Spanish for shit, and even I can tell that his Spanish sucks :lol:

If we get Marquinhos to start alongside Pique, Pique's gonna have to step up and take more of a leader role. He's started to do that this season though.

It's not something he'd say if the talks weren't advanced. He even said he no longer wants to play for PSG.

Yeah, it could be that we're working on both Marquinhos and Benatia and the Marquinhos deal is simply progressing more quickly.

Finally, a CB signing :D He'll be awesome for the future, no doubt. I just hope he makes an immediate impact if we don't get Benatia.

So he's more likely to stay at Roma than we thought he was? I still doubt he'll be a Roma player next season. Either we'll get him, or some other big club like City will. There's no way he'll turn down us, City, Chelsea or whoever for Roma.

I recall him beasting at PSG for the first few months, and being hot and cold after that.

Like who? Benatia's pretty much the only available world class CB.

But will he be under 30m? I doubt it. 20m + Alves wouldn't be too bad a deal though. He's an awesome prospect, but a prospect is what he is. Getting him + Benatia would be awesome. But I don't like the idea of getting him alone when Benatia's on the market.

If it's legit, then it seems talks are pretty advanced. Looks like we're finally getting a CB. Now, on to Benatia...

We can compete with City coz they're restricted by FFP.

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Aren't City restricted by FFP? And we supposedly have a 120m transfer budget. We should be able to compete with them.

40M too much? Are you fucking kidding me? We can't afford to be stingy here. If Roma wants 40M, give them 40M. We will have to overpay no matter who we get. Good thing that report came from MD, so it could be BS.