It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[Maly]

Have you considered that Foden is the only one who has been good enough so far.

& that he’s not even the only one?

 

[Eebo]

PSG bought mega stars. Now they are a team where mega stars go. The first one will always be the most difficult and most expensive, like the premier league was. You have to take that plunge I’m sure of it.

PSG didn't win the 5th best European League, or get to the CL Final.

Strangely our TEAM of non Megastar players did. We rely on having very high level players who buy into a team ethic in every position. This is not compatible with the Megastar model. If we had a team of water carriers and 'domestiques' who are just there to get the ball to the Megastar and everyone accepts their lot then fair enough, but we would have just wasted 10 years of careful and and expensive recruitment.

Megastars are bigger than the team, and even the club, for example Messi had a say on Barca transfers. That worked out well for them didn't it!

Pep has always been about the collective, and the team being more than the sum of the parts. I would have loved to see Ronaldo banging in the goals for us at the reported £350K per week, but I believe we would have lost a lot than we gained if we were paying Ronaldo what the rags have reportedly agreed to.

Can you see players (like KDB, Sterling etc) being happy going from from top earners to being on half what Ronaldo is on? And then doing his running, or letting him take every free kick and go for glory no matter what?

Even if they stayed, can you see the collective effort and team spirit surviving that

 

[Ric]

Yeah I’m no fan of theirs either but thought the claims about Mendes were interesting, especially as City seemed to have well and truly hitched their wagon to him in recent years

Yeah, will be interesting to see how that relationship continues, and whether or not we feel like he exploited us.

 

[Legacyfan1986]

But that's Trafford. They can't let it go.

If only they had the balls to post it at the bottom of deansgate instead of dead space in Trafford Park

 

[Ric]

Oh my fuckin god, they’ve done it again

we are really under their skin

I don’t think they’ll ever truly get the meaning of the original poster, the daft bastards.

 

[jimharri]

We got Grealish in. Who, if we're being honest, we didn't really need. Certainly not as much as a top notch striker, anyway. Very underwhelming. But not totally a surprise, given the transfer windows we had in the summers following the Mancini and Pellegrini title wins.

 

[andyhinch]

Left back is still my biggest concern, anyway looking forward to the game and a few pints tomorrow, might give the duck naga curry after a miss this time though.

 

[jimharri]

Oh my fuckin god, they’ve done it again

we are really under their skin

I guess we can't really complain, given the Tevez billboard.

 

[kun]

I don’t think they’ll ever truly get the meaning of the original poster, the daft bastards.

Thick as fuck them lot.

 

[Legacyfan1986]

As long as the media is filled with ex-rag players and utd supporters then they will have excuses for everything.

They will always have the media on their side just like the scousers. It will never ever change.