Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
Pretty clear that these owners had no plan - or, if they did, they were hopeless at executing.
Do you really think hiring Moyes was the "plan" when they took control? Or scrabbling around now, being constantly rejected in the dog days of the window like a drunk teen at a soon-to-close nightclub? They've been confounded by events time and time again.
These fellas might pull a few rabbits out of the hat by September 1, but any real hope we had that they would be a serious proposition has shrunk like a pair of Jack Grealish shorts in the wash.
They've been great for our finances. Fair dues. But right now the idea that they might flip us when they've sorted our finances out is not the dangerous change some of us might have feared...
HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £35m
Stupid wages do cause chaos for players when they drop off. I don’t blame them, but it does make everything they do and say a bit embarrassing.
Player: I just want to play football. I want to go somewhere I’m appreciated and I can express myself.
Buying club: Based on your last 2 years form, we’ll offer £130k per week. We’d love you in our squad and think you could take us to the next level.
Player: But I’m on over £300k a week?
Buying club: But you aren’t playing, the manager left you out of a summer squad and you are training alone.
Player:
.
Unrealistic these days to see a player take a 60% pay cut to just play every week. But wouldn’t it be amazing if one did.
Player: I just want to play football. I want to go somewhere I’m appreciated and I can express myself.
Buying club: Based on your last 2 years form, we’ll offer £130k per week. We’d love you in our squad and think you could take us to the next level.
Player: But I’m on over £300k a week?
Buying club: But you aren’t playing, the manager left you out of a summer squad and you are training alone.
Player:
.Unrealistic these days to see a player take a 60% pay cut to just play every week. But wouldn’t it be amazing if one did.
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £50m
No.
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £50m
Will he though?
Keane N Kean
Player Valuation: Free Transfer
Be our best player along side Ndiaye
Bluerover
Player Valuation: £60m
Duncan usually wore shinpads and socks pulled up. Although he was the type of player one might expect to be socks down à la Dave Thomas!
Thing is it’s not really on the buying club to sort out any shortfall between his existing contract and what he’s owed by their current club.Stupid wages do cause chaos for players when they drop off. I don’t blame them, but it does make everything they do and say a bit embarrassing.
Player: I just want to play football. I want to go somewhere I’m appreciated and I can express myself.
Buying club: Based on your last 2 years form, we’ll offer £130k per week. We’d love you in our squad and think you could take us to the next level.
Player: But I’m on over £300k a week?
Buying club: But you aren’t playing, the manager left you out of a summer squad and you are training alone.
Player:
Unrealistic these days to see a player take a 60% pay cut to just play every week. But wouldn’t it be amazing if one did.
He’d probably take £130k from a new team provided the team he’s leaving makes up the difference from any fee they get.
City will be as keen to see him off the payroll as he is to play regularly I expect.
Sadly im inclined to agree with you at this point . Moyes was the safe bet at the time i get that , but you've got to back him .
The last thing we need going into a new stadium is walls between the owners and the manager.
This will then alienate the fans at some point . We are divided as it is
Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
It's been a bit of a disaster, Phil. I was really hopeful about the Friedkins. I was disappointed they plumped for Moyes in January - I wanted a brand new face for a brand new era, not the detritus of "Good Times" - but, as it turned out, he was unquestionably the right choice to keep us up. They got that decision bang on in terms of survival. However, the alarm bells rang for me as I hoped they'd have had something a little more future-oriented lined up. But it was hard to quibble with the job Moyes did. Keeping him on became inevitable - but I hoped they had greater reach. Moshiri brought in Carlo. What could these guys do? As it turned out, Moyes deserved to stay on and be backed. But they have really let him down.
I still think they will redeem something of themselves before September, but my hope that they would be a seriously competent game-changing outfit was for the birds. They are financially competent - that, in itself, is a massive improvement. But they don't appear to have the wherewithal to make us truly competitive again. At least, there is no evidence to suggest they do.
I’d rather a McAtee as an upwardly mobile player for the now and future, and someone who can make his name with us, but feeling like it’s less likely to happen
If not I would deffo take Grealish
We are so short of quality up top. Ndiaye and Charley have ability but they aren’t top level yet and blow hot and cold
Grealish would be our best player by a mile
We have had cast offs before but they were the likes of Walcott, schnederlin, van de beek etc who were never that good to begin with
He would be a difference maker up top
If not I would deffo take Grealish
We are so short of quality up top. Ndiaye and Charley have ability but they aren’t top level yet and blow hot and cold
Grealish would be our best player by a mile
We have had cast offs before but they were the likes of Walcott, schnederlin, van de beek etc who were never that good to begin with
He would be a difference maker up top
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
The backing Moyes thing I don't get.
The window is open for another month.
Yeah Moyes is moaning about not getting in the players he needs, which suggests he isn't the one calling the shots on who we buy, thank Christ.
Just a hunch, but maybe recruitment is focused on recruiting with a strategy of the long haul, focusing on youth and players who can develop a d the highest quality ones we can in that regard.
Maybe Moyes - talking about only limited time here and Europe being the aim this season doesn't share that idea and would rather bring in players ready right now with lots of experience, why? Because if anyone think you offered Moyes a European finish the next two years then after he leaves the club fell off a cliff again due to recruiting older players with no long term vision - that he wouldnt accept that over two years of mid table but then handing a very talented developing younger team over to a new manager who kicks on with us, then you are kidding yourselves.
The annoyance from Moyes is because he is not getting the players through the door that HE wants, more so than not getting anyone. And I can guarantee those players will all be ones the wrong side of 25
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