The January window brings out the absolute worst in the squealers though.
They ignore the facts that almost nobody of note gets transferred in January. If it wasn’t for City reaching Semenyo’s release clause and Guehi running out of contract then pretty much there would be nothing to talk about. Other teams transfers has progressed about five pages during this window and stars Oscar Bobb!
They ignore the fact that something like 16 EPL clubs have done fuck all.
They ignore the fact that we’ve been, for good and bad, one of if not the most active clubs in the January market over the last five years. Let’s demand we pay another £45m for a guy who cost £8m in summer and spend hundreds of pages describing him as an £8m player.
They ignore the net spend over the last five years (albeit mostly wasted). We were actually far better as a ‘cheap’ club than we are now.
They ignore the utter dearth of available talent in January because they made a deal on FM.
They want us to try for every player (including the most ludicrous suggestions) yet berate the club if they fail (although, of course, for the most part we don’t know if the club did actually try or not).
They refuse to accept that players have agency. Evidently, London is a significant pull to get players here but not a pull in terms of keeping players that we no longer want.
They don’t want to buy players from lower- level clubs and don’t want top-level teams’s cast-offs…. Leaving who exactly?
‘Just open your wallets, you cunts