It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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kun said:
We learned it's better to wait and find the right player than panic buy the wrong one.
We signed Dias a year later and won the title and got to our first CL final.

If we hadn't stuck to our guns we'd have horribly overpaid for Maguire and wouldn't have Dias.
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I don't think you can draw this conclusion. For some reason we decided on Maguire. That wasn't a panic signing, just bad recruitment (with hindsight). If we had stuck to our guns, we would have signed Maguire. I know that some people believe the line put out by various journalists that we always wanted Dias, but I don't believe that for a second. I think, much like what we're seeing now, we couldn't agree a price with Napoli for Koulibaly or Sevilla for Kounde and that Dias was probably option C or D. The same was true for Rodri, where it was clear that our preference was Jorginho.
 
kun said:
Yep but it left them with an ageing squad on big money.

They haven't won a league title since...
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We have no striker. Ronaldo is available and we won't have to break the bank to get him. With only 6 days left in the window, our options are as narrow as it gets. Acquiring Ronaldo now does not need to impact what happens next season.
 
Homar said:
I don't think you can draw this conclusion. For some reason we decided on Maguire. That wasn't a panic signing, just bad recruitment (with hindsight). If we had stuck to our guns, we would have signed Maguire. I know that some people believe the line put out by various journalists that we always wanted Dias, but I don't believe that for a second. I think, much like what we're seeing now, we couldn't agree a price with Napoli for Koulibaly or Sevilla for Kounde and that Dias was probably option C or D. The same was true for Rodri, where it was clear that our preference was Jorginho.
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Dias was a Mendes deal. He saved us. It makes you think that if it weren’t for him, maybe we wouldn’t have signed another CB. We wouldn’t have paid the fee Sevilla wanted for Kounde, Napoli wanted for Koulibaly, Atletico wanted for Gimenez or even the entire fee Benfica wanted for Dias. It took Mendes to make it work. Maybe he’ll pull it off again too

Also, if we had signed Maguire, are people really sure he wouldn’t have worked in our time possibly as well as Dias?
 
Pam said:
It wasn't stupid money. It hardly broke the bank. It was stop gap money and it made all the difference.
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I was referring to the long list of old players they have bought as stop gaps in the following years, at stupid wages.
In the meantime we have bought younger players and won the league 4 times , and a plethora of cups.
Don't quote me the "United way" as the way forward please.
 
Gus Cruz said:
Dias was a Mendes deal. He saved us. It makes you think that if it weren’t for him, maybe we wouldn’t have signed another CB. We wouldn’t have paid the fee Sevilla wanted for Kounde, Napoli wanted for Koulibaly, Atletico wanted for Gimenez or even the entire fee Benfica wanted for Dias. It took Mendes to make it work. Maybe he’ll pull it off again too
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Crap.
 
We must still have Mario's no in an archived personnel file. Sure he'd do us a turn for 12 months or so ;)
 
Pam said:
We have no striker. Ronaldo is available and we won't have to break the bank to get him. With only 6 days left in the window, our options are as narrow as it gets.
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I'm not saying don't sign Ronaldo. I'm saying that van Persie isn't a very good example.
 
asahartford1 said:
Crap.
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What exactly? You think we would have paid the money to Sevilla? Or you disagree that Mendes crafted the deal?

Khaldoon promised creative deals. I am asking, Show me one, my man. One. Still six days to go
 
Del_Bosque said:
We should have just kept Aguero and used him off the bench

it’s actually insane not having a striker
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what would we have done stretchered him on ?, hes out for another 3 months, you're not having a good posting day are you, you're obviously over emotional , get yourself an early night, will do you the world of good
 
Vester said:
Selling Bernardo now, and not signing a striker, and these clowns in charge of transfers would have managed to spend £100m and made our team worse
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In view of our success over the last 10 years, how you can describe our people in charge in such a way is raggish & seriously suspicious
 
I guess it's not been aggregated yet but Pep has given an interview to ESPN Brasil and claimed he will step down as manager after 7 years at City (in 2023) and take a break, then go for managing a national team.
 
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