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January 2025 Transfer Window

Rzar

Rzar

Bob McKinlay
Steve Chettles Brylcream said:
City spent 175m just in this window alone.
Somebody make it make sense
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If you want the proper answer, they sold about 130m worth of players in the summer and spent nothing. Factor in their huge revenues to begin with it lets them spend plenty. City haven’t had a huge net spend throughout Guardiola’s time there compared to other teams they just sell smart.

I don’t think they are signing because of future embargo’s, they just need players that they should have signed in the summer
 
Statto

Statto

Free Kick Specialist
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EmmersonForest4

Steve Chettle
Berkshire Red said:
It makes complete sense. For some clubs, the rules do not apply*.

* see also Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG ......
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Berkshire if there were no rules they’ll spend a shit more money than us anyway. PSR is limiting them as well as us. Those clubs revenues and capital is ginormous. So if psr didn’t exist they’ll still outspend us. The problem is the massive gap of revenues and in the US the clubs in their leagues share this. So if we want to close that gap that is the only way we can. Unfortunately there are 500 million United fans on earth. There is no way in competing with that. So United are supported by a massive country with the amount of fans they have and city are owned by a gulf state.

Forest have no chance really.
 
Master Yates

Master Yates

Stuart Pearce
I wonder if we made some very ambitious enquiries for players, but the response from the players was something along the lines of “come back in June if you get in CL”.

And we thought it better to keep our powder dry and go big in summer rather than spend money on second or third choice targets?

Either way, praying Woody stays fit now…


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Des's dirty Y-fronts

First Team Squad
Bit underwhelming that. The Alex Baena/ Cunha/ Wissa / Jesus/ Roberto talk and Marinakis previous January form had me utterly convinced we were going to add someone who would improve the starting 11.

That said: 1. Our current squad is 3rd (in Feb). 2. As Nuno kept saying, our squad is very good and the main objective was to keep all of the players. 3. We're not overstretching ourselves with psr 4. No disruptive changes to squad dynamics. 5. We have very good players just back from injury.

I like the analogy someone posted earlier, that you don't finish putting together a jigsaw then try to wedge in new expensive pieces.

At least it's SLAMMED SHUT. The window gets a bit f***ing annoying at the end of the day.
 
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JonnoSnr

Viv Anderson
Garibaldi Warrior said:
Do we think Chris Wood will be first choice for another season? (34 in December) or are we going to spend big on a new 9? If we’re in Europe next season I highly doubt Chris Wood will last.
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Based on the assumption he'll hit 20 goals as an absolute minimum, it'd be crazy surely to consider not starting the season with him.

This is the problem many clubs have. Spurs had it for years as they bought Richarlison, Jansson, Llorente plus others to be Kane's back up. It's nigh on impossible to attract a top striker when they know they're going to be on the bench, at least to begin with.

How many clubs (that play 1 up front) have two strikers that are both quality? Villa just did because they struck gold on a punt with Duran but there aren't many. If you're signing a back up striker they tend to be either young and up-and-coming or the wrong side of 30 and winding down. That was sort of what we got when we signed Wood who was initially signed to be Awoniyi's understudy.
 
Monkman

Monkman

Jack Burkitt
Don Pablo said:
The mini meltdown on here totally exposes the way expectations alter the logic of a football fan.

3rd in the Prem, best owners we have ever had, know what they're doing etc etc

14 Games, piece of piss lads!

It makes sense to me, and it obviously makes sense to the club. BIG summer incoming.
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Now expect us to go big to meet Cunha's release clause in the summer. Whether we get him ahead of more established teams is another question, but I'm pretty sure we'll try.
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
If the young winger is bought by is and goes in to the youth team, does that count as youth spending? So exempt from ffp?
 
Scott Gemmill's Hair

Scott Gemmill's Hair

Youth Team
I'm fairly content with this window. Don't fix what is broke.

We've signed two key players up to new contracts.

We didn't sell any star players.

We shouldn't need to sell any key players in the summer. See Villa - who had to sell even though they got CL football (stricter UEFA PSR rules apply).
 
Alf-engelos Mindminackers

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Canadian_red said:
I know what you're saying Alf but determining and evaluating what the right thing is, that's the difficult (impossible) thing to work out. We've had plenty of times where we've bought cover and they've been absolute bobbins and made no difference at all but now we're out of pocket. Who should we buy? Is that a reasonable price that we can afford? Are they willing to come and potentially sit on the bench? Do Marmoush and Gimenez regret turning us down?

How many players good enough to bang goals in in the premier league are also happy to be second fiddle. "if woody gets injured you're our go to guy", is not a big selling point.
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Oh sure, I don't doubt that the club hasn't tried it's best and been very logical and analytical in their approach. I didn't want some bag o' wank like Origi here for sure.

But it just all feels a but risky now. Having been bit in the arse in past seasons with such risky windows (like with Davies season 1 and Shorey) and having seen the success which considered/good Jan investment has brought us, with such signings as Wood, Surridge and Davis all coming in during their respective seasons, it just feels the wrong move.

Might not be, we're creatures of learning and sometimes we take away the wrong lessons from events, but past seasons do give me some concern.

And like I said, even if we do pick up injuries and fail to qualify for Europe, I'll be disappointed but still fine with it as we're still moving forward. My gripe will come if that happens and then Marinakis pins it on Nuno like he did giving Cooper 2 God awful lower league keepers to keep us in the Prem and then thinking it was the manager who was the reason we were struggling, not the dross in net giving the opposition a goal head-start every other game.
 
Monkman

Monkman

Jack Burkitt
Wood did not help in the season he arrived, apart from the point he helped earn vs City. Whether we got him that January or in the following summer would have barely made any difference.

And it's not like any new signing is a guarantee of quality, especially if they have no PL experience. There are risks in both approaches.
 
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Cloughie1975

John Robertson
I’m slightly disappointed that we couldn’t get a quality striker over the line but I’m happy that we have kept our
best players and haven’t fallen into the trap of overpaying or signing players for the sake of it (which has happened
to us in the past to our cost).
We should be in relatively decent position to strengthen sensibly in the summer when the market is somewhat easier
to operate in.
 
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DeletedUser

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Pretty much just hanging around waiting for a full and frank apology from @Bob Fossil

Just saying.😉

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Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Bobby The Brain said:
He’ll be #1 until he can’t justify it.

We’ve had an absolute result on this guy.

We paid £15m in a panic for a 31 year old who’d scored 4 goals in 34 appearances at Newcastle. In his loan spell he scored 1 goal in 7 games, and due to the structure of loan we had to buy him. Since then he’s scored 31 goals in 55 games. 17 in 24 this season.

Wood’s goals per 90 minutes (0.79) is 4th in the league, behind Isak, Haaland and Salah. Which us an excellent achievement by itself but what makes Wood really extraordinary is the amount of shots taken to achieve those figures…

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Unbelievable Jeff.
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I saw that his conversion rate of 38% is the highest that there's ever been since they've been tracking this stuff, and by quite some margin (minimum 12 goals to qualify).

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weejockmcplop

weejockmcplop

Grenville Morris
Monkman said:
Wood did not help in the season he arrived, apart from the point he helped earn vs City. Whether we got him that January or in the following summer would have barely made any difference.

And it's not like any new signing is a guarantee of quality, especially if they have no PL experience. There are risks in both approaches.
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Yep and I think this would have factored into Nuno's thinking on this.
Our performance levels with players who hadn't gone through the Nuno preseason was pretty poor last season.
He might not really want players he hasn't had a preseason with just because of that.
 
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