Lrrr

No where near a mil

Can anyone explain Zouma’s thought process dropping deeper than the rest of the defensive line…

Add that to the things I didn’t need to be reminded of today

I’d be interested as to whether Knight has enough physically to still be involved regularly playing as one of the two deeper ones and seems to really be able to go box to box

Wouldn’t play Twine wide personally, always looks better centrally

The point was the other club had no knowledge of who the player was so there was no interest before the phone call, Hockaday essentially went out of his way so the player didn't sign for City.

That's up there with LJ's Europe in 5 years

Yeah not claiming its good, just claiming its how they operate.

Hard to say that for sure without knowing what their business model is, Norwich for example just want to be one of the 26 best teams in the country, so if they get relegated they're fine with it if they're in the play offs next season. Equally if Burnley did want money £2.5m - £4m in the prem is a drop in the ocean for what they'd need to spend.

Usually I would agree yes, but its another thing making the call after City had already agreed to offer a scholarship to the player, if SGS wanted the partnership to improve it didn't help it.

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Death, taxes, New Road being underwater

You're acting like SGS has always been generous towards City, Hockaday certainly did little to help City including inviting a friend of his who was head of academy at a Cat 1 side to come watch a player City had agreed to offer a deal to. SGS made a tidy sum off City for doing very little on the basis they couldn't really go anywhere else.

Anything like this he’ll probably just roll with what others say, why wouldn’t you if there’s a small chance they develop, won’t impact the business he’s allowed to do at first team level

21’s having a great transfer window

I actually felt sorry for Towler having to be on the pitch for that, no way he should have been put up against Sarr, just wasn’t ready for it.

He has clipped him in fairness

That was a really bad choice of job at a really bad time, too far out from a transfer window with too little there to work with. May be able to get himself a decent sized League 2 job, still some fairly well financed teams there. Or as another idea of what could be next, as Carsley gets linked to numerous jobs now perhaps England U21 or U20 (if they promote from within first) could be an option.

Pretty much as near enough all teams do. Players usually get about 6 shirts before they have to start paying for replacements if they want to give more away.

The guys who came on had been told to warm up a little before their sub, I think he just waited 5 minutes to see how their sub changed them with Delap moving up top.

I'd agree, sounds like the sort of off hand comment you can make as a joke after a heavy defeat. But equally wouldn't be surprised if Manning was already on a list our end (even if no contact made) pretty sure a decision had already been made that Nige wasn't going to be getting a new contract bar something like promotion so we'd have already been starting to plan ahead.

Oh yeah they’ll be no where near the big 3 clubs and probably not even the next batch. Their whole thing will be signing high potential talent nurturing it and then selling it on and sprinkling some longer term signings around those for continuity.

Yeah they were just the best example of a non traditional club playing in Europe

So another downside of the proposed new league system, Girona having a great season in Spain now and if they finish in a qualifying spot they get Champions League football next season, under the new proposed system they would enter the blue league and it would be a further two seasons of exceptional football before they reached the star league to be able to play against the best. Despite being a City group club they would likely have their squad ripped apart in that time with the best players going to City or sold for big money and trying to replace them while staying competitive.