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It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders
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Patientman63
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As a minimum NEXT summer!!!My worry is we'll need a LB, DM and ST as a minimum next summer, Ferna will retire
Fks sake we needed them THIS summer just going, and with no small effort we've managed to completely screw the pooch!
samuelyeboah
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not worried about out midfield, we have phil, palmer, lavia, mcatee coming up. as good a time as any for them to prove themselves!
And they are ?We have 3 superb kids in the EDS for those positions,they will obviously be 12 months more developed by that time too.It could be excellent timing......
Plenty of reason for optimism.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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£10M? Not expensive enough for City! Seriously though, I’m sure we’ve got some aversion to looking for bargains and, given the amount of very expensive misses we have, along with a supposedly brilliant scouting network, you’d think we would take a punt now and again..Just read tagliafico to west ham for 10m
We should be all over something like thiS
Cheap and could work as back up to zinchenko for two years
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Well, except Fernadinho those 3 should be in their prime. 27-31 is roughly when you would want your peak years.Our midfield is getting old didn't realise it Gundogan 31 this yea, Kev 31 next year Fernandinho 37, Bernardo 28 next year he'd be our youngest CM. Rodri our youngest midfielder at 26 next year might be something club could be looking at
I think the club are betting heavily on the likes of Lavia to make it. We have Diego Rosa out on loan also, he could be a CFG signing but we paid a fair bit for him.
sir baconface
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Not just by other posters. Although unable to prove this, and therefore I won’t name him, I have reason to believe one of them has a hotline to admin when someone Is scathing about him. And I am not normally one of BM’s conspiracy theorists.That said, I agree, the amount of brown nosing to certain posters is sickly.
I didn't. Mendy costs us around £15-20m a year in amortisation + wages. So unless there was a way to get him off the books city were never buying a LB.Must admit that I thought this would be the window when we finally addressed that position.
Bit obvious now why we couldn't sell as well even for 5-10m. I don't blame any team for not taking a punt. Good thing is we should be terminating his contract soon. Amortisation still has to be paid though
Nice to see, but for me, what's important in a ITK is not whether they are accurate - after all, football transfers involve a lot of uncertainty. Plenty of unexpected twists and turns. Don't shoot the messenger.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.
What is important for me are two things:
- do they have a real and plausible way of getting inside information and
- are they passing that on in good faith?
If they are both things, I don't massively care whether predictions turn out to be accurate or not.
What annoys me is when people pretend they have inside information when they don't, and when readers presume that if something does not happen that an ITK predicted, that they are frauds.
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