I think we'll be better this year, defensively. Mangala is the key for me - he'll improve from last season with a bit of experience and can do the running around for Demi and Kompany. With Delph in CDM and Fernando improving we'll look a lot more solid, especially if Toure doesn't play as much.I'm not content with the way we are looking. Am I missing something, or have we only signed 1 player to improve the quality of the first team? Delph is a very questionable signing as anything more than a squad player.
A few months ago everyone on here was saying we need to overhaul large parts of the squad, and throughout the pitch as well, and week on week too, yet only 2 signings?
I currently have no grounds to assume that the defence will be any better than it was last season (and it was pisspoor) - all we have is Denayer coming in for Boyata. The quality of our fullback options is woeful.
Not sure why so many are so optimistic, other than blind faith?
I think we'll be better this year, defensively. Mangala is the key for me - he'll improve from last season with a bit of experience and can do the running around for Demi and Kompany. With Delph in CDM and Fernando improving we'll look a lot more solid, especially if Toure doesn't play as much.
Yeah to be honest not "pissed" but perplexed.....i can see the attraction in Man City for a billionaire.....Man Urinal have had it too good for too long and a thoroughly (on the whole there are exceptions) not a nice regime from Slur Alex to.....i dunno...the ball boys!! But why did Roman pick...Chelsea? Not even the biggest club in London (would say on a par with West Ham when he flew in) at the time so yeah.....i would be honest say yep i would love a billionaire to have picked us....mind you that said Dalglish was "lethal" in the transfer market on a limited budget...imagine the mayhem he would cause with more money!! So maybe best we stay as we are...
I'm not content with the way we are looking. Am I missing something, or have we only signed 1 player to improve the quality of the first team? Delph is a very questionable signing as anything more than a squad player.
A few months ago everyone on here was saying we need to overhaul large parts of the squad, and throughout the pitch as well, and week on week too, yet only 2 signings?
I currently have no grounds to assume that the defence will be any better than it was last season (and it was pisspoor) - all we have is Denayer coming in for Boyata. The quality of our fullback options is woeful.
Not sure why so many are so optimistic, other than blind faith?
I don't think the LB situation is going to be a problem domestically. The lack of a top quality DM could well be though. That said, who's actually out there who' s got the quality and is available?Exactly as I see it. Not buying a DM and LB is going to hurt us.
Oh yes....plus others down the years and i think he had a hand in proably THE worse player ever to grace the field in any league including pub leagues...i give you...Christian Poulson!! I mean for christ sake the man had blond hair and.................a head band!! Shocking! Think too he "persuaded" the cock-er-nee "magician" Jo Cole on 160k/wk.....throw in various "the next Zidanes....George Whears etc" or a saying i love "wonderkids" and there you have it! We are "abysmal" in the transfer market.....have to say! But then going back we let class like Jari Litmanen and a few others go...Didn't Dalglish spend something like £80m on Coates, Carroll, Downing, Enrique and Adam?