Jack Harrison to Manchester City - Official
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Typically teams in relegation battles don’t play their untried players as readily as their vets. They may be paying a fee for him now, but it won’t guarantee minutes when they’re desperate for points, and being a mid-season acquisition leaves little wiggle-room for developing chemistry.
Never say never, but a mid season move is the riskiest for a young player.
I hope to God he doesn’t go to Middlesborough. Tony Pulis is their new manager after being fired from West Brom (my EPL team)
Pulis’ football strategy is to win matches 1-0 or tie them 0-0. He believes in counterattacking football period. It’s not uncommon for a Pulis side to have 25 to 30% possession. He will start a game with three defensive midfielders and a four-man back line.
Jack would be miserable there
Pulis’ football strategy is to win matches 1-0 or tie them 0-0. He believes in counterattacking football period. It’s not uncommon for a Pulis side to have 25 to 30% possession. He will start a game with three defensive midfielders and a four-man back line.
Jack would be miserable there
Was responding facetiously, but Leeds do have a great track record of developing young players and selling them on to bigger clubs.I vote Leeds
Ah yes, the "You have to make a deal in 48 hours so now starts the public posturing" stage. Not going to get my hopes up that we'll see Jack this season until after Wednesday.
(I assume the official end of the transfer period is 7pm our time, midnight England time?)
I love how the article says Stoke isn’t willing to spend more on a young player untested in the EPL and then go onto list a guy 3x as expensive from the Turkish league (and prior Norway&Senegal).
The latest news is that City is buying Jack and loaning him to Boro. If there's no fee I'm done with this ownership.
I thought (way, way, way back when the team was announced) that MCFC (or any other CFG club) was not allowed to purchase players from NYCFC because it was potentially a way to transfer crap players out for more than they’re worth resulting in a hugely cash-positive (max GAM) situation.
My understanding/assumption/inference is that this is not a concern and no special rules are necessary because MLS owns the contract and NYCFC can't sell him to any team without approval. Especially after they just received offers for specific amounts from other clubs, the league should simply block selling him for any amount less than that as a matter of course. Even if this sale were to an unaffiliated club, accepting a significantly lower offer raises red flags of undisclosed side deals at least. And accepting a similar, even minimally larger offer with MCFC, raises suspicions. I just don't see it happening that MLS would let MC buy him for anything less than a materially better offer. Materially doesn't have to be huge, but more than de minimis.
OTOH, MLS, so who knows.
Exactly. I am not concerned at all. He won't go for anything less than the best offer that's come in.
What I find interesting is that Man City apparently rates Harrison enough that they will pay the kind of price that's been kicked about for the chance to loan him out and develop him further.
Either that, or Man City wants to reunite Jack and Mix for their run to the EPL title.
If this MCFC/Boro rumor is true, then MCFC definitely rates Harrison enough that they feel his value is going up significantly more than what is being currently offered.
Makes me wonder if their hand is being pushed by Harrison’s need/want to go to England (and they’re saving face over the miserly offers)? Or if NYCFC has a roster plan in place that’s contingent on Harrison moving (figured the transfer fee wouldn’t be as low as it is and already got the ball rolling on the replacements and now the dominoes can’t be righted easily)? Or if CFG finally said Fck it, we’re gonna hold his card and make money off his transfer because he’s gonna be a hot commodity once he gets minutes in England?
http://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-t...et-to-join-middlesbrough-via-man-city-sources
Deal looks done. I will be very mad if there's no GAM.
Deal looks done. I will be very mad if there's no GAM.
I don't know how they could do it without a transfer fee. He's signed by MLS/NYCFC -- I can't imagine there's a mechanism to allow Man City not to pay the transfer fee.
Not happy about this but at least it paints a roadmap for MCFC to sign TMac away from us for Maximum GAM and send him to the Irish League on loan.
And for that matter, why the hell didn’t MCFC buy Pirlo from us last year and loan him back to Juve????
Could this have been thier plan all along?I'm wondering if they went through the negotiations with Stoke (or other teams?) to determine a reasonable fair market value. That way when they put the purchase through there would be less blow back from the league.
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