Can honestly say I’ve never heard of Puig.
What about these Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb?
Can honestly say I’ve never heard of Puig.
I've had a think about the possible reasons for this weird window.
I think my original thought that lots of teams will sell for cash flow purposes is still correct.
However I didn't see the extent to which selling clubs would chance losing a buyer to get the best possible price.
My conclusion is that the last week will be crazy and that's when we will do our business. Until then it's whoever blinks first and not many, Valencia aside, have. From a monetary point of view we can afford to wait and rightly or wrongly that is what I think we are doing.
We can't judge till 16 days time.
Purely a guess but I get the feeling there will still be a couple of huge signings and we are going to like them.
Behind enemy linesDoes he track back?
Anyone want to tell him?
No ;-)
Definitely heard of Dibble. Cuthbert. Elisha Cuthbert?What about these Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb?
Brighton, Bournemouth. They're easily confused bud.I meant Brighton. They're both on the south coast, they both begin with a B, and I've never been to either, FFS! In any case, reading this thread, we could find ourselves in a dogfight with Bournemouth next season.
You are arguing against your own point & agreeing with me.
It doesn't 'reset' it's an ongoing evolution as you rightly say. And those players might not be available 'now' indeed. That's why you move straight away, as in last year.
Would Leroy Sané be at Bayern now, if Bayern hadn't moved in for him last season, or would he now have a 5 year contract at City ?
We may indeed do some deals in a few weeks, after taking our chances in the comibg games & giving the new players no pre season. And it might save us some money.
If we don't sign anyone, then, as you say, we will also be in the market for a new striker next season. So 3 or 4 key players needed in one window. We won't get them all.
A week into the next season, if Sergio is struggling for form & fitness, will it be good management, if we are scrabbling around different clubs, making offers for strikers, or should we be on it now & just do the deal when the window opens ?
Same thing with Kompany's replacement. Except we've had 3 years, knowing it was coming.