It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[DeBlueLou]

Maybe pep just wants players from the Prem that can come in and be already comfortable with the league. Haaland the exception as he’s a world world class player. It’s why I think if the Bernardo some how left this window if Barca got the cash and could change his mind. i would take a guess that his replacement would be in the premier league.

Ding ding ding!

 

[richards30]

I see this all the time on here and Twitter. Some people tend to have selective belief when reading anything about football. They jump on clear bullshit articles and quote it as gospel, especially if it’s a negative in their eyes, some love a moan.

it really doesn’t matter what the fee is, City sort that out and if they believe a player is worth £25m or £65m I personally don’t care and don’t understand why anyone else would. So many obsess over it, it’s frankly weird.

I get it’s a forum and people want to talk about players, fees etc yet some (not worth naming names as they get on their high horse) seem to be so determined to argue against pep and his choices like they are some sort of football expert? It seems city have been tracking and watching Phillips for the last two years and now feel he is the person for the squad going forward? Like you say, I personally don’t care how much we pay for players etc as the board know what they can and can’t do and I trust them 110% to get things more right than wrong? The forum is good fun though besides the obsessive posters who channel their constant aggression about the manager and the club being wrong.

 

[Mayor West]

Never heard of him, never seen him play, but if we miss out on him we'll regret it, kids gonna be a superstar

 

[samuelyeboah]

I literally just suggested a name of a player I think will fit us. not really sure why the responses are so incredibly hostile. If pep really wants phillips for 60m, nothing any of us say here matters anyway!

 

[Matt.D]

Maybe pep just wants players from the Prem that can come in and be already comfortable with the league. Haaland the exception as he’s a world world class player. It’s why I think if Bernardo some how left this window if Barca got the cash and could change his mind. i would take a guess that his replacement would be in the premier league.

First part could well be true but there’s no way if Bernardo was to leave that his replacement would come from within the premier league as there is honestly nobody close to being good enough in the league to replace him. We’d struggle to find anybody in any league capable of replacing Bernardo imo and the only player that stands out to me as potentially filling that gap would be Bellingham who I don’t see moving this summer. Very hard to find somebody with Bernardo’s talent, work rate, energy, ability to keep the ball when pressed and hurt teams in terms of goals & assists. He was very much the glue last season.

I really think with Haaland, Alvarez and likely Phillips & Cucurella, particularly with a player like Mane leaving Liverpool, we’d move further ahead of the scousers. Bernardo leaving would be a big step back for us.

 

[Protein Junkie]

I literally just suggested a name of a player I think will fit us. not really sure why the responses are so incredibly hostile. If pep really wants phillips for 60m, nothing any of us say here matters anyway!

I don’t think every response has been hostile however if you make a sweeping statement on a subjective matter you need to duck for cover.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Maybe pep just wants players from the Prem that can come in and be already comfortable with the league. Haaland the exception as he’s a world world class player. It’s why I think if Bernardo some how left this window if Barca got the cash and could change his mind. i would take a guess that his replacement would be in the premier league.

This is the point so many miss when they start chucking in players from other leagues as if Pep and Txiki have never heard of them.

The process behind any investment (including football transfers) is about mitigating risk as much as possible. Clearly there’s a level of risk behind any investment - and the balance of risk is what gives any investor their reward - but the process is about doing the appropriate due diligence to de-risk the investment as much as possible.

The least risky players are those who are already playing in the PL. They know the tactics managers deploy over here, the way games are refereed, the culture, the weather. They’re more likely to be able to settle, step in and start delivering for the team more quickly.

Clearly we need to take bigger risks on players from outside the PL too, when the rewards can be so great. Look at the three statues outside our stadium for three exceptional examples of this in practice.

But if there’s a PL player of the right quality in a position we’re looking to fill - we’ll always try and bring them in.

It’s the same with any team, and it’s why Mendes is doing what he’s doing at Wolves - bringing players into the PL at low prices to prove them in the league and de-risk them for bigger clubs.

Dortmund’s model is similar with other teams youth players.

Buying a player from another league is always a risk, and if we feel we can avoid that risk for the right price - we will do that every time.

 

[Tony - MCFC]

I get it’s a forum and people want to talk about players, fees etc yet some (not worth naming names as they get on their high horse) seem to be so determined to argue against pep and his choices like they are some sort of football expert? It seems city have been tracking and watching Phillips for the last two years and now feel he is the person for the squad going forward? Like you say, I personally don’t care how much we pay for players etc as the board know what they can and can’t do and I trust them 110% to get things more right than wrong? The forum is good fun though besides the obsessive posters who channel their constant aggression about the manager and the club being wrong.

Absolutely agree.

To many are sat on here 24/7, the know all experts who tell us what Pep is thinking, who can play where etc. They need to chill out and have a break.

Full faith in City, their record in the main with transfers is outstanding.

 

[Mr-Mertle]

So perhaps you should have quoted a post in which they were referencing Bellingham, rather than one with Haaland wearing number 15 as a kid.

Either that or rely on bluemooners being fucking clairvoyant.

I did. This is what the other poster quoted with the Jesus picture. The two topics aren't connected, hence the confusion. Thanks for making me explain this like you're five.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I literally just suggested a name of a player I think will fit us. not really sure why the responses are so incredibly hostile

People on here get very defensive when others question the club's transfer business. I also think that they know we're likely to overpay for Phillips and are already getting defensive about it.

If they were really as happy with it as they say, I don't feel like they'd be quite as tetchy about the discussion.

It's perfectly fine to say Kalvin Phillips isn't a great player, that you think there are better options out there and that the rumoured fee is a bit bloody silly. Those wouldn't be controversial opinions anywhere other than on bluemoon.