Their budget is fine. They've got in excess of £100m of players out on loan because they've bought badly.
Dunno if it applies to the young players City have, but the big issue I've got with City's transfer policy is with the likes of Mooy and Arzani. Players who have been signed with no intention of them ever playing for City but who City make a nice wee profit from anyway.You have to think they had an idea this was coming. The Pulisic sign and loan and the 18month loan spell for Higuain make a bit more sense now.
I'm not gonna stick the boot in until I'm sure we don't have one coming too
Mooy was a mid 20s journeyman Aussie footballer when they signed him and immediately loaned him to Huddersfield.
It's even worse with Mooy when you consider he was "purchased" from a club that the City owners already own.
Yeah it's a total FFP dodge. There's a number of transfers that City have inserted themselves into where they have no business.
Doubt it, Southampton aren’t terrible but they’d be doing really well to get 16 points from the games they have left.
Funny team Southampton. They looked like they were picking up under they new manager but seems to have deteriorated again. My gut instinct is that they are too good to go down, but that's been wrongly said before, of course. I wonder what's the highest number of points for a relegated side since the PL became a 20 team affair.
Yeah I, like you, often watched them and thought they actually looked pretty handy. But, insert cliche about it being a results-driven business here I guess.
360-odd days before?
They were doing it with a really young team too, really felt like they were on the up. Their results aren’t even that bad.
Yeah exactly. For these reasons it's actually a really attractive job for an up and coming and/or ambitious manager imo. Young squad of technical players, club with good facilities and infrastructure, decent bit of money behind them.
