foghornred Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/bristol-city/transfer-talk/news/Magnússon-nears-cska-moscow-switch_327359.html Looks like he is going,pity really as if Flint goes we will be short in that department and we will certainly miss his long throws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buster Footman's T shirt Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Would be a shame. If he has a good world Cup we could make a tidy profit on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lack of Action Man Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Feel we could push CSKA for more - they're a big club. Not exactly strapped for cash surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tts_city Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 If we end up with the first team clearout of bryan, reid, flint, possibly pack and Magnússon I don't have much faith in our ability to recruit better players under the current regime, how many of Johnsons 30 odd signings regularly make the first team ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Constant Rabbit Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Massive mistake by the club. Mags will end up being a very,very good player. The signs are there for all to see - we just dont play a system to bring out the best in him. Personally feel this is a poor decision. Good luck to the lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppello Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 I also feel like we should have held on until after the World Cup before selling. If he has a excellent tournament, bearing in mind he is up against Messi in the group stages, he could double his value. Even if he had a poor tournament I don't think his value will diminish significantly given that he's playing for 'plucky Iceland'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC11 Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Bad decision imo, potential is there for him to be an excellent defender, he’d probably admit to himself that he’s adjusting to the pace of the English game having been schooled in Italy for the past few years, but given his age that’s easily sorted given the chance. The ‘oh he’s great with the fans’ brigade will be the only ones pleased with this news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singingsuperstar Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Gutted, he will reach his potential and the doubters here will look ******* stupid (again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pride of the west Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Need a decent sell on clause with this one. If he does well for Iceland and in the champions league he could become very valuable if prem clubs take a look in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 He’s ok but has a 50p head and a liability, I could be proved wrong and if he does well FairPlay but I’m not losing much sleep over this really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septic Peg Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Heard on the grapevine that LJ and MA not happy about it but have no choice. Can assume from that either order has come from above or from Mags himself. I would hazard a guess at the latter. Sorry Mags. Can't blame you tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickolas Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 No loss in my eyes. Too soft. Too nice. None of that gets it done as a championship defender. Long throws?! Who cares. Brownhill and Kelly can cover that department! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiale Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 3 hours ago, Septic Peg said: Heard on the grapevine that LJ and MA not happy about it but have no choice. Can assume from that either order has come from above or from Mags himself. I would hazard a guess at the latter. Sorry Mags. Can't blame you tbf. I doubt he is to happy with the way he has been treated here - so cannot blame him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 4 hours ago, SX227 said: Massive mistake by the club. Mags will end up being a very,very good player. The signs are there for all to see - we just dont play a system to bring out the best in him. Personally feel this is a poor decision. Good luck to the lad. He will definitely be a good player for someone else. You’re right, we don’t play a system that suits him so for that reason it’s a good decision to let him move on. I wish him the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob k Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 21 minutes ago, Fiale said: I doubt he is to happy with the way he has been treated here - so cannot blame him. He hasn’t exactly taken his chances has he? There’s always a mistake in there waiting to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Cant cross for toffee.....Cost us points with panic decisions....opponents targetted him as weakness....nice guy but not good enough imo and clubs too it seems....2.5m euro sounds fair.....wish him luck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 5 hours ago, Septic Peg said: Heard on the grapevine that LJ and MA not happy about it but have no choice. Can assume from that either order has come from above or from Mags himself. I would hazard a guess at the latter. Sorry Mags. Can't blame you tbf. SL made it pretty clear we have to sell to buy so I suspect the former is the bigger factor. Though the implication from the Post is that LJ did not want to sell this early in the window not that he didn't want to sell at all. Possibly he wanted to bring someone in first - e.g. McQueen - or he thought we would get more for Mags later in the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 7 hours ago, tts_city said: If we end up with the first team clearout of bryan, reid, flint, possibly pack and Magnússon I don't have much faith in our ability to recruit better players under the current regime, how many of Johnsons 30 odd signings regularly make the first team ? Don’t worry, SL has said we must do better next season than last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCRED Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 6 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said: He’s ok but has a 50p head and a liability, I could be proved wrong and if he does well FairPlay but I’m not losing much sleep over this really Ditto, if he was as good as some think he would have been a regular. Probably had a couple of good games out of the 50 odd he’s played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayteomike2 Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Really sorry to see him go and miss the excitement of the throw ins can't blame him wasn't used enough though a few silly mistakes will miss him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Another poor move my the club. Should have played more times in a settled back four.I for one feel 2.5 euros is bad businees, should be asking for 4 . Really sorry to see him go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 6 minutes ago, Roadrunner said: Another poor move my the club. Should have played more times in a settled back four.I for one feel 2.5 euros is bad businees, should be asking for 4 . Really sorry to see him go Really ? Where would you have played him , and in place of who ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Echo the other remarks about his evident potential in the right system but lets face it, LJ blamed him for lots of things the season before last, dropped him whenever he had the chance, and couldn't wait to get rid of him - the attempted sale to FC Rostov (me either) in January was evidence of that. It's no surprise that he's now gone, it always struck me that Johnson disliked him (there was no way Preston away justified the singling out he got) but perhaps the baby-faced looks and mild mannered attitude made him an easy target for Johnson's seething frustrations about his own coaching form. With that said, despite the fun-loving social media I'm certainly not going to pretend Magnússon was one of our best players, nor get emotional about him leaving, BUT seeing a multi-million LJ signing sold for a little less than we paid for him (probably first of several), sums up the standard of transfers. Sadly that's probably quite a good return versus where certain other Scandinavian signings are in their "ROI" - recruitment has been awful and they'll flip this money into someone equally "promising" who'll play for about 3 weeks until LJ needs to roll out the "players I can trust" line before binning them off. We finished the season with 2 players going to the World Cup. A few weeks later and we now have no players going to the world cup! Selling Mags at a loss is another explicit failure of our stated player investment strategy, and the Chief Executive responsible earns £25k a month to keep overseeing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 I am starting to wonder if all of these suggested departures are simply a cunning plan by LJ to give him another 4 transfer windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 One thing to bare in mind, if mags has said he would be off next summer when his contract expired we've done the right thing in getting money for him now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFC II Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Fodbarmyarmy said: Cant cross for toffee.....Cost us points with panic decisions....opponents targetted him as weakness....nice guy but not good enough imo and clubs too it seems....2.5m euro sounds fair.....wish him luck... His crossing is actually very good, look at the wolves game as an example... Really think he'd have suited being the left centre back of a back three, wouldn't have meant he'd have needed to be so physical and he'd have had more time in the ball. He'll become a very good player in the European leagues but don't think his game is suited to the pace of England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Too much OJ this morning Olé? Seething anger in there. Possibly justified but we do not yet know all of the facts, neither are we likely; perhaps that is what we can justifiably get angry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 12 minutes ago, Olé said: Echo the other remarks about his evident potential in the right system but lets face it, LJ blamed him for lots of things the season before last, dropped him whenever he had the chance, and couldn't wait to get rid of him - the attempted sale to FC Rostov (me either) in January was evidence of that. It's no surprise that he's now gone, it always struck me that Johnson disliked him (there was no way Preston away justified the singling out he got) but perhaps the baby-faced looks and mild mannered attitude made him an easy target for Johnson's seething frustrations about his own coaching form. With that said, despite the fun-loving social media I'm certainly not going to pretend Magnússon was one of our best players, nor get emotional about him leaving, BUT seeing a multi-million LJ signing sold for a little less than we paid for him (probably first of several), sums up the standard of transfers. Sadly that's probably quite a good return versus where certain other Scandinavian signings are in their "ROI" - recruitment has been awful and they'll flip this money into someone equally "promising" who'll play for about 3 weeks until LJ needs to roll out the "players I can trust" line before binning them off. We finished the season with 2 players going to the World Cup. A few weeks later and we now have no players going to the world cup! Selling Mags at a loss is another explicit failure of our stated player investment strategy, and the Chief Executive responsible earns £25k a month to keep overseeing it. He made the same type of mistake three times last season, getting caught in possession when he should have just got rid of the ball, if I was the manager I would be wondering if he is capable of learning from his mistakes and if so when. He has attributes which were always going to make him a crowd pleaser, but he will have to work very hard to be good enough for Champions league football with a club like CSKA. It doesn't surprise me that he is leaving, last match of the season he looked like he was waving goodbye as the players made the pitch walk at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 I would recommend City get paid 100% up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 33 minutes ago, Olé said: Sadly that's probably quite a good return versus where certain other Scandinavian signings are in their "ROI" - recruitment has been awful and they'll flip this money into someone equally "promising" who'll play for about 3 weeks until LJ needs to roll out the "players I can trust" line before binning them off Aren’t they leaving this summer though!? Players I can trust = Frankie, Flint, Joe, Bobby, Korey and Marlon. Maybe Brownhill. Most of those will be gone by the time we kick off the season I’d expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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