It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

blueparrot said:
We can never know whether we could buy somebody better for less as we can can never know what would happen with those we don’t buy,simply because we don’t have all the information you would need.
The clubs requirements, the coaches requirements, the players wishes or demands, the players personality,the competing clubs offers.
We can have opinions but we can’t know what the club knows. That doesn’t mean they can’t get it wrong we’re dealing with people not robots, but they are far less likely to be wrong than any of us.
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I don’t disagree with the majority of what you said, but I think it’s implied that our opinions here come from personal observations and the research that is at our disposal, for those who bother with it.
The only thing I will disagree is with the first sentence you poster. As good a player as Grealish is, and as good as he may turn out, I struggle to believe we couldn’t have found a better player and fit for 100 million pounds. We overpaid and now have to hope for the best, definitely, but that doesn’t exclude that it could have been different and better.
 
BrazilianBlue (Gus) said:
I don’t disagree with the majority of what you said, but I think it’s implied that our opinions here come from personal observations and the research that is at our disposal, for those who bother with it.
The only thing I will disagree is with the first sentence you poster. As good a player as Grealish is, and as good as he may turn out, I struggle to believe we couldn’t have found a better player and fit for 100 million pounds. We overpaid and now have to hope for the best, definitely, but that doesn’t exclude that it could have been different and better.
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Obviously the City management disagreed with your opinion about the fit and the fee.
 
richards30 said:
People do realize that Phillips and Cucurella are the ones that Pep wants right? I mean within reason of quality and price etc? There will have been discussions, quality reports etc and the decisions will have been Phillips and Cucurella. Both mentioned early on by Jack Gaughan, Pol etc
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Have you heard this officially?

“The ones”, really? So assuming we can’t one of them or both, if they really are the targets, the club won’t have other options and alternatives? Which professional club operates this way? We know Ruben Dias wasn’t the number one target, and as everyone who wants to shut down any discussion around here “look at his thread back then!” will say, he worked…
 
Colin Bells Boots said:
Obviously the City management disagreed with your opinion about the fit and the fee.
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Do you know this for sure? Do you know it was unanimous inside the club that Grealish was worth 100 million pounds? Or maybe we wanted to please the manager, or make a big signing whatever the cost, or believed the commercial returns he would bring etc?
 
Retro_Citizens said:
A reminder that Maxwell Cornet (25) has a relegation clause of 15M. He scored 9 goals in 20 appearances for Burnley. He is left footed and can play in the right wing
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What a combination. Cornet and Mr Whippy. A marriage made in heaven!
Would he have the number 99?
 
FantasyIreland said:
50m is quickly creeping towards the norm for a decent player.Besides,we have quite a kitty....and with the relative bargain prices we are paying elsewhere,this fee can easily be offset.
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So if 50m is becoming the norm for a decent player Harry Maguire will represent value for money by the mid 2070’s.
 
BrazilianBlue (Gus) said:
It’s not the end of it for me, though. I have no problem discussing and questioning. And getting a transfer wrong is all debatable. We can sign someone and they work, but it doesn’t mean we couldn’t have signed someone better for less, or that another club didn’t sign someone as good or better for less. Our club’s operations aren’t criticism-proof
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That‘s a bit of a recipe for a hypothetical argument though is it not? Comparing someone we did sign with someone we could have signed is incredibly subjective. We signed Grealish but could have signed Sancho for less - but given the huge difference in quality and style between the Rags and us - how would you go about making an assessment ? Would Sancho have performed any better for us than he has for the Rags ? And how would that compare to Jacks performance at the parade?
 
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