It's quiet 10, no apologies! (continued)

[Neville Kneville]

on a serious note, could it be that we aren't signing players till late on to avoid paying extra wages?

Nah, we're just being prudent and making sure we don't get taken to the cleaners on both incomings and outgoings.

We don't need any new players to be in and ready for the start of the season, we can wait until end of window and integrate them slowly.

As was said on previous page by nmc....

Well there are two schools of thought on this forum. One group believe we are paying a blinder behind the scenes and bombs will fall into place before the end of August. The other group are in a flap and think our transfer business is in disarray - in part due to Brian Marwood. Over the coming couple of weeks one group will be proved correct.

Another school of thought is that we are doing what we can but may end up without any big signings as they are overpriced & we may refuse to pay it (& the agent's fees).

And, if that is the case, we are still stronger anyway & have a much stronger squad than any of our Premier League competitors.

Plus, one of us at least thinks Chelsea are weaker now, not stronger.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

I still have a sneaky feeling we'll sign Agger, De Rossi and a relatively unknown but very promising winger.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Maybe the money is drying up...

Yet we're committing huge sums to extending players contracts and rebuilding around the ground.

Maybe priorities have changed and we're no longer fishing for 4-5 1st team players each window. We're now Champions, and it would be stupid to sign another 4-5 first team players who are not as good and older than what we have.

Try and find a striker who is better than Balotelli, Aguero and Tevez. Impossible.

or a midfielder who can out-power Yaya Toure. Or a midfielder with the vision and touch of Silva and Nasri. Very difficult.

If I were City I'd keep the powder dry until an exceptional player becomes available, and at the same time I'd be trying to hoover up all the outstanding young talent for the academy so that we dominate football for years to come

Quality thinking.<br /><br />-- Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:00 am --<br /><br />

Does anyone think Agger could fill Yaya's role when he is away for afcon?

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

i assume deals will be announced out of the blue without the customary 2-3 weeks of newspaper leaks, speculated medicals, leaks about contract negotiations etc, because there just isn't time for that.

SURELY we will here something soon

Well there are two schools of thought on this forum. One group believe we are paying a blinder behind the scenes and bombs will fall into place before the end of August. The other group are in a flap and think our transfer business is in disarray - in part due to Brian Marwood. Over the coming couple of weeks one group will be proved correct.

Personally I believe there will be no incomes until there are out goers - if Ade and RSC et al refuse moves then that will block all incoming moves - but that's entirely my opinion.

On the basis of no activity to date I'd guess out target for next season is to win the league with a flutter at the CL - we needed 3 or 4 major signings to make a serious move on the CL - then again we could get as lucky as Chelsea and win it with this squad.

In 12 months time with Bridge, RSC, Ade ( year left) and De Jong gone we will have some serious room for manoeuvre.

I'm broadly in agreement with this. I'm also firmly of the belief that no one is truly ITK, but its an amusing way to spend the close season for many.

We clearly need to improve/strengthen in one or two areas to compete on more than one front next season and for this reason we must buy...

 

[Ducado]

It's very quiet isn't it

 

[Rammy Blue]

It's very quiet isn't it

Get your banhammer out, that'll liven things up.

 

[yatesy94]

It's very quiet isn't it

Too quiet...*suspicious face*

 

[bluemonkey71]

When is Tolm back?

 

[sincity]

Maybe the money is drying up...

Yet we're committing huge sums to extending players contracts and rebuilding around the ground.

Maybe priorities have changed and we're no longer fishing for 4-5 1st team players each window. We're now Champions, and it would be stupid to sign another 4-5 first team players who are not as good and older than what we have.

Try and find a striker who is better than Balotelli, Aguero and Tevez. Impossible.

or a midfielder who can out-power Yaya Toure. Or a midfielder with the vision and touch of Silva and Nasri. Very difficult.

If I were City I'd keep the powder dry until an exceptional player becomes available, and at the same time I'd be trying to hoover up all the outstanding young talent for the academy so that we dominate football for years to come

Whilst I understand your viewpoint, do you think Hazard was an exceptional talent? If so, then why didn't City do everything it could to get him?
If the blame is to be placed on agent fees, which Chelsea had no problems in paying up, isn't this going to be the exact same problem for every one of these exceptional talents - Huge transfer fees, huge wages, huge agent fees? Then at this rate, City would be keeping its powder dry for a very long time..

but yes, the main thing would be to kick-start the Academy so that we can get all the exceptional talent we will ever need..

 

[minimalistic]

It's very quiet isn't it

Just putting another coat of emulsion on the wall so that I can watch it dry as the week progresses.