Corsham Ed Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Gone on loan to Stoke, with a 7 million fee come January. One player I would love to see play for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curr Avon Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Me too, Corsham, but we'd be accused of living in Dream World. Still, there are benefits to Dream World. City have won the Champions League for 5 consecutive seasons and now play in the Stade de Steve, an 80,000 capacity behemoth that was erected on the backs of Ashton Vale dog walkers, and features the Moulin Rouge wall, an all singing a Capella homage to safe standing. Come on in, the water's lovely and the zyder is well cloudy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 56 minutes ago, Corsham Ed said: Gone on loan to Stoke, with a 7 million fee come January. One player I would love to see play for us. Woods will be there in January but Rowett won't be ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Cotterill had the chance to sign him for less than 1/10th of that fee but refused. To this day I still find it baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 6 minutes ago, Harry said: Cotterill had the chance to sign him for less than 1/10th of that fee but refused. To this day I still find it baffling. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Spoons said: Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Its not hindsight. It was pretty obvious he was a good player then and would be even better in the future. Knowing this was happening at the time I was stunned we turned him away. So definitely not hindsight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsham Ed Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 10 hours ago, Harry said: Its not hindsight. It was pretty obvious he was a good player then and would be even better in the future. Knowing this was happening at the time I was stunned we turned him away. So definitely not hindsight. One of my favourite players in the Championship. Always plays well when I watch him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAman08 Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Would have bought all 3 gingers when we went up. Rated all of them our double winning season. Doyle, Clucas and Woods. Think Doyle left midseason tbf but would have been about 3m total outlay? Only one that hasn’t done it was Doyle but reckon he would have scored here(everyone does!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 In the past we have passed up chances on the likes of Woods and McGuire, and others. More recently we did likewise with Ollie Watkins. There will always be ones who got away but sometimes we seem to reject players of obvious merit. The other side of the coin though is that if we sign a player from Leagues 1 or 2 a minority of fans will have a tantrum because they want somebody they think is a big name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalcub Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Makes a mockery of the transfer deadline , going on loan then signing , it's just another way clubs will get around the deadline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick's Marvels Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 2 hours ago, chinapig said: In the past we have passed up chances on the likes of Woods and McGuire, and others. More recently we did likewise with Ollie Watkins. There will always be ones who got away but sometimes we seem to reject players of obvious merit. The other side of the coin though is that if we sign a player from Leagues 1 or 2 a minority of fans will have a tantrum because they want somebody they think is a big name. Let's not re-write history. We did not pass on Harry Maguire (sic). City knew he was a good player (John Pemberton), were interested, made an enquiry - possibly even a formal offer - that was rejected. That's completely different from scouts recommending Ryan Woods and City replying he's not good enough, not what we want, we're not interested and refusing to even consider making an offer for him. You're right, there are plenty City have passed on that have proved themselves good players - Harry and others on here have a list as long as your arm but it won't have Maguire's name on it. Strangely it does include a centre half who is now filling Maguire's boots at Sheffield United - Jon Egan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperRed Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 10 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said: Let's not re-write history. We did not pass on Harry Maguire (sic). City knew he was a good player (John Pemberton), were interested, made an enquiry - possibly even a formal offer - that was rejected. From what I heard the offer was accepted and terms were agreed ... initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 20 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said: Let's not re-write history. We did not pass on Harry Maguire (sic). City knew he was a good player (John Pemberton), were interested, made an enquiry - possibly even a formal offer - that was rejected. That's completely different from scouts recommending Ryan Woods and City replying he's not good enough, not what we want, we're not interested and refusing to even consider making an offer for him. You're right, there are plenty City have passed on that have proved themselves good players - Harry and others on here have a list as long as your arm but it won't have Maguire's name on it. Strangely it does include a centre half who is now filling Maguire's boots at Sheffield United - Jon Egan Corrections appreciated. Was I thinking Mawson before he went to Barnsley perhaps? Anyway, historically we have been a bit snobbish about players from lower leagues imo, including non league. Indeed, when explaining the bias towards signing players from Europe at the time we were doing that, MA said there weren't many gems in the lower leagues. I think the evidence suggests otherwise. No doubt he would argue that the cost is higher domestically but on the other hand I would suggest the risk is lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Another (Ginger) that got away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 1 minute ago, RedM said: Another (Ginger) that got away About time our analysts added 'must be ginger' to their criteria for rating players I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Don’t forget Jesse Lingard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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