Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
2 of them are awful are one isn’t even a centre back
Sounds kinda familiar doesn’t it
Of course your entitled to the opinion but to me stones or ottamendi wouldn’t get in our side
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Tanguy Ndombele
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Sounds kinda familiar doesn’t it
Of course your entitled to the opinion but to me stones or ottamendi wouldn’t get in our side
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
The other thing to add is City can have circa £80m worth of duds and don't even blink.
We can't carry mistakes like that.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
It’s always the thing I’ve said with city
They can write off players at a value other clubs can’t afford to even buy at
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
No it doesn’t sound familiar. City have 4 bona-fide options to play center half in the second half of this season, 3 of which are actually centre halves by trade. We have zero number 9s for the whole second half of the season.
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Luka Modric
What was wrong with us doing a deal for (say) Rondon, like Man Utd did for Ighalo? Might’ve cost us £8 million for the 5 months but how much worse off will we be next season with no CL? I bet that £8 million would be covered just by advancing against Leipzig
Kane always, always starts when fit. That's not because we don't have another 9, it's because he's that good.
I'm fairly sure we're one of very few teams with a player that good, in a position where we only play one player, who don't have oil money to tinkle away on wages.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Then we had better be prepared for him to suffer injuries like this one every season. Don’t have the money for second striker option? Good to know what the most expensive STs in the country get us!.... I think even Watford have 4 strikers.
The one who used to play for Saudi Sportswashing Machine?
9, 8, 7 & 11 goals per season in his last 4 PL seasons is a very good reason.
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And he's also apparently on £60K a week. For Salomon fudging Rondon :ross:
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You're counting Welbeck aren't you, admit it.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
He was an option I’m surprised we didn’t go for TBH
The guy would do a job possibly...
But I can’t agree with you on city’s CB options... they have own CB of any quality. Him being out has given them such a drop in quality they have given Liverpool the league. That’s the level their other CBS are at.... stones and Ottamendi are so bad he has opted to play an ageing DM there instead
milo
Jack L. Jones
And if you can't shift him in the summer, he costs you a lot more than £8m and could block us signing a player who could fill the position long term.
Hootnow
Jermaine Jenas
He said a deal like Ighalo (ie a loan deal until the end of the season).
I find some Spurs fans' insistence on denying we may have mismanaged our striker squad management baffling. Espcially if we're talking about a club that wants to win trophies.
If we're happy finishing 5/6th and win nothing , then we've not done anything wrong.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Whether City have quality or not at centre half is subjective. You cannot argue that they do not have any center halves however. I could make the same argument for us at defensive midfield.... 3 options, all crap, but at least they are options. Is there another team in the PL without a single number 9 to play the second half of the season?
There's about 15 clubs without a single number 9 good enough to start for us for the rest of the season.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
This
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Luka Modric
15 clubs who don’t have a better number 9 option for Mourinho’s defensive, long ball game than Moira or Bergwjin? I’m not sure there are 3, let alone 15.
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In which case I can see why you're frustrated.
If I thought any of the ten a penny, journeymen, half-arsed forwards dripping around the bottom of the league were good enough for our club then I'd be fairly tinkled off that we hadn't employed any of them.
But I don't. I don't think any of them are good enough and am perfectly able to cope with deferred gratification.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I hope your patience is rewarded, I truly do.
I fear we slip out of the CL placings this season, thus severely reducing our transfer budget this summer, meaning that we cannot improve our squad as we need to and slip further from the top instead of solidifying our place amongst the elite clubs.
I will gain no pleasure if we fall back amongst the also rans. I go to each game wanting Jose to prove me wrong. Hopefully he will change his tactics so that we’re playing not deep and using long balls with no physical presence up front to make it work.
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Gerry Armstrong
The fact that more clubs can pay high wages also means strikers are less happy to sit on the bench these days.
In the past we’ve had the likes of Mido, Kanoute and even Keane and Defoe spend considerable time on the bench.
Nowadays players of that quality prefer to be first choice on a big salary at a lesser club than sit on the bench week after week. It’s difficult to buy a backup.
In the past we’ve had the likes of Mido, Kanoute and even Keane and Defoe spend considerable time on the bench.
Nowadays players of that quality prefer to be first choice on a big salary at a lesser club than sit on the bench week after week. It’s difficult to buy a backup.
If we don't qualify for the CL this season you've only got one man to blame, and he'll probably be fudging things up for Madrid by that point.