Missing out on CL - summer transfers up in the air

flb said:
If it means scouring the market for up an coming talent and promoting youth into the squad I'm all for it , let's have it right , bar a few exceptions we haven't pulled trees up have we ? I'd quite welcome a change of direction
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Honestly I'd love that, dying for some young hungry players will be refreshing to see.
 
Wont make any difference. money and pep will guarantee big names. we managed to get players like aguero and silva so we shouldnt have a problem.
 
Not sure it makes an difference whatsoever. Players want CL football, but they don't sign for you with just one season in mind. No one is going to look at this club, with Pep Guardiola in charge and think that they won't be seeing CL football any time soon. Normally when a player leaves a club stating they want to play in the CL it's because they can't see the club they are at being in the CL, not because they have to play in it every single year.
 
MeatHunterrr said:
loss of income will have impact
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i dont really know a lot about it, but don't we make more money from the new tv deal and being in the prem anyway. we will lose the champs money , but gain a lot compared to previous seasons. Player wise if we offer someone enough money they will probably come, they would be coming here for pep and future champions league swell
 
Think it will effect the top echelon transfers, e.g. Pogba - can't see someone like him accepting Europa League football when he can essentially have his pick of clubs.

However you'd expect most of our transfer targets aren't "£80m rated" star names. For the other names we've been linked with most of them aren't playing in the CL anyway, so coming to City would still be a step in the right direction for their careers either way, plus we'll be telling them this is a one off season & that we'll be back in CL next year etc.

So definitely some impact, but I don't expect as much as some people fear.
 
Let's face it, KDB aside our latest transfer deals have not been the best anyway have they....
Not being in the CL won't stop top players wanting to ply their trade in the most lucrative league in the world.
They will still sign.
 
HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE?
Mancini had all his faults but he played to defend the lead and kept us in the f'ing top four; we are regressing all because of the manager's archaic 4-4-2 formation all season long and his ineptitude to quickly make the right changes when things were going horribly wrong.I mean if you know your defence is leaking, why continue to expose them game after game after game?

Hope we make it through but seriously doubt it now...
 
will probably start next season with mostly the same team since our top 2 transfer targets are crocked and won't be ready in August even if we signed them tomorrow..
 
daztrueblue91 said:
Not going to make a single difference IMO.

The only way we will lose out on players is if they fancy moving to Barca, Bayern or Madrid, something which wouldn't have changed even if we were in the CL. The though that players would suddenly prefer to sign a 5 year deal at United or Leicester just because they have CL football this season is laughable.

We will still match the pay scale and have a clear plan of how this club will progress. No player will seriously look at City and think that they are a club on the decline. They will see a club who have had a poor season and are about to embark on the next stage with the most sought after coach in the world in charge.
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Agree with much here
Ranieri is practically begging his players to stay on with Leicester.
I'd actually have a bid for mahrez . Would suit Pep's style and has a good attitude
 
i dont buy this players typical lie i want to pkay in "CL" typically its just the money. players from small teams use it when they move to a bigger team. except in rare occasions.

you can get the players with or without the most important thing now is a major clear put of the dead wood unmotivated players for a new ones
 
baildon blue said:
Aguero signed for us in our first season the champions league .
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It's curious that some think aguero may want out if we miss out on champions league next year. He didn't exactly light that competition on fire this year. He and this team have much work to do under pep. He won't be asked, much more like demanded he do much more under Pep's reign. I think he will be up for the fight.
 
seniorcitizen said:
Sterling and Bony were attracted by Champions League ( as well as massive salaries) and I wouldn't judge either of those two as successful signings as yet. Whereas Kante et al at Leicester have been a revelation.
I reckon Pep reputation and City's money should make sure we get some decent signings ... Champs league or not
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they were motivated by money and maybe the chance to be at club with ' we suppose top players ' at the end of the day sterling and bony turned a failure this season one of them is going to be shipped the other one. sterling has 1 or 2 to deliver otherwise he is going to be shown the door
 
i still think we can sign certain targets but we will be back to signing them the way we did a few years ago i reckon. i.e. over pay on fee's and wages.
 
If a player won't come to us Purely because we're looking at (at absolute most) a year or two out of the CL then they show an inability to see past the short term and we shouldn't buy them anyway.

Prima donna's are what got us into this mess (largely) and are certainly not the answer. We need players with fight and a bit of grit to them
 
How much money ruled would we lose from not being in the CL? Would that affect our transfer policy?
 
Many players will want to work under Pep especially the younger ones who want to reach their potential.

Money , lfestyle , wife's wishes raising family etc are the main consideration and how the club sells themselves of course.

I don't think we will have a shortage of who is available to talk to.

What we need to do is target much better than we have both in England and in the continent.

No more Rodwells and Delphs etc and be careful about splashing out big money for player like Sterling just because he doesn't like the likes of Rogers or whoever is manager at the time.

We need to recruit much better and focus much more on bringing in youth from within the club if we going to prevent the things that have occurred in the past two years.
 
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