City transfer thread

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But you've lost 3 key players already. I've seen nothing but discontent on these forums and not even a rumour of anyone joining you.

I had you as favourites to come straight back up when you first went down but now I'm not so sure.

The only people that are discontent are the ones who are pissing their pants over a lack of transfer activity. It's June, most players, managers and agents have been on holiday and nobody really gives much of a **** until tomorrow. Our team aren't even back in pre season yet, so what difference would it make if we signed 6 players tomorrow or had already signed 4 in the last month? Is the world going to run out of players for us to sign? We shouldn't rush this, we did that last season and look where it got us. We need to go for quality over quantity as the majority of our side is more than good enough for this league anyway.

Our back four as it stands is Robertson, Chester, Dawson, Elmohamady. Yeah we've lost two defenders but there won't be many defences in our league better than that. Both McShane and Rosenior are replaceable, don't mistake cult status for squad importance; both were fan favourites but they're not exactly world beaters and it was their promotion experience that we could've done with, but we can just sign somebody else, it's not the end of the world. Same goes for Quinn.

In fact by waiting for other clubs to move it allows us to see who becomes available as a consequence, which isn't such a bad thing at all.
 
I don't have a crystal ball though matey.

I'm only going on what i've seen so far. I expected to see you keep all of the players you had in your last Championship season and you've not even been linked with anyone.

Just seems odd.

We've been linked with plenty, they're just mainly bollocks(like Muntari today), Andre Gray and Craig Gardner are the only ones that seem realistic and probable.

Hardly anyone has signed anyone yet, we'd only signed two players by this time last season and we were sloshing about in Premier League money then. As with most clubs once relegated, we've got some tidying up to do before we go shopping, we expect all three strikers to go, we've released a load a dead wood(along with a couple most of us would rather have kept), but there's loads of time and we're exactly where I'd expect us to be.
 
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But you've lost 3 key players already. I've seen nothing but discontent on these forums and not even a rumour of anyone joining you.

I had you as favourites to come straight back up when you first went down but now I'm not so sure.

I had you as favourite to be stalking our boards like some annoying pest

Your odds keep shortening
 
But you've lost 3 key players already. I've seen nothing but discontent on these forums and not even a rumour of anyone joining you.

I had you as favourites to come straight back up when you first went down but now I'm not so sure.
3 key players? Apart from Quinny who is decent I am sure we can replace Rosie and McShane. I would use the term key loosely.
 
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The only people that are discontent are the ones who are pissing their pants over a lack of transfer activity. It's June, most players, managers and agents have been on holiday and nobody really gives much of a **** until tomorrow. Our team aren't even back in pre season yet, so what difference would it make if we signed 6 players tomorrow or had already signed 4 in the last month? Is the world going to run out of players for us to sign? We shouldn't rush this, we did that last season and look where it got us. We need to go for quality over quantity as the majority of our side is more than good enough for this league anyway.

Our back four as it stands is Robertson, Chester, Dawson, Elmohamady. Yeah we've lost two defenders but there won't be many defences in our league better than that. Both McShane and Rosenior are replaceable, don't mistake cult status for squad importance; both were fan favourites but they're not exactly world beaters and it was their promotion experience that we could've done with, but we can just sign somebody else, it's not the end of the world. Same goes for Quinn.

In fact by waiting for other clubs to move it allows us to see who becomes available as a consequence, which isn't such a bad thing at all.


well said
 
Rosie and McShane going were understandable and long term fair play, Quinn going on a free is a shocker, was good when he played in the PL for us, would have really been a top played in the champo. Gutted about this one, but Bruce reaps what he has sewn.
 
Rosie and McShane going were understandable and long term fair play, Quinn going on a free is a shocker, was good when he played in the PL for us, would have really been a top played in the champo. Gutted about this one, but Bruce reaps what he has sewn.
A stitch in time makes the crops grow.
 
would love to know what's going on behind the scenes at city, get the impression all is not well, hope I'm wrong.

It's not, most of the players really don't like Bruce. I don't know how many times it needs saying before ostriches start poly morphing back into people.
 
Seems the N'Doye to Swansea rumours have some strength to them, apparently he is to undergo a medical in the next 48 hours or so.
 
Everyone we've lost so far are very replaceable.

I've said about 65 pages back, if we were to replace Quinn with Leon Britton then I'd be very happy. He'd be a step up.

It's only if we start losing the likes of Chester, Dawson and Jelly that we'd have next to no chance of replacing with comparable quality.
 
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Everyone we've lost so far are very replaceable.

I've said about 65 pages back, if we were to replace Quinn with Leon Britton then I'd be very happy. He'd be a step up.

It's only if we start losing the likes of Chester, Dawson and Jelly that we'd have next to no chance of replacing with comparable quality.

We have next to no chance of replacing Rosenior. People with his commitment on and off the pitch are very hard to find these days.
 
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But you've lost 3 key players already. I've seen nothing but discontent on these forums and not even a rumour of anyone joining you.

I had you as favourites to come straight back up when you first went down but now I'm not so sure.

To my knowledge we have lost Quinn and that is it
 
We have next to no chance of replacing Rosenior. People with his commitment on and off the pitch are very hard to find these days.

Don't get me wrong, I'd have kept Rosie. But for Bruce he'd be warming the bench.

Likes of McGuire and Lenihan need to have the opportunity to step up.