i think looking at our present forwards only Aluko is good enough, i hope i am wrong regarding Prozzy and fryatt well i am hoping he will be good enough but i have my doubts. I think the big difference between the premier and championship is pace. So for me we need at least two forwards in but i would be happier with three. I do think we will sign one for around 4 million and then unless there is a second available for a couple of million then i think it will be loans
Exactly what I've been saying for weeks now So one decent signing (a half-season loanee), one OK one and ten **** ones, all for a combined cost of £10m+. A comment beyond stupidity.
I can't believe I'm stooping to reply to your post, but you have misinterpreted so horribly the point I was making that I guess I have to correct you. I was not passing any judgement on the quality of the 2008 signings - as you pointed out, many of them were clearly ill-advised. All I was doing was clarifying the timing of the signings and illustrating that there is plenty of time left to sign players and that in 2013 the club is well ahead of the schedule it followed in 2008. Now kindly **** off.
What kind of moron thinks that the timings of our 2008 signings have any bearing on those this season? Your comment could hardly have been more pointless. Thank you for your 'contribution' to the thread. Now kindly **** off also, thicko.
I agree with ^^^^^ this. FFS enjoy the summer. Cardiff and Palace have spent stupid money on players who are a big risk. Thank heavens we have Steve Bruce looking after business this time around.
Your tactic of shock-level abuse in order to cover for the lack of logic in your arguments is, I'm sure, recognised by all and sundry on here.
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Im well happy with SB's signings so far we are IMO a much stronger side than what started our first season in the Prem. If we get one or more of the strikers Bruce is supposedly aiming for we will be looking very competitive to stay out of the bottom 3 Palace , Stoke , Norwich , Cardiff , Sunderland , Fulham and Southampton will be our probable relegation rivals (there may be a curve ball from Everton and West Ham) and though we may go straight back down we will be competitive i expect.
I think we'll flop and finish rock bottom. Palace are really no better than us, but they're at least quite good going forward so they'll probably win a few games at least. I think we'll be lucky to win more than three matches. One forward isn't enough. We need two at a minimum, plus a third as backup. I was confident a couple of weeks ago that we'd make a go of it and get some decent players in, but I've come to realise I was deluding myself in expecting us to go about our business in a way other than the tinpot, small club manner that's come to epitomise us.
We'll know for certain once the season is underway just how good our business has been but at the moment no one should fault the work the club is doing. It seems in some people's eyes they can do wrong for doing right.
What a load of bollocks. For once try and show some belief and pride in the team you support. Writing us off in pre season is frankly stupid.
As a regular user of football forums, I've noticed that it's almost solely City fans who think that someone being realistic about the side's prospects and/or criticising the club/team, is evidence of that person not being proud to be a City fan. I am. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have been a season ticket holder for eleven years. I'm sorry if I find it hard to get excited about the prospect of heavy defeats every week. I attend football for very different reasons to most people and I'm aware of it (namely that I care not a jot if our opponents are Manchester United or Rochdale), but frankly you can go and **** yourself if you don't like being told. Over the past six months, we've had people getting genuinely excited about signing players like Elmohamady and Meyler for twice their worth, whilst the real issues - strikers, strikers and strikers - go ignored. The Premier League doesn't excite me and the idea of competing with a team as poor as ours, which has as much chance of staying up as I do of winning Wimbledon, does so even less.
Money doesn't buy success, look at QPR, Swansea bought cheap, got a bit of success. Who are these players that the other teams are buying? Well know PL players? We have a long way of this window to go, yes we need quality, but with the fair play rule coming in, should we be spending stupid money on players? Yes we need the striker(s) but at what cost?
I have to say I am very pleased with the type of player being recruited, they seem to be coming here because they want to play football, and want to play football for Hull City in the Premier League. Of course they are going to be paid handsomely, but this time around I think there is the necessary limit on wages (McGregor had to take a pay cut to come here so the reports go). They are of a good age, and should the worst come to the worst and we don't stay up, we should do very well in the Championship and come back stronger still the next time around in the Premier League with an ever stronger core of players and a larger pot of money to further strengthen it. With Bruce in charge we can attract a higher caliber of player just because of who he is and what he has achieved over the years. This coupled with the Allams sensible spending policy, means the future is bright, the future is black and amber. Come on City, this has been the longest close season ever....
Ever the optimist. I think we will struggle, but to say we will do well to get 3 wins is ridiculous. I think we have more money to spend than we are letting on and if we do go down we will be financially better off to go again.
I couldn't be happier with the signings we've made so far. The club is being very clinical, filling gaps in the squad steadily and i have no doubt we'll have every position sorted by the beginning of the season. Just because a player's fee is small doesn't mean they're not up to it. City are scouting excellent players and acquiring them for fees that should be applauded. Cardiff and Palace seem reckless to me, flashing the cash and hoping they look impressive to other potential signings. I'd say our squad is stronger than both Palace and Cardiff except for up front, and we still have a long time to sort that out. Expect things to really pick up when the loan market gets going.
