Blue Bogey
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If we can’t get any player signings in January can we at least sign up some plasters, bandages and walking frames and bring in some therapists.
This isn’t a video game. I’d bet good money we don’t sign any of those players.
The problem we’ve had over the past 2 years is that the top class players that we were prepared to pay the big money for have either chosen to go elsewhere (Bellingham, Rice) or are unobtainable (Musiala, Wirtz).
Then the tier of players who we’d hope to develop into top class players by playing under pep (Bruno G, Paqueta) we are being quoted over £100mil for and won’t pay it.
I don’t see us doing any meaningful business in Jan, it’ll be work towards hopefully having an active summer, but even that will require us unearthing some gems as it’s hard to see who we can buy that will be good enough.
Yep arguing over £5 million when the potential benefits of winning something out weighs it massively, Tixi is leaving us in the shit. We aren’t signing anyone if significance in January and we need about 5 new faces in summer that’s around £400 million in todays prices. We have a war chest it’s about time we flexed our buying power, I’ve written this season off, hoping for sone exciting games to see me through until next august.And therein lies the problem. To stay at the level we were at, we needed to spend. Any of those players could have been obtainable if we’d paid enough, in transfer fees, signing on fees and wages.
It really pisses me off this reluctance to spend at the big boys table, and now it’s likely to cost us a lot more by missing out on the title and next year’s CL, and all the income those things generate.
Everyone has a price. We need to start paying what it takes to be Centurions level again. This net spend bullshit is fucking killing the team and Pep’s last years in charge here.
Kind of agree, feels like rather than building a team we have been watching a dismantling of the team.What squad planning?? This has been coming for 3 seasons and no one at the club seems to have realised.
When that team has just won the treble and 4 titles in a row, it’s hard to look at the market to see who we can replace those players with, when we clearly already have the best.Kind of agree, feels like rather than building a team we have been watching a dismantling of the team.
Let's be honest, we're looking at a near total rebuild in the next two years. Absolutely certainties to keep would be Dias, Gvardiol, Rodri, Foden & Haaland - nobody else is untouchable. That's a hell of a lot of turnover, which will cost a fortune and will need a lot of luck. Considering the lack of faith in academy players, we're going to be reliant on some pretty spectacular scouting and negotiations from Viana & team
Agreed, we need two signings in January & then need to be around the mid-20s range. The type of age we bought people like Kev and Walker when they came in as immediate first choice playersIt’ll take longer if we don’t show intent. January now we should go and get a midfielder at least, maybe two.
Then get the other priorities in the summer. We don’t need to spend loads, for quality.