Let's be honest I doubt many people in the football world knew who Mendy and Fabinho were before the rise of Monaco.
I don't entirely blame Pep or City for buying those young players, football is also a business when players like that are in the market it's hard to veto them. BM told Sane he'd be 2nd or 3rd choice and they wanted him to wait a year so his fee can drop a little City got him instead, I bet now their kicking themselves since they rely on 2, 33 year old on the wings.
I think this summers transfer is a little more difficult then people think, City have 13 players who are 30 and over, players that are hard to sell, especially since some of their contracts are running down some clubs are probably waiting till their free to take instead. City probably also have some form of wage bill in place and amount they don't want to exceed, Nasri/Bony/Hart combined are making £330K weekly, while Kompany is making £120K and Yaya £220K, so weekly City are paying £670K on players who aren't apart of Pep plan, one has injury problems while the other is 33 years old. These players are also hard to sell because clubs probably don't want to pay them the money they want. Bony is getting paid 100K, how many clubs will pay him that?
Sane is making £55K weekly, as bad as Bravo is I saw that he's only making £10K, Stones is £100K, Gundo £120K, Nolito £100K, Jesus is probably earning a little less then £100K I would believe.
Perhaps City and Pep were in the market, but they had a hard time tracking actually proper talent. Outside of Bravo and maybe Nolito I don't think City had a bad transfer window tbh they may have not strengthen what they needed it, but that doesn't mean the transfer window was bad in itself.
