It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[Marvin]

So you are happy to blame the club with no evidence that they are acting incompetently. OK

The football director is tasked with maintaining the continuity of the playing squad. I can't give you the inside track of what players we scouted, what offers were made etc but I can see that the captain of this side has not been replaced, and that's all I need to show. You're asking for blind faith, I ask for deliverables. If they can't produce they will be fired.

 

[Neville Kneville]

But we have no option, we have to trust them.

The thing what gets me though is that most of the posters on here are who are crying for Koulibaly will be the same posters ripping into him if he has a stinker on his debut.

I think Stones will start. Its well documented hes had off-field problems as well as injuries in the past year. Splitting up with your Mrs who you have had a child too can seriously mess up your head. It happened to me 18 months ago and i still find it hard sometimes.

Hopefully, the time off he's had will of helped him clear his head and focus on football because when hes on it Stones is a exceptional defender

I'm hoping Stones gets his act together.

Proper version of Stones, Ake, Laporte & another top class cb would be the best cb squad in the PL.

 

[bondsman]

Maybe, just maybe, after winning back to back titles the players relaxed? They're now second best and have to something to prove. The filthy scum dominated the league for 20+years and only won it 3 times in a row once with less competition than there is now.

Just a thought.

Maybe but Fergiscum was a master at rebuilding squads

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Can't believe the negativity. Dippers have bought a full back no-one has heard of and a forward from a team that scored exactly half what we did, and he wasn't a regular starter for them. Plus Thiago who Bayern seemed all to happy to sell. Where's the razor blades?

 

[Petetheblu]

At this stage he has a 50% chance

I thought someone would say something like that, but I still went ahead and pressed post reply..... seriously the guys better than what's been made out on here.

 

[mosssideblue]

Because as you know, this was supposed to be the 'rebuild' transfer window & we have needed certain players, for years.

Some choose to ignore it, some grumble about it, some panic about it.

But it should be better for the season start & people get paid a lot of money to make it so.

We would be criticising Ed Woodward on here, if he had so far still not signed a right sided cb, having 3 years' warning, to find one.

As I responded to Marv a few posts back, everyone from the club to the fans would want to have all our dealings done well in advance of the first game, but it clearly isn't that simple.

Some of the hyperbole posted on here because we haven't achieved that ideal position has been absolutely cringeworthy at times.

Surely, you see that

 

[simon23]

Agreed, and I’d expect them both to start on Monday, wouldn’t you?

Yes hopefully - especially against fast counter attacking teams (or teams that at least pose that threat which Wolves certainly are)

 

[Phil1]

I wish I could have hung around near the City fans you lot knew, who never complained about anything.

I bet Ian Bowyer wishes he could have played in front of them.

No doubts we’ve always had our fair share of pessimists amongst the fanbase, mate, but what we are seeing on here recently goes way beyond a bit of gloom and doom.
The attitude towards our manager and higher ups has been a fucking joke, some of the posts being made aren’t borne out from a bit of frustration for not getting players in, they come across as genuinely unhappy about everything the club is doing.
We all want to compete for titles every season and so far we have done that with a style of football that’s been unmatched. Of course there’s been failures along the way but that is the case with every top club in every country in the world.
Yes, there are holes in the squad and the signing of a high quality CB is definitely something I’d have liked to have seen happen but fuck throwing my toys out of the pram and coming on here posting the same thing 30 times a day saying how unfair it is and how every team has improved apart from us.
The squad we have going into the first game is more than good enough to win the league this season. By the time the window closes I believe it will be even stronger.
The club has plenty of credit in the bank for me so I’d rather trust that they are trying to do the right thing than slag them off to fuck because we haven’t signed 6 players.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Because as you know, this was supposed to be the 'rebuild' transfer window & we have needed certain players, for years.

Some choose to ignore it, some grumble about it, some panic about it.

But it should be better for the season start & people get paid a lot of money to make it so.

We would be criticising Ed Woodward on here, if he had so far still not signed a right sided cb, having 3 years' warning, to find one.

I think my frustration, but I should know better as it’s just not us, is that I wish we were just a bit more ruthless when it came to transfers, instead of fannying around as usual.

People forget that we’ve got to shift players to free up room for incomings, which is a ball ache when clubs only come calling late in the window when they know they can pull our pants down.

The Garcia/Otamendi/Zinchenko transfers out, in a perfect world, would have been done by now and we’d have potentially shifted Stones too.

Then the incomings would be easy.

 

[AJ71]

If I get frustrated with transfers, I just think back to 1973 and watching Barney Daniels pull on our shirt. Some are complaining about signing Ake :)

Watched him play for County once or twice, think he scored 4 in one game. Barney Daniels walks on water......

just not at City