I'm not on any social media thankfully, I can see links that posters put on here regarding transfers the only one I really pay any attention to is Jack Gaughan.Nice to see that you take notice of the papers/media/social media on our "transfer targets".
Only it won't be Txiki - it'll be Viananow spend way over the market value for 5 times worse creator than Wirtz, thats something Txiki can do...
Absolutely…Anyone who places 'sources' into 'tiers' is surely not an adult.
Joined the forum in 2021 - tells us all you've no idea about the club, only that we've won alot of trophies recently.honestly we deserve to be in the europa league next season. unserious club deserves to be in the unserious competition.
Not sure how Gaughan has earned a reputation here …I'm not on any social media thankfully, I can see links that posters put on here regarding transfers the only one I really pay any attention to is Jack Gaughan.
Then again, It's not really important what Jack Gaughan says regarding our summer targets, What is important is how the club conducts themselves in transfer windows and who we actually sign.
Going off previous windows over the last two years we certainly need to up out game when it comes to incomings.
Still not a great look on our part though Ric.He's clearly just chosen Bayern, as always seemed likely, and us "withdrawing" is just PR spin.
Sadly, I think you’ve hit on a very salient point that is overlooked by many.
The way City play is stifling for most world class players. I give you Haaland as a prime example and also the way Grealish and Foden, two great English hopes, have seemingly died on the vine at City.
Players want to play exciting football for exciting teams. They want to express themselves, not be strapped into a “round peg, round hole” framework where their natural talents are stifled.
Pep has absolutely revolutionized football with some of his tactics, especially the sweeper keeper and the inverted fullbacks, which always seeks to overload the opposition and create an open man.
HOWEVER, it has become stale, pedestrian, boring, and, quite frankly, easy to overcome by even the most industrial of teams. Pep has turned potential world class players into laborers, whose primary function is to “recycle, recycle, recycle” until we bore the opposition into submission.
Teams simply play a 6-4/4-5-1/5-4-1 against us and dare us to break them down by finding the space in a collapsed formation camped on the edge of its own penalty area.
Even against that kind of rearguard action, we have become boring, merely shuttling the ball from side to side, rather than sending it intently danger areas looking for a touch, a second ball, or a deflection…something to create anxiety at the back!
Instead, we simply allow defenders to shuffle 5 yards right or 5 yards left to blunt what passes for an attack.
Compounding this, we have two strikers who love nothing more than chasing the ball in behind, which never comes, and they get frustrated.
We have world class midfielders who are taught to stifle the instincts and abilities that created their reputations and, instead, make safe 5 yards passes.
All 3 goals were brilliant, but at 3:45 one of the best team goals of the last decade is on display.
Where did THIS City go???
Absolute class and some of the best football anyone has ever seen coming from the Boys in Blue under Pep!
And nobody with any credibility said we were likely to sign him.Always had my doubts once Musiala signed a new deal.
Heard nothing in recent weeks to say Wirtz was seriously coming here.
Suspect Wirtz was doing Leverkusen a favour maximising his price.
Don't believe for a second City haven't known the costs involved.
we are in for a long season. We had an opportunity to turn the page this summer and we are full on blowing it.
Can't win 'em all.Gutted.
City are a unserious club because a young German player has turned us down for the biggest club in Germany, and one of the biggest clubs in world football?honestly we deserve to be in the europa league next season. unserious club deserves to be in the unserious competition.
Very invested in me, well done good home work you sad twatYour ENTIRE post history is slagging off City and when we win trophies, including the treble, you completely disappear.
Possibly, but currently looks like we'll have to wait a couple of seasons.Will we ever see a team like that again, will we ever see players in a blue shirt play with freedom like that again
Haha you actually spent time checking me out, ffsYour ENTIRE post history is slagging off City and when we win trophies, including the treble, you completely disappear.
I also think that we need to trust certain players to hit form again/or and get better next season ( Savinho, Doku, Echeverri, Khusanov) we need to build our own players again it seems. Still I’d like a creative player like Simons or Cherki just to make sure .Reijnders, MGW will be great in midfield with Rodri, we only need one of Foden, Ecchiverri, Bobb or Nico O to hit form next year, add Rodri Nico G two top FB's Ait Nouri and a RB, were cooking, Costa and another No2, don't see how Rodrygo works with Marmoush on the left no thanks, unless we trade Erl for Yamal, put Marmoush center
WumWe’re actually losing him to Liverpool, this is beyond embarrassing……
We’re actually losing him to Liverpool, this is beyond embarrassing……