Txiki Begiristain

Psychedelic Casual said:
By the time he’ll be back from his current injury where he can’t play for 10 weeks at the moment, he will have missed 78 games in four years through injury.
Kane has missed 56 games in that timeframe n’all.

I don’t think we can afford to have players like this as they become unreliable.

As a comparison Lewandowski has missed 25 games through injury since the start of the 2013-14 season.
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True.
 
Alcatraz said:
City work as a team and it is clearly a collective responsibility, good or bad.
However, given his tub-thumping, I do think Kaldoon has some explaining to do
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He doesn’t need to explain anything. Just needs to stop saying things like “we’re going to shake up the world with our transfers” or whatever it is he says every year.
 
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Not getting Kane and Ronaldo in one week is a
masterstroke, in my opinion. All those clowns are now trying to pretend the rumours never happened.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
People act as if City are the only club ever looking to sign anyone and that it should be easy to land targets.

People act as if players are sold in a shop and have no ties to an actual football club they’re already contracted to.

People act as if we should just pay what other clubs want us to, even if it’s 70% again on top of what we should be paying.

People act as if football is about one season or one transfer window, but football goes on forever! So what if we have a season here or there without exactly what we need in a position? Kompany retired at short notice, that’s more his fault than City’s, it was a lot more out of the blue than we give our board credit for. But why does it matter that it was a full year later that we signed his replacement? New football seasons come round every Summer so it doesn’t matter that we have a season’s dip here or there because there will be seasons after that where we get it bang on and challenge for everything again.

People act as if there are dozens of options to replace Agüero and they’re all attainable. Let’s be honest, there’s a dearth of worldwide talent of strikers, and there are hardly any young prospects (it’s like the sport had forgotten how to bring through strikers!). Only really Kane Lewandowski Haaland Mbappe Messi and CRonaldo could replace Agüero. Everyone else would be a downgrade. Not many of them were really attainable:
Kane would have been a good option at £90m but there’s no way on Earth City should be paying £160m for him, City were absolutely right not to do that.
Why would Lewandowski leave Bayern at his age? He’s tempted reports by saying he might fancy a new challenge but that’s going nowhere.
Haaland isn’t going anywhere this Summer with his buy-out clause coming in next Summer.
Mbappe has said he doesn’t want to sign for us (and he’s not really a striker anyway).
Messi is a wanker who’s strung us along for years with fucking no intention at all of ever signing for us, just to bump his wages up at Barça.
Then there was CRonaldo where there was a faint possibility we could have got him but we didn’t really fancy him and never seriously went for it.

I think Lukaku is massively overrated, and wouldn’t suit our style of play at all. He’s not good good one and two touch passing in his game at all. This Summer has been like everyone has all of a sudden forgotten how poor he was at United and inconsistent he was at Everton. United fans said Martial was a miles better player than Lukaku and he’s bobbins!

So our options were very slim.

So it’s likely we won’t replace Agüero this Summer. There’s no point going for some chancer who we think will be the next Dias, just because Dias worked out. They could be the new Bianchi for all we know. So, just like the Kompany situation, we will have to take a year with no Agüero replacement. But football doesn’t end after this season, this isn’t our last ever chance to sign a striker, football carries on forever so we get another chance to have the squad we need in 2022-23. What’s the harm in that? We still might win everything this season anyway, we’ve got the squad to, striker or not!

So i don’t have a problem with Txiki at all. Especially as we walk away from negotiations where the selling club or player start taking the piss. That’s definitely the best thing to do.

One thing I will say though, is that Khaldoon should end the tub-thumping soundbites about signings in his end of season interviews.
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Great post.

It’s the clamour for instant gratification, buying the big name rather than slowly developing a talent. Over the last few years the club has gone out and bought the main man or close to it from many clubs - Grealish, Dias, Mahrez, de Bruyne and some who were close to it like Sterling, stones, Gundo, Walker, Laporte, Silva, sane. That’s pretty impressive. If we’re gonna question anything then question why our scouting network isn’t seemingly highlighting under the radar players with potential. And if they did, would we as a fanbase give them a chance to make mistakes and develop or would we slaughter them as our expectations are now so high we’ve lost all patience?
 
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