9 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Did you ever think you'd see the day a team spent over £100m on fullbacks? 

Through in Ederson and City have spent almost £150m on their defence alone this summer (so far).

Crazy money.

Have to respect them addressing it, defence was shyte so spent big on it, let's see Peps excuse now, pressure on 

Mendy looks a real hulk of a defender, he's cost them but is going to make them a lot stronger..

We're about to find out just how much money can buy

They got ripped off, Mendy isnt that good imo, we should add 10/20m and get the complete lwb (Sandro)

1 minute ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

We're about to find out just how much money can buy

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I don`t know why our board not going for this 2 or Sandro and Walker. This players could get us on the next level.
With this wing-backs we could have challenge for CL and probably have PL in the bag.

From the winter till now, we recieve more then 140m. just from sold players and we probably get atleast 80m from Costa and Matic. Thats 220m. We could have allowed to spend 50m on a such important position and that will improve our squad big.

Walker - Azpi - Rudiger/Cahill - Luis - Mendy/Sandro, we would be a scarry team for anyone

It`s a pity to see how Guardiola and Jose get all the support from the board and all the money in the world, when they failed hard in their first season, and Conte not getting all he want.

Okay we have done some good signing, but i do think we still need atleast 1 world class WB, 1 alternative with great potential, 1 good squad DM player and world class Right midfielder.

 

 

 

Spurs who were just about as good as us haven't bought anyone. Citeh looked poor against ManU the other night. Citeh have the 3 most expensive defenders ever but what good has it done them?

 

Buying more is not always the best answer.

 

Saying that transfer season and winning it has become a competition in itself.

 

2 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

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We'll see how much their spending relates to trophies

I think the board has a sound plan in mind, lets wait till the end of the transfer window to judge them.

 

5 hours ago, DonAntonio said:

Have to respect them addressing it, defence was shyte so spent big on it, let's see Peps excuse now, pressure on 

First, let's hope he's going to need an excuse.

10 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

First, let's hope he's going to need an excuse.

I personally think he isn't cut out for a competitive league he is best for show pony teams that win as default, the teams he has managed bar one or two games don't play for competition but more as an exhibition, good showman, but takes a rugged manager to win the PL not sure he is that, not yet anyway..city are some team though. 

37 minutes ago, DonAntonio said:

I personally think he isn't cut out for a competitive league he is best for show pony teams that win as default, the teams he has managed bar one or two games don't play for competition but more as an exhibition, good showman, but takes a rugged manager to win the PL not sure he is that, not yet anyway..city are some team though. 

People often criticised Jose's tactical approach when he was in charge at The Bridge. My response to them was to offer the opinion that if you want to compete against teams with better players than you, then you do need to use tactics. If you decide to just get on the front foot and go toe-to-toe with everybody then, over the whole of a season, the team with the best players will come out ahead. The only way to guarantee winning if you play that way is to have players who are miles better than everyone else's. Pep's had that internationally with Barca, and domestically with Bayern. Now he's trying to do it again at City. Fair enough to try but harder to achieve.

Edited July 23, 20178 yr by OhForAGreavsie

This is probably City's best signing of the summer.  Monster of a full back with speed and power coupled with decent technical ability.  He isn't the best defender around when I watched him last season due to his sometimes suspect positioning but he can recover quickly with his pace. Wish we went in for him as he was far more obtainable instead of chasing an unrealistic target like Sandro.

4 hours ago, lchk said:

This is probably City's best signing of the summer.  Monster of a full back with speed and power coupled with decent technical ability.  He isn't the best defender around when I watched him last season due to his sometimes suspect positioning but he can recover quickly with his pace. Wish we went in for him as he was far more obtainable instead of chasing an unrealistic target like Sandro.

I don't think the board could go for him and Bakayoko simultaneously with Marina's negotiating style. If we negotiated for months for Bakayoko to drive prices down, it'd be more difficult to negotiate for Mendy as well. We might risk angering Monaco and we'd end up with neither

6 minutes ago, Deino said:

I don't think the board could go for him and Bakayoko simultaneously with Marina's negotiating style. If we negotiated for months for Bakayoko to drive prices down, it'd be more difficult to negotiate for Mendy as well. We might risk angering Monaco and we'd end up with neither

Monaco wanted 40 we payed 40. I think we was waiting to see results off knee injury first, that's what the hold up was I think.

11 minutes ago, BluesMadLad said:

Monaco wanted 40 we payed 40. I think we was waiting to see results off knee injury first, that's what the hold up was I think.

I doubt the initial negotiations of the price started at 40m and for negotiations above 30m usually means Marina will drive the prices down.

Even City took over a month to sort out the Mendy negotiations. I just don't see how the negotiation team did nothing on the Bakayoko transfer while waiting for Bakayoko's recovery. Even his medical was almost in jeopardy due to medical records not being sent by Monaco on time. This means that negotiations either stalled or was continuing on behind the scenes and since there weren't any reports of stalled negotiations then it must mean that negotiation took longer than expected

27 minutes ago, Deino said:

I doubt the initial negotiations of the price started at 40m and for negotiations above 30m usually means Marina will drive the prices down.

Even City took over a month to sort out the Mendy negotiations. I just don't see how the negotiation team did nothing on the Bakayoko transfer while waiting for Bakayoko's recovery. Even his medical was almost in jeopardy due to medical records not being sent by Monaco on time. This means that negotiations either stalled or was continuing on behind the scenes and since there weren't any reports of stalled negotiations then it must mean that negotiation took longer than expected

Or negotiations didn't even start till they new the results suppose we will never know.

Pep the cheque-book manager strike again, no doubt he picked the right English club. It's ironic he left the central defender signing to the last, unless he reinforce the defence his system is still suspect against good teams

Joke of a football club. Im sorry but they have all those scouts and they can't find a good defender under £20M?. Every defender they buy has to be over £30M.

Why does there club employ scouts they don't need them. 

I don`t see a problem with City spending. We was doing kinda the same in the early days, 2004 and so on. The difference is they keep doing it. United is doing the same after Ferguson.

Guardiola see he need better players then other teams to make hes style/system work and to win big trophy, so he is doing exactly this, he is getting players, that are also very young to do the job.

I prefer this, to Mourinho way, buying someone beyond 28y., for fast results, but not always deliver the result and then you spend a lot of money and in the 2-3 years, you should do the same again ....

City paid a lot, but most of the player they get are young, and even if they failed, they could ease get the amount of money back or atleast some of it. Sometimes maybe even more.

And to me Bernando Silva, Mendy, Walker, also last year Gundogan, Sane and Jesus was a good signing for them.

And of course they have failed hard with some of the player Pep brought, like Stones and Bravo.

But they are building strong, strong team. But Guardiola should learn, that in England you need strong defence to win trophies.

I hope he didn`t learn and still play same attacking b***** tiki-taka ....

 

 

If we had the money we would do the exact same thing so I don't see the point critising. 

We have players out on load who are highly rated for CB but spend over 30 million on Rudiger. 

We have spent 140 million on 3 players so hardly have any morale high ground when it comes to City splashing Luton some full backs 

Every club in this league has/will been spending money. Which is ok if you have a stadium full of supporters to watch all these £50m+ players. Otherwise it starts to look very wrong.

City should be sold out every game remembering the small capacity they have, the relatively cheap prices of the tickets, and the talented players they buy.

Pep wants to emulate Cruyff, it's why he's asking the City board to spend like mad. Pep is literally trying to play FM in reality and the City board can't see that. 

On 20/07/2017 at 17:20, brakeit said:

And gone to City for £53m...next

On 7/22/2017 at 23:11, brakeit said:

It`s a pity to see how Guardiola and Jose get all the support from the board and all the money in the world, when they failed hard in their first season, and Conte not getting all he want.

Hasn't Jose just publicly complained about the clubs transfer activity? Not the best example.