Yeah that 89 point gift wrap you gave us, and the same Liverpool collapse that saw them take 37 points from their last 42 available. Wouldn't mind a collapse like that next year from City!
Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic
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Would be extremely embarrassing if they don't win the league with the squad they'll have. They'll probably have a squad that cost about £400m.
Good deal for Danilo, but I wonder if Madrid will try to sign another right back. I doubt about Achraf being the second option. About City...I guess that the financial fair play is a myth
Right. If that Neymar craziness goes through...
Squad? Their first team alone will cost around £400 mill. Same goes for Man Utd actually due to the heavy investments made in Lukaku and Pogba. But City's squad will cost a lot more than Man Utd's.
There is also competition from AC Milan who are still in the market for a top striker and already spent over €200m.
My grandad always used to tell me back in mid nineties and for most of the years leading up to his passing that one day the bubble would burst. Perhaps he's finally going to be proven correct.
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The bubble wont burst for a loooong time.
Live sport is becoming more and more important due to streaming services so expect the value to go up.
I can see tv companies paying over the odds but bundle an app with Sony for PS4 users to offset the cost or something similar.
English football will never stop growing, already Madrid and Barca have gone from approaching the elite stars to focusing on those ready to make the step up. That's a massive swing for such a subtle change.
Live sport is becoming more and more important due to streaming services so expect the value to go up.
I can see tv companies paying over the odds but bundle an app with Sony for PS4 users to offset the cost or something similar.
English football will never stop growing, already Madrid and Barca have gone from approaching the elite stars to focusing on those ready to make the step up. That's a massive swing for such a subtle change.
2 young strikers that Madrid have watched: Dolberg and Berardi (and the radio said Timo Werner too)
Neymar is having doubts about the move to Paris due to intense lobbying from Barcelona players.
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If we too sold 4 first team FBs in one summer, it would cost us that amount not only to replace them but upgrade. Personally, I don't see anything wrong in that.City could end up spending over £150m just on full backs this summer
Not a fan of new builds myself.
They would be happy to pay the FFP slap on the wrist/FIFA back hander in order to get what they want.
"On no don't force us to use 21 players instead of 25 in the champions league, sigh we will just have to consoul ourselves with Neymar, sulk"
Predictable
Without Danilo their starting back 5 is £215m
Very quiet on our end.
Dead! Journos seem afraid to BS about us even after the big Rom bombshell.
Not sure if no news is good news or it's that nothing is happening.
Alternatively in another decade it would be seen as a bargain like Ronaldo at 80m was.
They've been on about Matic all day.
Judging by our recent windows, something awesome is surely lining up !
Crazy thought, but seeing as Messi is 30, would Barcelona consider moving him on to get Neymar what he wants?
Dolberg seems a bit overrated from what I've seen of him but Werner seems destined to be a star. Don't think Leipzig are gonna let him go, he has the potential to the face of the next generation of German football.
You don't think averaging around £50m a full back is insane? When our record is £28m for one?
They're paying around that for a reserve right back
They'll probably have the problem of trying to integrate too many new players though.
The new signings for one thing, but then trying to work out an effective centre back combo, as well as what they're going to do to fit all the attackers in.
Won't surprise me it the entire point was to strengthen his position so he could have a shiny new contract at the end of the season.
What get's me is while MSN are sucking money out of the club other areas of the team are being woefully neglected.
Around 30 is most footballers prime. No chance.
Why didn't City sign FB last summer? It's clear since Pellegrini last season that those positions (both wings) were upgradeable. Perhaps Pep thinks his philosophy can do miracle & prolong these outgoing fullbacks playing them as some weird narrow midfielder or as central defenders at one point or another during the past season?
Signing one or 2 back last summer would mean they can both get better value & in better negotiating position come this summer. Remember Dani Alves did move last summer with Pep was announced way before the transfer market window open.
Edit: Of course nothing wrong in buying players for the immediate need, even paying crazy market price.
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Oddly placed sink.
It's their money, it's their problem. I thought £89m for Pogba was insane last season, it isn't when you consider this season. They are overpaying because they have money but we can't deny that they aren't building something there. They are also buying players that have at least 5-6 years in them and if it brings in trophies and titles in that season, the owners will say it's money well spent. Let's not forget that City were relatively nobodies 15 years ago, and the only way they can rival the big boys is to spend stupidly. It doesn't always work ala Notts County and I'm sure it's the route of City that Wolverhampton Wanderers want to take to make them the dominant club in the West Midlands. As long as no rules are broken, the game is the game.
All we have to be concerned is making sure that we are better than them, which is something Fergus did regardless of what they spent. What they are spending is not my concern is what they are building.
Been the case for a few years now. Even the ones they've bought in other areas have been dreadful.
I don't know. We could also ask why Fergie didn't buy a CM when it looked the weakest area. It's obviously better to things earlier or pay the price literally
Lets buy Anderson back, he has more PL medals + CL medals. Yeah lets make that logical discussion.
How much have City spent on transfers so far this season ?