Txiki Begiristain to leave role at end of season

[DelToro]

IfHe could've been told he's leaving at the end

He could've been told he's leaving at the end of the season.

He could've been told he's leaving at the end of the season.

You don’t give a years notice to someone you don’t want anymore.

 

[Vester]

He should have bids on the table on january 1st. No excuse

The players should already be here on January 1st. We can sign players whenever we want, we just have to wait until the registration windows is open before we can register them and use them in games. The need has been evident and obvious for some time, so there is no reason to why any potential targets would arrive late in the window.

With that said, if the last 2 years windows is anything to go by anything but a last minute panic buy would be a surprise. Txiki has been brilliant over the years but unfortunately it seems like he semi-retired when we won the treble. At least that what its seems like judging by his transfer business since then.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

Seems like he left his role 2yrs ago. He certainly hasn’t been doing his job of succession planning very well.

 

[Del_Bosque]

Can he fuck off now?

 

[Damocles]

I think I was a mutual parting, put out by the club as Txiki retiring.

Recruitment and transfer decisions have been very poor over the last 2 seasons

Then him giving 5 years notice period and a 1 year official notice seems a bit odd.

 

[Damocles]

With that said, if the last 2 years windows is anything to go by anything but a last minute panic buy would be a surprise. Txiki has been brilliant over the years but unfortunately it seems like he semi-retired when we won the treble. At least that what its seems like judging by his transfer business since then.

Some important things to note here that have to be constantly pointed out:

• Txiki's job is not solely or even primarily about transfers. The Director of Football is essentially the head of the entire football operation over the medium to long term. That is how they are judged - if the club has been a success over the medium/long term and not whether they "had a good window" or if we lost a few games. People who do not judge him on this criteria do not understand his role and may as well be blaming him for the beer being shite
• City won the Treble having the best squad in the world with players inherently trusted by the manager. People talk about Nunes and Phillips and the like as if they were our July 1st signings. They were not. The quality needed to improve that squad was so high that there were only a few players in the world worth it such as a Rice or a Bellingham, both of which we were in for. They chose to go to other clubs. We chose to fill the gaps with players who had performed well in the Premier League and were admired by the manager instead of getting absolutely nobody.
• City are not a club with unlimited wealth and when people talk like this, they sound like Guardian writers. We made a £70-odd million profit this year. We sold £139m of players. We can't just go out and spend £500m every time we go on a bad run of form.
• People constantly hark on about the price of Nunes and Phillips and they're not been relative to the transfer market. Moussa Diaby cost £50m now. Romeo Lavia cost £55m. Mount cost £60m. Tonali cost £55m. Brennan Johnson cost £50m. The idea that a £50m player should buy you a truly world class player is about 10 years out of date. £50m gets you a decent midtable level player who could grow into something nice which is exactly what Nunes is proving to be.

Again, this man is in charge of every football department and not just transfers. The entire direction of the club is down to him and we're the country's most successful club during his tenure here. I honestly don't know what some of you lot are thinking.

 

[jrb]

Some important things to note here that have to be constantly pointed out:

• Txiki's job is not solely or even primarily about transfers. The Director of Football is essentially the head of the entire football operation over the medium to long term. That is how they are judged - if the club has been a success over the medium/long term and not whether they "had a good window" or if we lost a few games. People who do not judge him on this criteria do not understand his role and may as well be blaming him for the beer being shite
• City won the Treble having the best squad in the world with players inherently trusted by the manager. People talk about Nunes and Phillips and the like as if they were our July 1st signings. They were not. The quality needed to improve that squad was so high that there were only a few players in the world worth it such as a Rice or a Bellingham, both of which we were in for. They chose to go to other clubs. We chose to fill the gaps with players who had performed well in the Premier League and were admired by the manager instead of getting absolutely nobody.
• City are not a club with unlimited wealth and when people talk like this, they sound like Guardian writers. We made a £70-odd million profit this year. We sold £139m of players. We can't just go out and spend £500m every time we go on a bad run of form.
• People constantly hark on about the price of Nunes and Phillips and they're not been relative to the transfer market. Moussa Diaby cost £50m now. Romeo Lavia cost £55m. Mount cost £60m. Tonali cost £55m. Brennan Johnson cost £50m. The idea that a £50m player should buy you a truly world class player is about 10 years out of date. £50m gets you a decent midtable level player who could grow into something nice which is exactly what Nunes is proving to be.

Again, this man is in charge of every football department and not just transfers. The entire direction of the club is down to him and we're the country's most successful club during his tenure here. I honestly don't know what some of you lot are thinking.

Most of us are thinking why have the signings been so poor over the last 2 seasons.

In all honesty, and without continual scouting, performance data and analysis, etc, of players that they have at City, is there honestly anyone on BM that would have wanted and would have signed either Phillips and Nunes for a combined total of £100mill?

That aside. We have been desperate for a genuine and proper left back, for seasons. We have been desperate for a good enough defensive midfielder to cover for Rodri and to give him some rest, for seasons. We had £80mill+ from the sale of Alvarez, and instead of buying another striker to replace him, we banked the money and went into the new season with one striker, Haaland, who is struggling to score. Gid forbid if he gets injured as well. A PL club, Champions of England, without a singled recognised striker. That’s an impossible situation to be put in by a club as big and as wealthy as City are.

 

[B\connellblue]

Most of us are thinking why have the signings been so poor over the last 2 seasons.

In all honesty, and without continual scouting, performance data and analysis, etc, of players that they have at City, is there honestly anyone on BM that would have wanted and would have signed either Phillips and Nunes for a combined total of £100mill?

I doubt it.

 

[Damocles]

Most of us are thinking why have the signings been so poor over the last 2 seasons.

In all honesty, and without continual scouting of the players, performance data and analysis, etc, of a player thst they have at City, is there honestly anyone on BM that would have wanted and would have signed either Phillips and Nunes for a combined total of £100mill?

Again, £50m gets you a decent midtable player so that's a perfectly normal price. Phillips came directly from Pep after his hero recommended him.

When we originally signed Nunes, people were very excited and there was no talk of overpaying or anything

Welcome Matheus Nunes | Signing confirmed on a five-year deal

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But let's go with your logic and suggest that both of these things were mistakes. Since Txiki Begiristain joined, the club has gone from scraping into the CL qualifiers to the country's most dominant football club at every single level of football from the first team to the under 8s, and has won a packet load of trophies doing it while making a profit every year for the last 5 years or so. But two transfers cancel that?

 

[Stelea]

The players should already be here on January 1st. We can sign players whenever we want, we just have to wait until the registration windows is open before we can register them and use them in games. The need has been evident and obvious for some time, so there is no reason to why any potential targets would arrive late in the window.

With that said, if the last 2 years windows is anything to go by anything but a last minute panic buy would be a surprise. Txiki has been brilliant over the years but unfortunately it seems like he semi-retired when we won the treble. At least that what its seems like judging by his transfer business since then.

No doubt if we do sign anyone, it will be the last day of Jan