It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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Blue tiger said:
Can't agree, we reinforced the one part of the squad that was already strong with the signing of Grealish, but no way I'd this squad stronger than last year. LB is still a problem, fernandinho is another year older and obviously we have no recognised senior striker. Not flapping but to say we are stronger is BS.
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Yet khaldoon stated yet again in his summer interview that he has learned that you have to strengthen when you are at the top etc? And we would continue to disrupt and compete for the worlds best?! Pep also stated at the end of last season that squads need refreshed regularly or it becomes stale yet here we are again by the sounds of it with no lessons learned? Bernardo Silva will still be begging to leave so can we not at least get nuno Mendes in? At least fill one of the problem positions?
 
Domkeefe said:
Struggling to see the correlation between what I wrote and your answer?
We literally don’t have a striker in the squad..
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We had close to the best ever season by any club ever,all without a striker.We have now added a world class midfielder to that squad,and we have one of the best young strikers in Europe banging on the door.
I am not blinkered enough to suggest Kanes arrival would not have improved us hugely,but your assessment that the season might be fucked as a result of not signing him (or another) is a tad far fetched,to say the least.
 
IMO we're just not that good in the transfer market. We can pick up a prospect sure, but when it comes to getting big players over the line without a release clause, its 3 months of fannying about before not getting it done and then asking the manager to pull a rabbit. Kane, Messi, Maguire, Van Dijk, Koulibaly, Jorginho. Last of A targets missed since 2017 is getting silly. Even if some of our backups have been great its still poor from a negotiating POV and something that doesn't happen to Chelsea, PSG, Bayern or even United anywhere near as often. In the grander scheme of things, we could win the league anyway and then nobody cares but these days the safe bet is city missing their main target every summer.
 
richards30 said:
Yet khaldoon stated yet again in his summer interview that he has learned that you have to strengthen when you are at the top etc? And we would continue to disrupt and compete for the worlds best?! Pep also stated at the end of last season that squads need refreshed regularly or it becomes stale yet here we are again by the sounds of it with no lessons learned? Bernardo Silva will still be begging to leave so can we not at least get nuno Mendes in? At least fill one of the problem positions?
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Erm, how about £100m on one player, someone with the skill and confidence to disrupt our own squad in a good way. How’s that not an improvement?
 
Surely there is no way we haven't learned anything from a few years ago when we failed to replace Kompany. If we are serious about competing this season then we desperately need a striker, even if it a stopgap for one year. I see people pointing to how well we did last season, but they're ignoring how poor the other teams were and how much those sides have strengthened. We have too many holes at present (striker, cdm, leftback) and Chelsea have about as strong a squad as there has ever been in this league.
 
In my opinion if we sell Bernardo now , this window will be a complete disaster. We are just not good at transfer market and negotiations.
Those who have the opinion "we have a world class team and will win everything this season" that's fine and that's your opinion.
 
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