Agreed. He looks just as good on either flank when he is on his game. He just wasn't very much late in the season coz he for burned out. We need to keep him fresh and rotated.
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It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread
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On Twitter? You know better than that.
Yeah I do. Do you think the agent and father got nothing? Anyway we it will come out when agent fees a reports later in the year..
Agreed he is our best CB. Too bad he has an injury history. I think we'd bring someone in if Ake goes.We just got to hope Ake doesn't leave. We say we have 4 centre backs but Stones is injury prone how much I hate to say that as in my opinion he's our best central defender.
He's going to get an injury/knock that leaves us with 2 central defenders in Laporte and Dias. Hopefully Ake stays.
Otherwise we are extremely lite in that position.
He does. When the occasion calls for it. The Aston Villa game was a good example.I don’t recall Zinchenko getting to the byline and crossing
I think we have a budget set for transfers each summer yes. We don’t have a bottomless pit of money we want to be a sustainable business.Do you really think that’s true - Feels like more Noddy accounting and oversimplification from the Athletic- honestly do you really think a club with our turnover exists in such a hand to mouth manner. I don’t and I’m surprised the Athletic expect anyone to fall for such shit stirring nonsense.
Numerous journalists (many close to city such as Blackburn, pol and gaughan) have said despite the low buy out clause the haaland deal still is a very expensive one to get done due to agent fees and payments to his family etc.
So no it wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of our budget went on signing an already established global superstar meaning now we have to sell to further invest in the squad.
Maybe I’m being simplistic but it just seems to be consistent with the messaging we are getting from many in the media
zero indication zinchenko is outI'll be honest I'm getting a bit concerned, squad was too small last season we limped over the line and went out of the FA and CL because of it. The defence was all over the place in the games against Madrid, Liverpool semi and the last few league games.
When I saw us linked with Cucurella I thought that was us bolstering our options because we'd seen that mistake being short at fullback.
Now it looks like Cucu in and Ake & Zinchenko out
We're making it smaller again up front (while improving the quality)
I get they don't want to keep players who want to leave, but you have to replace them in the same window after a certain point.
Occam’s razor my friend. The correct explanation is usually the simplest one. You’re probably right. One in one out due to Haaland impact on budget.Maybe I’m being simplistic but it just seems to be consistent with the messaging we are getting from many in the media
Still, I’d like to think otherwise and that there’s a surprise on the way.
Ederson - Ortega - Carson
Walker - Cancelo
Dias - Laporte
Stones - Ake
Cucurella - Zinchenko
Rodri - Phillips
KDB - McAtee
Silva - Gundogan
Mahrez - Palmer
Foden - Grealish
Haaland - Alvarez
Every team in the league would kill to have a squad like that. I really don’t understand the flapping from some on here.
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We offered Sterling a new contract to stay and wanted Jesus to stay also so your theory doesn’t add upI think we have a budget set for transfers each summer yes. We don’t have a bottomless pit of money we want to be a sustainable business.
Numerous journalists (many close to city such as Blackburn, pol and gaughan) have said despite the low buy out clause the haaland deal still is a very expensive one to get done due to agent fees and payments to his family etc.
So no it wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of our budget went on signing an already established global superstar meaning now we have to sell to further invest in the squad.
Maybe I’m being simplistic but it just seems to be consistent with the messaging we are getting from many in the media
It's not like we sit on massive profits every year. We have a large turnover, but we also have huge outgoings.Do you really think that’s true - Feels like more Noddy accounting and oversimplification from the Athletic- honestly do you really think a club with our turnover exists in such a hand to mouth manner. I don’t and I’m surprised the Athletic expect anyone to fall for such shit stirring nonsense.
According to Swiss Ramble, our wages+transfer amortisation in the last accounts was £500m, and Haaland's basic salary + fees will be something like £38m a year over five years.
That's nearly our entire revenue for a year.
We pay good wages because we have high revenue, and we keep the squad smaller than most. We could have four or five more average players hanging around like Liverpool, but then we'd be the ones telling de Bruyne we couldn't pay a big new contract, rather than Liverpool and Salah.
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This is a myth. He works perfectly well at right back
Exactly. This is just one of those things bluemoon has tried to talk into existence.
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Mate, I don't mean this as a personal attack, but people really need to learn the correct application of Occam's Razor. It was never intended for conclusive deduction.Occam’s razor my friend. The correct explanation is usually the simplest one. You’re probably right. One in one out due to Haaland impact on budget.
Still, I’d like to think otherwise and that there’s a surprise on the way.
It's a heuristic.
In journalism, it stinks of laziness and a lack of research and investigative rigour.
Sorry...pet peeve!
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Put far more succinctly then I ever could. Thank you for saying what I was trying to say!It's not like we sit on massive profits every year. We have a large turnover, but we also have huge outgoings.
According to Swiss Ramble, our wages+transfer amortisation in the last accounts was £500m, and Haaland's basic salary + fees will be something like £38m a year over five years.
That's nearly our entire revenue for a year.
We pay good wages because we have high revenue, and we keep the squad smaller than most. We could have four or five more average players hanging around like Liverpool, but then we'd be the ones telling de Bruyne we couldn't pay a big new contract, rather than Liverpool and Salah.
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Unfortunately there’s more youth coming through and if the current crop don’t look promising enough then the new crop need to be given a chance, we also need to meet FFP requirements so all these 10 million sales add up to a quality signing for the first team, it’s the circle of life
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Stoned Rose
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Can anyone be arsed to do a squad list, i can't but would be interested to see how it's looking with the planned sales and arrivals.
Was a thin squad already but feels threadbare now.
Not as threadbare as your work ethic ffs
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I was taking the piss ;-)Unfortunately there’s more youth coming through and if the current crop don’t look promising enough then the new crop need to be given a chance, we also need to meet FFP requirements so all these 10 million sales add up to a quality signing for the first team, it’s the circle of life
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So can we now conclude that city are broke and it’s time to saddle the club with debt? Long term loan option from Abu Dhabi independent bank, totally independent from the banks CEO Mansour the 2nd. Again totally unrelated to our owner…totally.
How city being in debt is good for Liverpool’s title challenge :-)
How city being in debt is good for Liverpool’s title challenge :-)
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Do you think agents and others (not to mention the players signing on fees) get nothing from other transfers? Just because the media add it to Haalands fee doesn't mean we have to buy into it when they don't do it for anyone else.Yeah I do. Do you think the agent and father got nothing? Anyway we it will come out when agent fees a reports later in the year..