Transfer Strategy

[FromPollockToSilva]

would you say that it strengthen us to a degree of 100m? I think 100m would have strengthened us a lot more if paid for a striker.

All depends. If De Bruyne struggles with injuries again this season I think we will be extremely happy to have Grealish

But yeah I think my ultimate preference would have been a striker, same as everyone else

 

[qshot989]

I've always thought that at times we appear to be walking a tight rope with how much money we are willing to spend. I assume it is FFP, we know that the owners don't have a problem spending big but there have been some strange recent decisions and a willingness to just walk away without any other options. I said when we signed Grealish for £100m after having a £100m offer for Kane refused that that was it as far as the latter was concerned. Many on here disagreed and insisted that we could afford both but affording and allowing are very different. I genuinely think our offer for Kane was based on how much we would receive for Silva but as yet he hasn't left and there is still potential that he might not be going this Summer.

Now onto what has prompted this thread - Cristiano Ronaldo, I think we were interested in free just like we were with Messi but were not going to entertain any fee for a player of his age it goes against the transfer strategy, once it was clear that we would have to pay Juventus any amount we pulled out or we pulled out as soon as Mendes started offering him to other clubs when we had a verbal agreement in which case we were right to do so.

Do we need CR, no, would he have been a great signing? yes of course but we have plenty of wingers/false 9s, what we need is a replacement for Aguero just like we were promised but the owners have failed to deliver on what they promised which worries me - there is still time but it doesn't look good.

I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it because we were champions last year and will be champions again.

 

[MarsLlama]

Feels like we're doing exactly what we did when Kompany left, which is accept that we won't win much this season and just hang in there so that we can fix the problem next summer. It's fine for the board, they're playing the long game, but the fans aren't going to find that pill so easy to swallow. We should be going all out every season, not sacrificing certain campaigns like chess pieces.

 

[Blue tiger]

I think Grealish coming in for Agüero (who only managed to start 12 league games and score 4 league goals) does strengthen us. Plus we're rid of Garcia and potentially Mendy, which should cheer some folk up

Garcia and Mendy will be no great loss and I understand what you say about Grealish but for me this squad is no stronger. Your asking midfielders and wingers to score all the goals, its a lot to ask. Don't think we will win it this year, but no one has a god given right too. Like I say hopefully spend the next 12 months planning on a LB, Striker and a DM.

 

[LongsightM13]

Garcia and Mendy will be no great loss and I understand what you say about Grealish but for me this squad is no stronger. Your asking midfielders and wingers to score all the goals, its a lot to ask. Don't think we will win it this year, but no one has a god given right too. Like I say hopefully spend the next 12 months planning on a LB, Striker and a DM.

No chance whatsoever that we can rely on Gundo repeating an outlier season from his entire career and hitting another 17 goals

 

[MarsLlama]

I think Grealish coming in for Agüero (who only managed to start 12 league games and score 4 league goals) does strengthen us. Plus we're rid of Garcia and potentially Mendy, which should cheer some folk up

Grealish won't play in place of Agüero.

He'll play in place of either Foden, Gundogan or Sterling, who are all at least equal to Grealish in terms of the number of goal contributions per season. I personally don't see how Grealish will lead to us scoring more than last year because we can only play five attackers at once.

 

[hgblue]

we're not talking about success of a football club, we are talking specifically success of a transfer strategy.

But the whole point of your transfer strategy is to deliver on field success, so the two things are connected. Unless we say United's transfer strategy is better than ours despite the fact they've won fuck all?

 

[samuelyeboah]

think we're doing more of liverpool of last season rather than city of the season before. everyone else strengthened a ton and we stood in place and not brought the necessary reinforcements

 

[MarsLlama]

But the whole point of your transfer strategy is to deliver on field success, so the two things are connected. Unless we say United's transfer strategy is better than ours despite the fact they've won fuck all?

Their transfer strategy this summer has been better than ours (actually fucking buy the players you need rather than fail and stick with the same squad plus one guy you didn't need). They win less because Ole is in charge.

 

[zandvoort blue]

Is there a strategy? At times we act small time.