jimharri
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12 hours in, and no one signed yet. The board are useless. I imagine that Rashford and Zirkzee will be available for peanuts. Get it done Txiki.
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Who joins us in January?
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And some players make a mark straight away (Van Dijk/Laporte/Fernandes/Dias). No hard and fast rule to it. Also different with players who are already in and know the league…Salah and De Bruyne joined Chelsea mid season but both failed to make a mark at Chelsea. The situation we have is we expect players to hit the ground running which is near enough impossible at this stage of the season. Any player worth his salt would bide their time.
To do nothing would be suicidal…
Compared to no one yes they would. We cannot go on any longer without oneA bit of an stretch to expect a League 1 DM to really improve us. Kalvin was meant to be the one who could help usbut he really struggled to make a mark at City.
chesterbells
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Re that last para mate, surely we’ve become Exit Clause FC to allow for any player/agent concerns over the outcome of the case. I would have thought that would be a fairly easy workaround for that potential issue.We’ve known our problems and who we need since January 2023 in the FA Cup game against Arsenal when Lewis played right back and didn’t look great defensively either through lack of defensive quality as a player, being too young or a mixture of both. Then with Walker starting to be inconsistent as he’s aged and him being out of the team a fair bit in the treble run-in that season (I think he recognised this as well which is why he wanted to leave).
Then from September 2023 when Rodri got sent off and we lost every game without him when De Bruyne was also missing through injury. They’re our best two players and we need much better quality players to step in when they’re not there. Remember when we had these midfield options: Fernandinho Rodri Gündoğan DSilva BSilva DeBruyne Foden mostly all in their prime or, in the case with the over30s at that time, all playing as well with few injury worries as they were in their prime?! Thats the greatest collection of midfielders, probably of all-time in the sport.
And not only not learning from that but then putting the same pressure on another area of the pitch with Álvarez and Delap leaving and not signing a replacement, leaving us with one sole striker in the entire squad.
Plus when you look at the low quality - to what’s really required at the very top level - of some of the players we have signed over the last few years…
Thankfully, we’ve got more right than we’ve got wrong over the years since the takeover. But fuck me, this has been a poor last few years in strategy and quality.
Whether that’s due to lack of operating profit and worrying about FFP+PSR, whether that’s worrying about what might come in terms of a fine from the PL115/130 case, or whether the PL115/130 case is stopping players from wanting to sign for us while that’s hanging over our head (I wouldn’t go and change jobs to a company that had charges hanging over them)… whatever might be the cause, I do think the time is right for Begiristain to be leaving.
Protein Junkie
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I’ll take the peanuts if there’s a choice in it.12 hours in, and no one signed yet. The board are useless. I imagine that Rashford and Zirkzee will be available for peanuts. Get it done Txiki.
Great post. I don't know how anyone can disagree with your points. How we have gone from being so well run over years and years, to totally losing the plot over the last 2 years would be great to understand.We’ve known our problems and who we need since January 2023 in the FA Cup game against Arsenal when Lewis played right back and didn’t look great defensively either through lack of defensive quality as a player, being too young or a mixture of both. Then with Walker starting to be inconsistent as he’s aged and him being out of the team a fair bit in the treble run-in that season (I think he recognised this as well which is why he wanted to leave).
Then from September 2023 when Rodri got sent off and we lost every game without him when De Bruyne was also missing through injury. They’re our best two players and we need much better quality players to step in when they’re not there. Remember when we had these midfield options: Fernandinho Rodri Gündoğan DSilva BSilva DeBruyne Foden mostly all in their prime or, in the case with the over30s at that time, all playing as well with few injury worries as they were in their prime?! Thats the greatest collection of midfielders, probably of all-time in the sport.
And not only not learning from that but then putting the same pressure on another area of the pitch with Álvarez and Delap leaving and not signing a replacement, leaving us with one sole striker in the entire squad.
Plus when you look at the low quality - to what’s really required at the very top level - of some of the players we have signed over the last few years…
Thankfully, we’ve got more right than we’ve got wrong over the years since the takeover. But fuck me, this has been a poor last few years in strategy and quality.
Whether that’s due to lack of operating profit and worrying about FFP+PSR, whether that’s worrying about what might come in terms of a fine from the PL115/130 case, or whether the PL115/130 case is stopping players from wanting to sign for us while that’s hanging over our head (I wouldn’t go and change jobs to a company that had charges hanging over them)… whatever might be the cause, I do think the time is right for Begiristain to be leaving.
The spectre of the charges hanging over us may well have had an impact you would suspect.
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Plenty of cover to make the tranisition into the Premier League a lot smoother and with van Dijk it didn't make much difference to their league standing or winning anything that season and similar to Laporte he was meant to be signed in the previous summer.And some players make a mark straight away (Van Dijk/Laporte/Fernandes/Dias). No hard and fast rule to it. Also different with players who are already in and know the league…
To do nothing would be suicidal…
No need to rush in January.Compared to no one yes they would. We cannot go on any longer without one
Scaring Europe to Death
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I keep reading posts about no value in the January window, but our worst deals were conducted during previous Summer windows when we had plenty of time to scout and negotiate.
We're currently drifting with ageing legends and recurring injuries so unless the club are comfortable with biding their time and safe in the knowledge that a season without European football wouldn't be too much of a problem (quite possible) then we need a huge injection of pace and energy.
Even a couple of pacy full/wing backs from the Championship would improve us.
We're currently drifting with ageing legends and recurring injuries so unless the club are comfortable with biding their time and safe in the knowledge that a season without European football wouldn't be too much of a problem (quite possible) then we need a huge injection of pace and energy.
Even a couple of pacy full/wing backs from the Championship would improve us.
eyalluvitt
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Him and Laporte were top January signingsMy fave January signing has to be Dzeko