It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I’d have to buy it first ;-)

I may have to pop a Mickey Finn in your drink so you're grasp on your wallet is looser; )

 

[mosssideblue]

As it stands we haven’t brought anyone in and lost two players. Neither played staring roles so may not be seen as a loss, we can’t rely on no striker again and we certainly can’t rely on rivals having really poor seasons. United have improved and looking to more and Liverpool won’t be as inconsistent as last year with VVD returning also. It’s accepted throughout chelsea have a better manager now too. We was able to claw back from our awful start last season due to signing Dias (into the season which is where my points going) being incredibly consistent with others faltering. The league will be won by a decent amount more points than we won it last year I reckon. Been burnt before not improving on title winning squads that’s why I’m very hopeful we start getting the signings in.

Far too early to start flapping

 

[andyhinch]

I may have to pop a Mickey Finn in your drink so you're grasp on your wallet is looser; )

I don’t carry cash ;-) can’t wait for the season to start, had a few beers in town with some off here, back in the mood.

 

[Lkzerinho]

Why would you expect to hear more from the club, what are you wanting them to say exactly?

I am not talking about directly from the club, as in an official statement.

I would've expected to hear more noise from the Jack Gaughan's, Sam Lee's, and other Journo's close to the club, with respect to movement.

By Sam's own admission in his latest piece, the news is there is no news. It seems very very quiet

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

City will not sign any player for the first team before the Leicester game on 9th of August. This is coming from the very top.
Then we will leak to press we have too little time to complete big transfers in only 3 weeks time and we sign no one. :(

But what if we’re playing Leicester on August 7th?

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Think they will finish above the dippers and spuds though.

I will say,and its just opinion....
1-City
2-Chavs
3-Dippers
4/5 /6 between Leicester,West ham and Spuds.......7th,yep,you guessed it....the dark side.

 

[LongsightM13]

I am not talking about directly from the club, as in an official statement.

I would've expected to hear more noise from the Jack Gaughan's, Sam Lee's, and other Journo's close to the club, with respect to movement.

By Sam's own admission in his latest piece, the news is there is no news. It seems very very quiet

Modern journalism:

“Jack Grealish and Harry Kane might be signing for City or they might stay where they are. We really don’t know any more than you do, but here are some words with some intrusive online advertising attached to help me reach my daily word count and ‘audience engagement’ targets”

 

[LongsightM13]

I know I may get shouted down but here goes...

It seems many are enamoured over our performance last season, perhaps lulled into a false sense of security, assume based on getting to champions league final and our final league position/ points versus our rivals, perhaps nonchalant in belief of our perceived superiority over our rivals.

Omitting the champions league results vs PSG, Dortmund and Chelsea we lost 4 times of 8 games at end of last season from 10th April

• Saturday 29th May City v Chelsea - LOST 0v1
• Tuesday 18th May Brighton v City LOST 2v3
• Saturday 8th May City v Chelsea - LOST 1v2
• Saturday 17th April Chelsea v City - LOST 1v0
• Saturday 10th April City v Leeds - LOST 1v2

Our opponents were very poor last season, they will be much better this season, especially Chelsea and Liverpool
If you dissect the season we started very poorly, then strung a remarkable run of games together, we ought to be hugely greatful to Gundogan who won us the league imho.

We lost to Chelsea 3 times, only got 1 point vs the rags and I don't believe we played anywhere near our best football, I'd go as far as to say the Everton match aside we never really hit top gear at the end of the season and looked very laboured and slow with our positional play and build up.

If we don't get the right signings and approach the start of the season with the correct attitude we may not get the chance to recover from a slow start this season. that is even more critical when we consider our tough away fixtures versus direct opponents, slow/ no pre-season and the possible loss of KDB for majority of those head-head matches.

I am perhaps a pessimist but I think it would be naive to think our rivals wont be much stronger next season, I hope we're up for the fight and get back to back titles

You cant ignore the PSG and Dortmund games when they had a direct effect on the heavily rotated team selections for all but one of those games

 

[blueparrot]

I know I may get shouted down but here goes...

It seems many are enamoured over our performance last season, perhaps lulled into a false sense of security, assume based on getting to champions league final and our final league position/ points versus our rivals, perhaps nonchalant in belief of our perceived superiority over our rivals.

Omitting the champions league results vs PSG, Dortmund and Chelsea we lost 4 times of 8 games at end of last season from 10th April

• Saturday 29th May City v Chelsea - LOST 0v1
• Tuesday 18th May Brighton v City LOST 2v3
• Saturday 8th May City v Chelsea - LOST 1v2
• Saturday 17th April Chelsea v City - LOST 1v0
• Saturday 10th April City v Leeds - LOST 1v2

Our opponents were very poor last season, they will be much better this season, especially Chelsea and Liverpool
If you dissect the season we started very poorly, then strung a remarkable run of games together, we ought to be hugely greatful to Gundogan who won us the league imho.

We lost to Chelsea 3 times, only got 1 point vs the rags and I don't believe we played anywhere near our best football, I'd go as far as to say the Everton match aside we never really hit top gear at the end of the season and looked very laboured and slow with our positional play and build up.

If we don't get the right signings and approach the start of the season with the correct attitude we may not get the chance to recover from a slow start this season. that is even more critical when we consider our tough away fixtures versus direct opponents, slow/ no pre-season and the possible loss of KDB for majority of those head-head matches.

I am perhaps a pessimist but I think it would be naive to think our rivals wont be much stronger next season, I hope we're up for the fight and get back to back titles

Why would our rivals be much stronger but not us. Considering they have to improve far more than we do. It’s possible but would be unexpected. Do you think they’ll all improve and we’ll go backwards.
No rational reason to believe that.

 

[andyhinch]

You cant ignore the PSG and Dortmund games when they had a direct effect on the heavily rotated team selections for all but one of those games

I’m sure there’s some on here that weren’t at York away ;-)