Pep's Buys - Worst and Best?

[kaz7]

Pep+Txiki’s signings together:

İlkay Gündoğan £20m
Nolito £13.8m
Oleksandr Zinchenko £1.7m
Leroy Sané £37m
Marlos Moreno £4.75m
John Stones £47.5m
Claudio Bravo £15.4m
Gabriel Jesus £27m

Bernardo Silva £43m
Ederson £34.9m
Kyle Walker £45m
Danilo £26.5m
Benjamin Mendy £49.3m
Aymeric Laporte £57m

Riyad Mahrez £60m
Philippe Sandler £2.6m

Angeliño £5.35m
Rodri £62.8m
Zack Steffen £7m
João Cancelo £60m

Tbf that is not a bad hit rate,got our money back on nolito i think

 

[Jacob Smith]

Best value: Ederson, Sané, Jesus, Bernardo and Zinchenko

Best signings ignoring value for money: Ederson, Bernardo and Sané

Worst signings: Mendy, Gundogan

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Best value: Ederson, Sané, Jesus, Bernardo and Zinchenko

Best signings ignoring value for money: Ederson, Bernardo and Sané

Worst signings: Mendy, Gundogan

At £20m Gundogan doesn't seem a bad buy tbh. Had we paid twice that or more I'd agree with you.

 

[kanovic]

Best value: Ederson, Sané, Jesus, Bernardo and Zinchenko

Best signings ignoring value for money: Ederson, Bernardo and Sané

Worst signings: Mendy, Gundogan

Don’t think you can call mendy a worse signing. If he didn’t have two serious injuries he would be class. You saw his first season how good he was, no one could/can predict injuries that’s not entirely fair to him imo

 

[onceabluealways]

Best value: Ederson, Sané, Jesus, Bernardo and Zinchenko

Best signings ignoring value for money: Ederson, Bernardo and Sané

Worst signings: Mendy, Gundogan

Pretty much agree with this i thonk Rodri will be a great signing

 

[citymad]

Really thought our days of wasting money on duds were behind us.

 

[Thomas Hearns]

Don’t think you can call mendy a worse signing. If he didn’t have two serious injuries he would be class. You saw his first season how good he was, no one could/can predict injuries that’s not entirely fair to him imo

He had a good first few games, not a season.
Steve McManaman looked brilliant for his first couple of games.

 

[kanovic]

He had a good first few games, not a season.
Steve McManaman looked brilliant for his first couple of games.

He would have built on those first games had his knee not gave out. Those two serious Injuries would have hurt anyone no matter the quality. If he didn’t have injuries and was just awful I would agree he was a bad buy but again imo can’t say he was bad based on horrible luck.

 

[Thomas Hearns]

He would have built on those first games had his knee not gave out. Those two serious Injuries would have hurt anyone no matter the quality. If he didn’t have injuries and was just awful I would agree he was a bad buy but again imo can’t say he was bad based on horrible luck.

I take your point and undoubtedly he was unlucky to get injured but plenty of top players have serious injuries and when they come back their form hasn’t fallen off a cliff. It’s guesswork to say how good he would’ve been had he stayed fit. He made a good start and that’s that.

And paying customers like their players to be focused, serious minded professional athletes. Mendy’s off field antics and zany personality do him no favours either. You can get away with that nonsense when you deliver what you’re paid to deliver. For whatever reason he hasn’t and so questions arise as to whether he’s been unlucky to be so badly afflicted by injuries or whether some of the responsibility for this lies on his shoulders.

 

[Keeper!]

Don’t think you can call mendy a worse signing. If he didn’t have two serious injuries he would be class. You saw his first season how good he was, no one could/can predict injuries that’s not entirely fair to him imo

Agreed, but Mendy did have a questionable injury record before he signed for us.