It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

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Really think the club is more worried about our wage bill to high and need to sell to bring anyone in! What gets me we have a small squad but our wage bill is massive! We need to bring players in on lower wages than normal
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
We have a team that's not able to fulfill Pep's demands of a high intensity press, high quality possession with low turnovers that keeps counter attacks to an acceptable rate.

Instead we have low intensity press, low quality possession, with high turnovers that's way open to counters.
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Oh shit that sounds like United
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
We have a team that's not able to fulfill Pep's demands of a high intensity press, high quality possession with low turnovers that keeps counter attacks to an acceptable rate.

Instead we have low intensity press, low quality possession, with high turnovers that's way open to counters.
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All true but nothing like the post you posted raising my reply
 
supercity88 said:
It's not about the holding midfielder, it's about the team not defending as one. Even with Rodri on the pitch we would be conceding so many chances. He's read the game better and make sure he was in a position to cover better than the options we've currently got. But if Haaland, Foden, De Bruyne, Bernardo and Savinho all press but that half a second too late then it's a simple pass and you've cut out 5 of the team and we're left with Kovacic and 4 defenders trying to deal with the situation. That's what the issue is at the moment. We've either got to stop pressing completely and just sit in or everyone has to be bang at it so we win the ball back high up the pitch.
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I totally agree with you and I’m amazed that more people have not picked up on this. This season we are playing such a high line it’s kamikaze tactics and no surprise that we are getting torn apart on the break.

When we attack everyone except the keeper moves up (although on Saturday even Ortega found himself close to the centre circle on occasion) and when we have the ball 20 yards from the opponents goal line it’s highly likely that we’ll have every outfielder in the opponents half. If we lose possession, which we have been doing frequently this season, it’s a relatively simple task for our opponents to hit us on the break, especially if they have speedy wingers as our full backs will have moved inside leaving so much space on the wings.

We definitely need reinforcing in central midfield and maybe in the back four, but we’d be a whole lot better off if we did some basic defending and put in the odd tackle every now and then.
 
Great Kompany said:
While agreeing to the difficulty, isn’t there some 22 year old playing in Portugal France or Germany who can do a Job for us.
I mean thats what scouts are for i guess.

Because 90% of the posters here can point to Zubimendi or Bruno G or Declan rice and say yes this will do a job.

When can our scouts go to Shaktar and bring the next Fernandinho or go to Wolfsburg and get the next Kompany.
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Username needs a rethink if you don’t know where the great man came from.
 
waspish said:
Really think the club is more worried about our wage bill to high and need to sell to bring anyone in! What gets me we have a small squad but our wage bill is massive! We need to bring players in on lower wages than normal
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It’s all speculation. Could be a whole host of things
 
waspish said:
Really think the club is more worried about our wage bill to high and need to sell to bring anyone in! What gets me we have a small squad but our wage bill is massive! We need to bring players in on lower wages than normal
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Wage bill has been so high due to the bonus payments for winning so, self financing from the prize money. Having said that the base is still high, players will need encouragement to switch mid season as well
 
We don't half have some panic merchants on here. Give the club (the player and the selling club too) time to get the right players in.
Anyone who thinks you can click your fingers in January and magic up a superstar or 3 is dreaming.
The best players are rarely available in this window. That reduces the pool significantly as we don't want lesser quality players, they have to be better than our academy players as a minimum.

It leaves us with limited options-
⚽Players with Release Clauses (not at a top team that want to come to City)
⚽Paying way over the odds for a player with all of the FFP ramifications
⚽Taking a player who is out of favour at their present club (there is usually a good reason why)
⚽CFG transfer / loan

Doing nothing is not an option so we will move but it will most likely be at the behest of the selling club who will want a replacement lined up and secured before they sanction any sales.
We have 4 weeks and a fair few days before the next EPL game so I'd expect to see any new players drip fed into the squad over the next few weeks.

No need to panic
 
JC2 said:
We don't half have some panic merchants on here. Give the club (the player and the selling club too) time to get the right players in.
Anyone who thinks you can click your fingers in January and magic up a superstar or 3 is dreaming.
The best players are rarely available in this window. That reduces the pool significantly as we don't want lesser quality players, they have to be better than our academy players as a minimum.

It leaves us with limited options-
⚽Players with Release Clauses (not at a top team that want to come to City)
⚽Paying way over the odds for a player with all of the FFP ramifications
⚽Taking a player who is out of favour at their present club (there is usually a good reason why)
⚽CFG transfer / loan

Doing nothing is not an option so we will move but it will most likely be at the behest of the selling club who will want a replacement lined up and secured before they sanction any sales.
We have 4 weeks and a fair few days before the next EPL game so I'd expect to see any new players drip fed into the squad over the next few weeks.

No need to panic
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You say it as if Rodri didn’t do his ACL three months ago.
 
pavelsrnicek said:
I doubt that City think we won’t be buying anyone in January because of the 115 charges otherwise they’d simply brief that Pep is happy with the squad.

Judging by the timelines so far, we may not know our fate on the 115 by the time the summer transfer window is closed.
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It's been reported late Feb 2025 and possibly an appeal ? City hands are tied until the hearing verdict
No world-class player will sign until our future is sorted because a guilty verdict would be relegation to whatever they feel the punishment should suit the crime,
 
JC2 said:
We don't half have some panic merchants on here. Give the club (the player and the selling club too) time to get the right players in.
Anyone who thinks you can click your fingers in January and magic up a superstar or 3 is dreaming.
The best players are rarely available in this window. That reduces the pool significantly as we don't want lesser quality players, they have to be better than our academy players as a minimum.

It leaves us with limited options-
⚽Players with Release Clauses (not at a top team that want to come to City)
⚽Paying way over the odds for a player with all of the FFP ramifications
⚽Taking a player who is out of favour at their present club (there is usually a good reason why)
⚽CFG transfer / loan

Doing nothing is not an option so we will move but it will most likely be at the behest of the selling club who will want a replacement lined up and secured before they sanction any sales.
We have 4 weeks and a fair few days before the next EPL game so I'd expect to see any new players drip fed into the squad over the next few weeks.

No need to panic
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Yep and spot on

Loans look like the best option and maybe options to buy after the loan period
 
Sibierskii said:
Douglas Luiz on loan reeks of 115.
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Why? He isn't being chosen by Juventus. So why not bring him in for 6 months with an option to buy? It could be that other players we are after won't be allowed to leave their clubs in January. Of course Zubimendi has a release clause, but maybe he wants a move in the summer. I don't believe him coming on loan is any proof the case will go against us.
 
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