Didsbury Dave
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Good post mate. When you do down the road of signing players for the sake of it because that’s where you need a player you end up like Man United and Chelsea with a big bloated overpaid unhappy squad you can’t get clear out.Every season people and City supporters question the club and every season they are proven wrong. City are not going to go out and buy a top class dm because no.player worth their salt is going to come here and sit on the bench. We are probably going to try and groom one of the young academy players to learn the position, probably Nico ORielly, and come up with something creative for a season in order to give Rodri a rest whilst he is learning this chage of position. But unless we can find someone who top notch in this position and is prepared to be back up then we probably go with what we have at the moment. I realise its a risk but City have been bitten once when signing Kalvin Phillips for a good chunk of change which hasnt worked at all. I don't believe we're prepared to do that again. With regards to getting another forward in I think like the situation with Rodders, no decent centre forward is going to come and sit on the bench to be Haaland's backup, so we will go back to a false nine if and when required. With regards to needing a left back we last had one with Mendy and he was a disaster. We have done really well since then, although Cancelo filled in there untill he threw his toys out of the pram, with Ake and Gvardiol playing there so I again don't feel it's a pressing issue for City. Let's have some faith in the bald one, he deserves that from us City fans after all the success he has brought us.
One of the things we do brilliantly is try to only sign young playera of the requisite quality and mindset and when you are the best team in Europe that’s not easy. It’s better to sign nobody that someone not good enough.
Wait until mid October and we draw 0-0 with Southampton and the “we’ve lost our hunger”/“Pep has no plan B”/“Top 4 will be a struggle” posts come out. Happens every single season.