It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[uwe rosler 28]

This is going to cause a lot of problems if it happens. We will be without one of our best attackers so far and our goalkeeper for crucial games

Well can brazil afford the salaries of all them players for a month as city and no other club will be paying them.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Anyone who believes this whole window was an elaborate plan before signing Haaland in Jan needs their fucking head testing.

Even Machiavelli would be shaking his head in disbelief.

 

[Tb1981]

He’s 29 so I guess the club would probably prefer a longer term solution, like Nuno Mendes next summer. I’m a bit more relaxed about the LB situation for now, with Zinchenko, Cancelo and Ake all able to fill in there adequately.

I get the long term bit but I don’t trust ake at left back and cancelo at left back prevents wAlker being rested
I know they don’t like short term fixes but we’ve needed a left back for three years

 

[Ric]

Are brazil playing 3 games

Yep. Chile, Argentina and Peru.

 

[Del_Bosque]

He’s 29 so I guess the club would probably prefer a longer term solution, like Nuno Mendes next summer. I’m a bit more relaxed about the LB situation for now, with Zinchenko, Cancelo and Ake all able to fill in there adequately.

My worry is we'll need a LB, DM and ST as a minimum next summer, Ferna will retire

That's without anyone else leaving.

And I just don't think we'll be able to get 3 big deals like that done in time.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Where’s Lambeth?

OY!

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Would be nice to get another left back option - Zinny being the control option and having an attacking option. Plus, with no striker, 5-1-4 could be fun

Not one for this window but that left back for Spurs the other week looked alright. See how he develops over a year.

 

[TonyM]

International games in a pandemic was always nuts. Even CL games are nuts imo.

 

[sd33]

 

[better dead than red]

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.
United manager - Said they are getting allegri. Still have a PE teacher, so inaccurate - but again, not city related.
Skriniar & Ake - Said a deal in place for both. got one right, one wrong.
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.

This is your best post ever.