Have City bought any real bargains?

[Didsbury Dave]

Wasn’t Joe Hart £100k from Shrewsbury? Ali Bernarbia on a free.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Most of them considering what they ended up being worth.

Even the Zinchenko's of this world.

 

[Rolee]

Wasn’t Joe Hart £100k from Shrewsbury? Ali Bernarbia on a free.

Beat me to it, saw the thread title and clicked in to say Hart.

 

[peoffrey]

We rarely profit on a player though, do we? Was money made on Nasri or Jovetic?

 

[FrankSwift1]

Kompany. When we signed him if you would have said he would be Citys best ever captain (trophy wise) and lift 9 and half trophies they would have taken you to the looney bin.

(Especially as there is no such thing as half a trophy)

 

[Blue Hefner]

We rarely profit on a player though, do we? Was money made on Nasri or Jovetic?

We have been bad sellers for as long as I can remember. Dzecko, only sold for a few million. He has now scored over 100 goals for Roma!

 

[peoffrey]

Kompany was outstanding in his debut v West Ham. Everyone was buzzing that we’d found a player. And he was in midfield at the time.

 

[peoffrey]

We have been bad sellers for as long as I can remember. Dzecko, only sold for a few million. He has now scored over 100 goals for Roma!

No disrespect to Wolfsburg and Roma but City require more from a striker. A club with our ambitions don’t build a team around a player like Dzeko. Lewandowski might have been a better idea. He cost Dortmund pennies from Poznan.

 

[Blue Feather]

How far we going back? King Colin, Franny and Buzzer didn't work out too bad :-)

 

[Eoiyflem]

We rarely profit on a player though, do we? Was money made on Nasri or Jovetic?

We don't buy players to profit on them, that's why. Clubs in the lower half of the table or clubs who have owners driven by taking money out of the business. Joventic had a nightmare with injuries and Nasri paid back his transfer fee with 2 leagues and other trophies - we bought him at 24 and he left at 30, hardly designed to make profit...