It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[Don Karleone]

When I suggested someone else should go through his history, it kinda implied that I wasn‘t going to do it myself!

Lazy bastard

 

[Rammy Blue]

He would be cup tied for the group stages but could play in the knockout stages.

He’d need a fucking time machine to play in the group stages if we signed him in Jan!

 

[manimanc]

I so want to believe this.

Believe it mate. @93.20blue is on the money with info, read the post that @samuelyeboah put up about his inside track on transfers.
Pretty fucking impressive, it shut me up anyway as I was pretty sceptical.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Believe it mate. @93.20blue is on the money with info, read the post that @samuelyeboah put up about his inside track on transfers.
Pretty fucking impressive, it shut me up anyway as I was pretty sceptical.

Never mind a Haaland tat, if @93.20blue is right about the Jan move he will be my hero for ever and I’ll have his name tattooed on me instead!

 

[mccity]

Ffs now a camera in my bedroom , Will mods stoop to any level

Weren't you a prominent RedCafe poster at one point? Have you just been rumbled by sir baconface??

 

[trumpton]

We got our main target from his boyhood club and people are complaining, it’s the same team as we had last year, plus one of England’s most promising players.

Agree with some points you raised, but for me we spunked 100 million strengthening a position that didn't need strengthening!

 

[Gumzy97]

If we do get Haaland hope that info about Mino wanting a release clause in his new club’s contract is false

 

[Keith Moon]

mate we didn’t chase Kane all summer ! We put a cheeky 100m bid which was actually 80mill plus bonuses , it was never going to get accepted, the club knew this ! We knew all summer he wasn’t coming and know in January we will have a better deal ! Feel a lot need to lay off social media / sky sports ! 500k for a 36 year old or 160 mill for Kane like they wanted , we are better than that ! We’re getting the best of the best In January and he’s a city fan !

Explains why Grealish got #10, we knew that the Kane deal was dead in the water.

 

[Bluemoon has risen]

let's analyze @93.20blue's history.

Rodri - Said done on july 1 or 2nd - deal was announced on the 3rd - accurate.
Koulibaly (2019) - Said city are not interested.
Cancelo - At first, said won't happen UNLESS city sell danilo first - which was the case.
Cancelo 2 - On august 2nd, said cancelo was having his medical on august 6th. Cancelo was announced august 7th. accurate.
Angelino - Said on july 3rd that he's currently at the etihad signing the contract. he was announced july 3rd. accurate.
Sane (2019) - Said he was staying. He did in fact stay that season, though he was injured in the community shield 3 days before that post. Accurate
Laporte injury (2019) - Said he was out for 4 to 5 months. He ended up being out for 4 months. accurate.
Sancho (2020) - Said he's off to chelsea. inaccurate, but not city related.
Aouar & Almada - Said two players whose names start with A will be joining in the summer, after prodding it was clear he meant Almada and Aouar. didn't happen. Inaccurate (though other outlets announced almada was done a while later - I think it didn't end up happening for different reasons)
Pep & CAS court - Said pep will sign a new contract after we'll win the upcoming cas court. Semi accurate - we won the cas court and pep renewed - but he renewed in november.
Dias & Koulibaly - Said on JUNE 24th (!!!) that city are going to spend big on a CB but he thinks dias is first choice. massively and impressively accurate as no one even mentioned dias at this point.
Ake & torres - Said on july 27th that they will both sign next week - and they both did. accurate.
Koulibaly 2 - Said on july 27th napoli are playing hardball and he expects us to go for someone else. accurate.
Aouar - Said on july 27th he was informed this is done but is being kept quiet. Inaccurate.
Harry kane - Said in summer of 2020 that we're working on a deal for kane. Several journalists in the year since have confirmed we were working on kane but diverted our attention to messi, so I denote this as accurate.
Koulibaly 3 - Said he was informed koulibaly was done, but is being delayed because of messi. inaccurate
Kounde - Says the club moved away from koulibaly and expects the kounde deal to happen, otamendi to be gone. inaccurate with regards to kounde, but didn't say it was done.
Grealish - "Keep your eye on grealish" in september 2020. who knows if we were actually in for him back then! but i will still denote this as accurate :)
Grealish 2 - Says fee agreed at 82m + add ons in july 16th. Perhaps that was the case, we won't know. i'll denote this as somewhat accurate.
Kane - Said kane deal was off on august 23rd. Kane confirms he was staying on august 25th. Accurate.
Ronaldo - Said on friday morning united are hijacking the deal. Extremely and impressively accurate.

That's all I got. To me, this seems very accurate overall, with a few blips that can mostly be attributed to the everchanging nature of football transfers, that can be on and off in the blink of an eye. I see no reason to doubt him for the most part.

Bloody hell, Inspector Clouseau here!

 

[chesterbells]

If we do get Haaland hope that info about Mino wanting a release clause in his new club’s contract is false

I guess that only becomes an issue a) if the figure set is attainable, and b) if it kicks in too early into the contract. Otherwise I still would hope it wasn’t a dealbreaker.