I hope it's BS because I believe we really need Josko long-term. I am happy to miss out on lesser players, though. Therefore, I hope we get it over the line, and there is no need to look at alternatives.
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Ermmmm. So you agree he’s good at complex negotiation then
Not really worth answering this in any detail. Just to point out our success really - & we’ve not missed out on any important target without getting a superb alternative
Ok - I just couldn’t resist answering - but it will be my last so bother responding directly to me. Just carry on posting your negative trash for everyone to read
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The trouble is the sensible folk on here are sick of reading irrational criticism of Txiki (& the board) on here from people pretending to be asking sensible questions
the blue panther
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"Empire of The Kop"?
Very authoritive.
SilverFox2
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I suppose the old maxim used mainly in other business sectors that compares turnover and profit is being realised for football as well.
Something like,
Turnover for show
Profit for dough.
It baffles me how people still carry on believing this click bait nonsense, but then again it is the scousers
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Plus it’s a standard comment to get Leipzig to realise we will walk away if necessary. Won’t happen though, this transfer is happening, no doubts whatsoever.
Today or tomorrow I think there will be progress.
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He has a big thread in the main forum that usually gets an airing at this time each year.
Txiki Begiristain
If his mate Pep wasn't arriving, there would be no doubt he should get the chop along with Pellegrini. Under his watch the first team has regressed so badly.
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Over the years I’ve lost my cool about him, and both questioned and praised him. I was very critical of him for the way we prepared for the arrival of Pep.
Where we went from a team that finished 1st, 2nd and 1st with two collections of four strikers of Kun Tevez Džeko Balotelli; Kun Džeko Negredo Jovetic… to finishing 3rd and only just scraping 4th with the most unfit and least hard working team in the league by Pellegrini’s final season, with a striker list of Kun Bony Iheanacho and four full backs all over the age of 30 (Zabaleta Sagna Clichy Kolarov) for about two years too long and it being a reason Pep struggled to get a tune out of us in his first year.
But overall he’s done a great job - maybe learning from his previous mistakes - with us exceeding the nearest club to us for trophies won by double since Pep came to us (City 14, Liverpool 7, Chelsea 6, Arsenal 4, United 3, Leicester 2) with excellent money coming in for our academy players and us not spending more than the PL TV revenue in net spend since 2015.
We didn’t replace Kompany immediately and we didn’t replace Kun immediately - in both instances, we waited 12 months to find their replacements. But instead of buying Koulibaly and Kane for massive fees immediately, we took our time and spent much less on longer-term players with higher ceilings of talent. Football carries on forever and we seem to now be looking at being a club who builds for long term success rather than making sure we always have exactly what we need at the start of every season we make sure they long-term we will be challenging and succeeding.
I do find it a bit odd that we have lost Gündoğan and Mahrez and are stacked with the deepest talent defensively ever seen in football yet are replacing Gundo and Mahrez with just McAtee and Bobb in the squad and trying to sign another defender in a position we already have two players (one of which was our best defender last season)… but this will all be about a long term plan.
We might not replace Gundo and Mahrez in the squad this Summer and the signing of Gvardiol might not happen until next Summer. We might well be much weaker this season but in the long-term - much like how we don’t really remember the season we didn’t replace Kompany immediately - we’ll be better off and if this season isn’t a trophy-laden one, we won’t remember it if we win the league title for the two years after this coming one.
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Good teams do business early. It’s an empirical fact and it does help the manager if his players arrive early and play a few friendly games too.
City are late and the transfer market is shrinking for elite ballers who are the only ones who could improve our team.
But City deserves my patience because I don’t know what going on behind the scenes and we just won the fucking treble and history suggest our board do a smart job and Guardiola makes up for a lot of their shortcomings.
But we are late this window. We may have a slow start and maybe -maybe we won’t win the league this season. But after the treble season I will survive just fine.
City are late and the transfer market is shrinking for elite ballers who are the only ones who could improve our team.
But City deserves my patience because I don’t know what going on behind the scenes and we just won the fucking treble and history suggest our board do a smart job and Guardiola makes up for a lot of their shortcomings.
But we are late this window. We may have a slow start and maybe -maybe we won’t win the league this season. But after the treble season I will survive just fine.
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