It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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blueparrot said:
Yes, but from what I understand from nothing more than rumour and speculation, was we offered him another year but also said we would try and bring in his replcement, not being confident of his fitmess. That meant he might not be first choice and he decided that he was better moving on. Could be completely wrong though.
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I think we'll get Martinez. He's more in line with the way we've conducted our business so far regarding fee and wages.
 
2sheikhs said:
I think we'll get Martinez. He's more in line with the way we've conducted our business so far regarding fee and wages.
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Not a bad shout. I'm fairly relaxed think any decent striker should be able to ge a decent haul from our play, and take the pessure off relying on goals from midfield. Still hink we'd get plenty from midfield too .
 
DMA's said:
I’m being realistic we got 86 points last season that total would not have been good enough to win any of the prior 5 league titles. I’m not saying they are better than us but I’m not totally dismissing them either as I’m not totally ignorant of their strengths. Chances are they will all get better whether you want to believe that or not I can guarantee you at least one of those three will put up a real challenge for the title.

Im not convinced aguero is finished and it was clear he was eased out of the club (wouldn’t go as far as pushed out) it Is is obvious Kane is the target we had in mind to replace aguero but I remain sceptical we will actually land him as I don’t believe we will pay the money they want nor do I believe Kane is the type of person to force through a sale.

We may have very intelligent people running the club (as do most premier league clubs) but that doesn’t mean we are perfect or that we will always land exactly who we want (see maguire, Sanchez, Fred, jorginho etc). My point remains if we have let aguero leave without having a replacement pretty much sewn up then imo the club have either been naive or arrogant (stupid in hindsight was a bit strong). You only have to see what happened when we didn’t replace Kompany if the club have fallen into exactly the same trap then how else could you describe them?
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Winners?
 
DMA's said:
I’m being realistic we got 86 points last season that total would not have been good enough to win any of the prior 5 league titles...
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If we got 86 points in the five previous seasons we would have won two titles - 2015/16 and 2017/18.
 
bluenova said:
If we got 86 points in the five previous seasons we would have won two titles - 2015/16 and 2017/18.
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was wrong was last 4 not 5 correct on 15/16 but rest are:

16/17 - Chelsea won with 93
17/18— we won with 100
18/19 - we won with 98
19/20- Liverpool won with 99
 
citizen_maine said:
Winners?
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It will be interesting to see if we can maintain the incredible levels of the last 4 season once pep leaves.

I would personally wager pep is the biggest reason we have been successful. Prior to pep we of course still won titles but under Pep we have dominated domestically and reached a champions league final.

Don’t envy whoever takes over from pep
 
I always saw the Aguero leaving as the club being as clear as possible that the new striker would be the clubs no1 main plan. Something Halaand himself referred to.
What better signal could you send a prospective recruit that you were serious about them being the main man and the old sweetheart was not still hanging around making doe eyes waiting for the next get together for old times sake

i don’t think it was a mistake just taking advantage of the situation
 
moh said:
I always saw the Aguero leaving as the club being as clear as possible that the new striker would be the clubs no1 main plan. Something Halaand himself referred to.
What better signal could you send a prospective recruit that you were serious about them being the main man and the old sweetheart was not still hanging around making doe eyes waiting for the next get together for old times sake

i don’t think it was a mistake just taking advantage of the situation
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So long as we buy someone decent , sergio level
 
DMA's said:
was wrong was last 4 not 5 correct on 15/16 but rest are:

16/17 - Chelsea won with 93
17/18— we won with 100
18/19 - we won with 98
19/20- Liverpool won with 99
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Second place team in 17/18 had 81 points, so if we'd mirrored our 86 of last year we would have still won the league that year. Ergo, 86 points is/was enough to win 3 of the past 6 leagues
 
kaz7 said:
Someone of his age when he came here would be a long term view , haaland then or a gem that i dont know about or short term then kane i suppose , prefer the long term view
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Yes, my point though we could bring in somebody that splits opinion now, for example Martinez, could be a big success or not. Impossible to judge though the day we buy him. Always best to wait and see.I'm sure if we went back to before buying Aguero there would be posters doubting him and suggesting player x would be far better.
 
Worth noting we got 86 points last year after an unprecedented bad start, likely caused due to the complete lack of preseason.
 
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