It's Quiet - a new dawn

[kaz7]

Any news on transfers?

Give over,it's it's bashing joe hour by the same posters to piss off the rest of us looking for news

Start a joe thread and give the rest of us a break ffs

 

[mosssideblue]

It's funny you mention no one challenging Hart, because he had to be dropped twice - once for Pantilimon, once for Caballero - because he'd lost form.

What other keeper in the world, supposedly one of the best, needs to be periodically dropped in order to keep performances high and stop complacency setting in?

I've never known De Gea, Cech, Courtois, Lloris, Buffon, Neuer, ter Stegen etc. to be dropped because their coaches think they need a wake-up call.

I loved Joe for years, but when he leaves and you see him play in a different shirt, the blue-tinted specs come off, and you can see that actually there's a reason why no one outside City fans ever really thought he was one of the worlds best. You see how he did actually make a lot of clangers that he was forgiven for because of the occasional game where no one got past him from close range.

IMO Hart was a good keeper for us, but I see why Mancini wanted Begovic, and why Pellegrini wanted Caballero, and why Pep finally got rid of him. I believe he lacked the fundamental skill that the worlds greatest players have, improving your weaknesses. He never fixed the problem down to his left, he never got better at dealing with long range efforts and he never improved with his feet. He did this because he didn't need to, he was guaranteed to be Man City's #1 and that was enough.

So he stayed at the level he was at until a coach arrived who thought that being so bad with your feet in 2016 was not acceptable, a conclusion even Mancini reached if you believe the rumours, although with Pep, he came up against a manager who hadn't made enemies of his superiors and took his side.

He will be remembered as part of the great Mancini team, a great performer in our early CL days when others went missing, but I think when he goes to a PL team next season more of his defenders on here will see what he is without the tinted specs, a flawed player despite everything great he did for us.

Great post

 

[meeesh]

Sorry,I've finished now,back to transfers,has there been any in last hour or so ?

 

[philjoneswho?]

Give over,it's it's bashing joe hour by the same posters to piss off the rest of us looking for news

Start a joe thread and give the rest of us a break ffs

My apologies ;). I'll wait for the next lot of YouTube clips like the rest of us.

 

[kaz7]

My apologies ;). I'll wait for the next lot of YouTube clips like the rest of us.

Lets hope we get some news soon,players on holiday...how very dare them lol

 

[mosssideblue]

Do one Claudio

lmfao. Yes you clearly still are in the dark ages

 

[Sensanetional]

Just looking at dates when we signed some players for the last 3 summers. Well the bigger names we signed anyway.
Seems August is the most popular so I’m guessing it might be a few more weeks yet till we get some of these names we want in if previous summers are to go by.

Gundogan – 1st JUNE
Nolito – 1st JULY
Sane – 2nd AUG
Stones – 9th AUG
Bravo – 25th AUG


Sterling – 14th JULY
Otamendi – 20th AUG
De Bruyne – 30th AUG


Fernando – 26th JUNE
Willy – 8th JULY
Mangala – 14th AUG


Who knows though... Just thought it would be interesting to see.

It has been emphasised that Pep want all signings to be done before preseason so it will happen. Only one who could possibly drag into August is Alexis.

 

[mosssideblue]

It has been emphasised that Pep want all signings to be done before preseason so it will happen. Only one who could possibly drag into August is Alexis.

Not sure how you can claim that when selling parties may have different ideas

 

[Cityisland]

Another slow day?

 

[SA16]

Another slow day?

Seems like it