It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[decmancity]

I dont work within football but other than that you pressume correct. I am very familiar with buying/selling businesses and/or assets in my work, with numbers in the same ballpark as these. Are you? If not, stop talking nonsense.

Grealish could have been done before his holiday. And many seem to think a player cant take a day of his vacation to sign a deal worth millions. Or that a deal must be signed in our office. I would argue that a player that cant even take a day off to sign a deal worth maybe 100m is not interested enough anyway.

They wanted Kane for 6 months now (probably longer than that). The deal is no different from any other transfer, all that is different is the price. It can be agreed in an hour or it can take months. But you have to set a deadline or move on with alternatives. Thats how we usually do business.

We are giving our rivals a head start by not giving ourselves the best possible conditions to start the season, not by having worse fixtures.

Out of interest, the last deal you did for 100m+, how long did it take from start to completion?

The deal for Grealish could have been done, wasn't. Please do tell us the inner workings of that deal though and the reason it wasn't completed as swiftly as your multi million pound deals.

Note, he does now play for City and has played in two games, starting one of them. Shame he didn't have a day off though to sign the deal because that caused a delay that meant he missed a grand total of....0 games.


We have given no one a head start unless you think spuds are title challengers?
The dippers play burnley on saturday, Maybe we should petition the prem to let us kick off at 9am to make sure we get in ahead of them. We don't want people getting a head start now do we.


What didn't give us the best possible conditions to start the season was playing 60+ games last year ending in a devastating CL defeat only to then have 99% of the squad leave and play international games, with a selection making it to the very end of their respective competitions which meant they got back later than the rest of the squad.

Throw in a long term injury to KDB and Foden, two of our best players and there is your answer as to why yesterday was a bit ropey.

 

[mccity]

It could be me, but there seems to be a lot of newer posters that are very quick to criticise the club and the transfer policy, now there have always been some that are quicker to criticise than others, that's normal. i find it odd, that what seems like an unusually high percentage of newbies do, could just be my perception I suppose.

Mainly its coming from posters who have very low post counts.
Now call me old fashioned and a cynic but ..........................

There are enough posters with high post counts saying the exact same stuff too. Trust me, I have to read them.

 

[kaz7]

It could be me, but there seems to be a lot of newer posters that are very quick to criticise the club and the transfer policy, now there have always been some that are quicker to criticise than others, that's normal. i find it odd, that what seems like an unusually high percentage of newbies do, could just be my perception I suppose.

I agree completely ,too many wums about too

 

[domalino]

It could be me, but there seems to be a lot of newer posters that are very quick to criticise the club and the transfer policy, now there have always been some that are quicker to criticise than others, that's normal. i find it odd, that what seems like an unusually high percentage of newbies do, could just be my perception I suppose.

What do you mean by new posters?

Because a lot of the names whining and lashing out today are the same ones who wanted Pep fired in January 2017, and again in October 2020.

 

[oakiecokie]

There are enough posters with high post counts saying the exact same stuff too. Trust me, I have to read them.

Yep but Rics paying you handsomely. ;)

 

[Keeper!]

Might be a little too negative right now, but what the hell has Txiki & Omar been doing the last 6 months since it was clear Agüero was leaving? 2 games in to the new season and still no replacement. Grealish had a release clause but we still waited until hours before our first game to sign him instead of doing it weeks/months ago. Apparently several first teamers wants to move and with 2 weeks left of the window they are all still here.
Have our whole recruitment team been on vacation all year or whats their excuse to why they cant manage to sort at least most of this out before the season starts when they had half a year to do so? Acting slow may have already cost us a trophy in CS (even if its not a ”real” one) and a league game. Even if we get Kane before the deadline ends, it may take a few weeks before he learns how to play in our system. The difference between having it done early and late could be finishing 1st or 4th.
On top of all this we are letting half of our squad return so late from holiday they are not even match fit when the season starts.

Does our management think we will win the league with 10-20 points every year so we can afford to throw away some games in the beginning? I've always thought the club have been acting like the benchmark of how professional a club should be run, but this summer I get more of the feeling we are acting like amateurs.
We could still end up winning everything, but why are we giving our rivals a head start?

The issue on this deal is not City, it's down to the Kane's and particularly Charlie Kane.

They did not get a release clause in writing put into that 6 year contract, greedy, naïve, stupid? Who knows.

If Kane had a release clause this deal may well have been concluded months ago, as it is, looks like it's going down to the wire and Spurs are dictating the terms.

 

[Zinchilla]

Getting rid of Laporte would be a disaster. Imagine an injury to Dias or Stones. It wouldn’t want to be relying on Ake personally.

Agree - but sounds like he wants out or doesn’t want to be part of the rotation.

 

[blueparrot]

What do you mean by new posters?

Because a lot of the names whining and lashing out today are the same ones who wanted Pep fired in January 2017, and again in October 2020.

Yes , as I said there has always been a few but it seems to me an unusually high number of the joined 2020 or 21 are of the negative persuasion.

 

[wolviedinho]

If I was playing in the City defense, no matter if I was Dias, Stones, Ake, Mendy, THB or Sandler, I'd be fucking fuming with the quality of our finishing.

If we put away our chances the game plays out differently.

But we don't and then we fuck up after over committing players forward and being screwed on the break.

It happens that often it's now a trope!!!

Mendy when did you start posting? :)

 

[Johnny633]

I’m sure it’s a done deal, but playing Devil’s advocate……If it all goes belly up with Kane, why don’t we look at a bid for Calvert-Lewin or Jimenez….both have a decent strike rate in the Premiership.