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Riyad Mahrez | It's part of the game innit
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So they had Sane and Sterling doing great and went on to add more quality that will limit the number of minutes of both, interesting.
feck him, the cnut.
Typical signing of a team dominating the league. Makes sense.
Fredge and that wingback we signed are going to pounce hard on them. We have a great chance.
Have no idea why they made this signing.
Would've been ideal for us imo but I'm still hopeful we have another RW lined up from somewhere. City have crazy attacking depth though atm whereas we struggle to put one top class wide player out between all of our options.
Pity we didnt do that when we were at the top.
As it stands we dont have one quality winger today
Good squad player but not sure who he would displace from the City front three. Looks like Sterling might give way for most games but they also have Bernando Silva on the bench. Makes sense for City to add some depth, but not sure how much game time he'll get.
Fantastic player he’ll do well there.
Like when we signed Tevez, Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson after a title win. Or when we signed Berbatov after a double.
Feck sake.
Just want a right winger. Literally any right winger at this stage.
Just want a right winger. Literally any right winger at this stage.
They sign Mahrez, we get no one for right wing as yet, resign fellaini, lose martial and are left hoping sanchez pulls it out his rear end for next season. Arounatovic anyone?
I was more thinking when we sold Ronaldo and bought Valencia.
Valencia was good in his day but definitely not a replacement for Ronaldo.
Oh I had forgotten that the window had closed. Thanks for reminding me
There was never going to be an ideal replacement for Ronaldo.
Arnautovic isn't good enough, and he mostly played on the left or centrally. We've got enough players who play in those two positions.
Top signing..
There will be plenty of playing time for any of them. But it won't be easy to keep them happy because they can't play all in the biggest games. Adding new stars to an already top squad may have negative consequences.
I think we are going to end up signing William.
Yeah we really didn't buy players when we dominated.
As for Mahrez, congratulations City on a new title.
Holy crap - 60m. They are stacked on attackers in all departments.
He’s such a talented player, I have to say I’m pretty pissed we didn’t attempt to sign him.
This is the exact type of thing Fergie would do to be honest. I think he wrote about it in one of his books, or spoke about it, that the season after you win the league you need to replenish the squad to keep your players sharp. Even if he ends up not grabbing a regular spot in the XI, signing Mahrez could end up doing wonders for the rest of the attacking part of the squad, having to fight off the new threat to their position in the squad etc.
They sign a top class player to fill a gap in their starting eleven. That's what competent clubs do
You’re right, but I feel we should have snapped Robben that season.
So city now have 3 players who can do a great job on the right wing - Mahrez, B Silva and Sterling - and we have Mata - says it all really..
I think he'll start for them, so incredibly skillful it's hard to imagine the things he'll do when he can't be marked out of a game.
He'll start, probably in place of Sterling IMO. It's a weird one in that he's obviously better then Sterling, but I don't think they'll improve on last season in the league at least, and they scored plenty of goals anyway. But still pretty much a necessary one for them given that Aguero is aging and they only really had Jesus and Bernardo Silva in the rotation for the front 3 spots.
Strange that we never went for him, given how shite we are at right wing. Kinda wish we let Sanchez go there in January and got Mahrez and just stuck with the Martial/Rashford rotation for the left (which worked better in the first half of the season then what we saw in the 2nd half)... but there you go. Hopefully we have someone lined up for the right wing.
Strange that we never went for him, given how shite we are at right wing. Kinda wish we let Sanchez go there in January and got Mahrez and just stuck with the Martial/Rashford rotation for the left (which worked better in the first half of the season then what we saw in the 2nd half)... but there you go. Hopefully we have someone lined up for the right wing.
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it’s funny because they would have won the league again even if they made no signings yet they’ve signed a top quality player in a position they’re already stacked in.
What’s even more hilarious is he would’ve been perfect for us and that pesky RW position...oh well.
What’s even more hilarious is he would’ve been perfect for us and that pesky RW position...oh well.
We could have possibly gotten Ribery as well, but after the Glazers took over I suspect they put a stop to excessive spending because of the interested payments they had to make due to the leveraged buyout.
Exactly, they are at the top and their transfer business shows they aim to stay there.
Damn man
True but Robben and/or Ribery could have been acquired for the right price.
Real cant fully replace Ronaldo either but Hazard and Lewa or Icardi would go a long way.
I'm sure he'll do well there, but I thought they would go for a striker instead if they were going to upgrade the attack. With Aguero out, Jesus was horribly exposed by Liverpool as incapable of leading the line. And Aguero happens to out a lot.
Robben could have been acquired but, at the time he was an injury prone player nobody expected him to have the impact he had for Bayern. Ribery was never attainable.
If we weren't in for him I'm pretty baffled. About as safe an option as we could have asked for on the right.