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How do you assess our transfer business?
- Thread starter MillsyTheMosher
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We had a poor season in comparison to the previous two. Making the leap that the game has left us behind on that basis is a little premature to say the least.Yes, hence why we gave up 2 of those and didn't add the CL, comfortably beaten in each respectively.
I'm not sure why you've got such a downer on the club atm but most of your posts come across as you being unhappy with how things are going. I'd say there's more reason to be optimistic than pessimistic right now, but each to their own.
ChicagoBlue
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Surely, you’re agreeing with me, while trying to disagree with me?!How can he get an incomplete if the deadline for handing in his school work hasn’t approached.
Jesus we’re living in a changed time, let’s just see where we are at the closing of the window.
What grade would you give him NOW?
Calv_from_the_frog
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Without reading any of the previous posts, it's been - in my own personal opinion - pretty average this close season (as indeed it has for a few transfer windows now).
Not really sure why this is, and not going to speculate.
All I know is that in buying squad cover for Laporte & Mendy's position, as well as a promising (but green) winger, we've not really addressed the issues that made us finish a country mile behind the Dippers & other teams, notably Chelsea, have strengthened considerably.
But I don't mind us being average. I grew accustomed to it in my first 25 years of supporting us....
Not really sure why this is, and not going to speculate.
All I know is that in buying squad cover for Laporte & Mendy's position, as well as a promising (but green) winger, we've not really addressed the issues that made us finish a country mile behind the Dippers & other teams, notably Chelsea, have strengthened considerably.
But I don't mind us being average. I grew accustomed to it in my first 25 years of supporting us....
PannickAtTheDisco
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We had a poor season in comparison to the previous two. Making the leap that the game has left us behind on that basis is a little premature to say the least.
I'm not sure why you've got such a downer on the club atm but most of your posts come across as you being unhappy with how things are going. I'd say there's more reason to be optimistic than pessimistic right now, but each to their own.
because the problems we had last season haven't been solved. We needed a 17/18 style window where we just went out and got it done, and Pep to own up and accept he's made mistakes in both setup and philosophy in the past 12 months and needs to re-adjust to take us back to a side that will reach its peak again. Bayern and Liverpool have shown where the gains are and teams have nullified the increasingly Barca approach we've been taking. Lyon is a fresh wound and I've seen little in the past couple of months to suggest we're addressing what, as noted by the majority discussing them on here, are clear issues.
If we were at this stage and it had been "bang, here's Laporte's new partner, here's the new LB, here's the athletic DM we need to cope in the PL, here's the defensive and midfield deadwood gone and here's the different option we're bringing in to show we've got a different plan and flexibility for next season" then I'd be a lot more optimistic. We've not even had a pre-season friendly and we're going to a team we got beat by twice next week to start us off, forgive me for feeling we're seriously undercooked and going to be chasing all over again instead of laying down markers that people will have to keep up with us.
We have a history of either winning the title or dropping miles behind, and normally our title winning summers give us a lot of optimism, the only exception in 18/19 but we managed to preserve a very high level that year but then we made misjudgements on what had worked the past 2 years and what we needed to really refresh, bring fresh impetus so we could keep up the following year.
Just a honest assessment from my point of view, I'd love to be more optimistic but there's specific things I wanted to see happen this summer and they haven't yet so I can only judge it at this point, I'd love Pep to pull a rabbit out of the hat but the last time he tried he pulled out a turd for the Lyon game, so my faith has taken a knock.
That's a fair reply if it's how you feel. I guess I don't let things like this bother me anymore. It probably says more about me than it does you. There was a time I'd genuinely let myself get angry and pissed off about all things City and I realised it wasn't healthy so have tried to reign it in a bit these days.because the problems we had last season haven't been solved. We needed a 17/18 style window where we just went out and got it done, and Pep to own up and accept he's made mistakes in both setup and philosophy in the past 12 months and needs to re-adjust to take us back to a side that will reach its peak again. Bayern and Liverpool have shown where the gains are and teams have nullified the increasingly Barca approach we've been taking. Lyon is a fresh wound and I've seen little in the past couple of months to suggest we're addressing what, as noted by the majority discussing them on here, are clear issues.
If we were at this stage and it had been "bang, here's Laporte's new partner, here's the new LB, here's the athletic DM we need to cope in the PL, here's the defensive and midfield deadwood gone and here's the different option we're bringing in to show we've got a different plan and flexibility for next season" then I'd be a lot more optimistic. We've not even had a pre-season friendly and we're going to a team we got beat by twice next week to start us off, forgive me for feeling we're seriously undercooked and going to be chasing all over again instead of laying down markers that people will have to keep up with us.
We have a history of either winning the title or dropping miles behind, and normally our title winning summers give us a lot of optimism, the only exception in 18/19 but we managed to preserve a very high level that year but then we made misjudgements on what had worked the past 2 years and what we needed to really refresh, bring fresh impetus so we could keep up the following year.
Just a honest assessment from my point of view, I'd love to be more optimistic but there's specific things I wanted to see happen this summer and they haven't yet so I can only judge it at this point, I'd love Pep to pull a rabbit out of the hat but the last time he tried he pulled out a turd for the Lyon game, so my faith has taken a knock.
Hart of the Matter
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Thank god for that. This thread is a god send. A home for the flappers and moaners...
Carry on.
Carry on.
PannickAtTheDisco
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That's a fair reply if it's how you feel. I guess I don't let things like this bother me anymore. It probably says more about me than it does you. There was a time I'd genuinely let myself get angry and pissed off about all things City and I realised it wasn't healthy so have tried to reign it in a bit these days.
Well, it's related to posting on our forum about it, day to day I barely watched any of the project restart and my enthusiasm is fairly low for the whole thing, a great window would have injected some positivity back in.
No, just saying it’s too early to say, as I have no idea want is currently going on behind the scenes.Surely, you’re agreeing with me, while trying to disagree with me?!
What grade would you give him NOW?