Josko Gvardiol

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Read my last sentence. Pep is the reason we are so successful on the pitch. He'll give Txiki a list, and nine times out of ten he has to rip that list up and ask for another because he's drastically bad at closing the big deals for the primary targets.

Meanwhile, back in the real world………..

 

[oldius]

Are we still arguing about something nobody knows anything about?

 

[MadchesterCity]

Pep, Txiki, Khaldoon and Omar Berrada sit in a room. They discuss transfer targets, Txiki will have the scouts and performance analysts draft detailed scouting reports on players and then they make a decision who to go after.

Txiki will make the contact with the agents and the clubs and then the finances will be made clear to Khaldoon, Soriano and Berrada. Then they will have a conversation with Pep and it will go from there.

Everyone loves to blame Txiki when theres several other people at this table.

Maybe it's Pep telling City to keep negotiating. He doesn't want to make Gvardiol the most expensive defender of all time and pile on that mental pressure.

Thanks for covering that from City perspective, I was interested on Kamaro take on it and was eager to be enlightened.

So to sum it up, we should be blaming Omar not Txiki?

 

[eastmanc]

Please could you tell everyone on here how you know all this. You say that 9 times out of 10 Pep has to rip his transfer list up & start again - if so, - which it isn’t as you’ve totally made that up because you couldn’t possibly know such detail - then the procedure was correct because our trophy record proves it.

Reading what you post is hilarious because I think you believe your own theories- just like my granddaughter

City have done brilliantly with transfers over the years. Very few of them have failed.

 

[oldius]

Read my last sentence. Pep is the reason we are so successful on the pitch. He'll give Txiki a list, and nine times out of ten he has to rip that list up and ask for another because he's drastically bad at closing the big deals for the primary targets.

I trust Khaldoon enough to believe that if any senior executive at the club was not performing, they wouldn't be hanging around.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Got a bad feeling this will “collapse” and City will walk away.

 

[MadchesterCity]

City have done brilliantly with transfers over the years. Very few of them have failed.

When they have failed it as often been injury or an external influence like with Mendy, Boateng ...

 

[leo_city]

Are we still arguing about something nobody knows anything about?

Unfortunately, all we know is it’s amateur hour from either City or Leipzig. Hopefully one way or another it is closed as quickly as possible.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Pep, Txiki, Khaldoon and Omar Berrada sit in a room. They discuss transfer targets, Txiki will have the scouts and performance analysts draft detailed scouting reports on players and then they make a decision who to go after.

Txiki will make the contact with the agents and the clubs and then the finances will be made clear to Khaldoon, Soriano and Berrada. Then they will have a conversation with Pep and it will go from there.

Everyone loves to blame Txiki when theres several other people at this table.

Maybe it's Pep telling City to keep negotiating. He doesn't want to make Gvardiol the most expensive defender of all time and pile on that mental pressure.

i wouldn't have thought it is far different to any contract work. You have a price you want to buy, they have a price they want to sell. Usually there is a gap that needs to be eliminated through movement from each side. If you can't bridge the gap, walk away and look elsewhere. I hope we get this lad but wont lose sleep if we don't. I'm content in letting our financial team do their thing as their track record is pretty decent (best team in the land and all the world, on the pitch and commercially).

 

[Vester]

Complete bollocks.

Ridiculous that you actually believe this is all down to Txiki.

Agree. This narrative from some City fans that its constant failure on the transfer market and Pep saves the day is complete bollocks. While I admit the way we handle our business can be frustrating at times for us fans looking at it from the outside, especially this summer (so far), the results speaks for themselves. We are widely considered to have the best squad in world football, fans from other clubs envy how we handle our transfer business. Am I happy with how the window is going so far? Of course not, the season starts in 2 weeks and we have barely solved any of the issues needed to be adressed this summer. Do I agree with everything the club does on the transfer market? Of course not, no thinking individual agrees with everything others say or do. Am I worried that Txiki doesn't know what he's doing and that we wont have a squad strong enough to be considered favorites in all competitions we enter this season? No, history has shown us the exact opposite is what usually happens!
Lets see how it all pans out this summer before we complain to much, I'm expecting a lot to happen in the next few weeks and will judge our transfer business when its done.