I'm more concerned about his strategy. It seems to have been sign everyone first, then start getting rid of the excess. That signals to the market that we're overstocked and therefore pretty desperate to sell, where then clubs toy with us. Add to that leaving it so late naturally leaves less clubs in the hunt, with money having dried up and squad numbers being firmer.
Wages may be a problem, most likely are a problem. I'm fine with stumping up big wages for real class like Silva or Aguero, you have to. It just seems we're paying far to much for middling, run of the mill talent. Our wages shouldn't need to be over the market with the manager we now have and the position the club is in.
Nobody can tell me that Joe Hart isn't worth at least what Bravo is, given he's 3-4 years younger and English - yet the best we can do is ship him off to Italy on loan. Ditto Nasri, Bony, Mangala. These are players that were well proven before they even came to us. I can't think of a club that has to resort to loaning out so many long established first team players like we do. Something's not right there.
I do think he's done a good job in getting the players in, albeit at not much more or less than market rate. He's pretty swift and efficient in that regard. He has also previously done well with the sales of Javi Garcia, Rodwell, and Negredo, when we thought he couldn't.
Not sure what's exactly gone wrong this time.
Well of course you should worry about whatever floats your boat, but for me, I would suggest that as a fan rather than an MCFC executive you are looking at things from the wrong end of the telescope.
We fans should be, IMO, mostly (totally) concerned about the players available to our manager to win the PL this year and far less (hardly at all IMO) obsessing about the departing staff apart from if one of 2 situations are occurring:
1/ that we are unable to sign incoming players before we shift existing players off the wage bill. Lots of clubs have this constraint but it has clearly not been an hindrance to us - we have had a tremendous window with regard to getting players in.
2/ That some other policy - perhaps financial management by Soriano - of the club means that Txiki, has to work within a certain budget ceiling meaning that he has had to choose 'lesser' players then his 1st choices - again this seems to have not been a problem - we may not have gone full tilt for Pogba, but I think that is by choice. Pep is getting the players he wants for the long term development and 'harmony' of the club rather than fixing short-term problems and making 'statements' like the scum have - all seems like great strategic management by Pep and Txiki
Also, I would say that - as a selfish CITY fan looking at this from a fan's perspective - I want the majority (all) of the DOF's attention to be on getting the right players in and not being distracted by touting players out. We are just so fucking lucky (IMO) that we have the owner and management that have delivered in this way - having completed securing the players Pep wanted, Txiki is now able to focus on getting players out having first done what we fans should be concerned about - even if, by being late in the window, it means that we have to carry e.g. YaYa's contract through to the end.
I mention YaYa specifically because he is a player that I do not see featuring for City and we have to take the financial hit and are just lucky that we can - on the other hand with Bony, I probably do not see him featuring but I can see circumstances where he might have value as a squad player - injuries and suspensions.
As I say - you need to worry about what works for you - but I personally can think of situations in the transfer window that have would have worried me a lot more - I think that we only have reasons to be cheerful
