Hugo Viana to be new Director of Football (Official Announcement p17)

[chesterbells]

How many holes?

Haha

 

[hcblue95]

So Txiki will still be around for another 14 months or thereabouts. Not too bad that.

Haven't seen that anywhere? If he leaves in July it will be 9 months from now?

 

[meltonblue]

Hugo Viana to Manchester City: From 'planet's best youngster' to Sporting Lisbon's 'magic man'

Hugo Viana will become Manchester City's director of football next season - BBC Sport's Marcus Alves looks at his rise and friendship with manager Ruben Amorim.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good article on him.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

city always say consistently that they dont work plans for next year, its the next 3 to 5 years that they work on so that would make sense.

Everything since the takeover has involved a long-term planning level. As far as I can make out, planning works systematically at three levels: short term, for the coming season; medium-term, for the next five years or so; and finally, for all I know, decades from now. Wouldn't surprise me. These guys running us are very, very serious. There's no knee-jerk stuff.

 

[Bluewonder]

Has his work cut out this summer after Txiki took his eye off the ball in the last couple.

Letting all these players get old together is a major fuck up.

 

[cookster]

Big window from this guy needed.

 

[Blue warrior]

Big window from this guy needed.

Hopefully not guilty on all charges and let him blow £400 million

 

[Gorbachev]

I hope the club didn't sacrifice last summer's window because they knew Txiki was off and we needed a new DOF to build a new team.

 

[Damanino]

while Txiki's overall work deserve recognition, he badly let off towards the end and checked out early. instead of serious additions and strengthen while you are ahead, we became comfortable with the ageing squad. we were not far off to lose Ederson and replace him with Ortega either. the Phillips, Nunes transfers supposed to fill in important roles didnt workout, Palmer will be a stick to beat us for long, Alvarez replacement nowhere to be seen etc. Gvardiol only big hit but he was rated one of the biggest potential in Bundesliga, with Doku, Savio serious potential but aint there yet.

this summer again was strange, record sales, but we are paying the price for not going for it already in November we look tired somehow, no energy, generally poor games vs shit Soton, Wolves, out of Carabao etc. our form is bad, and most players also not in form.

Hugo Viana needs to look at the squad and see the issues. both quantity and quality wise.

 

[M23 Citizen]

Got a big job ahead of him.

We’ve got a lot of 30+ year olds who are on the decline, with the players in the squad who may look to replace them being absolutely nowhere near as good as these ageing players were in their prime or others who’ve left us over the last four years.

That’s what you get when you have a 5 year net spend of £-70m; a gradual decline.