04 Jan 2019 09:17:17
The most disappointing for me at the moment is the situation we've left ourselves in with any potential transfers. The board stating they won't sign players unless we sell to give ourselves a transfer budget. I think that the way we've been with recent transfers have caused the board to take these actions.
I would like to think the board would fork out £15m or so to sign a good quality young player that can get into our first team, a player that they can make a profit on in seasons to come. However, if you look at the players we've sold and bought in the last few season you can see why they wouldn't take this risk.

Looking at transfers since the 15/ 16 season.

We bought Angus Gunn in the summer to compete with McCarthy, without letting go of FF, therefore we have an expensive GK lurking around in the squad.

Our midfield, we keep buying CM's. In the past few seasons we've sold Morgan Schneiderlin and Victor Wanyama who have made us about 40m in transfers. However, we've then gone out and Romeu, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Clasie and Armstrong. Who all cost over £50m.

Up top we've only sold Pelle and Rodriguez for 18m and we've bought: Charlie Austin, Shane Long, Carrillo, Gabbiadini, which is another 40m+ in transfer.

The point I'm trying to make is that we can't expect the board to invest the squad when we have so many players we can't sell and make a profit on. The only players in our squad I would say that we could make a profit are: McCarthy, Cedric, Bednerak. Romeu, Lemina, Austin, Hojbjerg. Which isn't great when you think the likes of Hoedt, Gabbiadini, Clasie, Carrillo, Boufal all cost us a lot of money and haven't actually put in any service for the club.

If we've got deadweight in our squad that RH doesn't want we should sell it and cut our losses. Us being a selling means that we have to get almost every transfer right and the last few seasons we just haven't done that.

1.) 04 Jan 2019
04 Jan 2019 11:27:47
I'm pretty sure that's the plan saintjay - sell the deadwood and cut our losses. The problem has often been since Poch left is that we have had a succession of managers with less idea of ow to build a team. Despite us brining in a number of centre-midfielders, they all play different roles and have different strengths and weaknesses.

RH seems more clear in knowing the type of player he wants in each position and the role he wants them to play. This not only informs the physical attributes of the player but the skill set required to balance the team.

With a lesser man at the helm, the transfer situaion would be a slight concern but with Ross Wilson and RH working closely on trasnfers, I am more confident that any players we bring in will have a better chance of improving the team.

2.) 06 Jan 2019
06 Jan 2019 22:37:20
I understand this point from a business view, but you do not take over a club in a struggling position and believe that you can sell poor players for cheap and get good players for the same price. That's not how it works unfortunately. We have seen our club sell countless players for £30+million and bought who of real stature or talent?

Even now in January we speak of selling and all I see on sites is about us selling. Great get rid of the deadwood but we need to spend if we want to see us climb the table. From a business standpoint he needs to spend to get a profit back.

I'm sick of people seeing us as a personal piggy bank, we have never been a massive club but till 15 years ago who were Man City, the board needs to buck up and start really showing some heart and dedication to this club. It's the same old story, that has happened with many clubs. How did they honestly think it would end differently?