Winter Transfer Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[HCZ_Reborn]

HCZ it's simple, we've had an extremely poor transfer strategy in this club for ages and that was because of our obsession with youth started by AW.

When he became desperate towards the end of his reign thats when things changed and we started getting class like Laca and Auba (both paying top dollar for in the same year).

You buy who you need, can afford and will add value to your squad.

To make it crystal clear, IMO the only position we have that gives me sleepless nights is Partey's. If he gets injured today and the club don't sign cover before January, IMO they are not serious.

If he gets injured later (after January) and its clear that we went downhill because of his absence, I will still blame the club because it was obvious to all that his position is pivotal.

All I am saying, is if you identify a proper potential target that will add value, sign him and stop coming up with silly excuses of age or any other crap.

Go the extra mile, leave your comfort zone, do what it takes to win.

This is the most difficult league in the world, you can't just fill a checklist and expect you'll win by being ordinary.

And stop being silly, we're obviously going to finish in the top 4.

It was Wenger’s youth policy that kept us in the top four for so long when it was abundantly clear that we were sticking to the self sustainability model. The main mistake he made was to stick these players on ridiculous contracts

Then when we were able to bring players in we brought in average dross, we went down the table and couldn’t get rid of them

The problem is you’re presenting it like it’s a choice between being like Chelsea and being unambitious and I utterly reject that notion.

In fact I think the idea of the desire to spend now when the players are not available is small club mentality, because it supposes that we will never have a chance like this season again. My preference is to build a team that will compete for the title each and every single year which clearly wasn’t the ambition of the club between 2006 and 2014…it was to keep us on a sound financial footing whilst we paid down the stadium debt. So your comparison is Apples and Bowling balls. Whatever shit we might have been led to believe at the time, that was the reality of the situation

Man City’s team a lot of their players are the wrong side of thirty and they know they have FFP breathing down their neck. Chelsea may not give a shit, but I don’t consider they are going to be contending for anything any time soon.

If we needed to recruit in January to give us any chance of the title, the fact is we never stood a chance. January is for sticking plaster solutions….I’d love to have the complete squad that we need to win the title, but the fact is that’s not going to happen in this window. And that would be true if we were City or Chelsea


If we’d signed someone like Douglas Luiz, if Jesus hadn’t got injured at the World Cup I would say we were well in contention for the title regardless of Mudryk (he’s a prospect…well so is Marquinhos and so is Vieira).

The fact is you say the only injury that gives you sleepless nights is Partey, well no offence but if that’s the case why are you throwing your Teddy out of the pram that we didn’t sign Mudryk??…did you think we would have spent the amount Chelsea did on him AND bring in cover for Partey !??