Staff leaving, Jose publicly fighting with the board, Jose and the board disagreeing on Martial, Pogba apparently telling the board he wants to leave at the end of the season, a complete lack of transfer funding all of a sudden.
Ribalta has left. Most of the rest of what you just said seems to be supposition at best.
It is big budget. I was referring more to the ability of these clubs to just go out and be crazy in a single summer but yeah, thats also because a Guardiola has targeted young players and got the best out of them seeing these assets rise exponentially in value while Mourinho wants us to go big on 29yr olds
No white text? What a load of crap based on nothing
Are we not in a thread called 'Board v. Jose'? Isn't this where we're supposed to discuss these rumours?
It helps when the older players you already have in your squad are Kompany, Aguero, Silva, Fernandinho...
He must have sanctioned Fellaini's new contract tough ?
We can discuss rumours but what's the point of making it sound worse than it is? Staff leaving? Some guy that no one gives a shite about decided to accept a promotion at other club and earn more money, so what? Jose publicly fighting with the board? Have I missed something? Saying something along the lines of "I have no idea how many players will we sign" or "You don't always get what you want" is far from fighting, just usual comments from any manager to put a bit of pressure on the board to deliver.
That didn’t really cost us much? Fellaini is here for two more years, it’s not like we signed him for 40 million on a 5 year contract.
By the time he leaves we'll have paid him over £40m on a 7 year contract. Bargain
Fellaini is not a problem for the next manager.
The middle 2, absolutely.
Compared to Rooney, Carrick, Schweinsteiger... I think I’ve made my point.
Not even if Jose quits next week ?
No. Like I said it was not that expensive to keep him on and he is only here for 2 years.
Yes I absolutely agree with that. Our board has backed all the manager's post SAF none of whom have done a great job. Can't blame them for being skeptical. Jose has spent tons of money and he's not got all that much out of the players he has signed.
You made a point, yes but if that's the reason you think City are where they are and we are where we are, good for you.
Its well premature to go down such a negative rabbit hole. If the window closes and we don't get any more players, then proceed to start poorly, then there may be something to it. But not before.
It’s not as simple as that, no. I was responding to your original point on signing younger players.
Desperation. And lack of vision.
We will have to agree to disagree on Fellaini mate, there is a time for every player to move on, (we kept Rooney for two years too long), it's not about cost it's about development and squad places.
At the current rate Fellaini would have left and we wouldn’t have even replaced him. Fellaini should be the least of everyones worries.
But even then Jose prefers smalling and jones to bailly and lindelof which is a concern. Let us not forget this is the same Jose who has publicly begged Fellaini to sign the contract. Woodward is a strange character but Jose has also made some questionable decisions.
When?
I agree with this. We have a full squad even it lacks the ideal structure. Mhki didn't work and Sanchez is a world class player so even if not a position we needed you don't miss a chance to swap a useless player for one very useful.
It was subtle! He said expect Valencia to be injured more, there were signs last year. Or put another way, older players are more injury prone so maybe we should replace, but I guess that is partly what Dalot is.
His post match comments after Earthquakes match. He’s saying that Valencia will probably get hurt again which is a veiled dig saying he’s being overplayed because there is no suitable back-up or starter at RB
Even if it was £200m, the board might not be happy with more old signings who have no ongoing value. Older signings just need replacements within a few years and means your squad broadly stays still. You need the right price or right age to balance this.
Haha. I mean after that particular press conference that was held on the 1st of July and attracted a global audience of 2 billion people.
Under Mourinho we have been a good balance between age of signings. We sign enough players in good age, so the other side of balance is needed
Well it's too late for this season anyway. They should have considered all those things before they gave him the extension. That extension and any subsequent pay out from that is the problem I believe. It makes Ed look incompetent - and the Glazers being tight arses wouldn't want to make a pay off and then pay for another new manager at that point.
If this were the case (and I’m sure it was) I wonder why an alternative to Perišić wasn’t bought. Jose tantrum (if you can’t get him, then don’t bother), or the board thinking they’d bought enough players already. If the latter, the kicking in the nuts started last summer.
