It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

bell_mcfc said:
Although I agree and think it’s a priority to get it sorted it’s now reached the stage he’s asked for a rest and commenting about minutes. We also want to tie him to a new contract.

It’s important we don’t jump into a transfer and don’t sign another Phillips. I think the short term solution is to use players like Kov/Lewis/Nunes when we can and long term we will buy a player to help and to push him.

He’s to important for us to not look after his best interests.

Kovacic for me was a make shift signing. Someone Pep has admired for years and is clearly a good player. I think he’ll have a better season next year not because of ‘City second season’ but we are in a transition on how we play. We needed to replace Gundo and we didn’t realistically know how long KDB would be out for. We wanted Bellingham and Rice at one point and think Paqueta was 3rd on that list, Nunes was the reaction signing and we just are a little off balance currently. But we’ve challenged in all 3 competitions so far so we are no way in a bad position.
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It's how the slippery slope starts. In terms of using Kovacic, Lewis & Nunes where we can, in place of Rodri, I firmly believe we need a like for like replacement for Rodders now, in the form of another Rodri or a new Fernandinho.

Our drop off in quality is too great without Rodders even in the easier games. As for rest? I wish Soain would give him the summer off, but there's little chance of that ever happening. Then there's pre-season & the season kicks off again early August. We'll run him into the ground at this rate.

Personally, I think it's time to get ruthless & to flex our financial might for once, & damn others carping on about City ruining football (which we've not).

Ideally I'd like us to sell Cancelo, Philips, Gomez, Nunes & I'd even consider Kovacic too who see as a squad player. We need to trim the fat & get back to previous levels whereby we would've had enough to topple a "defend deep & hit em on the break" Real Madrid.

Crucial ties like that, & games against ArseAnal & the Dippers are decided by small margins. The tiny slip in the quality of our squad's DNA is all it takes for potential wins to become draws, & draws to become defeats. We've had far too many of this in crucial games this season.

Agreed we also need to replace Gundog & Mahrez too. Hopefully we can get Paqueta done this summer.

The other issue we’ve got is the eventual phasing out of KDB, Walker & the annual will he/won't he Bernardo transfer merry-go-round. I think Kev & Kyle have both got another season in them at least, but we must start the succession planning from now.

Personally I think the club should give Bernie a latest date to secure a transfer this summer, so we can secure a replacement. No chance we need the uncertainty dragging on into next season.
 
Dribble said:
It's how the slippery slope starts. In terms of using Kovacic, Lewis & Nunes where we can, in place of Rodri, I firmly believe we need a like for like replacement for Rodders now, in the form of another Rodri or a new Fernandinho.

Our drop off in quality is too great without Rodders even in the easier games. As for rest? I wish Soain would give him the summer off, but there's little chance of that ever happening. Then there's pre-season & the season kicks off again early August. We'll run him into the ground at this rate.

Personally, I think it's time to get ruthless & to flex our financial might for once, & damn others carping on about City ruining football (which we've not).

Ideally I'd like us to sell Cancelo, Philips, Gomez, Nunes & I'd even consider Kovacic too who see as a squad player. We need to trim the fat & get back to previous levels whereby we would've had enough to topple a "defend deep & hit em on the break" Real Madrid.

Crucial ties like that, & games against ArseAnal & the Dippers are decided by small margins. The tiny slip in the quality of our squad's DNA is all it takes for potential wins to become draws, & draws to become defeats. We've had far too many of this in crucial games this season.

Agreed we also need to replace Gundog & Mahrez too. Hopefully we can get Paqueta done this summer.

The other issue we’ve got is the eventual phasing out of KDB, Walker & the annual will he/won't he Bernardo transfer merry-go-round. I think Kev & Kyle have both got another season in them at least, but we must start the succession planning from now.

Personally I think the club should give Bernie a latest date to secure a transfer this summer, so we can secure a replacement. No chance we need the uncertainty dragging on into next season.
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The sheer number of current players mentioned (8) plus those that we cannot shift for money (2) underlines just how much work and just how difficult the job of squad development is. There’s just no way that we’ll get everything done in the one summer.

Irrespective of where the trophies land, I think the last two seasons will be a learning experience for those in charge and they will appreciate that they need to plan better for the transition. One bad buy (Phillips) can have a knock on effect that is still felt even after they have left.
 
Dribble said:
It's how the slippery slope starts. In terms of using Kovacic, Lewis & Nunes where we can, in place of Rodri, I firmly believe we need a like for like replacement for Rodders now, in the form of another Rodri or a new Fernandinho.

Our drop off in quality is too great without Rodders even in the easier games. As for rest? I wish Soain would give him the summer off, but there's little chance of that ever happening. Then there's pre-season & the season kicks off again early August. We'll run him into the ground at this rate.

Personally, I think it's time to get ruthless & to flex our financial might for once, & damn others carping on about City ruining football (which we've not).

Ideally I'd like us to sell Cancelo, Philips, Gomez, Nunes & I'd even consider Kovacic too who see as a squad player. We need to trim the fat & get back to previous levels whereby we would've had enough to topple a "defend deep & hit em on the break" Real Madrid.

Crucial ties like that, & games against ArseAnal & the Dippers are decided by small margins. The tiny slip in the quality of our squad's DNA is all it takes for potential wins to become draws, & draws to become defeats. We've had far too many of this in crucial games this season.

Agreed we also need to replace Gundog & Mahrez too. Hopefully we can get Paqueta done this summer.

The other issue we’ve got is the eventual phasing out of KDB, Walker & the annual will he/won't he Bernardo transfer merry-go-round. I think Kev & Kyle have both got another season in them at least, but we must start the succession planning from now.

Personally I think the club should give Bernie a latest date to secure a transfer this summer, so we can secure a replacement. No chance we need the uncertainty dragging on into next season.
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I think that’s why we are seeing reports of Pep wanting Bruno because he’s confident he could step in immediately. Same with Paqueta. Nice to see links to Kimmich as well. Would like the same quality player at RW to replace Mahrez properly like you say.

I think with Bernie any leave will be amicable and probably because of the constant uncertainty that’s why the release clause has gone in. We know he’s gone unless he changes his mind which we’d then know going into the window.

Think Neves makes sense for the next 10 years but some, maybe Pep, want players in that can make an immediate impact.
 
vanchi said:
i know that, i meant the public perception, most people believe city paid 100m pounds for him (even some city content creators).
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True. It's unfortunate that we're surrounded by idiots who latch onto a false narrative and run with it spreading the narrative to other idiots as they go. We see this with City over and over again. As long as we do our thing they can shove their opinions you know where : )
 
Gabriel said:
The sheer number of current players mentioned (8) plus those that we cannot shift for money (2) underlines just how much work and just how difficult the job of squad development is. There’s just no way that we’ll get everything done in the one summer.

Irrespective of where the trophies land, I think the last two seasons will be a learning experience for those in charge and they will appreciate that they need to plan better for the transition. One bad buy (Phillips) can have a knock on effect that is still felt even after they have left.
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I honestly believe Pep & Txiki will be on it this summer. ArseAnal haven't been near us in years, however this season they've two wins & a draw after only really adding Declan Rice.

We've gotta do much much better imo.
 
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