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

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Whilst I'm really not a fan of the idea of ever seeing Grealish in a City shirt, you can kind of understand the Club's logic in looking at the player.

Allowing for the departures of Silva, Sane and Bravo, we currently have 14 players who qualify towards our 'non-homegrown' quota for the PL, out of a maximum of 17 - Ederson, Laporte, Otamendi, Cancelo, Mendy, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Rodri, Zinchenko, KDB, Bernardo, Mahrez, Jesus and Sergio.

That leaves three spots without moving anyone on. One of the positives in the signings of both Ake and Torres is they don't take up non-HG spots for next season (Ake because he qualifies as HG, and Torres because he's under 21).

Assuming we're using Steffen as back up GK, and we bring in Koulibaly and a foreign left back - that's our quota used up, with apparently a CM and potentially an attacking player still needed.

Now clearly the club is trying to shift Otamendi, which would free up a further spot - but this is by no means guaranteed. Either way, we're right up against the quota.

So if we're looking at, for example, either Aouar or Grealish for the CM spot - Grealish makes a lot more sense in terms of overall squad planning and strength, as he allows us to fill all the positions we feel need addressing this summer.

That said - I sincerely hope we don't sign him as I think he'd be shite in our team, but I can understand the logic if we're planning a major rebuild.
 
Nicholas van Whatsisface said:
Whilst I'm really not a fan of the idea of ever seeing Grealish in a City shirt, you can kind of understand the Club's logic in looking at the player.

Allowing for the departures of Silva, Sane and Bravo, we currently have 14 players who qualify towards our 'non-homegrown' quota for the PL, out of a maximum of 17 - Ederson, Laporte, Otamendi, Cancelo, Mendy, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Rodri, Zinchenko, KDB, Bernardo, Mahrez, Jesus and Sergio.

That leaves three spots without moving anyone on. One of the positives in the signings of both Ake and Torres is they don't take up non-HG spots for next season (Ake because he qualifies as HG, and Torres because he's under 21).

Assuming we're using Steffen as back up GK, and we bring in Koulibaly and a foreign left back - that's our quota used up, with apparently a CM and potentially an attacking player still wanted.

Now clearly the club is trying to shift Otamendi, which would free up a further spot - but this is by no means guaranteed - but either way, we're right up against the quota.

So if we're looking at, for example, either Aouar or Grealish for the CM spot - Grealish makes a lot more sense in terms of overall squad planning and strangth, as he allows us to fill all the positions we feel need addressing this summer.

I sincerely hope we don't sign him as I think he'd be shite in our team, but I can understand the logic if we're planning a major rebuild.
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If we bring in a left back, one of Zinchenko and Mendy will go.

There were reports of us being after the Brentford GK as he's HG, at least he'd be cheap after last night!!
 
Nicholas van Whatsisface said:
Whilst I'm really not a fan of the idea of ever seeing Grealish in a City shirt, you can kind of understand the Club's logic in looking at the player.

Allowing for the departures of Silva, Sane and Bravo, we currently have 14 players who qualify towards our 'non-homegrown' quota for the PL, out of a maximum of 17 - Ederson, Laporte, Otamendi, Cancelo, Mendy, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Rodri, Zinchenko, KDB, Bernardo, Mahrez, Jesus and Sergio.

That leaves three spots without moving anyone on. One of the positives in the signings of both Ake and Torres is they don't take up non-HG spots for next season (Ake because he qualifies as HG, and Torres because he's under 21).

Assuming we're using Steffen as back up GK, and we bring in Koulibaly and a foreign left back - that's our quota used up, with apparently a CM and potentially an attacking player still needed.

Now clearly the club is trying to shift Otamendi, which would free up a further spot - but this is by no means guaranteed. Either way, we're right up against the quota.

So if we're looking at, for example, either Aouar or Grealish for the CM spot - Grealish makes a lot more sense in terms of overall squad planning and strength, as he allows us to fill all the positions we feel need addressing this summer.

That said - I sincerely hope we don't sign him as I think he'd be shite in our team, but I can understand the logic if we're planning a major rebuild.
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That's not how it works. We have to build our squad to the CL rules, not just the PL rules.

We can only have 4 HG players who aren't from the academy. Currently that is Walker, Stones, Sterling + Aké.

So unless we shift Stones, Grealish would take up a foreign player spot anyway. Also Ferran takes up a foreign spot because he's not been here 2 years.
 
domalino said:
That's not how it works. We have to build our squad to the CL rules, not just the PL rules.

We can only have 4 HG players who aren't from the academy. Currently that is Walker, Stones, Sterling + Aké.

So unless we shift Stones, Grealish would take up a foreign player spot anyway. Also Ferran takes up a foreign spot because he's not been here 2 years.
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Agreed, but we're clearly trying to shift Stones too so your point is academic. The whole approach to our CB positions next season seems based on 2 in, 2 out.

Irrespective of the PL and CL quotas, we can't really carry 5 CBs in our squad, so those 2 need shifting.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Don't know much about him mate. Blu Oli was saying we could always take advantage of the economic situation and go back to someone linked before?
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Yeah it’s a potential option - felix for the same reason but something tells me This might be the option we go for - unless athletico are so deep in financial trouble.......


And before anyone drags messi out of the mist - if Barca were in so much trouble an 800 million loan from Goldman’s didn’t sort them out enough I do believe he would invest personally in the club to prop them up before leaving. If the right club president is in place of course !

Messi is just below Isco and mido in the likelihood of happening for me.
 
On Lautaro Martinez iv watched Inter Milan a couple of times, the hype is probably from his champions league form was incredible for them against Dortmund and Barcalona. Probably dosent have as many goals in serie a as other stikers as Lukaku for inter is their main stirker, martinez from watching them is the guy who drops deep picks the ball up and drives at defence then getting lukaku in the game with a pass or thorugh ball, has tireless workrate leads the press from the front. Very good in the air scored a few headers. but i believe most the hype was because of his start to the season he fell off a bit after quarantine.

Also if we sign him then the young city fans will probaly love him, nicknamed (The Bull) he has a celebration like dybala, puts his fingers to his head to mimic a bull when he scores.

Little vid if you want to see highlights of him
 
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Bellamy's Caddy said:
Torres - signed as Sane squad replacement.
Ake - Looking like he'll be signing soon.
Left Back - ?
Silva replacement - ?
Cente Back - Koulibaly?

I'm assuming the additional transfers will be for the above positions based on players leaving and areas that need strengthening.

Thinking about Silva leaving, I do wonder if we might be in for Grealish or at least another attacking midfielder as there is a squad space available... How we would keep all of those players happy I have no idea, although if the 5 subs rule is confirmed for next season that might help a bit.
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Phil and Bernie will cover Dave I think
 
That is the price though to be fair, when you buy a new TV on 0% finance you don't say it cost only the price of the initial deposit.

What winds me up is when they add on wages or (accidentally on purpose) quote the euro fee as GBP!
 
Everyone frothing at the mouth with this City are spending 300m this window bs. The wankers over at the Mail know their target audience and are feeding them.
 
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