It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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No we haven't.
Our manager didn't trust either Ferna or Rodri in our biggest game last season.
If that's the case then we should have addressed this.
We have not replaced Aguero (I know that's impossible) with a high quality replacement that puts fear into teams.
Left back is an issue, but one we have ignored for years.

To ignore one or two of these areas is questionable BUT to ignore all three is poor business practice.
If we'd have lost Bernardo & Laporté, we'd be infinitely worse off this season as I can't think of any available like for like replacements for the same money.

We know what both these players bring to the table, now because we're shorter on options than we could have been, these players will be played to a fuller potential than last season. Now Silva, Laporté, Aké, Torres & Jesus have the ideal opportunity to prove themselves.

We've less options to replace them with, so these five established internationals have got everything to gain, & everything to lose based on their performances. City will be the big winners this being the case, & this season will tell us a lot about several of last seasons fringe players.
 
Was looking today at Jimmy Greaves who really knew how to finish. Seems he was only 5 ft 8ins tall so perhaps an obsession with tall physical strikers is wrong but for some reason Pep cannot get our front players to be as deadly as he would like.
Didn't know his height but, Greaves is the greatest finisher this country has ever produced.
 
Very disappointing that everyone around us have strengthened and we have not. Let hope we stay injury free or this season could be bad
Wasting £52 million on Mendy has severely hamstrung us in the LB position. You can't invest that much in one player and then go out and buy another similarly priced replacement just because the Mendy signing has proved a disaster for reasons we all know about. Giving Fernandinho an extension signalled no new incoming DM this summer. That left Kane as the striker we wanted but Levy wasn't interested in negotiating.
We have to go with what we have. There is no unlimited pot of money unfortunately.
 
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