Pizy

Was always a massive long shot. Means there aren’t really any top LW to be had now. There’s Leão apparently but I think he’s massively overrated. This is unfortunately a bad summer to really need someone in this position and why we’ll have to settle for Gittens/Garnacho/Fofana.

No injuries is the biggest positive. That, and Delap looking infinitely more dangerous with barely any training or chemistry with his teammates than Jackson did.

Delap looks nice already.

wtf happened to Malo Gusto this season? It’s like a different player than his first season. He is horrific defensively now and his awareness of what’s going on around him is shocking.

Diabolically bad second half. Almost everyone looks dead on their feet.

Awful. He’s not much better on the other side, though. He can get into dangerous situations but always seems to make the wrong or selfish decision. He is just not a Chelsea level player. Or really, a player who should be regularly starting for ANY top 4 club.

Feels like a training session. Still, Madueke looks shit and Jackson has had like 1 touch in 30+ minutes.

Madueke still infuriatingly shite in the final third I see.

FIFA will hopefully realize that this greedy shit they’re pulling is going to fail. Empty stadiums, massively lopsided score lines, players barely caring to put in effort. Embarrassing look for them. I just hope none of our players get injured playing in this farce of a tournament.

Best mates with Palmer, good mates with a bunch of our players, UCL football, much higher profile club. If we made an effort there’s no way he’d turn us down.

If we’re dead set on signing only young talents why not throw everything at Morgan Rogers? At least he’s PL proven and is right in line with our obsession with former City youth. And for me he’s actually got top tier potential unlike some of these other guys.

Gittens, Garnacho, and Malick Fofana. Not exactly confidence inspiring choices, imo. I honestly feel like we’re just going to replace Sancho whose production was really disappointing with another winger who will put up disappointing numbers. But also cost tens of millions more than Sancho would have.

Who the fuck is Malick Fofana?

It doesn’t need to change 180 degrees. They can still pursue the best young talent out there. But that can’t be the ONLY kind of player we buy or we’re never going to win anything. Because our rivals are busy buying players who are already top quality rather than what could become great 3+ years from now.

Thing is, we’ve hoarded a hundred “talent’s” already. This should be the summer where we supplement those young and developing players with experienced quality to help us push on and become a serial contender for the league and UCL again. Instead, it appears we’re just going to obsessively hoard more young players who may be years away from reaching their potential. If they ever even do.

I really just thought/hoped that with UCL achieved and with the positive vibes around the club after 3 years of misery, the owners would go out and go BIG for a marquee signing like Liverpool have done with Wirtz and then the rest of the buys would be smart, opportunistic ones like Delap. And that we’d do so early in the summer so that player could get settled in and hit the ground running. There’s still a lot of the transfer window left but I feels like there’s zero buzz about us going for any truly top class, ready made player. We’re still going to be shopping for the same targets we would’ve done had we finished 7th or something.

Or they’re so obsessed with Gittens and he’s our only LW target and they’re therefor waiting until after the CWC for him. 🤦‍♂️

Feels like all rumors and links just died stone cold the second the June 10 deadline lapsed. Haven’t seen any transfer talk since even though the window back open, right?

I haven’t seen anything?

Nobody worth a damn is reporting anything so it doesn’t really matter. That cfbayern guy doesn’t know shit.

Ekitike looks like he has the higher ceiling for sure from a raw, natural talent POV. But I just wonder how he’d hold up to the rigors of the PL. A lot of the negatives I’ve read about Ekitike when this monster price is being discussed is that he is physically weak and gets bullied in Germany. If that’s the case, how’s he going to hold up against teams who love to get physical and thuggish like Burnley or Everton? Whereas Woltemade looks technically good for a huge guy whilst also having the strength and muscle to bully people himself. He looks less risky than Ekitike to my eye because he’d cost a fraction. When you’re spending €100m on a player you need a virtual guarantee that he’s a superstar. I don’t personally see that with Ekitike.

Just watched a YouTube comp of Woltemade. I actually came away more impressed with his game than Ekitike. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ They’re both tall and lanky as hell but Woltemade looks much more robust and can hold up the ball excellently. Thing is, from his POV it doesn’t seem very wise to agree to come here when we have Jackson & Delap. At his age it would be a huge risk to go from playing every week to getting the odd chance in the League Cup or as a sub here. I’d take him, though, since it’s clear we aren’t going for a Gyokeres or Osimhen.

At this point I’d take just 1 game changing, level raising signing. Don’t even care which position. We entered this summer following UCL qualification with me hopeful that we’d sign 3-4 to take us to the next level. Instead, our targets look like a list West Ham or Everton would draw up. 🤦‍♂️

So following Wirtz, Man United will be the last of the big PL clubs that hasn’t crossed the £100m barrier on a player.

Whatever happened to Kudus thing? We got linked and then the story just diced after like a day. Not that he’s what we need, but still.