CityStu said:tolmie's hairdoo said:CityStu said:I tend to agree, but Chelsea dropped a lot of silly points last season too.
Van Persie may well be motivated, but I'm sceptical of his ability to stay fit for a full season.
We finished on 86 points and still gave up six to Chelsea.
Coupled with a settled team, it would be a helluva swing and downturn in form for Chelsea to be supposedly superior to us next season.
It is vital we hit the ground running with players fatigued after the World Cup.
Which is why City are being very cute recruiting players who can start straight away and get us wins.
My point is that you say we can easily improve on the points dropped against Sunderland, Villa, Cardiff and Liverpool. Chelsea's losses came against Everton, Newcastle, Stoke, Villa, Palace and Sunderland so I'd argue that they're just as, if not more, likely to pick up extra points on last season's total than City.
Monkchester said:tolmie's hairdoo said:Monkchester said:Do you think we will go with the homegrown option for back up for Joe or try and get someone like Caballero ?
Think Caballero is hanging on for us and a goalkeeper will be the last bit of business.
There would have been nothing to stop us signing a homegrown keeper already.
Certainly someone like Westwood, who is a free agent.
Makes sense but just wondering how that impacts on our other business in terms of HG players in the squad - if as suggested we lose a few of our current homegrown players - are you confident we can cover all the bases ?
tolmie's hairdoo said:Monkchester said:tolmie's hairdoo said:Think Caballero is hanging on for us and a goalkeeper will be the last bit of business.
There would have been nothing to stop us signing a homegrown keeper already.
Certainly someone like Westwood, who is a free agent.
Makes sense but just wondering how that impacts on our other business in terms of HG players in the squad - if as suggested we lose a few of our current homegrown players - are you confident we can cover all the bases ?
Supremely confident we will tick all our requirements.
tolmie's hairdoo said:Bottomless_Sailor said:Chelsea are going round paying the buy-out clauses for everyone.
Hardly great business.
Correct.
There's nothing clever about shit or bust.
Essentially, this is Chelsea's season coming up.
They will get another £20m for Lukaku, but so many players without knowledge of the league.
BlueCityfan said:tolmie's hairdoo said:Bottomless_Sailor said:Chelsea are going round paying the buy-out clauses for everyone.
Hardly great business.
Correct.
There's nothing clever about shit or bust.
Essentially, this is Chelsea's season coming up.
They will get another £20m for Lukaku, but so many players without knowledge of the league.
Didn't work too badly for us with Fernandinho, Navas, Negredo, Jovetic and Demi......with a total of 0 PL games combined before making us champions.
ChicagoBlue said:We all knew what the team needed and who it appeared we wanted. So far, with Sagna (done) and Fernando seems to be pretty much done, a backup keeper is not exactly a pressing need (and maybe waiting to see how much spare cash we have out of the £49M net), and the World Cup is in full swing, so not exactly sweating it, to be honest!
I think everyone is just concerned about who will be the four center halves. For me, I'm not arsed about getting a new big money center half, especially if someone tries to extort us. I'd be happy with Ginny and MDM to start the season with Nasty and Rekik as the back ups getting games every now and then. Need to bring them both along for 2015-16 season when MDM will have buggered off. Maybe then we will see who is coming through across the globe.
Not interested in a late 20s established player, because they are expensive and have no long term future. Need to start blooding EARLY 20s players, so that by the time they are 25-26 they are established, high quality, technically proficient and able to withstand the rigor of the Prem and the CL.