It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

Terrified of spending haha, I've read it all now.

We spent £51m on Haaland, were paying him big wages to beat Madrid to his signing. We paid £45m for Kalvin Phillips. We're the 3rd highest spenders in the league so far.

Sure we're in profit with the player sales, but surely people know how City operate by now? We don't just sign players for the sake of it. We're a very serious business operation and we sign players that will improve the 1st team squad at a valuation the club deems appropriate.

I hope we sign a left back because I do believe we're short in that area and itd be a huge risk to end the transfer window with no further addition in that area, but I don't want us to sign the wrong player, otherwise we'll be in the same situation again next summer and we'll be looking again.
 
richards30 said:
Well we could have done £50m on Cucurella? Pep had 3 major targets which were Haaland,Phillips and Cucurella? Two done and there was one left to go and if we had steamed in and got Cucurella done early imo £40m plus add ons to £50m would have been accepted
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How do you know £50m would have been excepted ?
 
richards30 said:
I meant more from the angle of we have brought a huge amount of money in but seem to be penny pinching on a left back?
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Yeah but same logic mate. Money's obviously there but paying over what a player is worth is unnecessary, because as long as there are other targets available it's fair, standard practice. I will be severely concerned if the window closes and we haven't signed one, but I realised there is little point in worrying daily because it won't change the situation.
 
BringBackSwales said:
I have never read as much bollocks as I have seen in the transfer forum this summer, noting that the window still has another month to run.

In the past our clueless negotiators have brought us the likes of KDB, Gundo, Bernardo, David, Sergio, etc etc etc, all at phenomenally good value, which we have to do to get past the FFP rules that were put in place to stop us.

There is a lot of moaning about Sterling and Jesus leaving, but both were in the last year of their contract and wanted to leave for more game time, so as far as I can see their departures were inevitable and the prices we got for them were decent in the circumstances, particularly when you consider Raheem’s wages. I know for a fact that Oleks could have stayed but he wanted more game time than we could give him - I am pretty clear that Pep develop Oleks into a fantastic squad player, but is he better than our other midfielders, or a really top class left back - again I don’t think so, as much as it pains me to say it, because he is a sensational character; he wanted to leave unfortunately and I think we got decent value,

I read about how we fucked up last summer with Kane, but no way was anyone going to pay £150m for him, including us, but particularly because it was us Levy was never going to accept less. I think it’s fairly clear that there was no other desirable target that Pep wanted in place of Kane, other than Haaland, who we knew was much more obtainable 2022 than 2021, and we got him. I reckon Pep was pretty happy to play a different way for a season, and it didn’t turn out too bad, champions again.

Now I keep reading that Pep, Txiki, Soriano and Khaldoon are clueless because we didn’t pay £50m or more for a full back that most of us hadn’t heard of a year ago - I don’t blame them in the slightest. I am also reading that we don’t have a plan B for another left back - who the hell can say that’s a fact? I would imagine we are looking and talking as we speak, but I also imagine Pep is happy to play the first game of the season with the 2 world class full backs we have, while other people look to bring another player in; what’s the fucking panic, IF Walker or Cancelo get an injury in the meantime then Pep will deal with it, like he always does. Of course plenty of geniuses now think Cancelo is shite because of a couple of below par performances in friendlies; maybe he has inherited more than Raheem’s shirt number, but also the need for mard arses to have a scapegoat.

I am now reading about how fucking great Chelsea are by going in and quickly spunking £50m on Cucurella. Look how well that worked out for them with Kepa, Chilwell, Werner and Havertz.

The crying and panicking about the squad and the perceived incompetence of the senior executive at our club is fucking pathetic. Four titles in the last five years in the worlds most competitive league and yet people are still wetting their knickers. Fucking hell we had 20 years of trying to get rid of a truly incompetent clown in Peter Swales, and yet people consistently moan about the worlds best manager and in my view the worlds best run football club. That’s my perspective anyway.
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Top post mate. Can we have this as a sticky for the spoilt idiots? Thx
 
BringBackSwales said:
I have never read as much bollocks as I have seen in the transfer forum this summer, noting that the window still has another month to run.

In the past our clueless negotiators have brought us the likes of KDB, Gundo, Bernardo, David, Sergio, etc etc etc, all at phenomenally good value, which we have to do to get past the FFP rules that were put in place to stop us.

There is a lot of moaning about Sterling and Jesus leaving, but both were in the last year of their contract and wanted to leave for more game time, so as far as I can see their departures were inevitable and the prices we got for them were decent in the circumstances, particularly when you consider Raheem’s wages. I know for a fact that Oleks could have stayed but he wanted more game time than we could give him - I am pretty clear that Pep develop Oleks into a fantastic squad player, but is he better than our other midfielders, or a really top class left back - again I don’t think so, as much as it pains me to say it, because he is a sensational character; he wanted to leave unfortunately and I think we got decent value,

I read about how we fucked up last summer with Kane, but no way was anyone going to pay £150m for him, including us, but particularly because it was us Levy was never going to accept less. I think it’s fairly clear that there was no other desirable target that Pep wanted in place of Kane, other than Haaland, who we knew was much more obtainable 2022 than 2021, and we got him. I reckon Pep was pretty happy to play a different way for a season, and it didn’t turn out too bad, champions again.

Now I keep reading that Pep, Txiki, Soriano and Khaldoon are clueless because we didn’t pay £50m or more for a full back that most of us hadn’t heard of a year ago - I don’t blame them in the slightest. I am also reading that we don’t have a plan B for another left back - who the hell can say that’s a fact? I would imagine we are looking and talking as we speak, but I also imagine Pep is happy to play the first game of the season with the 2 world class full backs we have, while other people look to bring another player in; what’s the fucking panic, IF Walker or Cancelo get an injury in the meantime then Pep will deal with it, like he always does. Of course plenty of geniuses now think Cancelo is shite because of a couple of below par performances in friendlies; maybe he has inherited more than Raheem’s shirt number, but also the need for mard arses to have a scapegoat.

I am now reading about how fucking great Chelsea are by going in and quickly spunking £50m on Cucurella. Look how well that worked out for them with Kepa, Chilwell, Werner and Havertz.

The crying and panicking about the squad and the perceived incompetence of the senior executive at our club is fucking pathetic. Four titles in the last five years in the worlds most competitive league and yet people are still wetting their knickers. Fucking hell we had 20 years of trying to get rid of a truly incompetent clown in Peter Swales, and yet people consistently moan about the worlds best manager and in my view the worlds best run football club. That’s my perspective anyway.
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This put a big grin on my face. I can’t drink anymore due to health reasons but a toast to you mate :)
 
Cobwebcat said:
I’m neither weeing in my bed nor clapping everything City do. But if anyone can properly explain this window, and expected it, I’d be impressed.

As far as weeing myself I do wonder if accidents count and do I have to be wearing my wife’s underwear at the time for it to qualify? It’s really complicated. The rules aren’t clear.

If the squad size drops below 15 I’m definitely dressing up, having a nap and weeing myself. I don’t care who knows.
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Pics or it didn’t happen :)
 
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