It's Quiet the £250m return

[Utter bobbins]

When they signed in January they were left out when we badly needed players in there position but Pep stuck with Gundogan and Akanji

Ok

 

[JewelZee]

well 27 hours left of the window.

I go and rewatch the Khaldoon interview from June. he wasnt happy with last season and approved quite some spending in January and the summer too. an the start of this season is just as bad.

Khaldoon was blowing smoke up our asses and Pep has no answers. It is what it is. One doesn't need to be a football savant to see the club has changed its MO. Got the CL, got the 4 peat. Now it's make money and stay in and around the mix. The last 2 FA Cup finals are emblematic of the new City. No longer desperate to be top. Even half the fans are good with it and spend the bulk of their time rationalizing every dubious move we make and making excuses and insisting that because we dominated English football for the better part of a decade we now need to accept a lower standard with a big smile on our faces and a shrug. There's no reason on God's green earth we should be this bad. We lose on the regular to teams that have 2 maybe 3 players that would get in our squad. We are massively underperforming no matter what any angry clapper tries to say. Some questions need to start being asked.

 

[SWPISHOME]

There's plenty of right backs out there whether it's in Europe or South America, surely for a club of our stature we'd have a serious scouting department to find us a right back.

We let the dippers have a free run at Frimpong for £35m too.

Arsenal went and signed Timber last summer.

There's right backs available but we're too stubborn and we'll cut our nose off to spite our face and stick with Nunes and Rico.

This will be two seasons in a row now without a right back, It's not good enough.

 

[richards30]

Time for a reboot. Only issue I have is do we keep the guardiola philosophy or move away to a more counter attacking team.

Not sure how this all plays out but surely we can all agree it’s not working anymore.

He could still turn it around.

He can’t turn it round as he won’t change unfortunately mate, he sad that only yesterday? It’s pretty sad to be honest that he either can’t or won’t alter tactics to least make us more solid?

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Ok

Looking at our team compared to what we had is glaringly obvious the drop in quality

 

[Bluewonder]

Khaldoon was blowing smoke up our asses and Pep has no answers. It is what it is. One doesn't need to be a football savant to see the club has changed its MO. Got the CL, got the 4 peat. Now it's make money and stay in and around the mix. The last 2 FA Cup finals are emblematic of the new City. No longer desperate to be top. Even half the fans are good with it and spend the bulk of their time rationalizing every dubious move we make and making excuses and insisting that because we dominated English football for the better part of a decade we now need to accept a lower standard with a big smile on our faces and a shrug. There's no reason on God's green earth we should be this bad. We lose on the regular to teams that have 2 maybe 3 players that would get in our squad. We are massively underperforming no matter what any angry clapper tries to say. Some questions need to start being asked.

We are massively underperforming our resources but not our playing staff. We started today's game with 5 midtable players.
You can't carry clowns like Nunes and Lewis and expect to win consistently.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that any of our wingers are good enough for us either.

 

[Gorbachev]

Could have had Dumfries as a short term right back for €15m. A player that has played in 2 CL finals in last 3 years.

But no, too old apparently and nearly in the grave as a footballer at 29

 

[richards30]

Viana is new to the league but don’t think for one moment he is acting in isolation

Agree completely with this, stinks of Soriano to be honest as he cares more about the commercial side than the football side

 

[mosssideblue]

Agree completely with this, stinks of Soriano to be honest as he cares more about the commercial side than the football side

Of course commercial are going to play a factor in signings, probably the biggest.

 

[Ken92]

Problem is you can’t look like David or Kevin without Sane’s or Walkers.

Yes ,our wingers are pretty poor and i´ve said it for over a year now that we need a world class wingers ,but even with Sanes and Sterlings ,we don´t have noone as good as David and Kevin

 

[richards30]

Could have had Dumfries as a short term right back for €15m. A player that has played in 2 CL finals in last 3 years.

But no, too old apparently and nearly in the grave as a footballer at 29

Yep! Another poor decision as he could have been a top level player for 3 years at a low fee.

 

[Mad 4 It]

For me it’s simple too many average players. We’ve been collecting them over a number of seasons and the wingers just aren’t good enough. Doku now entering his third season and looks to be going backwards. I think the tactics have some way to causing us issues but world class players have the mentality to find a way to win and we just don’t have enough of them

 

[Damanino]

start of the week we knew (and 3 weeks ago as well) we want to move out Phillips, Wilson Esbrand, Kabore, Ortega and heavy discussion on Gundo, Ederson, Akanji too, while same talk died down on Savinho /Spurs and with that effect the talk on Rodrygo as well. while big rumours on Donnarumma.
so not one of these players actually moved between Monday and today is quite odd and unlikely.

we almost have to hear a player leaving every 2 hours tomorrow basically.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Of course commercial are going to play a factor in signings, probably the biggest.

Makes no sense though. There’s no benefit commercially to having Rico Lewis over hakimi for example.

We are spending. We’re just trying to be far too clever.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

For me it’s simple too many average players. We’ve been collecting them over a number of seasons and the wingers just aren’t good enough. Doku now entering his third season and looks to be going backwards. I think the tactics have some way to causing us issues but world class players have the mentality to find a way to win and we just don’t have enough of them

I’m at the point of thinking it can’t be the players out wide though, if the full backs actually attacked it would create more space.

The balance is a mess. Pep wants full backs to be midfielders when right now we need them to be wingers. We’re down 4 players every week due to this set up.

 

[Kippax Kidd]

Too late to get rid of the deadwood

 

[Delphinho]

It’s madness that potentially all of Dias, Ake, Akanji, Gundogan, Bernardo and Kovacic will stay, while we have let McAtee, Echeverri, Bah, Reis and Nypan leave. Some fucking «rebuild» this

Still need to move on Ortega, Kabore, Phillips and Wilson-Esbrand with 1 day to go. RB position still not adressed which remains a big issue and we’re left with Savinho as well who clearly doesn’t want to be here

 

[richards30]

Of course commercial are going to play a factor in signings, probably the biggest.

From first hand experience. Soriano only ever crows about the turnover and commercial aspects at games and fleets over performances and success.

 

[come-on-barney]

From first hand experience. Soriano only ever crows about the turnover and commercial aspects at games and fleets over performances and success.

As he will learn very quickly, the two go hand in hand.

 

[JewelZee]

We are massively underperforming our resources but not our playing staff. We started today's game with 5 midtable players.
You can't carry clowns like Nunes and Lewis and expect to win consistently.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that any of our wingers are good enough for us either.

Agree. I just said the club's MO has changed. So there's one question you are raising, our talent level. OK, I'll do it. I'll raise a question, can this version of Pep get the better of anyone who has anywhere near our talent level or does he need to have the upper hand at every position on the pitch? Also. they started the game with 7 or 8 midtable players. So what gives?