It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[hihosilva]

Deadline day should be fun

 

[Ajm1985]

Grealish is a very good signing and will add a different dimension. However, not signing a 9 (which they identified as the main need) and not moving on unhappy players is a bit of a bust

 

[chaddblue]

Deadline day should be fun

It won't if Pep says on Friday all our business is done

 

[Don Karleone]

Some real smacked arses on here lately.

There are still 6 days of the window left and we can't force a club to sell us a player if they don't want to.

Lets see where we are this time next week before we start slagging of the team who have built the current squad, won more trophies than I ever thought I would see and allowed me to see some of the best football I have ever seen.

If we're still looking for alternatives, I'm okay with that. It's those saying we're okay with what we have I have a problem with. If it was true, we wouldn't have put so much into getting Kane.

 

[skillman]

So we turned down Messi on a free to not sign a finisher at all this window? Christ on a bike.

 

[Blue tiger]

Can't agree, we reinforced the one part of the squad that was already strong with the signing of Grealish, but no way is this squad stronger than last year. LB is still a problem, fernandinho is another year older and obviously we have no recognised senior striker. Not flapping but to say we are stronger is BS.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

The Sheik has little involvement, other than initial investment. The people the Sheik has appointed do.

Not doing too shabby, are they?

 

[Vester]

So what you're saying is it's the agents that deserve the credit for bringing these players to City and not our transfers team?

No I said Mendes deserves the credit for the Dias deal and offloading Otamendi and that the other transfers was half a decade ago.

 

[Zinchilla]

Some real smacked arses on here lately.

There are still 6 days of the window left and we can't force a club to sell us a player if they don't want to.

Lets see where we are this time next week before we start slagging of the team who have built the current squad, won more trophies than I ever thought I would see and allowed me to see some of the best football I have ever seen.

This. Lots of toys being chucked out. Club were trying to buy the England captain without him putting in a formal transfer request from a club who didn’t want to sell to an English club. I imagine it isn’t like buying a Ford Fiesta. Didn’t happen, move on. My only twitchy feeling is the whispers that we put players on the market and I just hope it was only the players who want a move. But then again I know FA.

 

[hihosilva]

It won't if Pep says on Friday all our business is done

spoil sport

 

[richards30]

Can't agree, we reinforced the one part of the squad that was already strong with the signing of Grealish, but no way I'd this squad stronger than last year. LB is still a problem, fernandinho is another year older and obviously we have no recognised senior striker. Not flapping but to say we are stronger is BS.

Yet khaldoon stated yet again in his summer interview that he has learned that you have to strengthen when you are at the top etc? And we would continue to disrupt and compete for the worlds best?! Pep also stated at the end of last season that squads need refreshed regularly or it becomes stale yet here we are again by the sounds of it with no lessons learned? Bernardo Silva will still be begging to leave so can we not at least get nuno Mendes in? At least fill one of the problem positions?

 

[kaz7]

So we turned down Messi on a free to not sign a finisher at all this window? Christ on a bike.

Messi wanted to play with his mates at paris , he knew what we have offered and turned us down yet again

 

[hilts]

Best not sell Bernie & Laporte now.

We ain’t that mad surely

No Kane it happens
No striker well that’s a bit shit
Lose one or both of Bernie or Laporte then that would be pure fuckwittery.

 

[Platt Lane veteran]

Grealish is a very good signing and will add a different dimension. However, not signing a 9 (which they identified as the main need) and not moving on unhappy players is a bit of a bust

The three “unhappy players” were competing each other for man of the match on Saturday.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Struggling to see the correlation between what I wrote and your answer?
We literally don’t have a striker in the squad..

We had close to the best ever season by any club ever,all without a striker.We have now added a world class midfielder to that squad,and we have one of the best young strikers in Europe banging on the door.
I am not blinkered enough to suggest Kanes arrival would not have improved us hugely,but your assessment that the season might be fucked as a result of not signing him (or another) is a tad far fetched,to say the least.

 

[Del_Bosque]

We should have just kept Aguero and used him off the bench

it’s actually insane not having a striker

 

[K-Bo]

IMO we're just not that good in the transfer market. We can pick up a prospect sure, but when it comes to getting big players over the line without a release clause, its 3 months of fannying about before not getting it done and then asking the manager to pull a rabbit. Kane, Messi, Maguire, Van Dijk, Koulibaly, Jorginho. Last of A targets missed since 2017 is getting silly. Even if some of our backups have been great its still poor from a negotiating POV and something that doesn't happen to Chelsea, PSG, Bayern or even United anywhere near as often. In the grander scheme of things, we could win the league anyway and then nobody cares but these days the safe bet is city missing their main target every summer.

 

[Zinchilla]

Yet khaldoon stated yet again in his summer interview that he has learned that you have to strengthen when you are at the top etc? And we would continue to disrupt and compete for the worlds best?! Pep also stated at the end of last season that squads need refreshed regularly or it becomes stale yet here we are again by the sounds of it with no lessons learned? Bernardo Silva will still be begging to leave so can we not at least get nuno Mendes in? At least fill one of the problem positions?

Erm, how about £100m on one player, someone with the skill and confidence to disrupt our own squad in a good way. How’s that not an improvement?

 

[Homar]

Surely there is no way we haven't learned anything from a few years ago when we failed to replace Kompany. If we are serious about competing this season then we desperately need a striker, even if it a stopgap for one year. I see people pointing to how well we did last season, but they're ignoring how poor the other teams were and how much those sides have strengthened. We have too many holes at present (striker, cdm, leftback) and Chelsea have about as strong a squad as there has ever been in this league.

 

[Cityinmud]

In my opinion if we sell Bernardo now , this window will be a complete disaster. We are just not good at transfer market and negotiations.
Those who have the opinion "we have a world class team and will win everything this season" that's fine and that's your opinion.