you picked a team with no first team players under the heading of "no first team players there ,who do we have to pick" i a bit confused(which isnt hard admittedly)Was picking a team with no first team players all them you mentioned are first team players
I don’t get this argument at all, it’s not kept on the hush by any means and any club searching our results will easily see what we have earned the previous year. It’s public information, so why not bring it up to show how well run we are?Correct.
A bit like Ratner telling his customers his jewellery was crap.
But flipped by Soriano telling other clubs City will make revenues of £700mill
yeah i think that to...against some teams at home we could not have Rodders on the pitch and just play kovasic in the DM role (or mybe even Phillips if Pep can geta tune out of him in training)That's when Kovacic will take up the slack in Rodders position
You’re missing the point, we do them a “nice” price on the player from Girona, as long as they accept our “fair”price we’ve placed on head of Nunes.No lmao which makes it funnier.
It’s always doom and fucking gloom in here… Having watched the “challengers” over the first 3 games, I can honestly say that none of them put the fear of god in to me this season. They all look weaker despite strengthening and all have the CL/Europe to navigate too this year.
West Ham and Brighton currently look more a threat than Utd, Arsenal, Newcastle or Liverpool as it stands. That may well change but unless they can make it click pretty soon then I doubt it. Even with our injuries we look like we are up for it, Walker’s desire and passion to rectify his cock up Sunday should show you we are up for it regardless and want 4 in a row.
Also worth noting those stressing about not buying players are also saying said players are average and we should be playing youth… Can’t have it every which way that suits. City have had a great window so far and yet again proven we’ll not be taken the piss out of with overinflated prices or demands.
they can't all play in the first teamWas picking a team with no first team players all them you mentioned are first team players
Can you not read?What's the latest?
Under the fundamental principles of employment law, WH were duty bound to disclose information pertaining to such an investigation, particularly given the potential for sanctions including - but not restricted to - a lengthy ban. Whether the source was, in this case, the selling club remains unclear. However, it is standard practice for any responsible employer to explore whether a prospective employee is subject to any form of disciplinary investigation as part of their due diligence procedures.The irony of course is that in theory we shouldn't have even known about the confidential investigation into Paqueta, nor West Ham, nor Paqueta and someone at the FA did us a massive favour by letting it out.
We bid for a player who until recently had a £45m buy out clause, we offered £10m more than they had wanted until this summer. It was removed on the promise if a CL club came calling he’d be allowed to leave for similar money! We have come calling and they now want £15-20m more? That’s mugging City off not the other way round.
We are playing the game, they say £60m, we offer £50m with the realistic belief of a compromise of £55m! We would not have bid that had we not been given a nod to that being accepted. We don’t have time or patience to piss about going to and fro, it serves no purpose.
As for us taking the piss, how? We value him at a set price so bid, they won’t budge so we move on.. it’s standard practice in any negotiating, you never go in at the asking price nor expect to ever pay that. I e never bought a telly without some money off! It’s far from insulting, it’s standard.
rfered to as embarrasment of riches last night by some expertIf you pick a B team from our squad how many first team players do we have to pick?
Ortega
Lewis
Palmer
McCteer
Bob
Gomes
Philips
Doku
That's it none of those are first team footballers now! Very inexperience and no even a full first team! Thought we had 2/3 players per position!?
Everybody knows our turnover and can guess the region it will be in. Has nothing at all to do with what our prifits are or will be, which compared to turnover isn't that much.Has nothing to do with our transfer negotiating, clubs want the maximum they can get, not just from us either.Chelsea have fucked the market no doubt but our CEO breaking the professional norm by announcing our forecasted turnover for the financial year and how the business brand is growing so quickly probably wasnt to best business idea with regarding transfers etc?
Under the fundamental principles of employment law, WH were duty bound to disclose information pertaining to such an investigation, particularly given the potential for sanctions including - but not restricted to - a lengthy ban. Whether the source was, in this case, the selling club remains unclear. However, it is standard practice for any responsible employer to explore whether a prospective employee is subject to any form of disciplinary investigation as part of their due diligence procedures.
Correct. That apparently is Badger, or whatever his name is. :-)Txiki is part of a transfer team but is NOT the money guy!
If Liverpool or United signed Gvardiol, Kovacic and Doku I'd be extremely jealous tbh.6 different midfielders not going our way this summer with £100m in our pocked if you include Gundo leaving unexpectedly.
Genuine self sabotage, we'd all be howling if it was United/Liverpool doing it.
The blokes only redeeming asset is being Peps bezzie
Rubles?Maguire must be worth £120m now.
I’m not suggesting WH or Brighton will challenge, they’ll both fade away but both (as I stated) currently look better than Liverpool. However, Liverpool won’t win the PL this year in my opinion. It’s ours to lose I think, some will call me arrogant but I’m just confident.I'm not dismissing Liverpool as a threat,and that's nothing to do with what happened last weekend,although Brighton looked fucked already,giddyness was starting there after winning opening two games v Luton and Wolves,soon as they came up against an half decent team they were smashed,at home as well.
Liverpool will play weakened teams in their Euro games as well,which makes them better equipped come weekends,they are a threat,not a worry,but certainly a threat.
That gives us a squad of 23 players, hardly thread bare and absolutely full of quality. We’re suffering cause our best player is out long term and he makes such a big difference to our starting 11.Was picking a team with no first team players all them you mentioned are first team players
Some people have the time to look at maybe one page of half a dozen threads in the forum a day. After absolutely no news, this thread has jumped 30 pages since Midnight.Can you not read?
Where do you get this promise of a CL club calling bit ? Seems completely made up to me, otherwise surely it would be in his contract?We bid for a player who until recently had a £45m buy out clause, we offered £10m more than they had wanted until this summer. It was removed on the promise if a CL club came calling he’d be allowed to leave for similar money! We have come calling and they now want £15-20m more? That’s mugging City off not the other way round.
We are playing the game, they say £60m, we offer £50m with the realistic belief of a compromise of £55m! We would not have bid that had we not been given a nod to that being accepted. We don’t have time or patience to piss about going to and fro, it serves no purpose.
As for us taking the piss, how? We value him at a set price so bid, they won’t budge so we move on.. it’s standard practice in any negotiating, you never go in at the asking price nor expect to ever pay that. I e never bought a telly without some money off! It’s far from insulting, it’s standard.
If that was the case, I stand corrected. However, I would contend that responsibility then falls to the FA to disclose such information. Either way, it can't be described as a 'favour' on their part.West Ham didn't know about the investigation.
You can't be duty bound to report something you don't know about.