Harry Kane

[Nails]

Just heard that the deal is losing momentum. City not willing to meet Spurs demands on fee so only way this’ll happen is if we sell Bernardo and Laporte.

Thank for the insight - I know you're solid. Finding buyers for both would need us to promote a CB from the U-23s. Are there any candidates? Harwood Bellis is probably too slow for the PL. Sandler, perhaps?

 

[DMA's]

I know that but it’s not just about squad space it’s about the finances too. Posting what I heard, take it or leave it.

I’m confused as to why we would leave a squad space free assuming what you say is correct.

either way judging by your past posts (Sterling right, evans wrong) I hope your info is false as we need Kane more than grealish imo

 

[ninjamonkey]

Signing Grealish for the rumoured fees and not having the finances to sign Kane would be a monumental cock up. Grealish doesn't make our starting 11 better, we don't even have a striker.

 

[DMA's]

Thank for the insight - I know you're solid. Finding buyers for both would need us to promote a CB from the U-23s. Are there any candidates. Harwood Bellis is probably too slow for the PL. Don't really know of any others.

Maybe sandler?

 

[Bobbyespania]

Look dude.... Our attitude today is a result of being called FFP cheats, an oil money club who were only founded in 2008, a club with no history, the counting banner displayed by our neighbours showing how long it'd been since City won a major trophy, to the disgraceful racist behaviour toward Sterling from rival fans & the press, JUST BECAUSE he decided to leave the media darlings Liverpool.

We've ran our club to the best of our ability, & have been self sufficient & self funding since 2013/14. None of this matters. If Sheikh Mansour had come along & done the same to Spurs, as he's done for City, would you be complaining? Would you be telling him to shove his oil money up his greasy, terrorist arse? No, probably not.

People like you come across like a bitter mate who can't be happy for his friend who's just won the lottery. All the 'The money's changed you' is purely laughable bollocks. Of fuckin course the money has changed us! Wasn't that the point???? If so, why are you so jealous because of our good fortune?

City has it's element of dickhead, embarrassing fans like all clubs do, but in the main we're a decent bunch. A decent bunch who can remember the 3rd Division playoff final against Gillingham, & taking 250,000 fans to York City away that season. Painful days which are still etched in the memory of us all.

I'll tell you how bad it is.... Today I saw that 68% of fans expect City to win the league this coming season. However, as a lifelong Blue many of us still look toward 40 points before we can relax for the season. Incredible, but true.

If rival fans changed their attitudes toward City, you'd get a far better attitude back from us. I'm sick of all the "Empty seats" & "You bought the trophies you won" jibes, & the rest. Why is it no other team has bought their success, but City doing the exact same as others before us, have?

You all supported the introduction of FFP to stop City, without realising we'd just crossed the moat before the drawbridge was pulled up. FFP won't/can't stop City, but it WILL stop another City from happening. If you had a wealthy benefactor buy Spurs, you'd be fucked, because you couldn't invest what was needed to turn Spurs from the perennial bridesmaids, into the bride.

Think about it fella. Take all the time you need. We're not your problem. You lost Berbatov, Modric, Bale, Walker & could possibly lose Kane for the same reason..... Your top players wanted to win honours, & don't see Spurs as achieving this on a regular basis, so they moved on.

Did you go on ManUre's, or Madrid's fans forum to bemoan the money you received for these players, & how big money was ruining football? I bet you didn't. Why? Because you probably acknowledge there is a European level of elite teams above Spurs. If Kane was touted as going to Real, Barca, Juvé, ManUre or the Scouse Bin Dippers, would you be on their forums whining on about it? Probably not. Why? Because you probably accept this is just the natural order of things, & it's just what the elite clubs traditionally do to teams in the chasing pack.

Where you're getting all twisted is because you still cannot accept Manchester City are also an elite club. Not just on paper, but because of the recent success we've had & the excellent governance at the club. We've grown up & progressed bruv. If you can't be happy for us & hope the same good fortune comes to North London at some point in the future for yourselves, then is it any wonder you're perceived as coming across as bitter & jealous?

Again think about it? Take all the time you need....

Very well written mate.

 

[Ajm1985]

That’s what I’m hoping! The club have always been confident of negotiating the fee and making it happen but it’s proving even more difficult than anticipated! Still hopeful though!

Surely it would be Bernardo or Laporte, rather than and? Unless our fund for Kane was about £20m

 

[Ric]

Thank for the insight - I know you're solid. Finding buyers for both would need us to promote a CB from the U-23s. Are there any candidates? Harwood Bellis is probably too slow for the PL. Sandler, perhaps?

Harwood-Bellis is out on loan at Anderlecht for the season.

 

[TonyM]

I'm OK if it's off. I prefer to keep Laporte (who is key to us remaining unbreakable in defense) and Bernardo (who is tireless in central midfield). Just having Grealish replace Aguero is enough.

If anyone should go to make room for a striker it should be Sterling. He was atrocious last season....but he had a good Euros so there's hope that he could regain form. That imo should be the big gamble. Stick or twist with Sterling.

 

[Nails]

Harwood-Bellis is out on loan at Anderlecht for the season.

Could they not recall him?

 

[GornikDaze]

When you say you can't compete with our cash, what cash? FFP dictates our transfer budget like it dictates yours. You've seen the response from UEFA when they thought we'd overspent by €67.53c. They didn't want explanations, they wanted buckets of blood drained from our neck preferably.

Here's the difference fella.... Our owner cleared City's debts, & turned his investment into equity. Your owner like others, just loaded the debt on the club, with all the interest & those debts will be paid before you invest in your squad.

That's down to the way Spurs is run, NOT because our owner gives us billions to spend every summer. For the avoidance of doubt, allow me to repeat. Sheikh Mansour has NOT invested a penny into Manchester City Football Club since 2014. Everything we've spent, we've had to generate & have provided certified accounts to these effects.

This is why statements like 'We can't compete with your cash' pisses our fans off. What you've spouted is purely folklore bollocks mate. We merely have a better owner who is totally committed to our club, & not just looking to fatten it up for a future sale. Our owner wants City to be a totally self sufficient success, on & off the pitch.

The fact is that we're one of the best run clubs in world football. What you're seeing now isn't City just spunking hundreds of millions because we can, it's come about as a result of us NOT being able to afford Sanchez, Pogba & Maguire who all ended up at ManUre, who COULD afford the fees being asked. Much of the money we're spending now, is from money we've refused to spend in previous transfer windows, so was in the bank as an ever increasing transfer war chest.

Our management team would rather us go without, than buy a substandard player, just to fill the squad. Where we are now has been over 13 years in the planning, & the scary thing is, there's much much more to come. We're a well run club, not a rich man's vanity project plaything that he spunks his billions on to make him look like a big shot.

THIS is what makes the clubs who keep creating more FFP barriers to stop us, ever more sick with jealousy.

Double Boom!!!