It's Quiet - a new dawn

[Jazzman]

A player that needed to be first choice and have a team that will play to his strengths in order to flourish.

He went stale at City and lost his hunger from what it looked like to me as he knew he would never get ahead of Sergio.

The problem with that graph above is a lot of those players are the key men for their respective clubs and have a team that plays to their strengths. Not all will fit Pep's style no matter how great their statistics are.

How true, how true

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

2 League titles
2 League cups
1 FA Cup ( should have been 2)

All won by spending buckets of cash.

Without that we would be down the fucking bottom fighting Sunderland for Premier status.

People need to stop belting on about how much he or it will be to sign player A B or C if the manager needs him then City get him & whoever that may be they will pay over the odds.

so your long term answer is to just spend a bucket load of cash every year. surely that can't be answer all the time. we need to stop beign so reliant on it.

 

[01cravend]

15/16 Iheanacho was involved in a goal every 61minutes

 

[Sir peace frog]

so your long term answer is to just spend a bucket load of cash every year. surely that can't be answer all the time. we need to stop beign so reliant on it.

spend until something comes out of the academy ,if nothing comes out of the academy spend some more.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

spend until something comes out of the academy ,if nothing comes out of the academy spend some more.

it doesnt just have to be academy players. we need to start beign smarter when buying players. spurs are a great example of that. spend barely anything yet find really good players. the centrebacks, alli ...

 

[Twingatz]

He is miles off where we need to be, he won't get in or start regular in any top 8 side in England simple.

Disagree. He could regularly start for some of the teams in the top 8 if given confidence and put in a system that play's his strengths. I could see him regularly starting for Southampton, West Brom or Everton if they sell Lukaku.

 

[domalino]

15/16 Iheanacho was involved in a goal every 61minutes

But he wouldn't have gotten on this graph because his sample size of 8 goals isn't enough. He was involved in 10-15% of our goals, the cut-off on that graph is 30%

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

so your long term answer is to just spend a bucket load of cash every year. surely that can't be answer all the time. we need to stop beign so reliant on it.

You mean like Real Madrid and Barcelona then?

 

[cookster]

so your long term answer is to just spend a bucket load of cash every year. surely that can't be answer all the time. we need to stop beign so reliant on it.

It's not even that big an advantage anymore as the Prem is awash with money.

When we had the advantage after 11/12 it was wasted with poor buys.

 

[Callum Ramsey]

You mean like Real Madrid and Barcelona then?

To be fair Barcelona's most successful period with Pep was built with mainly academy players including the likes of Pique, busquets and pedro whom at the time were pretty much unknowns with the occasional big transfer like a Henry/Ibrahimovic thrown in. Admittedly some of those academy players were once in a generation players that are likely never to be seen again but big spending was certainly not a factor in their success during that era as much as it has been recently with neymar/suarez. Now Real Madrid is a different ball game but even then it still took them a good 12 years of consecutive big spending for them to finally land another champion league. While Athletico Madrid and Dortmund have shown the past 5 years,you don't always need big spending to succeed and a good foundation/system built on academy prospects can also work when done right and can produce successes.