It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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Marvin said:
What do we splurge with? Oil? We lost £120m last season. IMO there will be very few major transfers in football unless there is a strong confidence that match-day revenue will be returning. If there are major transfers then look for clubs in financial crisis as a result of debts and cashflow.

Covid is temporary, but how temporary. I can't see City adding massively to our cost base until the finances are in place. A club like Chelsea where Abramovic underwrites transfers might be able to do this but at City there hasn't been any significant owner investment in years.
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Hi Marvin

i suspect we are saying similar things in our posts. I did post that I would like to see a realignment of the market and expectations of agents, players (and Chairman) etc. You make the additional point that perhaps we don’t actually have the wherewithal to ‘splurge’ as I described.
 
Marvin said:
What do we splurge with? Oil? We lost £120m last season. IMO there will be very few major transfers in football unless there is a strong confidence that match-day revenue will be returning. If there are major transfers then look for clubs in financial crisis as a result of debts and cashflow.

Covid is temporary, but how temporary. I can't see City adding massively to our cost base until the finances are in place. A club like Chelsea where Abramovic underwrites transfers might be able to do this but at City there hasn't been any significant owner investment in years.
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We didn't really lose £120m last season though, it's just that ~£60m of TV money from last season arrived after the June cut off date for the annual finances.

We've also got Leroy Sané's £55m fee not accounted for yet.
 
Gus Cruz said:
My guess is, as I posted in the Haaland thread, that we want him undeniably as the first option. If we’re not chosen by the player and staff, then we won’t be getting someone like Kane, who would cost too much for the little commercial return. It would probably be a cheaper option (one that would still break out transfer record, but not that massively) that would get the “job done” (maybe not as well as Kane, but in the sense of filling in a striker position). Pep isn’t the one who is going to choose the striker, just like he didn’t choose Dias, just like Aguero was a Khaldoon project. But judging by the last two weeks, he seems well aware that the club’s targeting the Norwegian and is fully on board.

I would take Kane after Haaland and Lukaku, just to be clear. But I no longer think it’s an option
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You'd take Lukaku BEFORE Kane?

Other way around for me. Lukaku is a good level below Kane IMO
 
Gumzy97 said:
Harry has one thing mind, if he forces a move i think hes probably the one player that can turn to Levy and say im not going to play unless i get my move and hed still be in the Englands national team plus the press would kill Levy. Harry is the captain of England national team. Hes the gem of the press
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All very logical but you have missed an important element... Levy is one of a very unique brand of people who is totally unconstrained by any desire to be liked.... he will fuck anyone and everyone over - including Harry Kane - its not personal - its just business and he would sooner hang Kane out to dry than sell him on the cheap. .
 
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