Have City bought any real bargains?

Nigel Gleghorn - played just over a season, scored 10 goals, had a couple of good goalkeepig cameos and was promoted. Sold on for more than three times what he cost.
 
Blue Hefner said:
So did the rest of football, I imagine. There’s a reason Kompany came to City at that time and it’s because the bigger and better teams didn’t fancy him because of the injury record

As for Zab. I’ve never really thought of it but I suppose £6mil on a reserve right back(Richards was first choice) when on the verge of bankruptcy is madness when you come to think of it.....
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Wasn't some of that from the corluka money?
 
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This is spot on - nobody wants to hold Soriano, Txiki or Pep accountable for their unprecedented spending, yet relatively moderate success. 2 titles in 4 years and no Champions League progress with a £1b squad was hardly worth the 3 year wait for Guardiola, or given the owners value for their investment.
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Are you on heroin?

relatively little success?

100 points. - never done before
Domestic treble - never done before

when’s the last time someone other than us won a domestic trophy?
 
Boris Becker’s Backhand said:
Spot on pal, he’s a scouser or on a wind up
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You decide

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I think signing Walker sabotaged any chance of Stones fulfilling his potential here; they’re a pair of cretins who’s unfunny, obnoxious antics and chaotic personal lives are anomalous in a dressing room full of humble, uber-successful superstars.

Lingard seemed to be having a similarly detrimental impact on Rashford’s development and attitude, but it looks like somebody has had a word - I think the ship has sailed with Stones though.

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This is spot on - nobody wants to hold Soriano, Txiki or Pep accountable for their unprecedented spending, yet relatively moderate success. 2 titles in 4 years and no Champions League progress with a £1b squad was hardly worth the 3 year wait for Guardiola, or given the owners value for their investment.
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I think it’s more the fact that Pep is bitter about raw physicality in the modern game, than nationality; he accredited it to the premature end to his top-level career, and seems to have been intent on proving the notion that it’s now fundamental wrong since.

Even Fernandinho is only slight, so even his counterattack-ending tactical fouling is cute, rather than brutish; yet still, Pep couldn’t stand having him and his destructive connotations being acknowledged a key part of the success, so he pursued Jorginho and then Rodri instead, and refused to reinstate Dinho into the midfield role, despite it being the obvious area of perpetual vulnerability this season.

It’s such an approach that has even led to accusations of racism; it’s not that he’s racist, at all, it’s just that most African players, even great, technically elite ones - like Yaya Toure and Eto’o - generally have great physical attributes/advantages too, and that goes against his ideology, so he’ll replace them. In the same way Mourinho has a fetish for large men, Pep prefers technical, physically mediocre players in his own mould, to prove to the world - and himself - that they still belong at the pinnacle of the game.
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Mercenaries are gonna mercenary.
(Kev)
He - along with all of the other £50m+ signings - came to the club as part of a mutually beneficial agreement that we pay him very well, while providing an elite sporting platform upon which he will lend us his talent. Now we are potentially going to fail to keep up our side of the deal, he will look for someone who can offer him Champions League football.
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