It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[Sibierskii]

Beat me to it. He'd cost a lot but must be desperate to move on from West Ham.

We haven't got anyone like him. A fairly unique player.

Whats so special about him?

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[bell_mcfc]

Makes sense. CB and CDM

 

[xMatMcC]

Kudus

Beat me to it. He'd cost a lot but must be desperate to move on from West Ham.

We haven't got anyone like him. A fairly unique player.

Good player but not sure he steps in and moves the needle for us... Would play in an advanced LCM role most likely. Is this really what we need? If we were to sign Kudus it would be because Eze turned us down. They're quite similar, but Eze is home-grown and probably cheaper. Also, Paqueta is better for that role than Kudus.

Really cannot see this lad being our priority. We've clearly dropped a level, and to change that we need real running gamebreakers. Leao, Musiala, and to a lesser extent but still a big profile upgrade, Adeyemi.

For backup/2 striker system, Ferguson or Sesko would be nice.

For midfield, a lot of players would be an upgrade on what we've got. Bruno G the obvious one.

 

[brian the blue]

"Plenty of value in Europe"

Judged on what because the other clubs in the league spend about 1bn a year on players and have won fuck all.

We've been sat about laughing at the money Arsenal, Chelsea and the rags have burnt on players who were the best thing in X, Y and Z.

There's no guarantee to any transfer. Buying domestically is usually to weaken an opponent but also you would hope they are up to speed faster than anyone else would be and we have done a lot better than anyone else in this regard.

Judged on the fact that every one of our “legend” level signings since the takeover has been bought from Europe.

David Silva
Yaya Toure
Sergio Aguero
Fernandinho
Kevin De Bruyne
Bernardo Silva
Ederson
Rodri
Ruben Dias

Our successful signings from within this league are from back when we were trying to establish ourselves and targeted our immediate rivals in Villa (Barry, Milner) Everton (Lescott) and the main one in Arsenal (Adebayor, Toure, Clichy, Nasri) and they were happy to take our money whilst naively thinking we “can’t buy success” and overtake them.

The last two successful signings we were able to pull off from genuine rivals were Walker and Sterling, and as I said, they were great signings. But since then the “big 6” clubs have simply decided to not even bother speaking to us about transfers because they hate us so much.

A title winning side isn’t “weakening a rival” by buying players from fuckng Bournemouth, Villa, Leeds and Wolves, whilst also attempting and failing to buy half of West Ham’s midfield for £180 mil.

 

[brian the blue]

there are some players in the prem I would take right away or in the summer and we'd need to be very ballsy.

TAA from Liverpool and what's more they couldn't stop it
Guimaraes from Newcastle is a question of money but he is a good versatile player

However I do think you're correct that getting players from Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool is usually impossible because they just don't need to sell. There is a greater pool of players from Europe but most of the almost sure thing signings that we want at clubs also don't want to sell so we're again taking a chance that we can significantly improve a player to our standard (and this is the best team in the world)

I think the level of hatred towards us doesn’t stop at board room level. You can guarantee TAA can’t stand us. There’s absolutely no chance he’d sign for us, even though Liverpool can’t stop it.

Bruno G just doesn’t inspire me. Again, he’s an okay player playing in an upper mid table team. Our best midfields have had 3 world class players. First one of Fernandinho, David Silva and De Bruyne, then our second one of Rodri, Gundogan and De Bruyne.. both with help from Bernardo when one is injured.

Buying Bruno G is like the Kovacic signing, viewed as a good player to play alongside Rodri, then when Rodri isn’t available, the standard of our midfield crashes.

 

[decmancity]

Judged on the fact that every one of our “legend” level signings since the takeover has been bought from Europe.

David Silva
Yaya Toure
Sergio Aguero
Fernandinho
Kevin De Bruyne
Bernardo Silva
Ederson
Rodri
Ruben Dias

Our successful signings from within this league are from back when we were trying to establish ourselves and targeted our immediate rivals in Villa (Barry, Milner) Everton (Lescott) and the main one in Arsenal (Adebayor, Toure, Clichy, Nasri) and they were happy to take our money whilst naively thinking we “can’t buy success” and overtake them.

The last two successful signings we were able to pull off from genuine rivals were Walker and Sterling, and as I said, they were great signings. But since then the “big 6” clubs have simply decided to not even bother speaking to us about transfers because they hate us so much.

A title winning side isn’t “weakening a rival” by buying players from fuckng Bournemouth, Villa, Leeds and Wolves, whilst also attempting and failing to buy half of West Ham’s midfield for £180 mil.

We have bought a lot of shit from abroad as well.

Millions wasted on Mendy, Mangala, Bravo and many more.

Stones and Mahrez a couple of huge omissions from your list.

 

[brian the blue]

We have bought a lot of shit from abroad as well.

Millions wasted on Mendy, Mangala, Bravo and many more.

Stones and Mahrez a couple of huge omissions from your list.

Yeah, Stones is the only success from buying from mid table in this league.

Mahrez was unique because it was Leicester, but ultimately he was bought from a title winning side after a player of the year performance. So no surprise we got a title winning standard winger.

To simplify my point, if you buy from champions league clubs, you get champions league standard players. If you buy from mid table clubs, you get mid table standard players. The champions league clubs won’t do business with us in the country any more. So go back to Europe and buy from there.

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Whats so special about him?

He's a consistent goalscorer from wide starting positions and has good technique. He scores a variety of different goals, ones from lung bursting runs, shots from outside the box, overhead kicks... Etc

His combination of skill, strength and speed is what makes him special. He'd get a lot of chances playing for us and he could add a new dynamic to the team.

He brings a lot of elements missing in our other wingers. Especially in front of goal. Great age at 24 and approaching his prime years.

 

[decmancity]

To simplify my point, if you buy from champions league clubs, you get champions league standard players. If you buy from mid table clubs, you get mid table standard players. The champions league clubs won’t do business with us in the country any more. So go back to Europe and buy from there.

Chelsea, rags and Arsenal have non stop bought from "champions league", how's that working out for them?

It's not that simple. If it was, the rags and Chelsea would have won everything in the last two years with the billions they have spent.