Welcome Claudio Bravo (Finally)

[DoomMerchant]

Claudio Bravo has just arrived and left terminal 1 Manchester airport , he is now officially here !

who will dare to post the Welcome thread?

until Cheshire Today publishes a pic of him chowing down on a steak bake at Greggs...nothing is final.

cheers

[johnny crossan]

clearly gasping for a fag after a few hours in transit, know just how he feels

[Hazy2]

clearly gasping for a fag after a few hours in transit, know just how he feels

Fuck me we have signed the geezer from Alvin and the Chipmunks !

[City64]

Claudio Bravo has just arrived and left terminal 1 Manchester airport , he is now officially here !

did you pound a few cans with him?

Or what?

cheers

Good to see you are keeping up with events Twattyburger , ha ha !

[Beefymcfc]

Just seen a pic of a friend with Claudio. The dirty bastard, I'm gonna tell Joe!

[DoomMerchant]

It sucks to be Joe hart right now.

He's gone from England's no1 and The keeper for one of the best clubs in world footy to third choice keeper with no exit in sight.

I feel for the lad. I still say he should fuck off to Spain. Pack up his butterface wife and fuck off to Spain.

Fuck England.

Cheers

[City64]

It sucks to be Joe hart right now.

He's gone from England's no1 and The keeper for one of the best clubs in world footy to third choice keeper with no exit in sight.

I feel for the lad. I still say he should fuck off to Spain. Pack up his butterface wife and fuck off to Spain.

Fuck England.

Cheers

To be fair it looks like life is going to get even worse for poor Joe as scouse land looks his most likely destination . Life certainly sucks sometimes !

[Wonderwall]

All the noises coming out of the club suggest he is in line to play tonight. We can give him a good send off. Doesn't look too good on the tickets sold though. I am quite looking forward to seeing what the changed line up will be and giving Joe a few songs.

[Slim]

All the noises coming out of the club suggest he is in line to play tonight. We can give him a good send off. Doesn't look too good on the tickets sold though. I am quite looking forward to seeing what the changed line up will be and giving Joe a few songs.

Knees and toes, knees and toes.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

It sucks to be Joe hart right now.

He's gone from England's no1 and The keeper for one of the best clubs in world footy to third choice keeper with no exit in sight.

I feel for the lad. I still say he should fuck off to Spain. Pack up his butterface wife and fuck off to Spain.

Fuck England.

Cheers

I don't suppose there's any chance of him going to the U.S. ??

[Dubciteh]

Great article here on him

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... diolas-man

[bigblue]

Just got a buzz from the City App that it's official

[john@staustell]

It is indeed

[ruralblue]

Gutted for Joe but welcome this hopeful upgrade to the club!!!!

[iwasthere2012]

To be honest. I'm not sure we are going to be able to judge this new guy on whether he's better than Joe or not, straight away.
Unless he just can't shot stop and fucks up, but that's happened other foreign keepers starting out in this league before.
Remember how bad DeGea was in his first season.
He was young and inexperienced and I can't see Bravo being as forgiven at 33 years old though.
My point though is that, I think Bravo will be judged a success or failure as part of overall team performance when we see what honours are won or lost at the end of the season. I don't think this season is going to be as much about individuals as previous seasons. I think that is the point of what is happening here.
The team functionality is what we will judge this season on.
There will always be better individuals in certain positions in certain teams. It doesn't mean they would function better than the equivalent in Pep's team.

[Bianchi on Ice]

It sucks to be Joe hart right now.

He's gone from England's no1 and The keeper for one of the best clubs in world footy to third choice keeper with no exit in sight.

I feel for the lad. I still say he should fuck off to Spain. Pack up his butterface wife and fuck off to Spain.

Fuck England.

Cheers

Where there is dandruff, there is hope.

[Beefymcfc]

How much, 13 to 18?

[Dameerto]

To be honest. I'm not sure we are going to be able to judge this new guy on whether he's better than Joe or not, straight away.
Unless he just can't shot stop and fucks up, but that's happened other foreign keepers starting out in this league before.
Remember how bad DeGea was in his first season.
He was young and inexperienced and I can't see Bravo being as forgiven at 33 years old though.
My point though is that, I think Bravo will be judged a success or failure as part of overall team performance when we see what honours are won or lost at the end of the season. I don't think this season is going to be as much about individuals as previous seasons. I think that is the point of what is happening here.
The team functionality is what we will judge this season on.
There will always be better individuals in certain positions in certain teams. It doesn't mean they would function better than the equivalent in Pep's team.

It's going to be fairly apparent from his first game why Pep bought him, in my opinion (unless he takes some time getting used to the new league). The stats from last season show he had almost twice as many league passes in Spain as the next best keeper (with our other purchase third on the list, by the way) while maintaining somewhere like the high 80's % for completions. He's coming to be a spare defender, and one who can pretty much start moves on his own (or at least reliably and consistently retain/regain possession as a part of his natural game).

[Mase]

To be honest. I'm not sure we are going to be able to judge this new guy on whether he's better than Joe or not, straight away.
Unless he just can't shot stop and fucks up, but that's happened other foreign keepers starting out in this league before.
Remember how bad DeGea was in his first season.
He was young and inexperienced and I can't see Bravo being as forgiven at 33 years old though.
My point though is that, I think Bravo will be judged a success or failure as part of overall team performance when we see what honours are won or lost at the end of the season. I don't think this season is going to be as much about individuals as previous seasons. I think that is the point of what is happening here.
The team functionality is what we will judge this season on.
There will always be better individuals in certain positions in certain teams. It doesn't mean they would function better than the equivalent in Pep's team.

To be fair De Gea was blind in his first season wasn't he, then had laser eye surgery??

[nottsblue]

How much, 13 to 18?

BBC have it as £15.4m with add ons of £1.7m. Or €18m. Depends on the exchange rate i suppose.i suspect Hart will go for less