Txiki Begiristain

He’s signed some great players and brought in the world best manager so there’s credit due

However there are definitely major issues, he’s a director of football so he has an over arching responsibility for the squad some if the decision making is bordering on the bizarre.

The left back thing is actually negligent, in his time here he’s only signed 1 and he’s blown his knee out before he got settled in the team.

Pretty much every summer we go in to the season short in 1 or 2 positions and it bites us straight away, Delph becoming a left back saved us in Peps first title

This year it’s up top, and left back again.

Ederson, Sane, De Bruyne, Walker, Laporte, Sterling, Otamendi, KDB, Bernardo, Fernandinho have all been key players peforming at a high level in title winning teams


However the below signings, if we are honest were never good enough for where we want to be:

Mahrez
Rodri
Nolito
Bravo
Cabalerro
Mangala
Demechellis
Danilo
Bony
Jovetic
Fernando
 
Del_Bosque said:
He’s signed some great players and brought in the world best manager so there’s credit due

However there are definitely major issues, he’s a director of football so he has an over arching responsibility for the squad some if the decision making is bordering on the bizarre.

The left back thing is actually negligent, in his time here he’s only signed 1 and he’s blown his knee out before he got settled in the team.

Pretty much every summer we go in to the season short in 1 or 2 positions and it bites us straight away, Delph becoming a left back saved us in Peps first title

This year it’s up top, and left back again.

Ederson, Sane, De Bruyne, Walker, Laporte, Sterling, Otamendi, KDB, Bernardo, Fernandinho have all been key players peforming at a high level in title winning teams


However the below signings, if we are honest were never good enough for where we want to be:

Mahrez
Rodri
Nolito
Bravo
Cabalerro
Mangala
Demechellis
Danilo
Bony
Jovetic
Fernando
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Strange names in there.Demichelis was a great signing, although stayed a season to long instead of giving Denayer a chance. We could do with a few more of those cheap squad player type signings.

Won trophies with both Willy and Bravo. Got our money back with Nolito.

Jovetic was wonderful football just crocked. Danilo was decent arguably more reliable than Cancelo. Rodri needs another a season to be assessed.

Mangala and Bony were ridiculous signings. I quite liked Fernando at Porto but he had a bit of shocker here.
 
MODBlue said:
Garry Cook signings made for Manchester City

2008-09 Season he signed: Jo, Tal Ben-Haim, Vincent Kompany, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Pablo Zabaleta, Glauber Berti, Robinho, Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy, Nigel de Jong, Shay Given

2009-10 Season he signed: Gareth Barry, Roque Santa-Cruz, Stuart Taylor, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, Sylvinho, Joleon Lescott, Patrick Vieira, Adam Johnson

2010-11 Season he signed: Jerome Boateng, Yaya Toure, David Silva, James Milner, Aleksander Kolarov, Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko

2011-12 Season he signed: Gael Clichy, Samir Nasri, Sergio Aguero, Stefan Savic, Owen Hargreaves, Costel Pantilimon

Winter 2011 and Season 2012-13 Players signed were recruited by Brian Marwood as acting DoF, as Garry Cook left in September 2011

Txiki Begiristain signings made for Manchester City

2013-14 Season he signed: Fernandinho, Jesus Navas, Alvaro Negredo, Stefan Jovetic, Martin Demichelis

2014-15 Season he signed: Eliaquim Mangala, Wilfried Bony, Wily Caballero, Fernando, Bruno Zucculini, Frank Lampard, Bacary Sagna

2015-16 Season he signed: Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne, Fabian Delph, Nicholas Otamendi, Enes Unal, Patrick Roberts, Anthony Caceres, Reuben Sobrino, Florian LeJuene

2016-17 Season he signed: John Stones, Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus, Ilkay Gundogan, Claudio Bravo, Nolito, Marlos Moreno, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Pablo Mari, Aaron Mooy, Yangel Herrera, Geronimo Rulli

2017-18 Season he signed: Aymeric Laporte, Benjamin Mendy, Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Kyle Walker, Danilo, Douglas Luiz, Jack Harrison, Olaweyenju Kayode

2018-19 Season he signed: Riyad Mahrez, Ante Palaversa, Phillippe Sandler, Ko Itakure, Daniel Arzani,

2019-20 Season he signed: Joao Cancelo, Rodri, Angelino, Pedro Porro, Zack Steffen, Scott Carson, Ryotaro Meshino

2020-21 Season he signed: Nathan Ake, Ferran Torres, Reuben Dias, Yan Couto, Pablo Moreno, Nahuel Bustos, Issa Kabore

I would have boldend out the first 3 of this seasons signings, but it is too early to tell yet whether or not they have been good signings or not, the others have had time to establish that question.

Players in Bold are good signings IMO made by the club at the time they made them, or did well for what we signed them for, those in none-bold are bad/irrelevant and poor signings IMO for a wide range of reasons, lack of football skills, injury prone, too much spent, signed and never played much etc

But THAT is a full breakdown of ALL signings we made that cost money to purchase (first team or then loaned out) or were free signings made for the first team only.
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Harsh on Delph, was a big part of the centurions season at LB
 
There is an elephant in the room here, being the level of investment. The FFP restrictions were lifted this summer because of Covid, hence Chelsea really went for it. There was no reason why we couldn’t do the same, new LB and top draw striker which we clearly needed, if the owner was prepared to bank roll it, he didn’t. No complaints, it is his money, but Txixi can only work with the budget he has.
 
Whether or not said:
There is an elephant in the room here, being the level of investment. The FFP restrictions were lifted this summer because of Covid, hence Chelsea really went for it. There was no reason why we couldn’t do the same, new LB and top draw striker which we clearly needed, if the owner was prepared to bank roll it, he didn’t. No complaints, it is his money, but Txixi can only work with the budget he has.
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Chelsea 'really went for it' because they were banned from signing anyone so hadn't spent anything in the previous windows
 
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Fair point, but the FFP strictures did not apply in the window just closed, so they were able to do it.
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I don’t know for sure but I don’t think FFP was abolished completely this window was it?
Think they were slightly relaxed but can’t remember reading there was Carte Blanche to spend what you wanted.
 
citizen_maine said:
with reduced income from Covid
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Absolutely and as I said originally it is not a criticism of the owner. The point was that when Txixi gets criticised, it is often from the perspective that he is coming up short with a limitless budget, the general press view, whereas be it either FFP usually, Covid or a more conservative level of investment, he is limited to a budget.
 
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