How do you assess our transfer business?

[RandomJ]

If we don’t sign a top class CB then it’s been a poor window. I really don’t want to have to sit through another season of watching Otamendi at the back. I still think we needed a striker as well as Aguero is injury prone and I don’t think Gabby is the answer.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Out transfer business is like my cock. Decent enough but we could do with more of it.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Bad team selection was main cause of the cup defeats, aside from that we were excellent in the league and played very well against Madrid. So I’m pretty confident this season. Ake will be a huge signing, gives us depth both at centre back and left back. Otamendi, Garcia and Zinchenko just ain’t good enough. Hopefully Koulibaly joins and we’re set.

Torres will be a useful addition. Surprised at no other midfielders joining but I imagine Silva will be played centrally this season.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Underwhelming. Aké not good enough and Torres unlikely to make major impact as he is more of long term signing.

 

[Silva_Spell]

If we don’t sign a top class CB then it’s been a poor window. I really don’t want to have to sit through another season of watching Otamendi at the back. I still think we needed a striker as well as Aguero is injury prone and I don’t think Gabby is the answer.

Torres could turn out to be one of our best ever bits of business in the long term but It'd pretty much be a disastrous window imo. It'd be 3 windows of failing to sign a Kompany replacement. Khaldoon/Mansour didn't chase Pep all those years to potentially see his time here fizzle out due to a gigantic hole in the team.

 

[Bobby Heaton Moor]

Simply put, our first choice back four still remains

Walker
Stones/Otamendi/Garcia/Fernandinho
Laporte
Mendy/Zinchenko/Cancelo

Not good enough. Need the deadwood out with KK and a left back in.

 

[damrider]

Largely poor. Too much uncertainty, certainly with outgoings. Is Otamendi/Stones leaving? Is Zinchenko leaving? Is koulibaly coming or not? Who's our 4th CB? Is garcia staying for another year? Are we getting a striker or a left back?

Our first match is coming up in not so much time and we have no idea if laporte and mahrez would even be back from COVID, if foden is back in training, if ake and bernardo silva's international injuries a big deal, if Aguero's knee issues going to keep him out of contention for a while or if he's back in the mix, etc, etc..

 

[CenturyClub]

Started off pretty well, but looks like it is going to end pretty badly.

I would have expected the CB signing done by now. What makes me really scratch my head about the whole Koulibaly saga is... Txiki knew what Napoli were like... he knew what ADL was like... why have we fannied around for the past 3 months or so haggling over a fee? ADL is one of the most stubborn men in football, he won't back down.

We either pay that bit extra or we walk away, what are we waiting for? This whole thing about going through an intermediary strikes me that Txiki is a bit of a coward without a backbone. I don't care if they are on bad terms, face the music and speak to ADL directly, grow a set ffs. It all seems very weird to me.

The last 3 transfer windows in my opinion have been poor. We signed Mahrez in 18/19, we signed Angelino, Rodri and Cancelo in 19/20 and now we only have Ake and Torres. We had a real chance to stamp our authority in these windows and really break away from the rest of the premier league. I just feel as though Chelsea and Man Utd are getting closer and closer to us every season.

In that space of time, we have lost our most influential, commanding presence in the team Vincent Kompany, we have lost possibly our best ever player David Silva, we have lost one of our brightest young players Leroy Sane and Fernandinho and Aguero are ageing with the latter picking up a bad injury. Does Txiki understand how important Kompany and Silva were to our side and how much we will miss them? He needs to get his shit together and start getting serious. I just hope we don't f**k and fanny around with Aguero's replacement like we have done with Kompany's replacement or else we could be in trouble. If we start penny pinching for his replacement then we can kiss goodbye to getting close to ever winning a CL.

We should have treated this window a lot more seriously, this window should have been a mini-rebuild job. The squad needs completely freshening up and after the dreadful defeat to Lyon, i expected us to come out like wounded animals this transfer window to give Pep all the tools he needs to go for the CL this coming season.

Had we got Messi, i don't think anyone could have complained, but we haven't and we won't and we need to move on quickly in the market and start really addressing areas of concern.

This is why i don't think we will win the league this season. We are losing huge characters in the dressing room every other season and we aren't replacing them. Txiki really does need to start pulling his finger out because we are in a very serious transition period here. We have to make sure we get it right or this could set us back a few seasons.

I really, really hope we pull some great business off in these last 3 weeks or so. We desperately need to.

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

Need a top CB & maybe a striker. Getting Koulibaly, or an injury to Laporte could make or break our season.

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]