I'm with Invisible Goat. It's about having our cake and eating it too. Develop youth but also buy superstars.
I know and understand what you say but like it or not we can have no more than 17 such players (unless we can find another four such superstars from the English and Welsh game). These are the rules and are applicable to all EPL clubs regardless of status. Using a buy anyone policy, we then have the problem of moving on players who may be on long and expensive contracts. This will always be a problem, as we saw last Summer, and though you might accept a 'so what' attitude towards players you may have previously idolised until a new flavour of he day player emerged on YouTube, the City Management team will have to treat people properly otherwise new players will be deferred from joining us.Exactly. We are in a position to splash the cash regularly so lets do it. People who seem to be embarrassed by it or say we lose credibility when we spend pots of money are a strange breed.
I have waited years for us to be in a position to compete with the big boys so I say bring it on.
I'm with Invisible Goat. It's about having our cake and eating it too. Develop youth but also buy superstars.
I love Sergio but if we could get top dollar for him this summer and replace him with Sanchez, Aubameyang or Griezmann, I'd be inclined to do it.I'm with @domalino here. It's too late for Sanchez now unless Aguero is shipped out and honestly I'm fine with that. Sanchez is a better fit for this system. I would have agreed with you this summer when Aubmeyang and (?) Sanchez we're available. We totally shit the bed spunking 100 million of the 150 war chest on Stones, Gundogan, and Bravo if you ask me. I was pissed at the time and even more so now.
Stones 47m, Bravo 13.75m, Gundogin 18-20m - Somewhat short of your quoted 100m -I'm with @domalino here. It's too late for Sanchez now unless Aguero is shipped out and honestly I'm fine with that. Sanchez is a better fit for this system. I would have agreed with you this summer when Aubmeyang and (?) Sanchez we're available. We totally shit the bed spunking 100 million of the 150 war chest on Stones, Gundogan, and Bravo if you ask me. I was pissed at the time and even more so now.
Stones 47m, Bravo 13.75m, Gundogin 18-20m - Somewhat short of your quoted 100m -
This is spot onSurely this doesn't need explaining, if you've bothered to read my comments? Nolito doesn't mind sitting on the bench, so they can play when it suits them, or we can use Nolito's experience. Sanchez will demand to play every game, like Aguero, and like Sanchez already does at Arsenal. So you can't play the kids at all because Sanchez and Aguero both have to start, leaving 3 kids fighting for 1 place each week.
Guardiola doesn't believe that and has never said it. If he did believe it he wouldn't have binned Henry for 20 year old Pedro, or Yaya for Busquets.
We don't have to wait 5 years for them to come of age either, that's just bullshit and everyone knows it. In two years, Sané will be 23 and Sterling 24, and they'll want to be at a club where they play every week. Meanwhile Sanchez will be 31 and still expect to start every week.
We made a deliberate choice to buy the next generation of world class players. England, Germany and Brazil's biggest attacking talents all joined in the summer, and we spent big to get them before the likes of Bayern/Barcelona/Real did and they became unavailable.
So if we've already made that decision to get the next generation, deciding we actually need a 29 year old for another £50+m and then losing the next generation because we played Sanchez into his 30's would be a massive failure in the transfer market.
If we had to have someone of Sanchez's level now, or next season, we should never have been spending £130m on the kids.
As good as he might be we just dont need him.
Agree with this, unless of course we decide that Sergio is surplus to requirements.