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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Who?There were posters calling Jesus and Zinchenko 'world class' in the ENIC thread...Jusayin
2 things can be true.
1. People have claimed Zinchenko and Jesus to be ambitious and our model is very similar to how they built their squad even though fans love to hate us for it now and praise them,
2. When this squad gets to the phase of the cycle when it can really challenge, nobody has any trust Levy to sanction the 100m plus 200kpw wages on the player to push us over the edge. And they have good reason not to trust him to do it because he’s never done it.
But at the end of the day, the wage room has been cleared this summer and the space in the squad is very obviously being prepared for it to reach that phase of the cycle and there is no fucking point perpetually moaning about it not happening in the past or talking down and hating on every signing we make until we get to that point.
It’s most likely next summer when Werner’s loan expires and some veterans in our squad reach decision time in their contract lengths. Can we not just enjoy the ride until we get there? Football is meant to be fun. And if it’s not what’s the fucking point?
Arteta hasn't won a single thing with the squad he built.
Mate just do a search in the ENIC thread and type in Zinchenko in the search field, can't remember who it was but I remember the debate in there.
You're cooking lately, what happened to you?
Agree with this mate - like the change in attitude.
I'd enjoy it a lot more if I was paying a season ticket price that is somewhere around out league position Vs other clubs.
Maybe this should become a worldwide football rule whereby clubs have to alter season ticket prices based on last seasons league position.
They don't have to play 50+ games...
Even with deep cup runs we'll get to roughly 50 games.
And if you think Udogie and VDV will play in early stage cup games and majority of Europa League games then you are way off.
We still would need to improve STARTING XI before thinking about rotation options (which - as you pointed out, to some extent we have).
Disagree wholeheartedly, in the Redknapp, Mourinho and Conte eras we definitely switched towards buying older, more established players. How else do you think we ended up with one of the higher average ages by the time they were all done?
There’s been been 3 significant shifts towards youth, early Martin Jol, early Pochettino and now.
I disagree it's not just about rest and recovery it's about competition as well , Udogie needs someone to legit threaten his spot, that's generally how some players improve because they know they can rest on their laurels.
I don't have any problem with the "buy young" approach!
But IF you choose that path, you need to have one of the strongest scouting departments there is.
And we haven't had that for the last 20 years, so therefor we have failed.
...only cos they got £60-65m off us to spend with!
...yeah, cos that's just what Man City need is even MORE revenue and money coming in!
Haven't you learned anything from last season? Look at how we struggled without Udogie and VDV
All of your hard work is beginning to bear fruit
In 5 to 10 years time all young people will be wearing ShadyDan shirts
The amount of time you spend here complaining, some may think you'd also learnt a thing or two about football. Maybe move on from the "proven winner" shit. You'd happily have taken Varane over Van de Ven. Guess what, we do buy quality players. Romero, Van de Ven and Udogie are brilliant.
Do you think Man City have a decent team? They don't buy scraps from Barca, Real or Bayern. Some of their legends are David Silva, Bernardo Silva and De Bruyne brought in from Valencia, Monaco and Wolfsburg. The one time they went for the big name, Haaland, is was just little Dortmund. Where's City's fucking ambition?
I agree with you, there were times we went for more experienced players, but I think that was more as a supplement to our but young potential strategy as opposed to actually changing it.
However in classic ENIC fashion, we did a half arsed effort of that too and only got older experienced players that we could get a cheap deal or were way way past their best.