PannickAtTheDisco
Well-Known Member
To think everyone used to laugh at Gary Cook, from 20 odd Txiki signings there is only KDB top drawer with the jury out on a couple of others. Recruitment not good enough.
Cook(34):
GKs: Given, Taylor, Pantilimon
RBs: Zabaleta, Boateng,
CBs: Kompany, Glauber, Ben-Haim, K. Toure, Lescott, Savic
LBs: Bridge, Sylvinho, Kolarov, Clichy
CMs: De Jong, Barry, Vieira, Milner, Y. Toure, Hargreaves,
AM/Wing: Bellamy, SWP, A Johnson, Silva, Nasri
ST: Jo, Robinho, Santa Cruz, Adebayor, Tevez, Balotelli, Dzeko, Aguero,
Txiki(24):
GKs: Caballero, Bravo, Ederson
RBs: Sagna,
CBs: Demichelis, Mangala, Otamendi, Stones
LBs:
CMs: Fernandinho, Fernando, Lampard, Delph, Gundogan,
AM/Wing: Navas, Sterling, Roberts, De Bruyne, Nolito, Sane, Bernardo
ST: Negredo, Jovetic, Bony, Jesus.
You can pick out the gems, but there's a lot of waste in both. I think if you gave Txiki 10 extra signings that Cook had in the same timeframe, and unlimited budget for the whole period too, that the picture would be very different. Clearly that FFP crunch on the budget is the weakest period of the lot.