It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[kanovic]

Is the 100m man a mirage ffs !!!

A mirage we technically didn’t need…. You can’t tell me we are stronger then last year just bc if a 100mill man?

 

[urban genie]

One injury to rodri and we will spend the entire season fighting for top 4.

Will make it a bit interesting though. Bit different than walking it.

Don't ya think

 

[andyhinch]

Don't think here. We have shown that we get cold feet, when it comes to the big deals. We don't want to be seen as another Paris, or Real Madrid.

We just spent £100m on one player ?

 

[samuelyeboah]

A mirage we technically didn’t need…. You can’t tell me we are stronger then last year just bc if a 100mill man?

yes, i can absolutely say that

 

[Stoned Rose]

One injury to rodri and we will spend the entire season fighting for top 4.

Even if he's only out for Norwich away?

 

[Dribble]

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.

 

[FantasyIreland]

A mirage we technically didn’t need…. You can’t tell me we are stronger then last year just bc if a 100mill man?

If you cant see how Grealish improves our starting 11 then football is most definitely not for you.

 

[spacecadet]

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.

 

[stan bowles]

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.

 

[blueparrot]

A mirage we technically didn’t need…. You can’t tell me we are stronger then last year just bc if a 100mill man?

I can, I’ve seen how much more dynamic our front 3 of Grealish, Torres , Jesus is than last year.