It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[Eds]

Chief Brew maker

Just tea though, not coffee, hasn't quite made that leap yet

 

[Akira]

Can we get a striker in January? I doubt it. Even if 93:20 is correct, why would Dortmund sell in the middle of a season...esp if they are in the CL and doing well in the league....I dont think it would happen even if we put the money down they want....not at that time in the season. We will have to compete with other clbs next summer for him and when that is the case we often back out. Hopefully we have a new list of forwards we can have as a plan b c etc....and hopefully we DONT go back for Kane - that would be a huge mistake

Don't know how true, but there were some reports that Haaland's release clause kicks in at Jan.

 

[samuelyeboah]

it looks very unlikely we will get anyone in now....the only movement might be EDS players ins and outs on loans etc.

The transfer windown has been imho a poor one imho.

As good as Grealsih may turn out to be, he is a player we didnt really need. We did need a striker and continue to need a left back (the situation with Mendy was an unforeseen one BUT the reality is that on the pitch he has NEVER been good enough and is a liability. Zinch has deputised extremely well but we should be at least looking at a young understudy for that position).

I never thought we would look at a DM as soon as Ferna signed his contract extension but the search needs to start now.

Can we get a striker in January? I doubt it. Even if 93:20 is correct, why would Dortmund sell in the middle of a season...esp if they are in the CL and doing well in the league....I dont think it would happen even if we put the money down they want....not at that time in the season. We will have to compete with other clbs next summer for him and when that is the case we often back out. Hopefully we have a new list of forwards we can have as a plan b c etc....and hopefully we DONT go back for Kane - that would be a huge mistake

the situation with mendy wasn't.. that unforeseen, if we were to believe reports about the club's knowledge of the situation from january.

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

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.

 

[blueparrot]

it looks very unlikely we will get anyone in now....the only movement might be EDS players ins and outs on loans etc.

The transfer windown has been imho a poor one imho.

As good as Grealsih may turn out to be, he is a player we didnt really need. We did need a striker and continue to need a left back (the situation with Mendy was an unforeseen one BUT the reality is that on the pitch he has NEVER been good enough and is a liability. Zinch has deputised extremely well but we should be at least looking at a young understudy for that position).

I never thought we would look at a DM as soon as Ferna signed his contract extension but the search needs to start now.

Can we get a striker in January? I doubt it. Even if 93:20 is correct, why would Dortmund sell in the middle of a season...esp if they are in the CL and doing well in the league....I dont think it would happen even if we put the money down they want....not at that time in the season. We will have to compete with other clbs next summer for him and when that is the case we often back out. Hopefully we have a new list of forwards we can have as a plan b c etc....and hopefully we DONT go back for Kane - that would be a huge mistake

If,the rumours of his clause kicking in are correct, Dortmund have no choice. Disagree with Grealish, now I’ve seen him he is different to anyone else we have and something we did need.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Zinch has deputised extremely well but we should be at least looking at a young understudy for that position).

To me the position should be seen as his and no longer just him deputising for anybody when he plays. He's a more than capable LB, love his attitude and commitment. Zinchenko is our left back, and we have young understudy's already at the club. We've also got cover in Ake, Laporte, Cancelo - all perhaps out of their favourable position but still good enough for cover in that role.

DCM and the obvious CF positions should be our priorities.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

Two are very well known to most City fans......Lavia and Delap

The left backs are Dionkou and Wilson-Esbrand.

There are many others,very capable in other positions,if their development is handled correctly.

Dionkou was a right back,no? Also he just left

 

[FMwkdsoul]

Two are very well known to most City fans......Lavia and Delap

The left backs are Dionkou and Wilson-Esbrand.

There are many others,very capable in other positions,if their development is handled correctly.

Dionkou is a RB and just left City.
Wilson is coming off a bad injury would expect him to be treated with kid gloves in the EDS for alot of the year, you wont see him in the senior game i think.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Just tea though, not coffee, hasn't quite made that leap yet

Yeah give the lad a few more months and he'll be making coffee in no time.

 

[supersonicblue]

it looks very unlikely we will get anyone in now....the only movement might be EDS players ins and outs on loans etc.

The transfer windown has been imho a poor one imho.

As good as Grealsih may turn out to be, he is a player we didnt really need. We did need a striker and continue to need a left back (the situation with Mendy was an unforeseen one BUT the reality is that on the pitch he has NEVER been good enough and is a liability. Zinch has deputised extremely well but we should be at least looking at a young understudy for that position).

I never thought we would look at a DM as soon as Ferna signed his contract extension but the search needs to start now.

Can we get a striker in January? I doubt it. Even if 93:20 is correct, why would Dortmund sell in the middle of a season...esp if they are in the CL and doing well in the league....I dont think it would happen even if we put the money down they want....not at that time in the season. We will have to compete with other clbs next summer for him and when that is the case we often back out. Hopefully we have a new list of forwards we can have as a plan b c etc....and hopefully we DONT go back for Kane - that would be a huge mistake

He’s got a release clause that comes into play in January, they wouldn’t have any choice if we were to trigger it.