samthegooner might be an unpopular opinion but I think we'll end up shipping more goals than we did last season.
Big Willie highly likely. That was a good defensive showing
Coombs we also underequipped the invincibles, and they fell short of reaching the absolute top of the mountain. in a few blinks that team was gone and the window of opportunity slammed shut. we've waited 20 years to have a team like this again. we absolutely cannot afford to waste any time
The fact is if you look at the last 2 season's - City had 3 players scoring more than our top scoring player - Saka
(Alvarez, Haaland and Foden)
Haaland 91 Foden 42 Alvarez 36 Saka 35
We clearly need an option upfront
Gunner89 i was told that haaland wasnt good and he mucks up city's play. i cant believe they havent binned him by now
Gunner89
City’s stop scorer was KDB on 15 the season they got 100 points.
Regarding youngsters- Even City now let them develop till 19-20-21 till they come in and deliver consistently
Look at Foden and look at Oscar bobb and cole palmer
Did they suffer in their development?
Margins in the league are so slim
goon
Why do you keep making up stuff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Manchester_City_F.C._season#Statistics
Aguero scored 30, Sterling 23, etc.
this one and the Eddie transfer are the most boring sagas we have had in a while. Also how did we delay it so much so we can get him on the cheap, yet somehow the numbers keep going up, from 25 to 40 mil now.
HomeSteak did we agree cheaper numbers earlier?
higher fee, but spread over more instalments by the sounds of it. whatevs, get it done so we can move onto something more exciting
Gazza M when the fee is paid is neither here nor there. It's the size that ultimately matters. Kroenke is a rich fucker with good bankers. What matters most to us is keeping all our fees as low as possible. Whether we pay it lump sum or over 20 years doesn't matter. Sociedad can receive a lump sum, but Kroenke's bankers can take the money from us over 5 years, for example.
Spread over a few years is definitely good, I'll take that. We've made it very obvious he's our option so they're squeezing Edu like mad now, but €25m always sounded unexpectedly cheap.
Burnwinter this guy is likely going to be one of our 3 primary starters. 25 or 40m for one of your 3 primary midfielders in a title tilt is fine.
We’re being linked with a move for Mikel Merino
Claudius when the fee is paid is neither here nor there
Simply not true in relation to PSR, old bean.
We've got both the money in the background and the projected future revenue growth in relation to financial regulations to lash out on bigger fees than this.
Seems to me we don't have the latitude for large nett spends while remaining within the PSR guardrails at the moment—all the more if we want to be able to sign anyone for pushing £100m in the next couple of years.
Claudius It's the same thing Claude. Whether we get a loan from bankers or from the seller is all one and the same. For instance, a 40M payment over 5 years is effectively the same as a 30M payment now paid by a 5-year loan @ 8% p.a. interest (approximately). So, negotiating payment terms with your counterparty is no different economically from negotiating a bank loan.
https://dailycannon.com/2024/08/arsenal-winger-summer-targets/
Hopefully the journalists are all completely off the trail here and we have a Vieira-style signing out of the blue lined up, because none of those guys appeal to me.
Pepe LeFrits I like Sane as a straight loan. The guy is a menace and will give us another great option up front. I honestly do not see a forward right now in the market that I feel we urgently need to go and buy. Sane as a bridge, without an obligation to buy, sounds sensible.
Pepe LeFrits that seems like a load of old triple really. Don't think we'll be in for any of them. And if we were we'd probably have signed them by now, all easily gettable.
30-40m for Merino who's 28 with 1 year left really seems abit much. But whatever, just get him in
Clrnc It’s taking so long to get this one over the line.
Burnwinter nope nope nope one of the great failures of all football regulation is that it focuses on profit and loss, and not cash flow. it doesn't look at the money actually going in and out of people's hands. if that was the case, do you think that Todd Boehly would have been able to buy up a squad of 45 players? he is taking advantage of profit and loss simply being a reporting tool that has nothing to do with the timing of when money actually goes in and out of your hands to corrupt football. it's the same thing that is happening with how we are handling Eddie and ESR. we are getting this massive profit from having raised them that has nothing to do with actual cash trading hands. we need to change this whole oversight of football to focus on cash. how much are you actually taking out of your pocket? and then people will behave responsibly.
