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This is exactly how I see it. Enzo has talent but that is only part of the equation and his attitude and baggage is well shot off for a fee that quite simply is staggering. He is damaged goods and him going to City is almost poetic. I would imagine that Barco will be starting in midfield on quite a number of occasions and maybe just maybe he or indeed one of the academy players may just be the answer. We effectively will only being two central midfielders with the wide midfielders effectively being wing backs. We can still sign free agents and yes they are free agents for reason but there are some possibilities if it’s just about legs .

Incredible karma for Monaco, Balogun mugging them off has definitely made me feel better about Monaco screwing us over.

Emenalo wasn't given a shirt number and looks like he is going on loan to Celtic, but totally agree on the other two. I think the player who will really grasp the opportunity with both hands though is Barco.

There is a real opportunity here for one of our youth players to really step up until January. Landon Emenalo, Reggie Watson and Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli are all still available and whilst extremely young, we’ve seen young players excel in our midfield over the years such as Josh McEachran, Billy Gilmore and more recently Reggie Walsh who would require a recall but I’d rather he got more minutes at Wigan. Obviously none of that is perfect but the doom and gloom and negativity is something us fans need to drive out of ourselves because we carry that into the stadium and it transfers into the team.

Quite likely that KDH will AGAIN have a better season than Enzo Fernandez ... Enzo really isn't any loss and it's hilarious seeing how apoplectic 90% of the City fans are at his signing LOL. Maresca tone deaf as usual ...

It is exhausting how overdramatic everyone is being.

City have got their man. They outbid everyone else😂, Very well done. I dont think he will be an overwhelming success, he certainly wasnt here.

Essugo has gone and I dont really think Watson and Nicole-Jazuli will be considered due to their age. I still agree we have the numbers at least until January though. In terms of quality I'm less certain, but I would have felt the same way even with Enzo here. Good player, not what we needed. Anyways, having personally disliked Enzo for quite a long while, I am now finally free to hate him. Happy days for me🥰

Can't agree with that @charierre Another way of looking at it is offloading a player who didn't seem very popular and could well have gone on to affect squad harmony, AND for an eye watering £125M, is a no-brainer. And I don't see Fernandez strengthening any side. As I have already heard City fans on phone-ins say, he is no Rodri, or Yaya Toure - he is a pretty average footballer (with a big ego).

Reece Lavia Hendo and Caicedo only need to play one game a fortnight on average not including international breaks, i think there are two before christmas. How will we cope? 😂

You think Pep was a one trick pony? His Barca, Bayern and City teams are all vastly different teams and systems. Christ, he’s had about 4 different systems at City alone. Insulting to try to say Enzo and Pep are similar in any way.

I should have carried on reading before posting, you’ve summed it up perfectly. People are getting emotional without realising Enzo was never able to play in the position we were looking to strengthen. Rogers has already replaced him as the 10 and we’ve got enough people to get us to January with one game a week.

Caicedo, Lavia, Barco, RJ, Essugo, Watson, Nicole-Jazuli, Henderson 8 players for 2 positions while playing one game a week until January. At which point Palace will be relegated and we can throw our weight at a proper replacement in Wharton or get Camara on the cheap. You’re being needlessly dramatic, getting rid of Enzo was the most important thing in this window for squad harmony.

Poor decision making by our sporting directors, purely on a football perspective. We have strengthened a direct rival whilst weakened our own position. Yes the money was good and the player wanted to leave but at some point or other we have start running this club as a sporting entity if we seriously want to compete. Yesterday through out a clear message that the deal)s) is more important, deadlines and bluster mean nothing. Compare that Athleti with Alvarez or even Monaco with Camara who have put their team first. An excellent window upto the last few days has suddenly put us in the same peril has last year when we was found wanting in defence and risked creating bad blood with our new coach.

Enzo cant play where we are now light. Him leaving and us not signing anyone to play next to Caicedo should be seen as two separate things.

We managed to sell a lot of sh*te, brought in some cracking players, solved a potentially poisonous situation with Fernandez and made profit. A few years of f*uck ups wasnt going to be sorted in one window. We have one game a week and im pretty confident we will be fine. Wee Barco, step on up young man. Im still feeling positive for the season ahead.

At th end of the day we left it till the last minute so have nobody to blame but ourselves in that respect, Cameras name has been mentioned in the last few days so we have had ample opportunity to get this deal done, if it had fallen through as per last night for whatever reason at lest we would have still had a day or two to seek out any alternative that Alonso wanted. Camara was a player we needed in a position that every man and his dog knows is a massive problem for us with the lack of natural depth there and the reliance on Moises. We could have gone in early and tried to get Camara over the line - the money was there but instead we spend 40m signing a player that we ship straight out on loan to another club. Maybe Monoco/Camara would still have not come , however at least we would have known early on. Absolute sh1teshow as we've become so accustomed to.

Lamine Camara didnt even have his own rumour thread until yesterday ( Id never heard of him till last week ) hes hardly gonna spoil our season by not joining our great club hey ho. was he really a better option than what we already have ?

Another way of putting it, Out: Essugo, Enzo, Santos In: 36 year old dressing room cheerleader Henderson.

He didnt want to play for us so its best that he has gone. He was effective with goals and assists but wasnt a true leader and often went missing. . Weve got an excellent fee for him from the single interested party. We now have a very healthy transfer balance and a stack of options in midfield. Reece James Moises Caicedo Romeo Lavia Jordan Henderson Malo Gusto Valentine Barco Reggie Watson Madhi Jazuli I think we should be able to struggle through till January at which time we can buy almost whoever we want if necessary. hey ho Up the Chels.

Enzo left, still a 10/10 window. We go again in January. One game a week until then

The legendary and oh-so vital goal at Bolton in May 1983. Thank You again Clive Walker.

Arsenal will just tear through of midfield of injured full backs to face panicking Colwill and our heralded front three will not score 3 or 4 against a quality defence. Our wining start ends.

The BBC did. So we’ve had our pants pulled down. That’s left a bad taste and sense of disappointment to the window. So Malo Gusto is our best fit midfielder. Let Arsenal and City stew on that.