Boo or Boo-urns
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A spending pot reserved for the new manager (Luis Enrique) coming in next season.
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It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread
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richards30
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A spending pot for the new manager (Luis Enrique) coming in next season.
but we would have had that anyway mate? Plus, we wont make wholesale changes will we on what we have?
FromPollockToSilva
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Selling him was the right call. He needs to be playing every week instead of grabbing a handful of minutes off the bench if he's luckyI know you have been banging the Lavia drum for a while now and tbh I have not seen a lot of him. I watched the Rags game on Saturday and was very impressed and perhaps we made a mistake in selling him. As you say £14m was way too cheap.
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Everyone coming up with pet theories. I think quite simply we are happy with what we have either up to the world cup starting in November, when injuries could happen and who knows which positions, if not then for the season, and will have a plan for next summer depending on Bernardo and Gundogan.
The injuries could be a real concern, fingers crossed mate.Without doubt we are done this summer but our bench on Saturday showed our weakness when we have a few injuries.
With the pre world cup schedule it's going to be tough for many of our players.
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This would be your "pet theory " then, yeah? :)Everyone coming up with pet theories. I think quite simply we are happy with what we have either up to the world cup starting in November, when injuries could happen and who knows which positions, if not then for the season, and will have a plan for next summer depending on Bernardo and Gundogan.
Gaz (FMwkdsoul)
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€50m release still in place then..
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The break for the World Cup will inevitably have influenced our thinking, in my view, given the two month pause and the chance to work on deals or get players fit if we do get hit by injuries.
I also think that top players will be much more open than usual to moving in January. This will either be wanting to capitalise on the back of a good World Cup, or wanting a new challenge where currently they may have opted to stay put, not wanting to jeopardise potentially sitting on the bench at City ahead of a World Cup.
Obviously a bit of a risky strategy and the bench looked very thin on Saturday. But keeping our powder dry and having the pick of players in January could provide a huge boost to us at the business-end of the season.
I also think that top players will be much more open than usual to moving in January. This will either be wanting to capitalise on the back of a good World Cup, or wanting a new challenge where currently they may have opted to stay put, not wanting to jeopardise potentially sitting on the bench at City ahead of a World Cup.
Obviously a bit of a risky strategy and the bench looked very thin on Saturday. But keeping our powder dry and having the pick of players in January could provide a huge boost to us at the business-end of the season.
But in reality we were better AFTER going to the bench. Gundo and Alvarez were excellent and Gomez and Palmer did not look a bit out of place. Add Grealish, Laporte, Phillips and Ake plus Ortega and that becomes an excellent bench on any given day. Would I have a problem with adding 2 players? Not at all, but a roster with 17 full internationals can't be considered light.Without doubt we are done this summer but our bench on Saturday showed our weakness when we have a few injuries.
With the pre world cup schedule it's going to be tough for many of our players.
Our major vulnerability lies in potential injuries, but many of our guys are irreplaceable so a bad run of injuries would be difficult to overcome as it would for any team, us in 2019-20, Liverpool in 2020-21. Let's hope this doesn't happen and we can reassess after the WC in the January window. It would be quite a stretch to believe this squad won't keep or set the pace in the Prem until then or get out of the group in the CL.
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Or we could have shot ourselves in the foot titles-wise long before then. It's no coincidence that fans are shitting themselves because of our small squad.The break for the World Cup will inevitably have influenced our thinking, in my view, given the two month pause and the chance to work on deals or get players fit if we do get hit by injuries.
I also think that top players will be much more open than usual to moving in January. This will either be wanting to capitalise on the back of a good World Cup, or wanting a new challenge where currently they may have opted to stay put, not wanting to jeopardise potentially sitting on the bench at City ahead of a World Cup.
Obviously a bit of a risky strategy and the bench looked very thin on Saturday. But keeping our powder dry and having the pick of players in January could provide a huge boost to us at the business-end of the season.
We've Aké, Laporté Jack & Kalvin out & already we're looking stretched. Once we get to three games per week, then what?
I honestly believe that another senior LB & a top class winger is all we need to complete this season's squad & to give us adequate competition/cover for the season ahead.
We were a Kyle Walker injury away from a second successive CL final appearance imo. It's at crucial times like those, when bypassing moments like now, when we can change things, that makes our small squad policy seems crazy to many of us.