January transfer window

For me
The Goalkeeping position can wait until Summer.

Do we need a RB or is Micah going to stay fit ? again give it until the Summer

Centre Backs, We have Komps and Martin on the Right and Joleon and Nasty on the left, though two currently injury prone, I would like to see Giorgio Chiellini brough in here (left sided)

Left Back bring in Felipe from Athletico Madrid

DM Add Roman Neustadter from Schalke 04.

I think all other positions have adequate skill levels and cover.

To fund the three transfers in sell Rodwell, Dzeko, and Garcia.

This gives us good cover at Centre back and left back but allows the new players to get up to speed without selling any existing player. Review those positions in the Summer and strengthen in other areas from the Summer funds
 
waspish said:
What about trying a youth player or two instead of spending money?
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I want Guidetti out on loan, gain form and match fitness, then replace a sold Dzeko in the summer.

Lopes to start being integrated as well into the squad, then to go out on loan at some point. Look at how Liverpool have handled Suso, he's gone from strength to strength while out on loan in Spain.

Rekik should get a spot come next season when he's back, I think he can do a job.

We're fine at goalkeeper. Hart will be back, Pants has shown that he's good enough.

Obviously Vinny and Jack need to sort out their terrible injury woes. The club needs to do all it takes to fix this.

I wouldn't mind seeing Kolarov go, but don't if he stays either. He's a foil for Clichy, who's coming back into his old form.

We need another class DM, that much is for sure. We also need a speed option down the left flank.

So in short (either in January or the summer):

Out:
Dzeko
Garcia
Kolarov (maybe, if not angle for wage reduction)
Lescott (maybe, wage reduction)

In/Promoted:

Guidetti
Lopes
Rekik
Young English LB (maybe)
Class DM (spend whatever, ensure quality)
Class Left Winger (as above)
 
ws01 said:
waspish said:
What about trying a youth player or two instead of spending money?
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I want Guidetti out on loan, gain form and match fitness, then replace a sold Dzeko in the summer.

Lopes to start being integrated as well into the squad, then to go out on loan at some point. Look at how Liverpool have handled Suso, he's gone from strength to strength while out on loan in Spain.

Rekik should get a spot come next season when he's back, I think he can do a job.

We're fine at goalkeeper. Hart will be back, Pants has shown that he's good enough.

Obviously Vinny and Jack need to sort out their terrible injury woes. The club needs to do all it takes to fix this.

I wouldn't mind seeing Kolarov go, but don't if he stays either. He's a foil for Clichy, who's coming back into his old form.

We need another class DM, that much is for sure. We also need a speed option down the left flank.

So in short (either in January or the summer):

Out:
Dzeko
Garcia
Kolarov (maybe, if not angle for wage reduction)
Lescott (maybe, wage reduction)

In/Promoted:

Guidetti
Lopes
Rekik
Young English LB (maybe)
Class DM (spend whatever, ensure quality)
Class Left Winger (as above)
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So who do you plan on selling to open space for this class left winger? Navas? Nasri? Silva? Milner? Jovetic? Coz surely one if not 2 of them will have to go for a class left winger to get enough playing time.

Class DM I get. Garcia, and Rodwell are both expendable. So sell one or both and bring in Yohan Cabaye. I'll applaud that.

Sell Dzeko and promote Guidetti. 3rd striker, young and has a good knack for goals. You can partner him with Jovetic.

Young English LB: I don't see it. I think Kolarov had been the most improved player this season ( if one views Nasri's improvement as simply a return to form) so I don't see him going anywhere unless he wants such a move. We are surely not gonna ship him out now that he had finally begun to play to standard.

So really upgrade at DM rotation and moving Dzeko on so he can become a starter, are really our only legitimate moves. All the others will be player induced. Lescott, Micah and Kolarov pushing for a switch, or one of the core guys doing so.

There is the outside chance Pantilimon might push for a move too.

We are getting awful close to the point where player additions can only cas minor improvement. Unless we go out and by a Superstar.
 
Rammyblues said:
For me none in and none out. Main business will be done early in Summer window before WC kicks in. IMO.
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1 piece of business, a central midfielder
 
I would love to see us splash the cash in the summer on maybe Luke Shaw £25m. Xabi Alonso free, Reus £30m but in January Mangala for £25-30m will do
 
The Engineer said:
I would love to see us splash the cash in the summer on maybe Luke Shaw £25m. Xabi Alonso free, Reus £30m but in January Mangala for £25-30m will do
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as much potential as luke shaw has, £25m is a silly amount of money.
 
£25m for any leftback would be silly money, yet alone one that is purely potential.
 
Lot of the outs will depend on the contract situations too, tbf. But I can believe nothing major will happen in January.

A lot of people have submitted the notion of renewals on lesser wages for players like Kolo last year, Barry and Lescott. But I'd say its fairly safe to say the club has no intention of doing that for anyone, wasn't a sniff for Kolo, and Lescott himself has said the club haven't come to him with anything. So for me if a player has been allowed to get to last year of their deal at city, there's no intention of keeping them.

Summer will be more where's this shit goes down though, Dzeko, kolarov, micah, milner et al all entering final year, January will be probably be quite quiet.
 
We don't need to be spending much money, as others have said we can be using our youngens.

Mohammed Abu at DM if needed (he's very good)
Rekik in, Lopes in

Dzeko out (he's moaning way too much) and see if a young striker can make the jump, we have will have 3 strikers and a youngen. We don't always need to use 2 strikers if injuries are the case, we've enough attacking midfielders to provide goals alongside a single striker.

Our LB and RB are in question, but not yet obvious.
 
Maybe a central defender or another midfielder but it will not be all that busy window for us. As much as I want Dzeko gone and Guidetti to have an opportunity Manuel Pellegrini could still get something out of the player.
 
spongebob123 said:
We don't need to be spending much money, as others have said we can be using our youngens.

Mohammed Abu at DM if needed (he's very good)
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I'd love to see some young players promoted, but only if they're good enough. Abu has failed in three loan moves to decent leagues (Spanish, French, German 2nd division), and is now playing in the Danish league on loan.

Lopes is someone who definitely should be considered for a full promotion - unless they opt to loan him out for a year first, as he is only 17.

Rekik is also doing very well for PSV and is a rare defender who can start a move from the back (a la David Luiz).
 
Mourinho's comments at his press conference regarding January were interesting. He basically said that City should not buy anyone, that we don't need to.

Personally I think we'd need to send someone out the door before bringing another in, not for FFP or any of that stuff, just to ensure squad harmony remains.

That said, if there is an outstanding talent out there and he becomes available, buy now and worry about it later. For example, That Lionel bloke over in Spain.

But January is not the time to buy usually. Unless anyone goes out of the CL then could be a quiet one for us incoming, and absolutely no reason at all to sell anyone unless they are being unprofessional enough to be shown the door, and the right offer does materialise. Which means £15m minimum for Dzeko, £5m for Lescott and £24m if PSG start sniffing around Nasri again. I woudl happly keep Lescott under chains until summer and then let him go, for example, as by then we can make a decision on Rekik and evaluate other options, whereas throwing ourselves into potential turmoil, even for a couple of games, for the sake of a few million is not sensible.

Plus, as we did in summer, if we wanted anyone we woudl have moved by now anyway I bet. Another case of sitting back and watching the rest of them panic.

Also be interesting to see what the rags do. As their transfer kitty for 2013/14 was rumoured to be just £30m anyway, and they pretty much blew it all on Fellaini, do they write off this season as a bad one or throw more money at the situation and try to claw their way back?
 
I think the only signing that City needs is a defensive midfielder.

For Spurs, I think we need a left back for sure - massive mistake not to get one in the summer, but I'd love us to sign Ricardo Rodriguez from Wolfsburg who is top class imo.

I also think we need an attacking player who can play up front or on the left. Heard we're after Pato, who would be a good signing imo, but I would really like Max Kruse if I could pick anyone realistic. Top class forward imo.
 
Mangala - Demichelis actually scares me more than when Savic used to play, because at least then we had a fantastic defensive record, with Kompany rarely injured, De Jong providing defensive cover and Hart on form. Never seen anyone so slow insist on playing such a high line. Getting pretty sick of him playing them onside.
A good, quick left winger to play opposite Navas. Maybe Cuadrado. Reus would be quality but unrealistic.
Suarez to replace Dzeko would be a dream. Yes he's a dick, but he's the best player in the league and his workrate is unbelievable. He's a much better Tevez. We could play him as a lone striker and have another midfield, depending on the opposition. I think the shift he puts in could save a lot of games where the team appears lazy or have given up. If he's the top-scoring partnership with Sturridge, imagine him playing with either Aguero or Negredo, with our midfield providing the creativity.
Him, Negredo, Aguero and Guidetti as a front 4 = dirty bedsheets.
 
bluetonium said:
Mourinho's comments at his press conference regarding January were interesting. He basically said that City should not buy anyone, that we don't need to.

Personally I think we'd need to send someone out the door before bringing another in, not for FFP or any of that stuff, just to ensure squad harmony remains.

That said, if there is an outstanding talent out there and he becomes available, buy now and worry about it later. For example, That Lionel bloke over in Spain.

But January is not the time to buy usually. Unless anyone goes out of the CL then could be a quiet one for us incoming, and absolutely no reason at all to sell anyone unless they are being unprofessional enough to be shown the door, and the right offer does materialise. Which means £15m minimum for Dzeko, £5m for Lescott and £24m if PSG start sniffing around Nasri again. I woudl happly keep Lescott under chains until summer and then let him go, for example, as by then we can make a decision on Rekik and evaluate other options, whereas throwing ourselves into potential turmoil, even for a couple of games, for the sake of a few million is not sensible.

Plus, as we did in summer, if we wanted anyone we woudl have moved by now anyway I bet. Another case of sitting back and watching the rest of them panic.

Also be interesting to see what the rags do. As their transfer kitty for 2013/14 was rumoured to be just £30m anyway, and they pretty much blew it all on Fellaini, do they write off this season as a bad one or throw more money at the situation and try to claw their way back?
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To be fair, I would hope that anything Mourinho says would be ignored by all those in charge of the purse strings at City. If we need a player I have confidence that they will have been identified and we'll have found out whether they are available in January. Mourinho sees us as serious competition which is why he mentions us in almost every interview he has.

I agree with you that some players need to go before we bring in new targets, but we all know which players would be leaving if the right offers come in. I am also in complete agreement that should an outstanding player become available then we should try to sign them if we can use them in our squad.

I know traditionally January isn't a time to buy major signings but I think it is because it is seen as a last chance to right wrongs in the squad part way through the season (either to save clubs from relegation or trying to find players who aren't cup tied). I actually think that good signings can be made if only one or two are signed. It is foolish to make wholesale changes because you end up with a similar predicament to Spurs in that in trying to accommodate too many new signings the whole pattern of play is disrupted. You can also end up upsetting players who know they will be out of the door come summer and they stop performing at 100%. If City are clever then we may offload one or two and sign one or two replacements than can add to the team. I know Pellegrini has said he doubts we will sign anyone, but he isn't likely to tell the press who we are signing, or who is leaving is he, it will disrupt the squad for a monthor two if he came out with a statement now, as well as giving our rivals chances to scupper any deals we may make.

I also think some fans are over-rating our kids, Rekik has been loaned out to see if he develops, Lopez is only 17, and could play in a few games for us in the cup same as last year, but these kids aren't ready yet. When they are I trust Pellegrini to know when to introduce them into the first team. Our first team squad are still converting to play in Pellegrini's style and the kids also have to fit into this system.

Although I think we will make one or two signings, I could see Pellegrini sticking with what he has if our targets won't come for the right money in January or we cannot shift the players we want too either. With the World Cup looming things could go either way. Saying that I don't think either Wenger or Mourinho would be too bothered if they didn't sign any more players in the next transfer window either.

Fans of all three clubs know as well as the clubs which areas need strengthening, and were probably all guilty of wanting to see new recruits as soon as we can.

The point regarding Utd, will they let things get worse, Kagawa wants to leave, rumours abound regarding Anderson, Young and Nani to be shipped out. I think Utd will try to sign one or maybe two players for midfield, but it all depends how much Uncle Malc will let them spend. Players trying to make a name for themselves before the World Cup and forcing their way into squads is probably going to be a deciding factor come transfer season.
 
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