05 Jun 2025 22:42:42
That Cherki is an unbelievable player. I think even with Wirtz on the way he’d be brilliant signing if we could hijack his City move.
05 Jun 2025 22:53:11
I still believe we made a mistake with that lad.
05 Jun 2025 23:19:43
Genuine question Ugbes, if you could have only one, Wirtz or Cherki?
06 Jun 2025 00:28:07
Playing good for your country does not translate to playing good for your club.
Surely we have learnt from the salif diao and diouf days to not buy based on international matches.
06 Jun 2025 00:50:53
Cherki has been playing well for his club tho RedScarface.
06 Jun 2025 06:50:36
Wirtz.
06 Jun 2025 07:26:37
This is ridiculous they are not on the same level, Wirtz is miles clear. Cherki will start on fire then just fade away, Wirtz will get double his numbers easily.
06 Jun 2025 07:46:32
Buy Cherki too and sell Elliott. We will regret not going for him too at that price.
06 Jun 2025 08:09:28
I wouldn't worry too much about Cherki. Pep will coach the fun out of him and ensure he sticks with his 'pass the other team to death' football. He's ruined Grealish and will do the same to Cherki.
06 Jun 2025 08:22:45
Grealish was an average size fish in a small pond before he went to City. He’s always not been good enough.
06 Jun 2025 09:31:36
Markp08 IMO, so City had a chance to pick btw Cherki and Wirtz and focused on getting Wirtz first BUT suddenly cos Wirtz rejected City and came to us and Cherki (City's sloppy seconds) is of to City then, it must mean we made a mistake and should have signed Cherki instead? Wow, that's some stuff right there. Seriously if people want to us to do our transfers thru the prism of what City do then, that's on them. Absolute madness.
First off, both Cherki and Wirtz are different players, IMO. In terms of an old school no. 10, Wirtz is the best around and proved it in the Bundesliga as two-time Bundesliga MVP over the past two seasons. Wirtz is the best no. 10 on the market by all accounts I've read, not Cherki so why would reject the best just to sign someone who isn't the best? Again, let me know if you can make any sense of that.
@Footyfan to answer your question personally, there is no way on this earth I would pick Cherki over Wirtz in the 10 and Im glad we didn't do that.
06 Jun 2025 10:26:14
Talent wise there isn't much between wirtz and cherki, cherki might even be ahead in terms of pure technique. Cherki can do anything he wants with a football (but then again, as Stevie g said, so could Joe cole) In terms of mentality, work ethic, attitude, wirtz is absolute light years apart. He is a player who wants the ball constantly, who fights for the ball and fights to get on the ball non stop.
Cherki could well become a very good player but he could just as likely turn out to be an awful signing, for all his talent he didn't start quite a few games for lyon the last few seasons because of clashes with coaches. This season he improved a lot in terms of output but Lyon fans aren't desperate to keep him, is that not a sign of something?
I would say cherki is the kind of signing we would have made a season or two ago, he is very talented and has upside if it works out and the cost isn't prohibitive. But it was also the kind of signing we made because players like wirtz weren't available to us. Maybe we should stop indulging in FOMO since city was forced to settle for their (and our) plan b?
06 Jun 2025 12:34:55
Patrick you're easily my favorite poster on here bar none btw. (Apart from ed001)