It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[BLUEMOONBAZ]

Phillips has been on my list of possibles for some time. I like his attitude and I have been impressed by a lot of his work for England.

Cucurella, I've not seen much of but he's certainly stood out in what I have seen of Brigthon this season; now whether that's just the hair or not....

City have four gaps in the squad to fill and two have been filled, if the remaing gaps are filled by KP and MC, that would represent very good work by City.

Spot on and if this happens I would consider it a great transfer window from us.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Yep, I was in favour of Walker, Stones, Sterling, Ake, I like Cucurella, but I'm disappointed that we had two years to prepare for Fernandinho's departure and the best we could come up with was Phillips. He's a decent but limited player, capable of doing a job, but represents a missed opportunity imo.

Missed how? What are your preferred options?

 

[Coatigan]

With five subs we’d expect a lot more players getting a lot more time and commitment. Very good for both keep a bigger squad satisfied and youngsters engaged

Exactly.

Which is why replacing 2 players with 1 is not something that makes sense and I don't expect the club to do.

 

[BLUEMOONBAZ]

Missed how? What are your preferred options?

Not much about to fair and he hits a lot of plus points .
English
Decent player
Price
Worked with the pep system at Leeds

 

[Gabriel]

Five seasons of having unfilled gaps and playing players out of position; it will be interesting to see how we fare when we have no gaps and players playing in the positions in which they feel most comfortable.

 

[Coatigan]

Yes and Jesus.Now signing Haaland there will not be false 9 so less minutes for some players.Pep would need to make them happy with paying time and if he have more top quality players for same position it would be very hard to do that.

We were at least a player short last season, and it showed. Pep likes 'smaller squads' but last season was smaller than he's ever had before.

We have brought in Haaland and Alvarez who replace Aguero and Torres who we we went an entire season without. And even in That reduced format, Neither Delap nor Palmer got a look in. I can't Jesus leaving and not being replaced. I can't see palmer being that replacement. And Alvarez isn't either.

Ultimately, replacinf Spain and Brazil's number 1 forward choices, proven in European top leagues, with talented kids with promise, one who has never played outside of argentina and is only just breaking into the national side, and one who has had a less than a ha dful of cameos in meaningless games for City, is just not something I can see this club with the ambition we have doing. Gradually, possibly. In one swoop, seriously doubt it.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We were at least a player short last season, and it showed. Pep likes 'smaller squads' but last season was smaller than he's ever had before.

We have brought in Haaland and Alvarez who replace Aguero and Torres who we we went an entire season without. And even in That reduced format, Neither Delap nor Palmer got a look in. I can't Jesus leaving and not being replaced. I can't see palmer being that replacement. And Alvarez isn't either.

Ultimately, replacinf Spain and Brazil's number 1 forward choices, proven in European top leagues, with talented kids with promise, one who has never played outside of argentina and is only just breaking into the national side, and one who has had a less than a ha dful of cameos in meaningless games for City, is just not something I can see this club with the ambition we have doing. Gradually, possibly. In one swoop, seriously doubt it.

I think we’ve replaced them pretty well. Time will tell how long they need to bed in though.

We’re short of a midfielder and fullback imho.

Cancelo and Walker played too many games. They were burnt out by the end of the season.

If KDB, Fernandinho or Bernardo had got injured, we’d have been in trouble too.

 

[Vester]

Jesus -> Haaland
Torres -> Alvarez
Fernandinho -> Phillips
Mendy -> Cucurella

Would be a very good window that improves several areas of an already elite quality team imo. I have said on numerous occasions on this forum the last 6 months that I think Phillips would be a great replacement for Fernandinho, so I hope we can get a deal sorted. Sure I would prefer FDJ, but we are kidding ourselves if we think we are going to spend that amount of money on fee + salary on a player thats not even likely to be a part of our best XI (Rodri-Silva-KDB). Anyone leaving besides these, would obviously need replacing as well. Like, I dont think Cucurella is enough if Zinchenko leaves as well. We need at least 1 more FB than we had this season, as the last couple of months clearly showed. Besides Zinchenko, I think both of Sterling and Mahrez could be leaving, but right now my feeling is that they are both more likely to stay than leave. With that said, I obviously have no clue what Pep, Txixi & the others in charge are thinking. No matter what, we got Haaland so the best team in the world has already gotten better!

 

[Coatigan]

I think we’ve replaced them pretty well. Time will tell how long they need to bed in though.

So do I, totally agree. My point was losing Jesus as well would probably need another attacking player in.

Agree with the rest, hopefully we see a DM and a full back come in. Which is where my point started here, one has to leave for that to happen. If that's Jesus, fine. I doubt it, as it would weaken our attack imo.

Only this

 

[Ric]

Randomly, Ferran Soriano was just on the same flight as me. Going to mither him for transfer info whilst we wait for our luggage.