He's not done too bad so far. We've won the PL 3 out of the last 4 seasons. We probably have the best squad in the PL but we do have a a few gaps. If we don't get a striker in this window it does seem like a bit of a fuck up to me, if I'm honest, but it's not insurmountable & I'm sure we will find a way out of it. I'm glad we didn't pay £150m for Kane & I didn't want us to sign Ronaldo (the thread was brilliant though). There's no point signing someone for the sake of it but you would hope that the team would have a list of potential players as contingency. For all we know that might be the case, it's clear that about 99% of the people claiming to know what is going on behind the scenes with the transfers don't have a clue and report absolute bullshit. If the right players aren't available then it's probably better to wait than blow money on the wrong ones.
Anyone thinking the rags are better at signing players, ask yourselves what they have won recently and then look at what they have spent & their wage bill. I know who I would rather have signing the players.
To be fair what you’ve mentioned is more to do with the genius of Pep & his back room staff than Txiki.
He of course was instrumental in getting Pep here but as for signing players his approach isn’t ruthless enough to cut it with the big boys.
All those so called ‘dodged bullets’ with Sanchez, Fred or Jorginho is crap as we all know full well if those players were coached by Pep they would reach higher levels but we’ll never really know their potential since Txiki & board didn’t close the deals. He may not personally be closing these deals but ultimately it falls under his responsibility & directorship.
Not suggesting Txiki should go but he should surely look at the success rate of completing signings to targets & assume something must change in either their approach or possibly a change of staff that deal with the negotiations.
Unless it’s a release clause we simply don’t seem to have a good team who close deals.
If Pep requests a striker then it’s your job to go & get a striker, just like its Pep’s job to win games & trophies.
Whilst I wasn’t a fan of the Ronaldo option it was amateur hr to think if you don’t close the deal by the Thursday with all a player who has close United connections the risk analysis by the next day will have a very different landscape to what was presented to you the previous day. As soon as that window was available you just knew we would get guzumped. Of course, if we really weren’t in for him then we should have stated this much earlier on which would have helped us PR wise.
The Kane saga I think all fans saw as predictable as when has Levy ever made negotiation straight forward. Should have walked away weeks ago & bizarre the board put all their eggs in one basket - who does that in business.
Don’t get me started on the handling of the Mendy situation - why oh why would you continue to play him & include him in media promos & content when the club were aware of these incidents beforehand. Txiki & the board should have drawn a line with Mendy knowing full well this would get out. Surely, at the very least you would keep him as a low profile before this built up in the CPS charging him. Absolute PR nightmare.
Txiki needs to have a shakeup on how things are run off the field because you can’t keep on relying on Pep & the back room staff to create magic on the field as other competitors who strengthen will eventually catch up with us.
