It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[Tevez City]

Torres is much better than quite a few posters on here realise.

Perhaps they would have been happier if we paid the £70m Valencia were talking about last summer.

I would not be surprised at all if he's nailed on in the starting XI by the end of next season.

Who do you think our front 3 will be next season ?

 

[lmhblue1]

I'll be stunned if Torres doesn't get ten starts in the league next season and I'd expect him to hand in a transfer request.

He'll have the typical slow start at City that nearly all of our new signings seem to have, everyone will call him a flop, then he'll go on to have a great second season... it's a tradition at this point.

 

[Keeper!]

I'll be stunned if Torres doesn't get ten starts in the league next season and I'd expect him to hand in a transfer request.

After an initial settling in period this guy will be a huge hit and a big star.

 

[Keeper!]

Maybe when Pep said he was going to talk to him at the end of the season, this is what the discussion is about.

Pep must be sick of talking to him and more importantly talking him up, Stones has let him down too often and has lost the respect of Pep.

 

[doobyedoobye]

He should also be man enough to accept the consequences of his own decisions. This nonsense has been dragging on for too long, I get the impression the management have run out of patience waiting for him to get his shit together

There are plenty of elite professional footballers who have very complex and volatile personal lives and still manage to deliver on the pitch week in and week out to the highest possible standards.

 

[mosssideblue]

There are plenty of elite professional footballers who have very complex and volatile personal lives and still manage to deliver on the pitch week in and week out to the highest possible standards.

Stones isn't one of them

 

[ctid1894]

We need kind of transfers this summer like Laporte, KDB, who do bring in quality and thet get an unquestionable starting place for themselves.

We usually have much better transfers after a bad season than after a good one. Maybe Txiki feels more he has to improve the squad more than after we won and just get the squad bigger...

Ake and Torres are not above category for me, they will be on the bench a lot. Good squad players, Torres has great potential but he wont start 10 PL next season I am sure. Maybe more for rotation and cup games.

We need a serious second season from Rodri and Cancelo, as we paid top money for them, but not yet proved their real worth or potential. Especially Cancelo.

We spent huge on Stones, Mendy years ago and did not work, they arrived as young, very talented players, high potential. Now we will struggle to get a serious fee for them.
(Mangala dont get me started on that. For younger talents its more than enough to do Nastasic, Savic type of cheap signings if they work out great, if not we still can sell the for same price or for small profit.)

That Van Dijk signing worked out immensely for Liverpool and he was 75m. Imagine Laporte-Van Dijk duo for a cost of 135m instead of Stones-Otamendi-Ake for 125m fee.

I would rather pay 90m for a guranteed top class player than 45m each for 2x squad players who are of course talented but are not gonna change City much, as they replace squad players not guaranteed starters and chances are they wont be guaranteed starters soon and if they cant reach that level within two-three years likely they gonna get moved on ...

No player is guaranteed to be top class whether you spend 90p, £90m or £900m.

 

[mosssideblue]

No player is guaranteed to be top class whether you spend 90p, £90m or £900m.

This all day long.

 

[mosssideblue]

We need kind of transfers this summer like Laporte, KDB, who do bring in quality and thet get an unquestionable starting place for themselves.

We usually have much better transfers after a bad season than after a good one. Maybe Txiki feels more he has to improve the squad more than after we won and just get the squad bigger...

Ake and Torres are not above category for me, they will be on the bench a lot. Good squad players, Torres has great potential but he wont start 10 PL next season I am sure. Maybe more for rotation and cup games.

We need a serious second season from Rodri and Cancelo, as we paid top money for them, but not yet proved their real worth or potential. Especially Cancelo.

We spent huge on Stones, Mendy years ago and did not work, they arrived as young, very talented players, high potential. Now we will struggle to get a serious fee for them.
(Mangala dont get me started on that. For younger talents its more than enough to do Nastasic, Savic type of cheap signings if they work out great, if not we still can sell the for same price or for small profit.)

That Van Dijk signing worked out immensely for Liverpool and he was 75m. Imagine Laporte-Van Dijk duo for a cost of 135m instead of Stones-Otamendi-Ake for 125m fee.

I would rather pay 90m for a guranteed top class player than 45m each for 2x squad players who are of course talented but are not gonna change City much, as they replace squad players not guaranteed starters and chances are they wont be guaranteed starters soon and if they cant reach that level within two-three years likely they gonna get moved on ...

Do you think Van Dick would be a guaranteed success playing for us?

 

[Keeper!]

There are plenty of elite professional footballers who have very complex and volatile personal lives and still manage to deliver on the pitch week in and week out to the highest possible standards.

Just look at the way David Silva dealt with the terrible situation of his son, simply incredible.

Look at the way Pep had dealt with the sudden loss of his mother in tragic circumstances.

We all have personal issues, how you deal with them is a test of character, John Stones seems flawed in that way.