Guardiola rules out any January signings.

jrb said:
Lose out on a CL place next season and that's £60mill gone. 2/3rds of the cost of a word class centre half.

Not to mention playing on a Thursday night in the Europa League.
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If the second half of the season is like the first, we'ell have 76 points which will be enough. Think the second half will be better with just the injured players coming back expect to be 80 plus.Unless the centre back we want is available, and we can sell to make room in the squad we will wait until summer.
 
Bluearmy said:
We need Rodri to get settled into the DM role so next year he can start and perform in 90% of games in that role. Moving him back compromise that IMO. A sticking plaster at best for this season and might effect him settling fully by next season!
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He was possibly our 3rd choice for the role and it shows.
 
Maybe just dispensing with the high line would settle the players we already have? Every goal lately seems to be a long ball over the top then a sprint from the halfway line to our goal. Any pacy striker has the advantage
 
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Father Paul said:
your last sentence demonstrates you are talking through your hole. I think you will find the history of our club is littered with excellent mid season signings. Some short term and others for the long haul. The issue in January is availability as many clubs will not sell. We need a CB so badly that we should pay what ever it takes to get the right man ASAP.
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The January window is rarely great. Some signings have certainly made us stronger but chances were often limited as they fitted into the team. I'd rather we gave the kids from teh EDS (like Garcia last night) a chance. Why pay over the top in a panic buy mid-season for a player that may take a while to gel in? There's a huge ask to catch LiVARpool, and it's more realistic to cement a top 3 finish, ideally as close to the top spot as possible.

If it was up to me, and I'm sure others may or may not agree, slashing the January transfer window would encorage more teams to reach to their youth players and give them the opportunity to step up.

18/19: Ko Itakura, Ante Palaversa, Gavin Bazunu - three for the future.
17/18: Laporte
16/17: Gabriel Jesus
15/16: Anthony Cáceres - since released.
14/15: Wilfried Bony
13/14: No signings.
12/13: No signings.
11/12: Costel Pantilimon
10/11: Edin Džeko (best January signing of the decade)
09/10: Adam Johnson. Patrick Viera
08/09: Shay Given, Nigel De Jong, Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge
07/08: Felipe Caicedo, Benjani
06/07: Michael Ball, Émile Mpenza (unattached)
05/06: Matthew Mills, Georgios Samaras[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Samaras'], [/URL]Tuomas Haapalahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mills
04/05: No signings.
03/04: David James, Árni Gautur Arason, Daniel Van Buyten (loan)
02/03: Djamel Belmadi
 
blueparrot said:
If the second half of the season is like the first, we'ell have 76 points which will be enough. Think the second half will be better with just the injured players coming back expect to be 80 plus.Unless the centre back we want is available, and we can sell to make room in the squad we will wait until summer.
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This is precisely the calculation of Pep and the rest of management IMO.

We're terrible on defense and need multiple signings to fix this - splurging in the Winter window is very unlikely to address this problem long term and would meanwhile incur a big expenditure, reducing out ability to realistically address the issue in the next summer window especially given FFP scrutiny.
 
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