Mate, if you see the way people carry on about how "pathetic" this window has been, unless we spend £200m we won't be finishing in the top half.
Nope, it's your view of the squad and envying other teams.
We actually have a manager who can improve a player. The Manc clubs are pumping money on above average players to save the faces of the frauds they have in charge.
£75m+ on Lukaku? Is he even an improvement on Ibrahimovic?
£80m on two fullbacks in Walker and Danilo who weren't even first choice at their previous club? Another £50m on Mendy? £35m on another keeper who was shaky on their US Tour?
Do any of those sides have players in their team from last season that you're worried will be better this season? Gabriel Jesus and Leroy Sane from City and Pogba from Utd are the only ones i see stepping up on 2016-17.
For me players like Matip, Gini, Emre, Henderson, Coutinho, Mane and Firmino all have the ability to have even better seasons. Half of those had patchy seasons and we still finished fourth.
The only team i'm worried about is Chelsea.
Still waiting for that file of bullshit you claim to have that contains all my posts...
Believe it or not but when the coach says he'll use the training pitch to improve the side some will believe in that method. Especially when he did so with Milner, Gini, Lallana and Firmino to give them new roles and get us in to the top four and have us looking like a title-winning side for 6 months. He also transformed Henderson and Lucas for when they were on the pitch.
I can flip your argument on you and say you're getting in your complaints now to point the finger when we finish 6th and say "I told you so".
You want more transfers. Good for you. I'm content, though.
This type of reasoning is fallacious for the most part.
Lucas Leiva who the team just sold, started 19 games last season, and 12 in the league. With an increase in games, that is something hat you would have to come in and replace, either through someone coming in via the market, or you promoting someone from the youth ranks. Maybe Joe Gomez and Marko Grujic can replicate that; this is what the optimist would come in and say, but the chase for Keita and Van Dijk shows that there is not as much confidence as some would love to believe is the case.
A Salah type signing was needed, mainly because the team struggled for someone with pace the moment Mane was either injured or in the African Cup of Nations, so he comes in and immediately fills an area of priority in the team. Someone like Solanke? He is worth a punt if people upstairs think that he can become someone special going forward, but he is in an area where the team is not necessarily lacking.
Going to City, they needed to get younger in certain areas, and that is something that they have gone on to do. Zabaleta, Sagna, Clichy and Kolarov were all over 30, and they needed to replace them. They have got Walker (starter at Spurs......started 31 league games last season), Mendy (starter for Monaco) and Danilo who was behind one of the best right backs in the world at Real Madrid in Carvajal.
Sagna and Clichy gave them little in attack, and all four were nowhere near quick enough to help the team when they lost the ball. On paper, this team should be better equipped to play the high line.
They will go into the season having Yaya Toure available, something that they did not have at the start of last year when there was a row between his agent and the manager. They go into next season with Vincent Kompany available, and talk is that they are looking for another CB. In September, they can look forward to Ilkay Gundogan, and IF he stays fit for the better part of the season, they have a world class player that can call upon.
Manchester United? You are talking of Lukaku and comparing him to Ibrahimovic. Ibrahimovic is 35, injured. How could he be of help to United for the better part of this year even if they saw it fit to keep him?
47 games LFC.
47 game Chelsea.
53 game Tottenham.
54 game Manchester City.
55 game Arsenal.
64 game Manchester United.
You are looking at 7 games where the team needs to play the first team, and then you are looking at the League cup where one would assume that you would see some first team players alongside some youth. You have four games traveled outside the UK, and the team will get some big team from pot 2 (unless you are lucky to get a team like Porto) and it is a toss up in pot 1 because there are some really strong teams in there, and some weaker.
All those teams up there are used to having European football, and playing strong teams in it, then coming back home and playing some strong teams especially in the FA Cup. In recent seasons, the cups have not been something that the team has taken seriously and today, we have fans coming here talking down what other teams are trying to do in the market. These are teams built to try and win the league as opposed to simply making top 4, especially when one looks at the depth teams like City, United, Arsenal have. Chelsea could get there if they continue adding.