BillyShears said:
So, some interesting discussions going on in the transfer forum about what exactly is going through the minds of the powers that be at City.
For the first time in decades we come into the new year realistically in the hunt for the title - and yet other than Dzeko we have failed to strengthen our squad. What's worse, we have weakened it significantly. Notwithstanding the Balo/AJ injury situations, even prior to that we were lacking creative options in midfield, a pacy winger, a well rounded box to box midfield player who doesn't have the turning circle of a Stagecoach Bus, and potentially a right back who can actually has the attributes to play the way Roberto wants...
Is this a fuck up of epic proportions - and are we going to battle for 4th in a repeat of last season - or are we flapping about nothing and is the squad strong enough even with the loss of AJ to sustain ourselves in 3rd ahead of Chelsea and Spurs...?
How is AJ getting injured 3 days before deadline day a fuck up? We may have the money but we can't afford to buy all these players, the FFP rules have seen us have to restrain ourselves.
Yaya is our Box to Box, i don't know anyone else better who is attainable within the next 4 hours and why would we want someone to replace him when there is Milner,Barry all capable of playing in that position.
We don't lack creative options we have Silva who is the best in the world at opening up play, just because we lacked it at County on the shittest pitch in history doesn't mean we lack creative options. You can't just chuck in a winger or a random central midfielder and suddenly we are scoring 6 a game.
Christ lets just bid 80 million for Bale, 60 Million for Messi, steal Torres with a cheeky 99.9 Million bid and get it over with. It does not work that way anymore after the amount we have spent already we can't afford to spend ridiculous money for the sake of a squad player.
There is no attainable players available right now that we can fill those positions period. Mancini has gone for squad type players like Boateng who can play in a variety of positions and it's been made obvious with the contributions of Zabs, Yaya, Milner all starting constantly but have played in various positions this season. So position wise we are OK across the park, Balo is due back around derby time so provides another option so we are fine.
As for anything else, it's far too late in the day now and tbh we have a decent squad providing half of them can step up, players like SWP if they want a transfer need to sell themselves. Unless we pickup a player like Ashley Young who I think is better than AJ in terms of what we need anyway i can't see any movement as far as we are concerned this evening. Otherwise though we need to look to the summer for possibly the last big signing someone like Robben or similar down the right/left.
