It's Quiet the £250m return

[Cityfan]

We do back the manager and we do spend money but our focus especially in recent years seems to have been on the net spend trophy.

This isn't revisionism or hindsight but most blues would have said that £100m on Grealish was too much. Phillips & Nunes were never going to be good enough. Especially when the latter went to Wolves the summer before for less than £30m.

For whatever reason, in recent years we've not signed our first choice player. Rice, Kane, Bellingham all rejected us. Before that, Dias was our 3rd choice centre half, Rodri wasn't our first choice either. Go back further, we baulked at getting Van Dyke & Harry Maguire (LOL).

Transfers don't happen, I get that. And we can't force players to sign but Wirtz is a genuine world class talent, in a position we desperately need to fill. He's as close to De Bruyne as you can get and we've given Liverpool a free hit at him.

It's all opinions but for a team allegedly wanting to win the league and win the CL. Signing someone like MGW isn't going to achieve that. Especially with the substantial drop in quality in our squad.

You might call that "tosh", that's fine. Plenty of others agree though.

If our aim has been the next spend trophy , you cannot equally say we clearly overpaid for Grealish and Nunez . If our aim had been the net spend trophy we would not have overpaid .

In recent years we have not always signed our first choice player. But sometimes we do Haaland , Gvardiol , Grealish all appear to have been first choice when signed, bit like most other teams really.

As for giving Liverpool a free hit at Wirtz nobody on a message board truly knows what happened, but most of the suggestions are that we haven't given Liverpool a free hit but withdrawn because he doesn't want us.


Your statement that was tosh was that Liverpool back their manager more than we do in the transfer market.
They've made some excellent signings , some poor ones and have missed out on some, just like us.
Personally I wouldn't swap our recent trophy haul with theirs though.

 

[konapearl]

He's as close to De Bruyne as you can get and we've given Liverpool a free hit at him.

Given? City tried their best and lost.

 

[borassic]

We do back the manager and we do spend money but our focus especially in recent years seems to have been on the net spend trophy.

This isn't revisionism or hindsight but most blues would have said that £100m on Grealish was too much. Phillips & Nunes were never going to be good enough. Especially when the latter went to Wolves the summer before for less than £30m.

For whatever reason, in recent years we've not signed our first choice player. Rice, Kane, Bellingham all rejected us. Before that, Dias was our 3rd choice centre half, Rodri wasn't our first choice either. Go back further, we baulked at getting Van Dyke & Harry Maguire (LOL).

Transfers don't happen, I get that. And we can't force players to sign but Wirtz is a genuine world class talent, in a position we desperately need to fill. He's as close to De Bruyne as you can get and we've given Liverpool a free hit at him.

It's all opinions but for a team allegedly wanting to win the league and win the CL. Signing someone like MGW isn't going to achieve that. Especially with the substantial drop in quality in our squad.

You might call that "tosh", that's fine. Plenty of others agree though.

Rice and Kane didn’t reject City though did they?

 

[WRicko]

Would literally rather we spent £250m on Yamal and waited till next season to add the other missing ingredients rather than spend £250m on the 4/5 prime targets we are apparently approaching.

It’s a squad game and we need players

 

[Quinny851]

Rice and Kane didn’t reject City though did they?

That's why I said "whatever the reason". They were still our first choice and we didn't get them

 

[chiswick blue]

Nico is a box to box midfileder though, because we bought him to cover our DM dowsn't meann would shouldn't try him in that role.

There is no Kev replacement anywhere in the world atm.

City have been keeping a long, interested eye on Saka at Arsenal and his contract situation...

Would be great but Arsenal selling to us in the current climate seems unlikely.

 

[Quinny851]

City have been keeping a long, interested eye on Saka at Arsenal and his contract situation...

He'll go to Liverpool and we'll sign Dwight McNeil instead

 

[TheBlueCat]

I would make one last call to Wirtz parents. Mansour directly, enough of Txiki mumbling on the call...

FFS the level of arrogance and delusion here is off the scale.
This must be a wind up!

 

[Gorbachev]

I think first and foremost the club will be trying to get back a harmonious dressing room again. Peps and Bernardos quotes in recent weeks point to not everything being all fine and dandy this season.

Remove the negativity and focus on getting Rodri and Foden back. If we can get those back to what we know they can be, it will be like having two £120m footballers back in the team.

Defensively we sured up immeasurably towards the back end of the season as well, and finished the season joint top with most clean sheets. We have the best form and most points in the second half the season too.

The focus should be on building an attack around Haaland, more goals and energy from midfield, two proper fullbacks and get out high intensity press back

We are not a million miles away at all.

A fully fit Gvardiol, Rodri, Foden, Marmoush and Haaland all get into that Liverpool team. That's nearly half our current team.

 

[johnny crossan]

Ducks being put in a row all over the place except ours.

 

[Cobwebcat]

 

[KingGeorge]

Key word being “agents” ..They would love to make money moving all those players around.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Thats utter bollocks

 

[Gumzy97]

Viana clear out. There's going to be a lot more going than we think.

 

[chesterbells]

Thats utter bollocks

It did surprise me too tbh

 

[No One Understands]

So we get a keeper who can pass and make saves?

If unicorns existed we would have found them by now

 

[citytill1die84]

City have been keeping a long, interested eye on Saka at Arsenal and his contract situation...

Didn't he sign a new deal?

 

[Gumzy97]

Thats utter bollocks

I don't think it is, Viana has no relationship with these players to him their just assets. He gutted Sporting when he first came in also sacked managers until he got his manager. Also he's close with Mendes and other agents.

Viana is good at scouting talent but I think the reason we've brought him in as well is that he's very good at selling and getting rid of players. He also doesn't wait for a player to move on before signing the replacement.

 

[lol yank]

Anyone who believes a generic “mailsport” source has what’s coming to them.

Hope it’s true though

 

[Damanino]

with the amount of work front of Viana, he must be shocked how the squad building went on since the treble.