It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[Deleted member 87819]

Congratulations on getting a like from Gus Cruz. Not throwing your toys out of the pram like a petulant toddler = toxic positivity does it?

My favorite stalker. I liked it because his xG consideration is actually a good point. Expecting players to overperform consistently is a mistake. It wasn’t a dig at them

 

[twosips]

You've probably been the most accurate ITK poster on here for a few years now

Cheers. Tbh its because maybe I dont really know much! I rarely hear much but when I do I can trust it because it's literally from someone who works v close to high level players. They can't not know things given their job. They always just tell me it exactly as it is too. If they don't know anything, they don't say anything.

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

Might have some spare cash for a left back at least!

 

[Saddleworth2]

Reckon people would buy tickets for that raffle?

the winner on hearing the good news

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

People at City were clearly extremely confident that this would get done, hence all the media briefs and presumably the ITK posts, and the fact we are now 6 days from the end of the window without a striker.

It’s Citys incompetance why we are here not ITK’s making stuff up

City’s management team incompetent?

I kinda doubt that you’re qualified to comment but, go ahead and tell us all about your many years of buying up player contracts at the highest level, explain to us how you’d do a better job than they do and I might just park my incredulity and decide you’re not just a nutter having a tantrum about something they know very little about.

 

[Damanino]

We wanted a CB when Kompany retired and we were priced out of Maguire. We opted not to sign a plan B.
then next season it was Mendy-Garcia-Otamendi-Fernandinho back four at some points, and we were swallowing goals.

the next summer we were after Koulibaly, that failed due to transfer fee most likely and we opted for Dias who woke the whole backline up and helped Stones to regain form too.

I see this as similar, we are in for Kane, priced out of him, do we go without plan B?

and that was after a title win in 18-19, who would have expected us to be left behind 20 points by Pool the next season.
thats why I dont buy the theory of last year we coped well with false 9, will be similar this season.
yeah we won the league in 18-19 and next season were shit as fuck in PL. that happens and you need to be on top rather than hoping last year performance is enough.

 

[GLBlue1995]

Seems to happen a lot to us. We drag our feet then panic when it doesn’t happen.. idk how hard it is to be like this is our final offer yea or no.

Isn't that what we seem to have done here though? Levy got our best and final and said no.

And while we've cut it short, big complex deals like this usually go to the 11th hour -- if not 11:59. That we've given ourselves a week to move on to Plan B (and count me in the camp that thinks we need a striker) seems like about the best we could realistically hope for if we weren't just going to bend the knee to Levy and give him 150M.

 

[Saddleworth2]

City’s management team incompetent?

I kinda doubt that you’re qualified to comment but, go ahead and tell us all about your many years of buying up player contracts at the highest level, explain to us how you’d do a better job than they do and I might just park my incredulity and decide you’re not just a nutter having a tantrum about something they know very little about.

Make them an offer they cant refuse.

 

[kun]

Cheers. Tbh its because maybe I dont really know much! I rarely hear much but when I do I can trust it because it's literally from someone who works v close to high level players. They can't not know things given their job. They always just tell me it exactly as it is too. If they don't know anything, they don't say anything.

This is why you are so much more reliable. Other ITKs (in general, not digging anyone out, and I'm not talking specifically about City ITKs) generally have to drip feed people information constantly to keep up their reputation. Information that, half the time, they don't have any of. It ends up being cryptic or insubstantial.

You just post when you have genuine info. And we appreciate it.

 

[bugsyblue]

People at City were clearly extremely confident that this would get done, hence all the media briefs and presumably the ITK posts, and the fact we are now 6 days from the end of the window without a striker.

It’s Citys incompetance why we are here not ITK’s making stuff up

Get over it. We are very well managed, certainly in the top 5 of world football, but there’s never a guarantee in football.