Assessment of our business this summer | Poll Added

Go on then, rate our transfer business out of 10?

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Plain Speaking said:
I agree Nunes, like Philips, has not played very much for us. However Pep is with the players practically every day assessing their composure, skills, passing, attitude etc and if they're good enough to play for us. I trust his judgement.

I looked in detail about Nunes when he was at his previous club and personally wouldn't have bought him. I didn't want us to buy Philips either!

I am not sure either will get a run at starts if they're not convincing Pep in training, especially now we are out of the EFL Cup.
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When he was at Sporting Lisbon they played him as a central midfielder, yet at Wolverhampton Wanderers they played him across midfield, much less so centrally though, which suggests, to me, that he just might not have the required physique to play in the middle in England. In his defence, he arrived late, has played in an unsettled squad, and hasn’t had a run of games yet, so it’s hard to make a fair judgement. My only concern in signing him at the time was that his arrival rather hastened the departure of Palmer and McAtee, and I would much rather have seen whether they could have developed here this season rather than whether Nunes could. I expect to see him off the bench at Luton and then start in Belgrade.
 
Still not convinced it was a "terrible" window

Gundogan was leaving, we knew that, wasn't anything that could be done. We've out faith in Foden/Alvarez to pick up the slack.

Gvardiol for Laporte made sense, it still does

Nunes and Kovacic haven't helped out Rodri, but the whole team haven't helped themselves out. We just want the treble, there is a noticeable fatigue bith physical and mental that has destroyed our whole structure

Doku is a class buy, he's shown that but he is still a kid

It wasn't great, maybe it wasn't even good

But it wasn't terrible
 
It has echoes of Mancini's demands to build upon his champions squad and his list went in with Van Persie and Hazard on it but he was overruled with a load of bench warmers such as Rodwell, Sinclair, Maicon and a slow coach called Garcia. Sure enough it never improved us but there did seem to be wish behind the scenes to remove Mancini and that was to happen. Some on this forum even seemed to want that and kept pushing Pellegrini's name forward and that is what happened.
I'm just wondering if a rerun of this is being tested.
 
argyle said:
A terrible transfer window compounded by the inexplicable purchase of Phillips.

Our midfield targets are very mediocre.

That includes Paqueta.
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I think the Phillips transfer and losing KDB has really magnified it, I was one of the people that gave it a 4 and honestly I would still rate it around there. As for Paqueta, I'm with you on that didn't see him adding much
 
That poll closed on 8th Sep 2023, with the score 8/10. I’m sure if you re-opened it now until the New Year, it would hit that score again. A couple of wins on the trot and things might seem a bit better but most of us know we haven’t played particularly well all season.
 
argyle said:
A terrible transfer window compounded by the inexplicable purchase of Phillips.

Our midfield targets are very mediocre.

That includes Paqueta.
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I haven't clue whether Phillips is good or bad? Would be nice to find out. Fuck all to lose now.
But yep - atrocious window no matter what our clapping alchemists and turd polishers spin.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
I haven't clue whether Phillips is good or bad? Would be nice to find out. Fuck all to lose now.
But yep - atrocious window no matter what our clapping alchemists and turd polishers spin.
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Think that’s being terribly unkind on Gvardiol. The midfield mess is a cause for disgruntlement, true, but Gvardiol is proving and will prove an exceptional acquisition.
 
I'm no cynic but... said:
I'm just wondering if a rerun of this is being tested.
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FFS we had Fabien Delph try and teach "the basics of football" to Pep, but Pep wanted advanced calculus, geometry, trignometry triangles and thunderbastards from his DM.. so Fabien was sold and we got Rodri!

And judging by SM and Khaldoon's relationship with Pep.. I'd say if there is really a problem like that.. the entire front office might have to go, but they will try to keep Pep here and happy.
 
My initial optimism at our squad changes has evaporated as the standard of the replacements exposes they are mainly struggling to fit in and dragging down the overall standard exponentially.
We clearly under estimated the influence of Gundogan ,the presence of Mahrez and Laporte on the overall chemistry of the squad...
This hotch potch accumulation of players is not what Treble winners should look like...
 
I went for a 6 but think a 4 or 5 is actually more accurate, I was disappointed with our transfer window as knew Kovacic and Nunes weren’t the quality we required. Kovacic and Nunes have been even worse than I expected and Gvardiol hasn’t hit the heights I thought he would (so far), I thought he was best placed for the marauding centre half position that Akanji has been doing in Stones absence. We missed an opportunity to strengthen the team and have really suffered with KDB injury and Gundogan gone
 
I originally rated it an 8 as I expected Kovacic and Gvardiol in particular to be better, although to be fair to the latter he’s being played out of position a lot.

Doku I still think is an exciting player and will be amazing once he’s settled in more.

It was incredibly disappointing and frustrating to miss out on Bellingham, still don’t understand how he can really think we’re a plastic club. He's obviously either as thick as shit or brainwashed by the anti-City media. But at least he didn’t go to the scousers.

Rice would have been a great signing too, we should have tried harder to change his mind about Arsenal.

But after that, who else was there to sign? No point buying players for the sake of it if they’re not good enough. Once those two were unavailable there’s not many out there who improve us, or better than Kovacic and Nunes. Who’s good enough to be a regular for us in midfield now that would be potentially available to sign? I can’t think of anyone.
 
richards30 said:
well apparently the first choice transfers were Bellingham, Gvardiol and Kovacic and we got two of the three? Rice was the back up option to Bellingham and we all know that we have a value and dont go over it plus i genuinely think that Rice wanted Arsenal more than us so that plays a part in the clubs thinking. It seems that Mahrez has confirmed in an interview that once he got the offer from Saudi that he told the club he would like to take up the opportunity and we found a way to make that happen and Doku has made an exciting start here?
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Bellingham being a **** and leading us on screwed us imho
 
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