George Hannah
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Short, to the point and arguable to an extent - but only if you don't look in the trophy cabinet and the heart of the squad going forward.He is leaving us in a worse position than he found us in.
Short, to the point and arguable to an extent - but only if you don't look in the trophy cabinet and the heart of the squad going forward.He is leaving us in a worse position than he found us in.
We’ve still spent plenty of money in the Pep era, not all of it spent well.And that’s where FFP has f***ed us.
Sheikh Mansour would have ploughed his money into doing that.
Now like every other club, we’re ‘forced’ to work under FFP rules and a level playing field, brought in by the cartel cubs (and UEFA) who were petrified of City’s spending power.
Sane is gone, Stones is shit, and not one of the players listed is a midfielder bar Phil and he’s certainly not “quick”Sane, Sterling and Jesus are the fastest forward line in the Premier League
Laporte and Stones are quick enough
Foden comes in for Silva when ready. In terms of pace, job done.
Job only half done. Sane won't be here and you are missing a DM.Sane, Sterling and Jesus are the fastest forward line in the Premier League
Laporte and Stones are quick enough
Foden comes in for Silva when ready. In terms of pace, job done.
its a huge job considering we need
Two centre backs (one to replace Kompanya and one to replace stones - his head is gone!)
Two left backs - (how ong has that been said for!????!!!) BOth are absolute dogshite
A replacement for ferna (even with Rodri) - once he leaves thats a huge hole int he squad to fill
A replacement for David Silva - Foden clearly isnt ready if we are to trust our manager (which i do)
A replacememtn for GJ - id personally sell him to a european team - he would do well in the spannish or Italian leagues.
A replacement for Kun - an almost impossible task!
Thats a shit load of work...maybe we can delay the replacement for Ferna and Kun one more season after this but the rest are urgent especially the defensive ones - and to counter my own statement, Id say getting the replacement for ferna in now while he is still here is just as important.
Add to all that the very very strong almost certainty of losing Leroy Sane - how do you replace him..the option being floated about (if true) are truly uninspiring!)
we will get decent money for Jesus, Sane ( i dont want him to leave but its clear he wants out) and maybe some money bak on Mendy but nowhere near what we paid for him....we may reoup the money on Angelino.
We would get little to nothing for Otto as well so there are big financial implications as well to this.
That's far too pessimistic. Stones and Laporte were oustanding for much of last season. Why do you say Stones head has gone? His problem is that he is forever injured. He just can't get a run in the side. Laporte is a world class player. Garcia and Harwood Bellis are fine prospects. I don't see a problem there.
Losing Mendy who was a world class left back was hard but we survived it first through the form of Delph and then Zinchenko. Zinchenko is under-rated because he didn't cost £50m.
Why doesn't Rodri fill Fern's shoes. He's slow but so was Xabi Alonso.
Jesus is an oustanding young player. We'd be foolish to let such a talented young player go. He needs supply. At the moment we're struggling to do that because KDB is not quite at the level he was whilst David Silva's legs have gone.
We have the same problem that Pellegrini had when Yaya reached the end of his days. The team has become unbalanced but I don't think it will take much to put right.
Sorry but how does the past help the current side. Being league champions doesn't help City one bit when we face Liverpool and Man Utd. We accuse their fans of living in the past whereas their sides destroyed us in the first 1/4 of the game.Short, to the point and arguable to an extent - but only if you don't look in the trophy cabinet and the heart of the squad going forward.
Son is a brilliant player. Sane may still be here. Bayern are even worse off than we are. They are 7th in their league. They don't need wide players. They need central defenders and midfielders.Job only half done. Sane won't be here and you are missing a DM.
Get Son in for Sane?
Job only half done. Sane won't be here and you are missing a DM.
Get Son in for Sane?
I think back to what he was like at Everton in his breakthrough season and the player we purchased, he was 10 times the player back then than he is now. He’s regressed so badly it’s incredible - he’s been here 3 and a 1/2 years now.
1 goalkeeper - let Bravo go, preferably replace with homegrown to free up spot
2 central defenders - sell both Stones and Nico
1 left back - sell Mendy and Angelino
2 midfielders - Dave leaves us and sell Gundogan
1 left winger - assuming Leroy is gone, I’d also contemplate selling Mahrez as well as I don’t think he will ever be what we need
1 striker - needs to be young, maybe Haaland, as we’ve got another season of Sergio before he officially needs replacing
Out of current squad the only ones worthy imo of being retained are:
Eddie, Kyle, Cancelo, Laporte, Zinchenko, Rodri, Dinho, Kev, Bernie, Phil, Raz, Sergio, Jesus - plus any of the other kids close to first team like Garcia etc.
It’s a BIG rebuild.