Who out if our competitors has had a better window then us.

Before you say city, most of you where slating them for spending 50 million on him. Kdb 55 million is crazy, would you honestly pay the for him. Take pedro thank you very much

United? No center backs, only 2 strikers and one we know nothing about.

Arsenal,... A keeper..

The only thing that is slanting every ones view is our start. We all know a center back would have been handy, Jose knew it, it didn't work out this time.

Who out if our competitors has had a better window then us.

Before you say city, most of you where slating them for spending 50 million on him. Kdb 55 million is crazy, would you honestly pay the for him. Take pedro thank you very much

United? No center backs, only 2 strikers and one we know nothing about.

Arsenal,... A keeper..

The only thing that is slanting every ones view is our start. We all know a center back would have been handy, Jose knew it, it didn't work out this time.

 

City. The money has no bearing. They have strengthened creatively, at the back and have not lost anything significant.

 

I have no problem with our window though. We have done well, considering the players available. 

You will never please some people. The disappointments are not getting John Stones and signing average players over giving academy players a chance but it certainly isn't a bad transfer window for us. An upgrade on Drogba in Falcao, an excellent replacement for Cech in Begovic and Pedro, who has hit the ground running.

City have had a way better window than us, not even comparable.

 

Utd's is way better too, even if they haven't solved all their problems.

I don't think we've done too badly, Pedro is a very good signing, Begovic is a great back up keeper, we know little about Rahman, but he has a lot of potential, Kenedy as well looks like a very good prospect. However, we failed to sign Stones and today has been a complete farce, who would be satisfied with today's signings?

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City have had a way better window than us, not even comparable.

Utd's is way better too, even if they haven't solved all their problems.

Davy my baby, you can't just throw statements out there.. Tell me why United have had a better window..

Loosing dimaria, Loosing rvp, gaining an old center mid who is injury prone

City have had a way better window than us, not even comparable.

Utd's is way better too, even if they haven't solved all their problems.

This.

We had a stinker no matter how you try to dress it up. Champions improve, we didn't.

Who out if our competitors has had a better window then us.

Before you say city, most of you where slating them for spending 50 million on him. Kdb 55 million is crazy, would you honestly pay the for him. Take pedro thank you very much

United? No center backs, only 2 strikers and one we know nothing about.

Arsenal,... A keeper..

The only thing that is slanting every ones view is our start. We all know a center back would have been handy, Jose knew it, it didn't work out this time.

I think if we had signed these 2 defenders last week and Pedro today...we'd all be in slightly different moods than we are. Same window though.

I am mostly okay with the window, don't understand the panic buy of the 2 center backs, already have Ivan, Cahill, Zouma & JT so cant see

game time for the one who stays, the Jamaican guy loaned straight back is a big ? followed Jamaica in the Copa as wanted the under dog to win the final and was on my hols there in Feb , but they are strictly championship / MLS quality

 

Begovic - good replacement for Cech (who the club should have sold abroad)

Baba - who the hell knows

Pedro - good buy

Kenedy - could be the bargain of the window

 

City have done better imo

United have overtaken CFC as the Ringling Brothers of the Prem

I don't think we've done too badly, Pedro is a very good signing, Begovic is a great back up keeper, we know little about Rahman, but he has a lot of potential, Kenedy as well looks like a very good prospect. However, we failed to sign Stones and today has been a complete farce, who would be satisfied with today's signings?

Here in lies the issue, we went looking at some big players to bolster the team for the future, they didn't come of. It shouldn't distort the good business we have done.

Also Davy, I can't help but feel you were one of those that wanted nothing to do with sterling.. So how have city had a better window? If you don't rate sterling

Davy my baby, you can't just throw statements out there.. Tell me why United have had a better window..

Loosing dimaria, Loosing rvp, gaining an old center mid who is injury prone

 

Firstly mate, KDB is way better than Pedro. City have also got the best defender in Spain last season, Sterling, a fantastic prospect in Roberts and added more depth with Delph. 

 

Their front five now reads Yaya, Silva, Sterling, KDB and Aguero, while they have Navas, Nasri and Bony on the bench. The rest of their team is tasty too. They've had a fantastic window, I don't see how they could have done any better.

 

Utd lost Di Maria and RVP? That improves their squad already. What I've seen of Memphis, he'll be a great. I've not seen Martial but he's obviously highly thought of. The guy from Southampton, the midfielder? Good player. They've signed that defender from Italy with a good reputation. I'll reserve judgement on Schweinsteiger.

 

They may not have solved all their problems, and I'm not saying we've had a bad window, but I think theirs has been better, definitely.

Watford have had f**king good window to be fair. Jurado and Ibarbo are quality.

Also Davy, I can't help but feel you were one of those that wanted nothing to do with sterling.. So how have city had a better window? If you don't rate sterling

 

I thought he was overpriced, overrated and was worried about his attitude, but he's a good player, no doubt about that and I suppose he's homegrown, which is a bonus, and this was before we bid nearly £40m for Stones. Then there was the Liverpool factor, what with all the toxicity and our bad luck when dealing with them. I was happy we left well alone but I thought we had something up our sleeve. We did have something up our sleeve, which turned out to be a last-minute panic buy of Pedro (don't get me wrong, in the circumstances I was very happy).

Davey, if KDB has a better season than Pedro, I'll donate $20 to the forum. If the opposite happens, you donate 20 pounds. Do we have a deal? ;-)

begovic, pedro and kenedy are all quality.

The other 2 lads I have no idea about.

city and utd have both bought well and thrown money around like confetti but then they did both needed to and still do.

 

I am actually more concerned about sorting our current players out than bringing more in.

pedro is better than sterling, if we're comparing player for player, and as of right now otamendi and de bruyne are unknowns. city already had a strong first 11 to start with, they've just added more depth. the opportunity was there for them to strengthen and they paid big this summer, for us it wasn't. we paid big last summer for players because the opportunity was there to do so, and players became available where we needed strengthening, it's the way the cookie crumbles, you can't spend 100 million every season and a lot of fans are becoming very expectant of massive signings every season, but we should be fortunate we are in the position we are in. 

Edited September 1, 20159 yr by enigma

There's no trophy for the 'best transfer window' so comparing to other clubs window for window is surely irrelevant. I think people are probably disappointed mainly by the fact that despite it looking pretty obvious throughout at least the second half of last season, we haven't addressed the key midfielder problem. And signing one wouldn't have meant the end for RLC if we'd moved on Mikel and or Ramires.

And still haven't sorted out our long term centre backs. Ok, we did try for Stones and it probably isn't our fault it didn't happen but we need more than just Stones. Stones, Zouma and a.n.other would be the future Terry, Carvalho, Gallas triumvirate.

And while Pedro is a good signing, it smacked of panic buying coming when it did. I guess it's not just who you sign but when you sign them. Perhaps the disappointment isn't confined purely to the transfers but to the whole close season with post season tours and a lack of preseason preparation. And as last year proved, good preparation pays dividends.

Finally, on the signings front, a lot of fans were and laregly still are understandably wary of the Falcao signing. With Costa's hamstrings and temperament, there was an argument for a younger fitter player in better form being brought in not only as cover for Costa but as some competition for him.

That's the way I see it anyway. Agreed the woeful start has made it look worse at this moment but our close season both in the board room and on (or not on) the training pitches has probably got a lot to do with our poxy point haul.

Firstly mate, KDB is way better than Pedro. City have also got the best defender in Spain last season, Sterling, a fantastic prospect in Roberts and added more depth with Delph.

Their front five now reads Yaya, Silva, Sterling, KDB and Aguero, while they have Navas, Nasri and Bony on the bench. The rest of their team is tasty too. They've had a fantastic window, I don't see how they could have done any better.

Utd lost Di Maria and RVP? That improves their squad already. What I've seen of Memphis, he'll be a great. I've not seen Martial but he's obviously highly thought of. The guy from Southampton, the midfielder? Good player. They've signed that defender from Italy with a good reputation. I'll reserve judgement on Schweinsteiger.

They may not have solved all their problems, and I'm not saying we've had a bad window, but I think theirs has been better, definitely.

So essentially you have nothing to say that memphis will be better the Kenedy for example, so far his only succes has been against bruge, a team that Rooney scored a hatrik against, the same Rooney that every one thinks is washed up.

I'll go one better actually, traore was equally as good if not better then blue swade shoe's last season in the same league. He now playes for us.

Di Maria is a world class player, swade shoes not fit to wipe his boots.

City, I'm sorry Db you can't swing both ways on this, stay away from sterling you said, addicted the to hippy crack you said, second coming of Swp you said. So which is it?

As for Kdb please.. I'll place a bet that by the end of the season you will reconsider that statement.

Grass is always greener, this is what it boils down to.. And your changing your tune on whim

Davey, if KDB has a better season than Pedro, I'll donate $20 to the forum. If the opposite happens, you donate 20 pounds. Do we have a deal? ;-)

 

I'll donate 20 Indonesian Rupiah.

the problem is, we had already wasted money on cuadrado and no one expected him to turn out sh*te, so we were weak at RW due to that. roman most likely is pissed off that we're wasting money on supposed talent that's failing here. we still have multiple players on loan in italy that no f**ker wants to put their hands in their pockets to buy, so we throw away money signing them, then have to send them on loan when they fail here to relieve space for more worthy players. whomever keeps wasting money buying aimlessly needs to be dismissed or given a stern warning.  

I'll donate 20 Indonesian Rupiah.

Blue Daze has taken control of the Davy baby's user account ;)

Id take a £55M KDB over a £21M Pedro, I think KDB is twice the player.

That's a very good point enigma. Our recent transfer form isn't up to scratch overall. For each Costa there's probably two Salah's of late.

The point made earlier about Depay not doing anything yet to prove he's better than Kenedy while true doesn't recognise that the difference almost certainly will be that Depay gets to prove his ability by regularly starting for United. I'll eat my hat if Kenedy gets a great deal of football this season. Especially if we discount last five minute sub appearances and away to Wallsall in the league cup.

Id take a £55M KDB over a £21M Pedro, I think KDB is twice the player.

 

pedro has proved he is quality by being a permanent fixture in one of barcelona's best teams under pep guardiola, sure he's aged but i still think he's a quality player and was still been an one of their better players up until he left. de bruyne has proved nothing yet, and he's had one good season in the bundesliga. at his age pedro was playing in arguably the best barcelona side in history. they are completely different players though, but next season they'll be another de bruyne or hyped player, it's the way it happens. 

Edited September 1, 20159 yr by enigma

Blue Daze has taken control of the Davy baby's user account ;)

 

Do you want to meet me for a beer and say that to my face ?