Kane was never that good at Delap's age. I'm all for Delap being given a chance for no more reason than I'm sick of City doing this perennial mating dance every summer as we try and fail to get supposedly wonderful players to join our fold when they are probably no better that what we have already. It really is the epitome of grass greener fallacy.
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Kane was never that good at Delap's age. I'm all for Delap being given a chance for no more reason than I'm sick of City doing this perennial mating dance every summer as we try and fail to get supposedly wonderful players to join our fold when they are probably no better that what we have already. It really is the epitome of grass greener fallacy.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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That particular dance must have passed me by. Which year (or every year) have we tried, and failed, to woo these players?Kane was never that good at Delap's age. I'm all for Delap being given a chance for no more reason than I'm sick of City doing this perennial mating dance every summer as we try and fail to get supposedly wonderful players to join our fold when they are probably no better that what we have already. It really is the epitome of grass greener fallacy.
Would love Delap to be ready and he could become very, very good. However, in his few first team moments my three takeaways were that one, he can finish. Two, he's ready physically. Three, his first touch isn't good enough yet - the ball tended to bounce of him.
From what I gather there could also be issues with retaliation etc possibly.
It would be good if he developed away from City and came back closer to ready. Kane wasn't great at his age and Delap may only need 1 season on loan hopefully before being integrated to the first team.
From what I gather there could also be issues with retaliation etc possibly.
It would be good if he developed away from City and came back closer to ready. Kane wasn't great at his age and Delap may only need 1 season on loan hopefully before being integrated to the first team.
Err? How about Messi? How about Sanchez? How about Hazard? How about Van Persie? How about Rooney even? That's just 5 in a split second that we spent literally months trying to convince to come but never did and in the meantime we have pissed off young players likes Sancho who left due to his perceived lack of opportunity.That particular dance must have passed me by. Which year (or every year) have we tried, and failed, to woo these players?
Uncle Wally One Ball
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If you believe, really genuinely believe, that we chased them then youre smoking crackErr? How about Messi? How about Sanchez? How about Hazard? How about Van Persie? How about Rooney even? That's just 5 in a split second that we spent literally months trying to convince to come but never did and in the meantime we have pissed off young players likes Sancho who left due to his perceived lack of opportunity.
are you even serious?If you believe, really genuinely believe, that we chased them then youre smoking crack
A lot of what you are saying is true. However, a lot of guys that we wanted rid of were the likes of Stones Zinchenko , Gundogan who all ended up with a great season. The ones who were the supposed top dogs like Laporte, Bernardo and Aguero had only a so-so season.No, others are strengthening and you need new blood to keep current players on their toes.
There were signs of complacency last season, lets not forget we only had 6 great months.
If not for that truly remarkable turnaround in form, Txiki and co would probably be busy revamping the squad right now like PSG.
It is very hard to improve on our team.Obviously the top players in the world will, the Mbappes, Lewandowski, Kanes and Haalands.
Any top premier league rival can buy at most 2 top players.
If Haaland stays where he is I am confident we can perform similarly to last year and win a few trophies with little investment.
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I'll stick with what Khaldoon said, in that we will be buying a replacement for Sergio.
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...or believing th's bullshitIf you believe, really genuinely believe, that we chased them then youre smoking crack
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As our front 3 assuming we just get Grealish?
Could we win the league with that?
not forgetting Sterling of course!
would be my preferred option.
of course when Delap misses a few chances he would get slaughtered on here.