I am not disputing that. We are not going to just replace a player like Yaya with an academy player. But we should start to progress more of the younger players into the team as the talent is there. A player like Rekik for example could be used as a good cover for Kompany and Demichelis for example, instead of going and spending money on another defender. Do you see what I am tryna get at?LoveCity said:kp789 said:This team has just won a domestic double. We will not need to spend £49m. It is all about keeping a stable current crop of players. Now that we have that, we can start to look at easing youth players such as Lopez, Huws and Rekik into the fold. Eventually Hiwula etc will integrated into the team. We can start looking at the academy for promising talent once we have a good core.
Not really how it works. Even the club with the best academy in the world, Barcelona, regularly signed players after unprecedented success. One of the rules of football, never stand still and keep adding proven quality to your squad (which we didn't do properly after we won the league and were a stale team the year after). Bayern did it last year with Gotze and Thiago.
City will spend the £49m, probably on Mangala and Fernando (+ Sagna on a free if United don't successfully hijack), then maybe add one other depending on sales. This also won't block Lopes' apparent promotion since none of these would block his path.
Chelsea, Arsenal and United will spend heavily this summer and the gap between us and Chelsea wasn't that big in the first place (they probably would have won the league with a great striker), so we'll also strengthen our squad to try and stay ahead of them.
Daz_Blue said:We were mentioned a while back to be offering Giudetti to the dutch club he was on loan with and cash for the teams skipper.....name escapes me
What?? He is definetly not that good. He is what equals to Pinto of Barca. Constantly nervous when we have pants between the goalposts.ifiwasarichfan said:I am very surprised at the fees mentioned for Pants. A very good keeper who is good enough for a top 6 side in any of the major European league's.
spinzer said:What?? He is definetly not that good. He is what equals to Pinto of Barca. Constantly nervous when we have pants between the goalposts.ifiwasarichfan said:I am very surprised at the fees mentioned for Pants. A very good keeper who is good enough for a top 6 side in any of the major European league's.
Rammyblues said:That 49m is only for players we sign and want to put on the A list for CL, it doesn't restrict our spending on players who are only going to play in prem league. If we wanted to blow 30m on Shaw and tell him he wouldn't be included in CL squad and that he has to nail down first choice left back in prem league for 2 years we can and UEFA can do fuck all about it.
If Barry goes to Everton we have an arrangent they pay us 2m
Sinclair we should be looking at 5m but suspect we will only get 2m
Richards ex England International, prime of his life we should get 6m
Guidetti papers suggesting we would get 7m
Pants not sure if at the end of contract but if he isn't 2m
Lescott nothing.
If my reckoning is correct anything between 15 - 20m for the above.
If we are selling Milner, Kolorov then that figure you can add another 30m.
Beside the fees though we are losing extremely high wage earners I think someone mooted about 400K a week which is 20m a year.