It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

TheBlueCat said:
Speed is massively important in a football team. The lower leagues are full of good ball players who aren’t fast enough. We don’t need any Lee Trundells.
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So all we got to do is play walker on the wing?? I will give u 2 prime example of rapid forwards who are shit because all they have is pace and no skill or composure. ASM at Newcastle and traore the wolves winger.
 
Centurions said:
And despite not being ideal we still carried on winning, it's almost as if the club actually know what they're doing.
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I don't get why some of you feel the need to do this. Nobody is saying the club doesn't know what they're doing, for fuck's sake.

There's literally no reason to get defensive.

Did we want to sign an Aguero replacement last season or not?

Did we want to sign Jorginho a year before we signed Rodri or not?

Did we want to sign Harry Maguire a year before Ruben Dias or not?

We walked away from those deals because we didn't consider them financially viable at the time. We still wanted players in those positions a year before we got them.

The season we didn't replace Kompany, we lost the title in no small part due to Laporte getting injured.

The season we didn't sign a Fernandinho backup, we got lucky that he was available for pretty much every game.

Last season we didn't replace Aguero, still won the league but got chucked right out of the Champions League again because we didn't have a clinical finisher.

If you want to pretend that it's not been the club's intention to fill the necessary positions in the squad a lot earlier than they have, be my guest.

I'm not attacking them for failing to do so, I'm saying that this summer is the perfect opportunity to plug those gaps without putting it off for another season.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
No we haven't and this summer is when we've got the funds and opportunity to put that right.

If you're telling me that having Zinchenko and an alleged rapist (who was practically a non-entity even before he was facing charges) at left back has been ideal or that not replacing Kompany for a year, not replacing Aguero for a year and not having a backup to Fernandinho for a year were all smart ideas then I doubt we're going to agree.

I can accept that the reality is that we might not have had the funds at those times and had to prioritise other positions but we certainly do have the funds now.

If we're not bothered about four centre backs why is that currently what we have? If we're not bothered about having two available left backs then why are we going after Cucurella?

With the exception of centre mid, it's pretty obvious that we do want two players per position.
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If we had replaced Aguero a year ago we’d likely not have Haaland. Just saying
 
Tugay One Cup said:
If we're losing Ake, we're going to be three players short of having two in each position and that's including Cole Palmer, who has barely played any senior football.

People can jiggle things around and say "this player can cover that position" as much as they want but I fail to see how anyone can claim that is optimal.

There's ages to go in the window and I'm pretty sure we'll make Cucurella happen eventually. Until then, there will be pretty obvious holes in the squad.
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Worrying times…

But Ake only goes if we have a replacement lined up. So it’s not actually worth worrying about.

Also Cucurella will happen as you say.
 
SWP's back said:
Worrying times…

But Ake only goes if we have a replacement lined up. So it’s not actually worth worrying about.

Also Cucurella will happen as you say.
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You'd hope we have an Ake replacement in mind.

To be fair, I'm not even arsed if Pep genuinely trusts Mbete, Doyle or whoever else to fill that role. I just want to avoid doing what we've had to do in the past and try and get away with plugging that gap with a defensive midfielder or full back.
 
They need to give Palmer much more game time this year, the guy is 20 he isn't a kid anymore in football terms. Foden for example played 50 games in the season he was 20. If they got another attacker in he would be lucky to make 15 appearance with Alvarez coming in aswel, it just isnt enough.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
You'd hope we have an Ake replacement in mind.

To be fair, I'm not even arsed if Pep genuinely trusts Mbete, Doyle or whoever else to fill that role. I just want to avoid doing what we've had to do in the past and try and get away with plugging that gap with a defensive midfielder or full back.
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the top city journalists have all stated that if Ake goes then we will want a replacement sorted before hes allowed to leave which is a positive.
 
richards30 said:
the top city journalists have all stated that if Ake goes then we will want a replacement sorted before hes allowed to leave which is a positive.
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Yeah I've seen that but I don't think it's necessarily realistic to have a replacement lined up so soon, looking at how quickly the Ake transfer seems to be moving along.

But there's about 7 weeks (?) left of the transfer window so I don't think we need to be scrambling.
 
BM96 said:
They need to give Palmer much more game time this year, the guy is 20 he isn't a kid anymore in football terms. Foden for example played 50 games in the season he was 20. If they got another attacker in he would be lucky to make 15 appearance with Alvarez coming in aswel, it just isnt enough.
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Wonder why he didn’t get hardly any game time last season?
 
Tugay One Cup said:
You'd hope we have an Ake replacement in mind.

To be fair, I'm not even arsed if Pep genuinely trusts Mbete, Doyle or whoever else to fill that role. I just want to avoid doing what we've had to do in the past and try and get away with plugging that gap with a defensive midfielder or full back.
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Both Pol and Sam Lee have said they’ve been told independently that Ake won’t leave unless we’ve lined up another CB so in relatively sanguine on that one.
 
JDV said:
We signed the best young striker in the world.

We signed South Americas best young attacking player.

We signed a proven 26 yr old English international midfielder to replace an ageing Fernandinho.

There is still plenty of time in the transfer window.

How can you be disappointed?
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Being disappointed is the MO around here, you should never get excited over anything.
 
BM96 said:
They need to give Palmer much more game time this year, the guy is 20 he isn't a kid anymore in football terms. Foden for example played 50 games in the season he was 20. If they got another attacker in he would be lucky to make 15 appearance with Alvarez coming in aswel, it just isnt enough.
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So in a way are you saying pg has held him back ?
 
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