Welcome Claudio Bravo (Finally)

[PrezIke]

Reports out of Spain today we have agreed to personal terms with the player and expected to become a City player.

Makes sense as ter Stegen is 10 years younger and always sounded a bit odd to let the younger player leave when he could be top keeper for a decade. Bravo, however, is ahead of him because he is more of the finished product.

[nottsblue]

Any mention of a fee?

[PrezIke]

around £21m, allegedly. He has a £36m release clause (no way would anyone pay that)

[Mase]

I know money is no object to us but that much for a 33 year old..

[nottsblue]

around £21m, allegedly. He has a £36m release clause (no way would anyone pay that)

And he is 33. That is a big gamble in my eyes

[PrezIke]

Mentioned in the Hart thread

Missed that, as I am gathering others did as well, but will seem need his own thread anyway:

For others get a sense of who he is:

Watch on youtube.com

[PrezIke]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

[Mase]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

[South Stand Balti]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

That's what I thought. I think it was a Spanish team and on a permanent deal?

[PrezIke]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

Well, he's not technically our player anymore as we sold him to Real Sociedad for £4m. I understand we have a buy back clause during his contract (goes to 2022), which we could enact if he does well. To me, he's somewhat like having a player on loan.

Perhaps we had some doubts and/or Real Sociedad were willing to buy him at a price we were good with and wanted to own his rights for some reason.

He is 24 and playing in a top league so one to watch as an option. As I believe Doug or WW mentioned in the EDS/Academy thread we also have a new keeper in the under 18s (?) who looks like he could be the future as well.

[Slim]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

That's what I thought. I think it was a Spanish team and on a permanent deal?

Loan

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... -for-long/

[PrezIke]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

That's what I thought. I think it was a Spanish team and on a permanent deal?

Loan

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... -for-long/

Actually, he's gone. We sold him one month after we bought him.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... l-Sociedad

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... ster-city/

[johnny crossan]

We are operating from a position of weakness, so we will get hosed no matter what. There are only so many keepers in the world available that can play this way and we cannot play Pep's way with the keepers we currently have.

We will obviously look to develop Gunn and/or Rulli into his replacement over the next few seasons.

What happened with Rulli? We signed him but sold him??

That's what I thought. I think it was a Spanish team and on a permanent deal?

Loan

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... -for-long/

Actually, he's gone. We sold him one month after we bought him.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... l-Sociedad

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... ster-city/

we have a guaranteed buy back option - mafiosa clause

[PrezIke]

So may be some issues now given that ter Stegen is injured for perhaps 3 weeks.

Really wish we could just get this dusted and done and we have some tricky fixtures against more attacking sides after our next game that Willy in goal does not breed too much confidence (Stoke, West Ham).

The fee now being listed is £17m.

[PrezIke]

Marca reporting deal is done for an initial £13.9m (€16m) with an additional £3.5m (€4m) in add-ons.

He will allegedly fly into Manchester on Thursday.

4 year contract (he'd be 37 - same age Howard fell off, 3 years before Van der Sar won the title, and one year younger than Buffon is now).

[blues2win]

Rafael Hernandez view of Bravo. A passionate Barca fan.

https://twitter.com/rafaelh117/status/7 ... 9651325952

Bravo is apparently playing in the Super Cup on Wednesday so if he's injured the deal would obviously be off. Valencia are selling Barca not only their goalkeeper Diego Alves but also a very promising forward Alcacer and want him to ask for a transfer to Barca to appease their fans. In return they get two La Masia supposed jewels on loan, namely Munir and Samper plus cash presumably. A complicated deal but it looks done.

[blues2win]

In due course I expect City will excercise their option to buy Rulli who would replace Caballero. The plan is probably that he would take over from Bravo in the long term if he develops as expected.

[PeterParker]

The thing is, Bravo is actually a leader, He is the captain of Chile for over a decade now and I think (not sure) he also was the leader of Sociedad.

Still a weird move for me.

[Blue Blood]

In due course I expect City will excercise their option to buy Rulli who would replace Caballero. The plan is probably that he would take over from Bravo in the long term if he develops as expected.

Bingo.

Widely believed we tried to convince Rulli into signing with us this summer but were unable as we couldn't give him assurances over playing time. However with Bravo coming in convincing him in a year or two won't be so hard, certainly would've been harder if Joe were number one. Also in the run up to that event we get use of a cracking keeper in Bravo and Rulli gets two seasons of full top flight football.

Win. Win.

[DoomMerchant]

The thing is, Bravo is actually a leader, He is the captain of Chile for over a decade now and I think (not sure) he also was the leader of Sociedad.

Still a weird move for me.

I have expressed my love of the Chilean squad in the past as I think they've been the best team in the world over the last 16 months.

And Bravo has been key. He's fantastic and I think folks will enjoy him.

Cheers