Valencia in for Negredo?

[bigceeb]

Who are these 3 strikers everyone is banging on about? Dzeko sergio and who? Jovetic is not a striker. Not prolific enough. Him and sergio were riddled with injuries last season. This is worrying we have messed up

Got to agree with this. What if Dzeko gets injured? Who can challenge for headers or provide an alternative method to the side show we saw against a team who block the middle. Ally this to our obvious lack of width and we can only play one way. Fully understand letting Negredo go but but not without a replacement. Who do we have in reserve.? Guiedetti? possibly an unproven 18 year old nigerian in a month or two? It is not time to panic but we are unquestionably weakened as an attacking outfit. I do find it strange of management to leave it so late when negredo was always looking likely to leave. No chance of a replacement now unless we find some unwanted loan attacker llorente etc or a desperate measure such as other teams cast offs like defoe or borini. We do clearly appear one light now up top.

 

[117 M34]

Rag in work told me he's out for 4 months

I was told he also has personal problems :-)

Reason why he wasn't given the captaincy

I'm listening...

 

[Kladze]

I think we should get in Vaz Te as replacement. Much cheaper than Falcao would have been and can play out wide as well as up front.

Haha.



No.

 

[johnmc]

Not sure I believe the knee surgery comments

He's playing. he played in he World Cup. More likely is that they try and see his knee through. There are loads of players at his age who have to manage injuries.

Who played in the World Cup?

 

[CC1]

Who says the bosses are happy about it? They might be saying the exact same thing as a lot of us are but find themselves in a situation that's too advanced and we find ourselves without the time to rectify it. There could be a meeting between Pellegrini Begiristain Soriano and al Mubarak next week and they might all agree that this was a negative thing and we hope we don't regret it. People make mistakes all the time in work, maybe City have here.

Maybe we won't regret it and Kun and Jovetić stay fit all season and Džeko doesn't go into one of his low in confidence slumps. But it's a maybe going off previous examples.

Might .... could.....might.......maybe........maybe........maybe

A born pessimist. We did our big spending over the last 3 years. We are now tweaking our squad and PLANNING our buys NOT panic buying. We can't just buy players because they are available - nor can we stop other teams including the scum, from trying to improve their squad. But it doesn't lessen the quality we already have in our squad!!!!

Losing Negredo without a replacement does weaken our squad though.

If you think otherwise then you obviously don't think much of his work prior to the shoulder injury.

I was saying how important Dzeko was when many others were saying he should go and was last in the pecking order.

Now most are saying he is key because the jury is out on the Kun , Jovetic partnership and their soft tissue record.

I am positive getting rid of Negredo will be a big mistake for us this season at least.

He turned Hull from a point to three and he would have done likewise against Stoke if fit.

When Navas is in the team you have to start either Dzeko or Negredo , its a no brainer.

Stoke won't be the last side that bank four on four on our patch and Jovetic and Kun aint the answer to get us in front and keep it that way.

But he can't play until October & probably won't be match fit till Nov. this gets us a tidy sum - we can push Yaya up & promote a youth player

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Not sure I believe the knee surgery comments

He's playing. he played in he World Cup. More likely is that they try and see his knee through. There are loads of players at his age who have to manage injuries.

Don't think he's looked himself for past 6months though! Although he has been in a shit team!

 

[CC1]

Who says the bosses are happy about it? They might be saying the exact same thing as a lot of us are but find themselves in a situation that's too advanced and we find ourselves without the time to rectify it. There could be a meeting between Pellegrini Begiristain Soriano and al Mubarak next week and they might all agree that this was a negative thing and we hope we don't regret it. People make mistakes all the time in work, maybe City have here.

Maybe we won't regret it and Kun and Jovetić stay fit all season and Džeko doesn't go into one of his low in confidence slumps. But it's a maybe going off previous examples.

Might .... could.....might.......maybe........maybe........maybe

A born pessimist. We did our big spending over the last 3 years. We are now tweaking our squad and PLANNING our buys NOT panic buying. We can't just buy players because they are available - nor can we stop other teams including the scum, from trying to improve their squad. But it doesn't lessen the quality we already have in our squad!!!!

Losing Negredo without a replacement does weaken our squad though.

If you think otherwise then you obviously don't think much of his work prior to the shoulder injury.

I was saying how important Dzeko was when many others were saying he should go and was last in the pecking order.

Now most are saying he is key because the jury is out on the Kun , Jovetic partnership and their soft tissue record.

I am positive getting rid of Negredo will be a big mistake for us this season at least.

He turned Hull from a point to three and he would have done likewise against Stoke if fit.

When Navas is in the team you have to start either Dzeko or Negredo , its a no brainer.

Stoke won't be the last side that bank four on four on our patch and Jovetic and Kun aint the answer to get us in front and keep it that way.

But he can't play until October & probably won't be match fit till Nov. this gets us a tidy sum - we can push Yaya up & promote a youth player

 

[aguerooooo]

We need another Robinho moment on SSN anything just to stfu about the Falcao love in

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Guidetti won't be providing back up I see. Off to Celtic......

 

[MihaiCity]

How is it toys our the pram? We're not complaining cos we didn't sign Messi we're complaining because the geniuses in charge thought it would be a good idea to severely weaken our attack and not get a replacement in.

Severely????? are you on a mission tonight or what??? ok he scored 23 goals but since January he scored 0 and was average..and btw from that 23 goals only 9 we're in PL and we scored over 100 in it....

Yes but he also can give the other attackers a rest when he plays you plank. With just 3 strikers if one goes down the other 2 will need to play 2-3 games a week for the next few months and will get burnt out and that could lead to them getting an injury leaving us with just one fit striker. And He scored a lot of cup goals for us and was our second highest scorer in the Champions League as well.

i didn't said nothing bag about till now you clown..

 

[Bill]

if the beast goes without a replacement you can kiss goodbye to retaining the title.

 

[Blue Hefner]

if we let negredo go, we will need another player in or it could go tits up

I completely agree with you but I can't see us getting anyone.

We've not been linked with anyone, the people that matter said we weren't going to buy anyone else and there are 2hrs 30mims left. There doesn't appear a desire to buy anyone and even if there was I don't think there is enough time.

I'm going to be very nervous every time Aguero goes down!

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

if we let negredo go, we will need another player in or it could go tits up

I completely agree with you but I can't see us getting anyone.

We've not been linked with anyone, the people that matter said we weren't going to buy anyone else and there are 2hrs 30mims left. There doesn't appear a desire to buy anyone and even if there was I don't think there is enough time.

I'm going to be very nervous every time Aguero goes down!

The powers that be also said Negredo wouldn't be leaving

 

[Kladze]

if the beast goes without a replacement you can kiss goodbye to retaining the title.

Pretty much this.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

if the beast goes without a replacement you can kiss goodbye to retaining the title.

I'm afraid you may be right. Can't believe what txiki has pulled off on the last day of the window.

 

[RandomJ]

Just 2 and a half hours left. Keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't go through on time.

 

[Jimfv1]

For crying out loud, He's injured, then has to get match fit, and as has been said already he wasn't a prolific scorer in the league either. Whether his Mrs is homesick or she wants to be back in Spain because he has been having an affair over here doesn't really matter to us, but it's probably better to let him leave if the deal is right in money terms for the club.

If Iheanacho can get a permit then he could be added to the striking roster. Jovetic was missing last season but he can replace Negredo this season. Last year we had Jovetic, Aguero and even Negredo out or unfit for long spells, so with the other strengthening we have done we have a better squad than last year. Silva played as a supporting striker last year in the occasional game and Both Nasri and Toure can be pushed further forward to support a striker. We don't have any problems in letting Negredo go.

There is also the issue with the squad size, we cannot bring anyone in except for homegrown players for the league squad, Negredo was also looking at missing out on the Champions League games too.

Some supporters need to realise that to improve the squad we will need to move on some favourites and it's no use moaning about this player or that player going and acting like spoilt brats. If it's Negredo now, it could be Toure, Dzeko or Nasri next window. Signing new contracts doesn't mean the player will see the term out, it just means we can get a fee if they leave early. As long as the club bring in players to replace those that leave then we as fans should be happy with the direction the club are taking.

Where is Negredo in the current pecking order for City ? If he's 4th choice then there is no problem in bringing in a better player to replace him when one becomes available.

 

[TonyM]

IMO we could do with 2 things more than a striker....cover for central midfield and pace in attack. I'd have been happy if Zuccilini stayed for cover, or Evans even. As for pace, no idea. Maybe one of he kids are due to be promoted.

As it stands we are short. But then again we are City and it was weird being perfect. ;-)

 

[sam-caddick]

Just 2 and a half hours left. Keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't go through on time.

Pointless keeping an unhappy player though and the money is decent.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

if the beast goes without a replacement you can kiss goodbye to retaining the title.

I fail to see the logic in it at all. Yes he may be homesick and if he can't settle then so be it move him on,
But it has been well documented that this has been the case for a while. I had hoped for another striker but nothing will happen. Concerning.