Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:35 pm
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Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:44 am
CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:Ethan Ampadu ( loan )
Shane Long ( buy )
These two...
Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:50 am
CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:Ethan Ampadu ( loan )
Shane Long ( buy )
These two...
Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:51 am
Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:24 am
1980s Bluebird wrote:We wont get f all in January apart from what Tan wants us to get, he will be sat in Malaysia with a cat on his lap like Dr Fecking evil saying "Billions of Dollars".
If he had any interest in us making a go of the PL he would have showed more trust in Warnock and spent a bit more.
World class young prospects wont want to come to us simple as that
Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:32 am
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:12 am
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:19 am
OriginalGrangeEndBlue wrote:CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:Ethan Ampadu ( loan )
Shane Long ( buy )
These two...
Ampadu would be a good shout but Shane Long?
No goals this season, 2 in 30 games last season and 3 in 32 the season before and 2 assists in that time! Give or take.
A great workhorse but not the goal scorer that we need.
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:43 am
City Slicker wrote:1980s Bluebird wrote:We wont get f all in January apart from what Tan wants us to get, he will be sat in Malaysia with a cat on his lap like Dr Fecking evil saying "Billions of Dollars".
If he had any interest in us making a go of the PL he would have showed more trust in Warnock and spent a bit more.
World class young prospects wont want to come to us simple as that
Great post but also January is a poor time to do business (as we found to our cost last season).
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:44 am
Bonner wrote:Hard to tell at the moment.. things change.. however def a striker and a midfielder and a defender wld not go a miss.. but Jan is so hard to get a good deal.
As for those slating Tan, need to realise he has kept us going for last few years.. he could of walked and left us in dire straights.. the bloke needs applauding.. one of our better owners.
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:44 am
CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:OriginalGrangeEndBlue wrote:CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:Ethan Ampadu ( loan )
Shane Long ( buy )
These two...
Ampadu would be a good shout but Shane Long?
No goals this season, 2 in 30 games last season and 3 in 32 the season before and 2 assists in that time! Give or take.
A great workhorse but not the goal scorer that we need.
I didn't realise it was that bad!!!
I've changed my mind... we go for Zlatan.
Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:48 am
Sven wrote:City Slicker wrote:1980s Bluebird wrote:We wont get f all in January apart from what Tan wants us to get, he will be sat in Malaysia with a cat on his lap like Dr Fecking evil saying "Billions of Dollars".
If he had any interest in us making a go of the PL he would have showed more trust in Warnock and spent a bit more.
World class young prospects wont want to come to us simple as that
Great post but also January is a poor time to do business (as we found to our cost last season).
Not really, is it?
I think certain people are beginning to forget exactly where we are in our development as a club since the dark days of not so long ago!
I think Vincent Tan has great 'faith' in Neil Warnock (as do most fans) and as someone else explained in another thread, the money received in the initial phase(s) of our somewhat surprising but to be enjoyed for what it is promotion to the Premier League is not enough to see us 'self-sufficient' once the remaining debt and the real running costs of being there are weighed up!
It is not in Vincent Tan's own interests to 'take the Premier League money and run' at this particular time and (so I'm told) there was money available for a 'decent' striker but the club were let down by more than one target over the summer window
Is that Vincent Tan (or maybe his cat's) fault?
I guess the answer to that will suit the individual's agenda; but the simple fact is that as Premier League 'new boys' (forget Wolves due to their risky but affluent strategy) who were immediately installed as favourites for relegation, we were always going to be up against it when it came to the 'better' players with (at least some) Premier League experience...and that is how it appears to have turned out with our only 'experienced' man being Bournemouth loanee Harry Arter
Under the circumstances and according to the more negative, City appear to be on a 'hiding to nothing' this season and that is exactly why a manager with the man management skills of Neil Warnock might just be the difference. He has 'improved' players for many years and (Man City apart) there have been signs of that in every game this season so far
If he can get the players to cut out the individual errors (and maybe pass the ball to our own rather than the opposition more often) then we will surely start collecting a few points as we go along
We all knew this would be a tough league and we (as a club) would have to build slowly and somewhat hope for year one survival and so it has turned out; but to put it all on Vincent Tan shows a certain lack of appreciation of where we were, where we are now and (maybe more importantly) how we got there!
As 2blue2handle says, the January window spending will come down to where we are positioned
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Bonner wrote:Hard to tell at the moment.. things change.. however def a striker and a midfielder and a defender wld not go a miss.. but Jan is so hard to get a good deal.
As for those slating Tan, need to realise he has kept us going for last few years.. he could of walked and left us in dire straights.. the bloke needs applauding.. one of our better owners.
Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:21 pm
Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:23 pm
Sven wrote:City Slicker wrote:1980s Bluebird wrote:We wont get f all in January apart from what Tan wants us to get, he will be sat in Malaysia with a cat on his lap like Dr Fecking evil saying "Billions of Dollars".
If he had any interest in us making a go of the PL he would have showed more trust in Warnock and spent a bit more.
World class young prospects wont want to come to us simple as that
Great post but also January is a poor time to do business (as we found to our cost last season).
Not really, is it?
I think certain people are beginning to forget exactly where we are in our development as a club since the dark days of not so long ago!
I think Vincent Tan has great 'faith' in Neil Warnock (as do most fans) and as someone else explained in another thread, the money received in the initial phase(s) of our somewhat surprising but to be enjoyed for what it is promotion to the Premier League is not enough to see us 'self-sufficient' once the remaining debt and the real running costs of being there are weighed up!
It is not in Vincent Tan's own interests to 'take the Premier League money and run' at this particular time and (so I'm told) there was money available for a 'decent' striker but the club were let down by more than one target over the summer window
Is that Vincent Tan (or maybe his cat's) fault?
I guess the answer to that will suit the individual's agenda; but the simple fact is that as Premier League 'new boys' (forget Wolves due to their risky but affluent strategy) who were immediately installed as favourites for relegation, we were always going to be up against it when it came to the 'better' players with (at least some) Premier League experience...and that is how it appears to have turned out with our only 'experienced' man being Bournemouth loanee Harry Arter
Under the circumstances and according to the more negative, City appear to be on a 'hiding to nothing' this season and that is exactly why a manager with the man management skills of Neil Warnock might just be the difference. He has 'improved' players for many years and (Man City apart) there have been signs of that in every game this season so far
If he can get the players to cut out the individual errors (and maybe pass the ball to our own rather than the opposition more often) then we will surely start collecting a few points as we go along
We all knew this would be a tough league and we (as a club) would have to build slowly and somewhat hope for year one survival and so it has turned out; but to put it all on Vincent Tan shows a certain lack of appreciation of where we were, where we are now and (maybe more importantly) how we got there!
As 2blue2handle says, the January window spending will come down to where we are positioned
Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:26 pm
Gaynor Straight wrote:Gary Cahill would do nicely