Josko Gvardiol

[GornikDaze]

Fucking insufferable aren’t they. How can folk post hundreds of times on the same thread basically jumping on any negativity and running with it without any self awareness.
Then you’ve got @Any1aBlue who I honestly hadn’t even noticed until this summer suddenly posting over and over and over again without pause for a fucking breath. I’m guessing it’s an old account, thought @Alan Harper's Tash at first but he was alright..

Ignore button is your friend - I took you off it to reply to this post ;) Completely agree with you about the posters you mentioned (although one was already on ignore!)

 

[Kamaro011]

Odd observation, as i've not see this ;) That being said, you do you. Just odd being mad at people for posting opinions on a public form. Cheers.

There's difference posting a single piece of opinion in the forum vs posting the same shite over and over again like a broken clock.

 

[Phil1]

Ignore button is your friend - I took you off it to reply to this post ;) Completely agree with you about the posters you mentioned (although one was already on ignore!)

Haha! Err thanks. You’re missing out having me on ignore. I’m ace.

 

[DeBlueLou]

There's difference posting a single piece of opinion in the forum vs posting the same shite over and over again like a broken clock.

Again, public forum, if you cannot take the basis of it, don't read.

 

[Baggins.mcfc]

Just getting slightly off topic, any news on the transfer today?

 

[Sir peace frog]

Odd observation, as i've not see this ;) That being said, you do you. Just odd being mad at people for posting opinions on a public forum. Cheers.

i'm really not angry , if i did come across as angry then i apologise ,however I wouldn't have to manage my so called anger, if some people would manage their stupidity.

now if you dont mind,im going to carry on reading the transfer forum in the hope some good news is coming our way

 

[Kamaro011]

Again, public forum, if you cannot take the basis of it, don't read.

The same as your, if you can't stomach people have different opinion who think the club know better than fans on internet like yourself then don't read it.

Posting the same shite over and over again will not makes me read your post and doesn't makes your smarter.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Explain the narcolepsy? I thought he made good points and is entitled to an opinion.

I haven’t got a fucking clue what narcolepsy is, nor have I got an interest, but well done posting with a posh word, fuck me you’re a consistent bore

 

[flb]

The only thing I will say is that by all accounts we were prepared to sign Rice for circa £80-90m AND still sign Gvardiol- so stumping up north of £150m on those two players.
Now unless we are taters deep in for another player that we haven't got wind of yet, then its slightly odd that we are dragging this transfer out at our end for the sake of £10-15m.

But hey, the club knows best!

 

[foggy1974]

There’s a lot in there, but I guess the best place to start is to say Txiki is not entirely responsible for buying players. That responsibility rightly doesn’t sit with one man, so you can relax on that point.

He’s the Sporting Director - a very common role at most top clubs across Europe if you care to have a look, and he got the role as he was incredibly successful performing the same role at Barca. He was responsible for identifying Pep as the successor to Rijkaard when he was nothing more than a B Team Manager with one season’s experience, and when many on the Barca board wanted a big name replacement.

He also identified (alongside the scouting team) and secured (alongside the commercial Exec team) the non-Masia players who made up the spine of Pep’s historic Barca team.

At City, he performs the same role - responsible for working with our scouting team and Pep to identify key roles in the squad that need strengthening, and the players we need to acquire to fill those roles. Crucially, he doesn’t do this on his own. Look up Omar Berrada if you want to see someone who is very hands on in this process at City.

There are videos of the conversations which go on around this process at City from our recent fly on the wall documentaries if you want to see it happening for yourself.

Crucially Txiki is the Sporting Director - not the Commercial Director. So he identifies the players we need, and sells the Club to them - but he is not solely responsible for negotiating the Financial package with either the player or the selling club.

Clearly none of us know exactly where one role ends and the other begins in this process, but it’s fair to assume from the footage out there (both from City and his time at Barca) and how similar roles work in other organisations that Soriano and Berrada are more involved on this side of the process than Txiki.

So really if you want to lay the blame for the drawn out negotiation process at anyone’s door, you’re probably better building a voodoo doll of Soriano to stick your pins in than Txiki.

He and Pep will tell the board the players they feel will fit for specific gaps in the squad, and it’s up to the commercial leadership to secure the right package for the Club.

And finally - if you haven’t seen anyone criticising Txiki in here, then you’re clearly not reading any of the threads in the Transfer Forum. Which is difficult to believe given how often you post in here.

Txiki bashing is a favourite pass time of the uninformed on this forum, so I can’t help but feel this bit of your post is disingenuous.

Can tell you're not a journalist as that is a well written, balanced post with facts.