My complaint is that you claimed that City could have signed VVD if only we had offered the "right" amount of money, and then implied how wrong it was to not have done that. You do not know why City did not sign VVD, your claim is unfounded, aka fantasy. When you then criticize City based on your unfounded claim, you are essentially just discussing with yourself in a closed circuit. Off course you are perfectly entitled to be doing that.
You more or less said the same thing to me yesterday but I think you're slightly missing some people's points.
Everybody accepts that we might not have been able to get VVD no matter what we did but some fans think that if we had properly tested Southampton's resolve that we might have been able to get an offer accepted. Also, whilst we all suspect Liverpool was his preferred destination, some fans think that once the Liverpool deal became incredibly problematic, the player might well have been happy to sign for us, had an offer been accepted. All just opinion but not terribly outrageous opinion and I'm not so sure why it bothers you that people feel we could have made more of an effort to get him and see if Southampton meant what they said.
Arsenal spent all summer saying Sanchez wasn't for sale but they still accepted an offer when push came to shove and we didn't just give up on that deal when they said they wouldn't sell.
But anyway, like yesterday you're missing the broader point. Loads of people posted all summer on here that they were worried that we were too reliant on Kompany and that given his injury record we should be prioritizing a top class CB, not just a compromise signing on the relatively cheap. Again, not too outlandish an opinion really, whether you agree with it or not.
Now if it's only opinion I suppose (like most stuff on the entire forum) but looking at what happened over the summer in terms of strong rumours and things that we know happened, it does look to some like we spent the latter weeks of the window targeting expensive attackers and that we decided to make compromises with the potential CB signing. We were definitely trying to get Sanchez, quite probably making efforts to sign Mbappe and settling for Jonny F Evans as the centre back.
So you can't really blame people who spent the summer saying we needed a top CB because we couldn't rely on Kompany's fitness for feeling utterly frustrated and asking questions when it appears that a week after the window closed there are question marks over his fitness. And as Neville said, even if he does manage to start the Liverpool match, this is a situation just waiting to rear its ugly haead and it was incredibly predictable.
