Hugo Viana | Director of Football

mancboy said:
i understand the logic, but there seems to be this idea that pep cant work without txiki, he worked for 3 years at bayern without txiki to be fair, there is as much an argument that pep might relish the challenge of working with new people, collaborating with new ideas etc etc.
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And he also worked his last two seasons at Barça without Txiki too iirc...
 
D'Silva said:
Wow this Rubén Amorim is young, only turning 40 next year. Well young because he is only a few months older than me and I don't consider myself old yet. If he does sign he could be here 20 years easily if he is any good.
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i think City already has planned everything down

timeline is quite interesting

Last summer Amorim declined

Liverpool when he was on verge on signing
West ham when he went there and immediately declined

Probably City hierarchy has started to make moves in advance for him to stay a few years at Sporting and replace Pep when he decides to leave.
 
Skrastins said:
i think City already has planned everything down

timeline is quite interesting

Last summer Amorim declined

Liverpool when he was on verge on signing
West ham when he went there and immediately declined

Probably City hierarchy has started to make moves in advance for him to stay a few years at Sporting and replace Pep when he decides to leave.
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city always say consistently that they dont work plans for next year, its the next 3 to 5 years that they work on so that would make sense.
 
mancboy said:
city always say consistently that they dont work plans for next year, its the next 3 to 5 years that they work on so that would make sense.
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Everything since the takeover has involved a long-term planning level. As far as I can make out, planning works systematically at three levels: short term, for the coming season; medium-term, for the next five years or so; and finally, for all I know, decades from now. Wouldn't surprise me. These guys running us are very, very serious. There's no knee-jerk stuff.
 
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I hope the club didn't sacrifice last summer's window because they knew Txiki was off and we needed a new DOF to build a new team.
 
while Txiki's overall work deserve recognition, he badly let off towards the end and checked out early. instead of serious additions and strengthen while you are ahead, we became comfortable with the ageing squad. we were not far off to lose Ederson and replace him with Ortega either. the Phillips, Nunes transfers supposed to fill in important roles didnt workout, Palmer will be a stick to beat us for long, Alvarez replacement nowhere to be seen etc. Gvardiol only big hit but he was rated one of the biggest potential in Bundesliga, with Doku, Savio serious potential but aint there yet.

this summer again was strange, record sales, but we are paying the price for not going for it already in November we look tired somehow, no energy, generally poor games vs shit Soton, Wolves, out of Carabao etc. our form is bad, and most players also not in form.

Hugo Viana needs to look at the squad and see the issues. both quantity and quality wise.
 
Got a big job ahead of him.

We’ve got a lot of 30+ year olds who are on the decline, with the players in the squad who may look to replace them being absolutely nowhere near as good as these ageing players were in their prime or others who’ve left us over the last four years.

That’s what you get when you have a 5 year net spend of £-70m; a gradual decline.
 
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