It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[leo_city]

What about small deal ?
May be some exciting new talent.

Kayky joined fwiw, earlier than expected. Wonder what CFG club he's getting loaned to

 

[Tb1981]

Thank god we dodged the bullet on Sanchez. Astronomical wages and no impact on the pitch at all. A disastrous signing by the Rags.

Agreed
But we left to late in the August and botched the deal
Thankfully the rags bought him in January

 

[Keeper!]

Dias new contract announcement definitely made today to soften the blow of not getting a striker in.

Mental really 2 summers we’ve been after a striker and not got one, hopefully Torres can step up, good signs on Sat but a long way to go.

Bernardo staying is amazing news though, absolute quality in CM

I like Torres and long term he could be a very special player, but lets not kid ourselves in the major games, we lack a cutting edge.

 

[blueparrot]

The club and owners want to win the Champions League, in my opinion we must have a worldie up front to achieve that.

No we don’t, we should have won it last year without, liverpool did win it without one.As did chelsea.

 

[Keeper!]

No we don’t, we should have won it last year without, liverpool did win it without one.

No interested in how Liverpool did it, we played Chelsea 3 times last season and never looked like scoring.

Scoring 5s against weak opposition is no indication, it's in the tight games where a single chance is the difference, those are the times when we miss a ruthless striker.

 

[Cobwebcat]

We are still the best team going. We have just missed a guilt opportunity to increase the gap.

So not all bad but we obviously had cash in comparison to most and didn’t use that advantage effectively. Very unlike us. We will need 3 new players next Summer now and who knows what new restrictions UEFA/PL will have come up with by then? Imagine a transfer ban…we may rue the months long pursuit of a player who was not for sale.

 

[LongsightM13]

Kayky joined fwiw, earlier than expected. Wonder what CFG club he's getting loaned to

Bench at Girona. Probably won’t start 10 games

 

[Keeper!]

Done

come on big man, Txiki got his Cubans up on the desk already?

 

[stan bowles]

Agreed
But we left to late in the August and botched the deal
Thankfully the rags bought him in January

Another panic buy by them because we'd been trying to sign him...file next to Fred.

 

[leo_city]

No we don’t, we should have won it last year without, liverpool did win it without one.

Ironically for all the need for a striker it's so obvious we lost the final due to lack of a proper DM handling counter attacks.

Still persist in my view that we needed to also try strengthen at DM and left back. Every season we've made it work in attacking terms but the defensive frailties have always been our achilles heel. They continue to be the difference in whether we win the title or not, or whether we win a big final or not.