It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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4 days left to hopefully get a striker in
Wake up!!
I reckon there is a strong possibility (assuming we are still competing for prem and champions league) that we will try and get haaland in January.

Dortmund will likely be miles off Munich and they realistically aren’t gonna win champions league so can see us offering £100 million to try and get the run on other clubs. we must sign him next summer
 
I was indifferent to Ronaldo coming. If he did Yay, if not, then Okay...

That being said, a kind of sour end to our transfer window, and just feels like City board wasted a month on negotiations.

Perhaps this is why we love release clauses so much, you don't even have to negotiate with the club, just the player.
 
I reckon there is a strong possibility (assuming we are still competing for prem and champions league) that we will try and get haaland in January.

Dortmund will likely be miles off Munich and they realistically aren’t gonna win champions league so can see us offering £100 million to try and get the run on other clubs. we must sign him next summer
I can seriously see us not even entering the race for Haaland...something tells me the club wont even entertain dealing with Raiola due to the money he personally wants.
 
I walked away from the board shortly after the press were briefed we'd pulled out ...and within about 30 seconds, I'd traced my footsteps back to me being dragged into that thread yesterday, about an hour before the Mendy news dropped.

See this all the time in PR Crisis / news management. Saw Trump do it more than anyone else, ever. So I'm very familiar with the method. 1. Distract the public. Change the topic. 2. Displace the news reports with something else.

Seriously, that's my bet. The whole thing was like walking into your wife talking to your daughter (who has serious reason to believe you've been having an affair), and revealing... you'd bought a puppy home! OMG! WOW! PUPPY? NO WAY! I thought you hated them and said we could never have one! IS SO CUUUUTE!

All evening the whole family is enraptured by it's presence. It falls asleep with your daughter, in her lap. You carefully lift it from her, and carry her to bed. The puppy is returned to it's original owner the next day for a full refund. You tell your family something along the lines of the damned thing bit the baby when they were all asleep.

Hopefully we come up with a better, more healthy response to the situation sometime in the future - because it implies cynicism, cowardice, inadequacy.
Interesting take. I get that issues management approach, but pissing about with Ronaldo and the rags as a tactic to relegate that story seems wild, particularly as that issue won’t be going away for a while. Could just be that we don’t get involved with beauty contests which is why we’ll never be in for Haaland.
 
what sources close to us are saying that

all the main locals were saying we were pushing to sign him

so were the reliable broadsheet journalists, and the Athletic
Press...MUEN, Jack Gaughn...unless they are just covering their backs now (which again wouldnt be a suprise)
 
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