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These two must have some special skills to be able to waste millions upon millions and still have jobs.

 
Ok, putting my new positive outlook to one side here.

I want to know if there is one person on this forum willing to defend these terrible, terrible directors?

Anyone? Lavia out indefinitely and they refuse to recall Santos and Lesley to help out Caicedo, and our team. 

Cause lord knows all we have without Lavia is Caicedo, the rest of the options we have are not midfielders of PL level.

 
As Argo also pointed out our best back line is ALL players these directors DID NOT sign, and players they wasted money on are back ups.

James (Youth)

Chalobah (Youth)

Colwill (Youth)

Cucurella (62mill, signed by Todd)

Vs

Gusto (25mill)

Disasi (40mill)

Badiashile (35mill)

Veiga (12mill)

And that's not even getting in to all the other positions they have messed up on.

Basically they get credit  for two signings. Caicedo, who they almost bungled had he not turned Pool down, and Palmer, who mainly is down to Joe Shields.

 
The Rising Sun said:
Thanks for your reply mate. What do you reckon the new nine and 9 and half year deal at  £500k a week Citeh have just given to Haaland? 

Do you reckon they must know they've mostly beaten the charges ? 
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I think they don't care either way and want to ensure they will be duly compensated if another club comes calling for him. Realistically though, only Real Madrid can afford him and they already have Mbappe.

People underestimate Man City's current on-paper revenue, these days it is only behind Manchester United and Real Madrid. First of all, they signed Haaland relatively cheaply with conservative estimates of the total fee (including bonuses) being just £85m, and that was already offset by big outgoings that season (Arsenal paid for Haaland through Jesus and Zinchenko alone). On a five year contract, his PSR accounting cost is just £43m a season, a fraction of their reported £718m current revenue.

The charges are irrelevant to Man City if they strong-arm the other clubs into voting down the APT rules. Since so many clubs in the league rely on favourable shareholder loans they are using this as political influence to coerce the other clubs to vote against fair market value assessments for sponsorship rules. Brighton, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest all rely on shareholder loans and Chelsea, Newcastle and Man United also have a lot to gain if third-party sponsorships are no longer restricted. Without restrictions on the value of sponsorships, Man City can turbocharge their revenue with UAE company sponsorships and won't worry about any FFP/PSR concerns ever again.

 
They are good scouts but are awful team builders.

Their job isn't supposed to be cherrypicking talented youth to be raised, farmed and sold. 

Their job is to build winning teams year in year out.

How tf is it that hard to get that through their skulls?

 
axman2526 said:
Ok, putting my new positive outlook to one side here.

I want to know if there is one person on this forum willing to defend these terrible, terrible directors?

Anyone? Lavia out indefinitely and they refuse to recall Santos and Lesley to help out Caicedo, and our team. 

Cause lord knows all we have without Lavia is Caicedo, the rest of the options we have are not midfielders of PL level.
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These two are to sporting directors what Herod was to childcare.

 
Deino said:
They are good scouts but are awful team builders.

Their job isn't supposed to be cherrypicking talented youth to be raised, farmed and sold. 

Their job is to build winning teams year in year out.

How tf is it that hard to get that through their skulls?
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I don't think their goal is to build a title winning squad. 

 
Our plan as Eghbali said is to be "Brighton" of top club. So far so good, paez, palmer, jackson, santos, madueke, gusto are definitely worth far more that what we signed them. We are also paying less salary than under Roman. We finished 6th and was unlucky not to finish in top 4 last season(number wise say we should have) and imo we will get top 4 this season. 

The multi club model is also working. Santos, Petrovic and Sarr.

What happen when the plan lead to crazy season ? As we saw last season, it is coaching and tactic issue. Mudyrk can actually play, it is the coach. Enzo can actually defend, it is the coach. Manager plays a lb on LW, it is not squad issue, it is coaching issue. 

 
I think they're sh*te but they obviously want to win things, it would make the players even more profitable. What kind of backwards logic would falling into mid table obscurity be to any of their investments. Did we spend 220M on two CM's for the profit?

 
Ukraine Bolt said:
I think they're sh*te but they obviously want to win things, it would make the players even more profitable. What kind of backwards logic would falling into mid table obscurity be to any of their investments. Did we spend 220M on two CM's for the profit?
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Time will tell because those two are not compatible and we lack control whenever you stick the pair in the middle. Playing a £105m midfielder as a RB is also not a long term solution, something has to give.

 
ducavis said:
Time will tell because those two are not compatible and we lack control whenever you stick the pair in the middle. Playing a £105m midfielder as a RB is also not a long term solution, something has to give.
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I don't disagree but it clearly proves they want to win things if they're willing to spend that much.

 
Ukraine Bolt said:
I think they're sh*te but they obviously want to win things, it would make the players even more profitable. What kind of backwards logic would falling into mid table obscurity be to any of their investments. Did we spend 220M on two CM's for the profit?
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No big team want to be a mid table team, everything will collapse 

 
ducavis said:
Time will tell because those two are not compatible and we lack control whenever you stick the pair in the middle. Playing a £105m midfielder as a RB is also not a long term solution, something has to give.
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It is funny that we can say the same thing for all of our signing. 

Individually, almost all of them are excellent but not sure they are compatible 

 
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Ukraine Bolt said:
What will collapse? Are we the big team in this scenario? Confused.
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Chelsea will collapse. Revenue wise we are one of the top 6 (big margin compare to other 14) and we are 4th in term payroll. Now imagine if we continue finishing in midtable, the whole thing will collapse

 
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