QUOTE (X-Offender @ Jan 27 2022, 11:42 PM)
We shouldn't have let Capanoglu leave, we should have given Brest those 15m they were asking for Faivre and be done with it (I read he's close to signing for Lyon now), and we should have gone for a better option than Giroud as vice-Ibra.
Things would have looked much better now. Instead we acted stingy and placed too much reliance on Zlatan. Maldini & co. haven't exactly been stellar in their decision-making either.
I don't know what the plan is for the summer. Rumours about us closing the Botman deal before June are strong. He would be a great addition. But then he'd cost around 30m, and we need to make at least a couple of signings in attack (RW, CF). Do we even have the budget?
Julian Alvarez is close to joining ManCity for 25m. I would have given an arm and a leg for him at that price. And who do we go for the RW? There's rumours about Kulusevski being offered by his agent but the club doesn't seem particularly fond of the idea.
I just hope Maldini knows what he's doing...
I reiterated all summer that we should have given Hakan that contract. Because replacing him would be a huge headache, not to mention a far ore costly operation than giving him the measly extra mil he wanted
Giroud is a good player imo and a good back up. We really couldn't anticipate that first he'd get covid and then back and thigh problems that he admitted himself was still feeling just a few weeks ago. Do I think we should have gone for someone who could take over from Zlatan for the future? Of course, but the limitations are there for the management and if the budget was what it was then you can't do much more.
The decision making from the management has been good in terms of where they decide to put in money. Because as I mentioned, all the moves that we made which cost the club over 10m have all been good moves. We haven't struck out once.
Obviously the filler players like Ballo-Toure, Messias, Bakayoko (who I must admit I was all for), etc haven't turned out well bcause they had their hands ties. But at least we didn't sink a lot of money in them as we would have done in the past. Bakayoko and Messias are pain free moves which we won't go thought with. And BT was only 5m and he's on a small salary so he'll be easily moved on. That's the key here. We're not making panic moves that we'll pay for for 5 years straight. See Samu, and many other players signed by previous managements which were impossible to move on without incurring big losses because of the huge salaries and transfer fees paid.
Let's not even talk about Alvarez. Do you honestly believe that is all he cost City? I cannot even begin to comprehend the agent fees, signing bonuses and other family related fees City paid to get him. For get the transfer fee, that's become the smaller issue today. Look at the Vlahovic deal. Now it's emerging that aside from the 70m owed to Fiorentina (excluding bonuses), they paid big commissions to his agents and father. Transfers today are not that simple.
It's why FIFA and UEFA are corrupt and why clubs should have stuck to their guns and gone ahead with the SL. They implement FFP on the clubs who cannot fight back while allowing PSG and City to do as they wish. An even worse, they have not done anything about these agents extorting clubs for commissions