It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[doobyedoobye]

How many times has a player been signed in January that made an immediate impact?

 

[robbieh]

Yes mate it's over for a handful of them clear as day. Play the young lads with legs ffs Pep! Makes my blood boil seeing them sitting on bench week in week out when we have dead ducks on the pitch

Totally agree.
We're not going to make top 4/5 as there are so many sides who are better than us. I'd be quite happy to end up mid table if we play the youngsters. We will find out how good Wright and O'Reilly are for starters. They both played well at Tottenham. Give McAtee an extended run. If he doesn't cut it then we sell him in the summer.
But just playing Walker, Gundo et al and losing is not learning anything.

 

[Gingers Dad]

We are only using our academy for making money and in the end young players will not sign for us as they will see that we don’t give youth a chance I nean probably that could change when the next coach comes after pep leaves but atm our academy is really for selling players.

Doubt it with the amount of City's academy players in top flight football. Looks like a great place to learn your trade, even if you have to move on to fulfill your ambitions.

 

[117 M34]

People say we can't buy another striker because we have got haaland.
Villa have 2 top class strikers so don't see why we can't

 

[Delphinho]

Losing 4 midfielders in the same transfer window would be huge. Leaves us with just Rodri, Kovacic and Foden (and Rico if you count him as a midfielder). Wonder if Perrone gets a chance? Done very well in Serie A seemingly

 

[Salford_Blue]

Midfield is where Peps teams' strengths lie.

Control the ball, the pace of the game and possession.

Ours simply has no legs at the mo to get back when teams counter.

Need two in the middle.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

How many times has a player been signed in January that made an immediate impact?

Laporte was our last example.

 

[Gumzy97]

Kev could go in Jan, MLS clubs are circling. They want him in January. He’s out of contract in the summer

 

[Delphinho]

Kev could go in Jan, MLS clubs are circling. They want him in January. He’s out of contract in the summer

This season is a write off, but he would be key to secure CL football. Don’t think we’d get much more than 10-20m for him in January with 6 months left, don’t think that’s worth letting him go for

 

[Gumzy97]

Also why is Haaland untouchable? I keep seeing on here we can’t buy another striker as he will just be back up, a strike won’t come if they are just a back up etc

Aguero our greatest ever striker wasn’t even untouchable when he was here many times he was dropped for Jesus,