Transfer Strategy

[Gabriel]

This. I can’t believe people don’t understand this.. last season was like a season played competitively behind closed doors. Technical players can do their thing without added pressure.. home advantage is a real thing you know.. over 120 years of professional football has taught us that. Every fixture was based on purely on the football played without the crowd influencing proceedings….

And the crowd will influence the officials more, too. We saw that at Tottenham when the referee allowed Tanganga to trample over successive players, which in turn geed up the home crowd and that in turn upped the tempo. Much harder to retain possession and play without an outlet under those conditions. You’re right, last year was unique.

 

[Rammy Blue]

There is no way you could possibly know what. The only words out of the Club were this afternoon when they said we were not interested in signing him.

Cool story bro. Take it you believe in the tooth fairy too?

 

[pudge]

I think we must have caught something from Spurs during the whole Kane thing

 

[eversince 76]

Quote>>Sick and tired of all these players seemingly of any interest. Look at the past and we can easily guess if a player is according to the ones we actually did buy.

But I guess it’s worth wanking yourself just reading and dreaming about the so called star players.<< End quote

I hate quoting myself. But I don’t mind repeating my own words from the Ronaldo topic.
Football fans and transfers. They know it all and know nowt. Just like the tabloids that just keep guessing.

Why don’t we simply stick to supporting the team and the 11 plus players that need to do the job. Starting tomorrow.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Yeah we really struggled in the two years when we gained 198 points with full crowds in

we had better squads then

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Quote>>Sick and tired of all these players seemingly of any interest. Look at the past and we can easily guess if a player is according to the ones we actually did buy.

But I guess it’s worth wanking yourself just reading and dreaming about the so called star players.<< End quote

I hate quoting myself. But I don’t mind repeating my own words from the Ronaldo topic.
Football fans and transfers. They know it all and know nowt. Just like the tabloids that just keep guessing.

Why don’t we simply stick to supporting the team and the 11 plus players that need to do the job. Starting tomorrow.

Hooofkinrah!!!

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

I’m still livid.

We have proven this summer that we are massively incompetent in the market. Omar Berrada and the transfer team (Txiki, Khaldoon) had months to sort out a striker and not just failed but failed miserably. Today’s humiliation to top it all off should see heads roll but it obviously won’t. Can’t imagine HRH is too impressed mind.

It’s how the Kane and Ronaldo sagas played out that’s shown our SMT to be hugely incompetent when it comes to the market.

Just pathetically bad.

 

[jrb]

Free so far down, then pay wall.

May this year.

Manchester City aims to create superstars, not sign them: CFG COO​

Omar Berrada, the Chief Football Operations Officer of the City Football Group, speaks about Manchester City's progress through the last decade, its vision with the academy and more.​

We also needed to bring in the right players for that. Txiki Begiristain has been building the squad for many years and ensuring that we get the right squad balance and bring youth from the academy. It is a combination of everything plus all the work that goes on behind the scenes concerning injury management and prevention, and working with Pep and the coaching staff to ensure player rotation so that all players can hit peak form at the right time,” he said.

Manchester City aims to create superstars, not sign them: CFG COO

Omar Berrada, the Chief Football Operations Officer of the City Football Group, speaks about Manchester City's progress through the last decade, its vision with the academy and more.

sportstar.thehindu.com

 

[Saddleworth2]

Ok. Back to transfer strategy. It seems to be that we will only sign players that really really want to join us. We back away when there is any hint of a player playing us off against another club. (Sanchez and Ronaldo). In this day and age is this correct? After all every one of us uses compare the market when we renew our insurance. Shouldn’t we expect players to try and get the best deal when they are attracting multiple elite clubs? So if we attract Haaland next year. He is interested in our project. Do we back away from him when Madrid run some more attractive numbers in front of him?

seems to me the answer to that will be a big factor in determining our future success.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Ok. Back to transfer strategy. It seems to be that we will only sign players that really really want to join us. We back away when there is any hint of a player playing us off against another club. (Sanchez and Ronaldo). In this day and age is this correct? After all every one of us uses compare the market when we renew our insurance. Shouldn’t we expect players to try and get the best deal when they are attracting multiple elite clubs? So if we attract Haaland next year. He is interested in our project. Do we back away from him when Madrid run some more attractive numbers in front of him?

seems to me the answer to that will be a big factor in determining our future success.

It’s nice to think we’re special and all high and mighty but the reality is this approach is naive and quite tiresome now.