Cristiano Ronaldo

[Joekmcfc]

Such a shame, another botched attempt at bringing a marquee signing to the club. Happy to accept this outcome as was always gonna be hard to convince ronaldo with the pressure from global rags. Just when you loose such a player of Sergios calibre I would have thought they would have prioritised his replacement with a player who guarantees min 20 goals a season every season, £100 mill on grealish was not a priority. Even dm and left back would still be ahead of grealish IMO. Because of that decision we’re left without a Sergio replacement whilst all our rivals have nailed recruitment in terms of what they need. Really poor management on this, you’ve got de bruyne in his prime maybe few more years at his absolute best and you’ve got Torres and Jesus as your options.I’ve no doubt we’ll score a shed load of goals still but imagine if we had someone to finish off all those missed chances? Really poor from a few at the top. Hope I’m proven wrong, but hope it doesn’t come back to bite us, second time we might not be so lucky especially with crowds back. Then this window will be a the reason for failure this season.

So many exciting prospects at the start of the window!

 

[mccity]

I could have predicted the outcome of this saga and saved you all a lot of heartache. My time machine had a flat tyre and the garage is closed. For the bank holiday weekend.
I can only apologise and pray you wonderful Bluemooners can forgive me.

You're auto-correct was trying to save us ;)

 

[Blootoof]

Going into the season with Torres and Delap as our striker options tells you what the season holds

Plus Bernado might not be here and a fullback that's gonna be shithot on Fifa2023

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I like you.

How’s the weather been for you down there this week?

 

[Jamiblue]

doubt it...just managing expectations.....

I was attempting to stay optimistic

 

[selim]

The club was reluctant from the beginning, they just thought it was too big of an opportunity to miss without a try. As soon as they saw a bidding war with the crazy United board, they pulled out.

 

[kdbrise]

Some people here need to realize that City are a global football club now whether you like it or not. We have expectations, we can't let the scum or any other club snatch our targets (which they don't need) just because City don't sign them.

We have thousands of fans right now getting mocked by their United mates because we didn't get this through. Do you expect to us sit here and clap hands at the board or something for trying ?
We got right to be pissed off.

 

[City10.]

Spend 40m on Nathan Ake no question, but 25m for the second greatest player of all time? Too expensive. Txiki Birgistain that.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Grealish now looks like a silly transfer

Oh look,yet another whopper signed up to the forum in the last few weeks.

 

[Scareye]

We all having a tantrum because Mummy won’t buy us the sweeties near the till again?

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

How do you work that out, we've added Grealish lost nobody. ? In what possible way is that worse.Window also still open

Lost Aguero and potentially a left back while the whole squad has gotten older

 

[Mid Wales blue]

100%
Pep never wanted him

It was a very strange press conference, and I‘ve only ever seen him like that once before, that was at BM a few weeks before he announced he was leaving.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

Lol.

Didnt catch Peps press confetence but did he say "I am so so happy with what we have"?

 

[domalino]

I suspect the next set of accounts are going to be pretty grim. We're clearly working within some pretty tight constraints.

If we can't afford €30m for Ronaldo then what the fuck was all this nonsense about Kane all summer?

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I’m not that sad that he didn’t come it is what it is. But I jist think we handled this whole transfer window piss poor.

Based on what? Twitter rumours mainly. All I've seen all summer is people saying "this guy's legit", "he's tier 1" etc. Fucking laughable from so many.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Who ACTUALLY said we were in for him anyway? I mean - when did City say we were interested?

Also with Kane - wasn't it Levy's fault he didn't move. Nothing do do with how we are run.

Surely we can't actually work mind control on people.

Why the hell would CR have ever come to us - nonsense press talk surely probably started by the Rags PR department!

Let him go there, more wages, dressing room unrest and all that crap. it will be good viewing.

Never. It was said we were offered him and we considered a deal but didn’t go through with it.

 

[Jamiblue]

The club was reluctant from the beginning, they just thought it was too big of an opportunity to miss without a try. As soon as they saw a bidding war with the crazy United board, they pulled out.

We always pull out of Bidding Wars (not sure why) so I can see this being a main reason

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

We went for Messi and he didn't come here. I can get that, I don't think he really wanted to leave them.

We went for Kane and he didn't come here. I can get that we didn't want to pay £150m.

We looked at Lukaku but he didn't come here. We didn't want to pay nearly £100m for him, which I get.

We went for Ronaldo and he didn't come here. I can't understand why £30m is seen as such a 'risk' for the greatest player around.

The club are trying to sign a top class striker as we clearly need one. However, to miss out on all 3 is not good. We NEED a striker, more so than any other position.

I genuinely don't understand why we negotiate with teams for the top, top players if we're not prepared to tip up.

I rate Grealish, but I'd rather we'd have spent £100m on a striker than another midfielder.

If United get Ronaldo, on top of Varane and Sancho then will improve a good few points.

I can only hope the club are preparing a bid for a striker now, surely...?

 

[Gumzy97]

Top 4 this season will be tough without a recognised goal scorer

 

[Maly]

You miss understand me,, players of a level that we need I've no problem with them,, but the higher end players,, players that really would fire us forward, as in a world force in marketability, they seem to fail time and time again, if we can't sign this type of player, fine just admit it, again I've no problem with that either

You’ve confused me now, that’s for sure!

This post seems like you don’t think our C-Level staff are embarrassing, your previous post said you did lol

Looking at our commercial revenues, I’d say we’re doing more than alright worldwide marketability.

When you say this type of player, there’s only 2 of them………