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

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Kippax Street 1880 said:
Such a double edged sword with the youth players sold aswell, the revenue is very beneficial as its all profit on the balance sheet. I also understand very few players are good enough to get on the pitch for City at 18-21 and these lads need to be playing regularly to realise their potential.

On the other hand I feel we've lost a particularly talented bunch this Summer.

Trafford
Harwood-Bellis
Doyle
Borges
Mebude
Palmer

honestly wouldn't be surprised if every one of them got 30 caps for their country.
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Palmer unlikely but possible if he flourishes at Chelsea. Borges haven't seen, but alot of very good Portuguese players. Trafford may get a few because the quality of English keepers is by far the poorest in my lifetime, and Mebude if he can play for Scotland for similar reason.
Doyle and Harwood-Bellis will do extremely well to play bulk of careers in the prem.
......but you could argue that the amount of caps Rashford has, they could all end up with over 100.
 
Paul1970 said:
We might aswell pack in then
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Okay money in :-
Palmer 45
Mahrez 30
Laporte 25
Trafford 15
Charles 19
Borges 14
Porto 10
Lavia 10

Ttl £168

Out
Gvardiol 77
Kovacic 30
Nunes 47
Doku 55
Ttl
£209

Net spend 41m plus add ons for Trafford/Charles and Borges.
We have added two Croatian worldies plus Nunes who will surprise many people plus a 21yr old exciting Belgian International albeit an unknown quantity.
We have brought the age profile down which was needed without significantly if at all reducing the quality.
If people don't trust the board after winning a treble then they never will.
 
Outstanding I would say given the circumstances…

We’ve brought in Gvardiol (21), Kovacic (29), Nunes (25) & Doku (21)

We’ve lost Gundogan (32), Mahrez (32) & Laporte (29)

And because of significant sales from a hugely successful academy set-up we’ve managed the above all for around £50M net spend. For me the best part about it is a feel we have fantastic balance on the defence and defensive / central midfield options now and all efforts for next summer can be focussed on inevitably replacing Bernardo and starting to think about a KDB backfill. All while keeping hold of the budget to do exactly that.

Managing windows like this and not rushing into bad deals is how this club will stay at the very top for a very long time. Head and shoulders above the rest.
 
Whilst I think defensively we have certainly improved, I do think from an attacking point of view we are certainly weaker this season.

I just wonder if the club have underestimated how many goals and assists are now out of the team with Gundogan and Mahrez gone, and that's not taking into account the now sudden De Bruyne injury.

I just don't think City see any value in the market right now and seem pretty insistent on following the trend of keeping our net spend in a healthy state. Is this a move to satisfy the Premier League and UEFA? I don't know...

Kovacic has added an energy into our midfield that I think only Bernardo gave us last season and Doku is still a work in progress but looks exciting. Nunes will be a decent squad addition.
 
Sensible transfer window from city. We have some solid players in & all younger which was needed. Only spent £50m is incredible business

Boring & responsible city :-)
 
Transition, but good if not great window

Gundo and Mahrez are huge losses, I don't see Laporte as a big loss. But those 2 are both in their 30's, the only way is down

Gvardiol and Doku are young, they replace Laporte and Mahrez. Are they as good as them now? Probably not, but their future is ahead of them not behind them

Kovacic isn't like-for-like for Gundogan, but both are world class midfielders and it just means we are playing slightly different, but with a younger guy

Nunes I'm not a fan of, not been impressed by him but will see how he fares

Palmer is frustrating but that's silly money for a player with so few senior caps comparing him to Doku who's a Belgium regular and has played a lot of football

Also opens up some chances for McAtee and Bobb who I don't think are too far from Palmers current level

We won't miss any of the kids who have left on permanent deals

Keeping Bernardo and Walker is huge

Lots of positives, some negatives but overall a very good window
 
Confusing.

We missed Bellingham.

Saudis messed the market up.

What was Rice all about?

Cancelo loaned.

Sold Palmer.

Laporte and Mahrez sold for small fees particularly the former.

Gundogan leaving late in the day with an offer on the table.

Walker and Bayern nonsense.

Usual Bernardo dance.

Paquetta accused on a betting scam.

I think we have coped but I’d be fooling myself if I thought this has been a great window.

I think our plans went out of the window and we got unlucky.

Brought in 4 good players so far but I think our squad as a whole is a little weaker than last season and we missed the chance to really kick on.

Luckily we have Pep so it probably won’t matter.
 
It’s been a good window. It’d be a great window if Cancelo’s Barca loan breaks down and Saudi comes in.
 
CambridgeExileBlue said:
Some very good new players but cannot but feel a bit underwhelmed and concerned we will not replace the goals and assists of Gundog and Mahrez especially now KDB is absent.
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We need a top class AM in the next two days imo, the rest of our incomings have been great but no pint in Palmer going unless we have someone better coming in as the squad still needs one more bit of magic
 
It’s definitely the strangest one in recent times, but a treble does do that both the club might want a shake up and players may feel the time is right to move on.

I’m with the goals and assists worry lot, we seemed to have lost a lot and none of the new ones seem good in that aspect. Doku has potential but no guarantee of goals.

Haaland had a record breaking season, but no guarantee he will again.

So a lot to find.

The 2 early signings are excellent and seem typical City signings.

Since then it’s gone a bit unpredictable and not City esque, but you can tell smart business sense has prevailed and our net spend is very good.

Probably need Nunez to prove me wrong to be a great window.
 
rossmoss said:
Purely because of KDB injury, I think we need a one akanji type signing who can play as an attacking midfielder and possibly on the wings...

Or then we try to loan an attacking player who would be somewhat happy as a bench player. Would of course be incredibly difficult to get required quality ON LOAN at this stage of the window.

Probably the easier option would be to go for a low cost player who can be used from the bench if needed. Loan would be preferred since kdb will be back and with him our squad is in a good shape...
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Paging Terry Cooke
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
We can't possibly judge for a few months, but undoubtedly we're in a period of transition.

Since the 3-2 over Villa (only 15 months ago) we've seen Jesus, Fernandinho, Sterling, Zinchenko, Mahrez, Gundogan, Laporte, and probably Cancelo all depart. That's 8 of the 14 players who featured that day.

Forget the transfer fees, the biggest indicator will be the games where the opposition are looking reasonably comfortable.

Last Season it was Mahrez (Stamford Bridge) and Gundogan (Goodison Park) who made vital contributions.
Can the new players replicate in such a short period of time?
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Mahrez at Stamford Bridge was just a tap-in from a nice cross from Grealish and poor keeping from Kepa. Mahrez at home to Spurs is a much better example We were dead at half time and it could have been a hammer blow to our title hopes. He almost single-handedly turned around that game with a performance I will never forget. Utterly sensational. Doku will not produce that any time soon (and may never do) but he offers something different so we'll have to see how it turns out.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I’m with you on all of this mate. We seem to have to go through this lunacy on the forum every summer, and then again every time we suffer a defeat.

Will these idiots ever realise that the club know what they are doing?
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If only Arsenal hadnt won the title on the back of Jesus and Zinchenko ... then they would have nothing to cling to
 
pauls said:
Okay money in :-
Palmer 45
Mahrez 30
Laporte 25
Trafford 15
Charles 19
Borges 14
Porto 10
Lavia 10

Ttl £168

Out
Gvardiol 77
Kovacic 30
Nunes 47
Doku 55
Ttl
£209

Net spend 41m plus add ons for Trafford/Charles and Borges.
We have added two Croatian worldies plus Nunes who will surprise many people plus a 21yr old exciting Belgian International albeit an unknown quantity.
We have brought the age profile down which was needed without significantly if at all reducing the quality.
If people don't trust the board after winning a treble then they never will.
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We may move Cancelo and Phillips in Jan in which case we will be net positive spend again.

Yet the narrative still continues that we spend the most money, get ready made best players -- a high school coach could do Pep's job ...
 
Strange one for me, improved defensively and extra bodies in midfield but we simply haven't replaced the goals / assists that Gunslinger and Mahrez gave us. Buying 2 defensive minded midfields baffles me slightly unless it's purely for numbers, we so desperately needed an attacking/creative mid. 1 more injury to Foden/Bernardo and its not looking good going forward. At least we shouldn't concede many hehe
 
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