But we don’t even have a RW, that’s precisely the problem. There were loads of options at the beginning of the summer but once again we chase a lost cause for too long in Bale, then all the ‘good’ options were already gone.
Your mind is open. Using a stereotype of a city to try make yourself look funny on a public forum. Well done la.
+Andy Pereira
Bailly2.0 Rashford 2.0 and Pogba 3.0 and Lingard 3.0 and Ashley DanyAlves Young that's a lot of excitement even without signings. We should have fixed us a RW though. The problem is if Mourinho wanted Perisic and Willian who were not for sale or in toher words for soemthing ridiculous like 100m or Bale for once quoted 200m who wanted to stay and not for sale, then we can't do nothing about it. Mourinho can only play with certain wingersSorry to break it for you matey, but Real Madrid had a negative net spent. Spurs just don't win trophies, one of the few certain things in football.
Drat. Foiled again.
Real Madrid also play in a far less competitive league. Send Spurs there with Pochettino and they can probably snatch a trophy or two.
Andreas Pereira has came back from 2 season long loans and is looking good also.
We have improved the side. Not needing players to settle in and gel is a positive factor. Fred will add to midfield so we don’t get over run and rely too much on Matic. We also have Pereira looking good and effectively being a new signing really. Sanchez is looking tip top and we will see a different player to what we saw last season.
Fully agree, that is why we have such trouble getting rid of our deadwood as their wage bill puts other clubs off buying them or taking them off our hands for free.
Well I also expect he would be rolling his eyes if he saw the list of has been 30+ players we were connected to and not to forget Mina, really?
Fully agree, we should've got a new LB but I don't get the fascination of the RW and why we desperately need a RWer. That I blame on Jose, you want to tell me out of the following players, Martial, Rashford, Linguard, Sanchez, Young and even Lukaku we can't create/convert one of them into a top class RW? Otherwise if he can't do that instead of using Mata, I would give Perreira or youth a chance in Chong, who knows both could really surprise us.
I think Rashford should be able to play on the right wing, out of all those players. The rest play better elsewhere.
This is what I thought too. We have good players. It's up to the manager to get them to play attacking entertaining football. Apart from RW, all our other targets were defensive. We have also got a good midfielder in Fred who could make the midfield 3 really work. So there is no excuse for not improving in the attacking department this year.
Was paying 55 for 29 year old Kyle Walker stupid? City pay what clubs want and won the league by 19 points. We must do similar.
I've seen quite a few say this as if anyone is arguing we should just spend for the sake of it. Talk about a ridiculous strawman.
Yes, i really can't decide here. Too many pros and cons. Maybe they should buy him one player and put veto on other. I don't know ffs, my head will explode here.
Willian would've improved us. We have no RW of his ability in our team.
My thoughts exactly.
Walker had just turned 27 when they bought him.
Real are also playing in a non-competitive league in which their CL place is never in question. And Real can also buy the best young Spanish talents for pennies. There's a big difference here. Compare our situation to the rest of the PL clubs, not Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, or Juventus because there's simply no point.
Same league which leads by far on UEFA coefficients and from which a team that finished in mid table bitch slapped us in UCL. Same league that in the last 20 or so KO ties between them and EPL, La Liga sides won more than 90% of them?
If all the wealth of the PL was concentrated in United and Liverpool's hands, you'd see us dominating the CL even more than Barca and Real. The nature of the CL is the fact that any team can beat any other team. For example, in the last CL, Tottenham finished above Real in the group phase. Does that somehow mean that Tottenham is better than Real? Atletico also got knocked out from the group stages by Roma and Chelsea. The 3 CL titles that Real went and had in the past years, I can honestly say they did not deserve them. They were not the best in any way shape or form, but they won it. Because all you need in the CL is one good day, and that's it.
Group stage means feck all.
Fair enough, but the overall point still stands. City are paying what it takes and buying players in their late 20s to win now. We're constantly considering how we can make money on our players.
Oh, when a Spanish team gets knocked out in the group stage, when they actually have multiple matches to play rather than 2... then it means feck all. Okay.
It's not easy to win it, I specifically addressed that in my post. I said it's more down to luck than anything else. And I also said that the Spanish teams, specifically Barca and Real can concentrate more on the CL than we can because their CL place is never in jeopardy.
Why did Liverpool got o the final when they could barely make it to top four in the league? How did Chelsea win the CL when they finished sixth in the league?
And if the price for willian is 80m we should pay it regardless ?
