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City’s reaction to James Trafford struggling in 2/3 games? Letting Ederson go and signing Gigi Donnaruma. A top GK who made countless big saves in some of the biggest games in the run up to PSG winning the CL last season. Would reckon his presence helps that defensive unit. Liverpool sold attacking players like Nunez, Diaz who worked very hard pressing from the front & added another attack minded midfielder with Wirtz. That on top of replacing Trent and Robertson with two more attack minded fullbacks. All of a sudden look incredibly more open and vulnerable defensively? Is anyone really shocked? Not entirely. But flip side to that is Arne Slot showed last season he can find solutions to make Liverpool really difficult to play against, how many clean sheets did they get last year? If he’s able to find that balance…. Title winning teams balance is always key. Need both sides of the coin for that, without a top GK or top CB though - we will always find ourselves lacking over such a long season when it really matters. And even with a pretty half decent goals against record last season, we were still talking about Robert Sanchez mistakes and conceding extremely poor goals from lack of organisation and leadership costing us points far too often. And will be the same this season because we lack top quality there. Adding more goals to this team without addressing those two colossal sized problems isn’t going to solve anything.

One more top attacking signing would’ve made us a serious threat at top of table and in CL? A top top GK and CB would’ve been more important than Simons, Garnacho or any other attacking players at this point in the window. And would allow us to continue with this younger/developing attacking players because at least we wouldn’t be relying on outscoring teams due to not being able to keep clean sheets from GK errors or poor defending. People keep talking about attacking midfielders and wingers but this team will probably never win a CL or a PL without top players in those 2 positions. Point out any title winning teams of the past 10 years without those positions being covered & look at the nearly did/teams that threw it away.. what did they lack? On Simons - mentioned before, why would any attacking player with options where they would be first choice at a pretty competitive level is specifically looking at coming here now when we have the options we have currently is beyond me. We have enough numbers in attack, for any #10s and wide players thinking a move here at present is a good idea, near the end of the window… need their heads examined.

I think Simons & Garnacho will be last two signings we make. Not going for a top GK or top CB is difficult to fathom though, we will get found out with Sanchez for sure. I get the lad from Ajax signed but they talk like he is going to be cover at left back more than at CB. Will Simons play as a 10 or wide? How does both Palmer & him slot into the same team with the likes of Joao Pedro, Estevao, Gittens, Garnacho & Neto also to be considered for those 3 positions behind the CF? I’m a bit shocked a player of Xavi Simons calibre is looking at us and thinking of coming here mainly because there is a lot of attacking players here already and he could end up on the bench. Garnacho the same. Given how easily and quickly Maresca discarded several club signings last year, I do wonder if any of the players we have signed will suffer the same fate this season?

Shown his true colours with his attitude though that last 6 months. Particularly after the Europa League final. Disappointed we are going for someone who has shown this sort of mentality in early stages of his career given how much time and effort has been put into trying to identify the right sort of personalities. And seems odd going for another Man Utd outcast having already had someone of that ilk with Sancho last season. But I suppose £35m is a relatively low fee in todays market. Has to improve his decision making though or he ends up another Mudryk-esque signing (braindead footballer). Had shown signs of promise with ten Hag though.

Everyone plays with both!!!! 😂 He is naturally right footed though. But plays on left side. He will probably not be a top option for us, we will go for another up & comer.

£26m pricetag for Donnarumma…. Apparently…. Should be all over that. Be absolutely soul destroying seeing Sanchez or Jorgensen lining up as our number 1 😂

Just avoid Garnacho. Please. Talented but an absolute gimp and his attitude clearly in same as Rashford & Sancho. The fact 15th place Man Utd dont want him says it all. We are actually the only ones after him… Will we get rid of Jackson? Lets hope so.

Another simplistic goal couple of one-twos, Madrid absolutely all over the place 😂 PSG going to be absolutely brutal to play in the final

If Madrid keep defending like they have done at this CWC, they’ll be looking for a new manager next summer 😂 Every game I’ve seen they give away so many chances… @Special Juan He is a very good player but he will never win a Ballon D’Or because he is a wank. Do get the feeling he is overrated a bit also.

We signed him injured from Southampton IIRC. He also had fucked his hamstring at Southampton when he went there - which seems to be a reoccurring issue for him.

Going to be Lavia’s third season here once things do eventually kick off. If he doesn’t play in 30 games and has more long spells on the sidelines, we need to seriously look at getting shot of him next summer. We’ve got lots of options in there such as Caicedo, Fernandez, Essugo and Santos. Not to mention that clown Maresca has a hard on for playing Reece as a CM. And whatever 18-20 year old midfield players we stockpile in January/for next summer.

As long as we make a good profit on both, should sell in a heartbeat. Noni cost £29m & Nico cost £32m so anything between £45-50m is definitely good business. Thats without even looking at the pair of them as players. If we were quoted £50m to sign either of those 2 we’d be absolutely raging. With the Pedro (he will be seen as the main man for us upfront) & Delap signing’s now I really don’t see how Nico plays often enough. And fuck this shunting him on the left wing noise, if we need a left winger, sign an actual left winger….

If Winstanley proposed this you just know it will go to shit. Couldn’t run a piss ip in a brewery.

Wait and see, won’t take long for Maresca to have him passing backwards and sideways at will.

Shits and giggles probably

We didn’t sign him for €120m in all fairness so I was sort of on the right track, was €121m 🤣 Although we did also sign Felix unfortunately.

The fee for Petrovic is apparently 21.5m? Or thats the one I read. Should be biting their hands off. Unless its changed? Rodrygo may be a top level player and has still got more to give talent wise but I still think for the 200k + he will be looking for, it is not gonna happen. Not to mention they are talking between 65-70m as a starting point as a fee and I think that plus bigger wages makes it a bit more difficult for us perhaps. If a few clubs are actively looking at him, it would be very tough to do. There won’t be many players who leave a good deal at Madrid for some performance based incentive shit that may total 150-200k a week 😂 It would be nice to see but isn’t the BlueCo mantra to develop top players, not buy them? In this new model though, we aren’t going to break our wage structure very often. How many players are actually earning 100k a week plus base that have been signed or renewed under BlueCo since the Chuckle Brothers were given free reign? Doubt theres many at all. Once Sterling goes he is probably the last of any BlueCo signings who was on big money. Doesn’t necessarily mean we will look to spend 200k per week base salary just because we have free’d up £350k a week. Just look at previous seasons whilst we’ve been cutting wages.

Rodrygo is 99.9% not coming here. His wages alone will be a stumbling block never mind a transfer fee. Petrovic apparently going to Sunderland too.

I think irrespective of injuries the decision to come here was a huge mistake for him looking back. He was virtually an u23/reserve team player when he could’ve been playing first team football in Belgium - like de Bruyne, Courtois & Lukaku did before moving. Anderlecht are notorious for it also. There was also a lot of noise regarding Charly’s attitude from his loan spell at Celtic. How true that is, fuck knows, but I think the general jist of it was centred around that he thought he should’ve been playing every week regardless of how well/not well he did in training because he did at Chelsea u18/u23. To have an 18 month loan cut short after 8 appearances is a bit strange. He wasn’t the only player who now probably realises the error of coming here from clubs which would’ve no doubt given them first team football in that era though. Kakuta probably was another one.

Exactly. He is a walloper.

Will he really though? I mean he is going to be playing in games where they will be cagey and a lot more tactical. Given how awful he is technically and the severe lack of space behind teams in Serie A, generally don’t think he will do well at all. And he is never going to become an extremely clinical finisher, that much is clear. Who cares if it means we get rid of him? I don’t think relying on him has helped us achieve anything significant in the past 2 seasons and its better to take something for him whilst we can. Because it won’t be often we have several teams interested in him. Means we can get another CF in and have Delap as a back up. Cant afford to go into the season with Jackson & Delap as our 2 CF options. Just like with Jackson & Guiu last season.

Oh god forgot we are good at recruiting injured players 😂 Ah well explains that then. But yeah if he isn’t loaned to get regular minutes or involved at all this season, as someone who is 20 years old and needing exposure, I don’t know what to expect…

Lets be honest, probably another one the so called twitter experts got a hard on for because he played 15 games in South America. Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up being gash/shipped out/sold for profit. Kendry Paez will be the same. I was shocked the CB lad didnt get tried at all when we were relying on shit like Disasi and Tosin due to injuries/suspensions. I’d of gotten it if it were like 5+ years ago with the old regime as we were notoriously bad for not using youngsters/solely going for tried and tested but didn’t understand it then and even now in CWC. Did he even play for the u23/reserves or whatever they go by now?

Also are people still saying pulling out of the Maignan deal was a good idea? For sake of a couple millions? But aye we sure showed Milan…. didn’t take long did it?

Regardless a challenge like that is absolutely ridiculous. He has shown issues with his discipline for the past 2 seasons here through various things from this, the Newcastle sending off and various bookings from dissent countless times so you cannot blame the manager here. Am sure both Poch & Enzo have mentioned this. Surely as a professional athlete you know you cannot be so reckless when making a challenge though, I mean its brutal on the stills. He could’ve been playing in ballet shoes or taught how to play football by Ronaldo or Messi for all it matters but he is still so so average and will continue to cost us games with either his finishing or discipline. A major upgrade was needed, a higher quality than Delap who may be better suited as a second choice to we see if he can do what he did in spells for Ipswich at a bigger club.