Assessment of our business this summer | Poll Added

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

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Gvardiol has shown enough already for me that I think he will be a superb signing.....he is only 21 and playing in a Pep team even more seasoned pros have struggled to get to grips...(he has had wobbles but I dont think he has struggled too much)

Where the buys have been poor is in midfield....I think Kovacic is a good player but he lacks what Gundo had and that is creativity and goals - he is zero threat in that respect.

Nunes is a strange buy but we will have to wait and see - I just dont see the correct temprament in him....not for this team...too lackluster, doesnt appear and never has appeared to have fight in him....see a bit of Cancelo in him tbh in that he lacks drive to really step up to that elite level....think he may have been a bit of a last minute buy after what happened with Paquetta (and I wasnt sold on him either)

Doku has already proved a very good buy - he again is very young and considering that his performances have been very good....he will learn the defensive side of his game over time and retaining the ball when needed....but his attacking threat is about as god as we have at present.
 
Hesitating between 7 and 8, so I won't vote.
Kova is not a bad player, but come on, he was never going to replace Gundo and I don't think he was meant to. There are years when a Gundo-level player just isn't around (and I do not think Rice would have been the answer, either). He's a player who needs to be playing alongside a creative player. He's a wise old head. A little bit slow.
Nunes, can't work him out. Just haven't seen enough. I've seen flashes of things that looked very good. But only flashes, and only very brief. Certainly not stamping himself on games.
Doku is a far better signing than I expected, and I'm convinced that Gvardiol is sheer class, and we'll see the best of him — as we did with Rodri, as we did with Gundo, for that matter — in his second season.
 
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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
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Doku wasn't our primary target, was he? Not sure if he is classified as a "class" buy. Potentially, he can be, but at this stage he is rather limited. More concern is that I suspect he is injury-prone. Not sure if he could withstand a rigor of PL.
 
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I voted 8, I'm down to 6 primarily because we somehow chose to not replace Kalvin.

Either Rodri has played too many games or when he was usspended no one has replaced him adequately.

How could we be so blind?
 

Assessment of our business this summer | Poll Added​


When I saw the thread title and poll added, I thought we were after buying Lewandowski.
 
Sunny days, riding high on the treble, loads gave it a 9/10. Before we'd signed anyone.

Now we're at a low ebb, people want to slate it.

An awful lot depends on Kova getting back into the groove, for me. And Grealish. Where the fuck are you m8?

They have to pick up some of the slack left by Gundo's absence.

Nunes... we needed legs. That's so obvious now, even tho people thought we were sorted even before Doku.

I hope Mathias grows up fast, because he looks a bit like an overhyped kid acting spoilt.

Both are specialist central players. Now they play for Pep Guardiola.

They should be having nightmares that John Stones was picked ahead of them.
 
Might be wrong on this, so willing to stand corrected, but I don’t think that all four of our summer signings have started a game together. Could be coincidence, what with injuries and late arrivals, but it might also show how hard it is to assimilate new players into the team.
 
Gabriel said:
Might be wrong on this, so willing to stand corrected, but I don’t think that all four of our summer signings have started a game together. Could be coincidence, what with injuries and late arrivals, but it might also show how hard it is to assimilate new players into the team.
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Or that half of them were bought predominately as back ups?
 
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