de niro said:
mosssideblue said:
This from a Mod who thinks we wasted money on Sagna. Perhaps you would remind us all what we paid for him again oh knoweledageble one
If you read my post in context rather than look for a headline to jump on then maybe you might have an inkling to what I was posting, but no. Carry on on your bandwagon of churlish nitpicking.
from a mod? what the fuck has being a mod got to do with anything? if i was to mod your posts you could easily be sanctioned for trolling.
only a rag would say we have bought wisely. our buys have been dogshit. so bad other players have lost their own game by babysitting them.
oh and i dont have to be knowledgeable to see that sagna on 150k is a worse asset than micha was for 70k. its not all about a fee ffs.
fuck me i can't wait till the schools go back.
I think we've bought wisely.
In a season where we were under very strict limits and have very specific roles to fill, we filled all of those roles and got a decent striker in the brain.
Richards is better than Sagna. But we gave him two years to get fit enough to be a proper rotation option with Zab and due to his health problems we ended up running on our best and most active players in terms of yards covered into the ground, to the point where his stamina seems to have abandoned him at points this season.
A bit like Bojinov - it doesn't matter how good you are if you're never fit and the squad needs a player in that position. We got Sagna for nothing - a highly experienced player in both the Premier League and the Champions League and a bit more defensively minded than Zab which gave us greater flexibility. It also gave us a player for right now who in a couple of years when our talented lads are coming through the Academy will be on the wrong side of 32 and retiring, giving them a potential natural place in the squad.
Mangala was a £30-odd million defender who looks like a £15m defender. But as you've said various times Bill, the lad's got it and it is just a matter of time before he becomes world class. We bought Mangala for £32m the same time United bought an 18 year old left for £30-odd million. I honestly think this boy is special and the future of Man City, I really do.
Fernando was a £12m defensive midfielder needed to fill that gap in our squad. Again, £12m is absolutely nothing in today's market and the price reflects his quality. Although I don't think we've seen the best of him this year, but he's never going to be a first name on the teamsheet guy and his price reflects that. Jo cost £19m in 07/08. £12m now when people are regularly flying around for north of £30m is a decent outlay for a 3rd/4th choice player. Again, we only HAD £12m to spend due to FFP. We couldn't have spent £15m on somebody else. So the question was who else could we have bought for £12m who would have filled that spot better?
Wilfried Bony has been here 5 minutes when City have been in their worst run of form for about a decade. I'm not sure judging him now is the smartest thing to do - let's see what he does next year first.
