jonny1403

You say he'll barely play but: 1. He's one injury away from playing regularly and his competitors for the position are a constantly injured Willock and an 18 year old. We're going through a good run right now but one injury to Tonali, Bruno or Joelinton and his minutes massively increase. 2. We will probably have European football next season and realistically be looking at at least 8-10 more games that he will play a part in. 3. There's still a chance he regains form and becomes an important player again - which he's shown he has done before.

Good for him. I'd do the same if I was in his position.

That's such a weird argument Why not loan him to Fulham or Brighton then who aren't directly competing with City.

Why on earth would City allow a direct rival for a CL place improve their team?

No idea how you have come to that conclusion on Felix given that he's failed in his last two Prem stints.

Exactly. Last summer we needed to sell urgently to be compliant. This window we don't need to sell so we are in a better position, but we also can't buy without further sales. In the summer, we'll be in a better position still as we'll be in a new PSR window and be able to buy again.

City are the only club in the league that have made a signing for more than 20 million. I think it's pretty clear they are the only club that have the flexibility to spend large amounts without worrying about what happens in the summer. I'm not sure what doesn't make sense about that.

Yep that's a good point. You'd certainly hope that we had something concrete in place to avoid a repeat.

I also don't see how it's hard to believe that City are able to sign that player and we aren't. They sold Alvarez for 70 million last summer and made 50 million from other sales. They were in the best PSR position in the league by a country mile.

Numerous sources have confirmed that we would have needed to sell before June 2025 if we had bought Guehi. George Caulkin, the Athletic etc. I don't know what else to tell you if you don't believe that.

We didn't have the Guehi budget. It's been confirmed multiple times in the press. And there's no guarantee that a selling club would want to accept a deferred sale in the same manner as Hall. You have no idea how close or not we are to being able to afford a 30 million signing. The fact that zero clubs in the PL have made a 30 million plus signing with the exception of Man City should tell you all you need to know.

Yes and if we had signed Guehi we would have needed to panic sell before the end of June 2025 to avoid being in breach in that PSR period. Of course we have to wait and monitor to see how much we have to spend at any given time...its a constantly changing equation.

Well we didn't know how much we could spend a month ago. If we had sold Kelly, Targett or a purple we would have more flexibility. You don't just start lining up targets after a sale - you have to be ready to pull the trigger once you have PSR wriggle room.

The real reason is we enter into a new PSR window on 1 June for the year 25/26 and we lose the 22/23 window entirely where we spent big on Isak, Botman etc.

That's a 250 million net spend - how on earth is that remotely possible.

The second part of your post is just hyberbolic nonsense. Look at his outside of the boot volley v Fulham, his curler v Everton or his screamer v Villa and tell me they aren’t technically good goals.

I said he was technically very good with his left foot. Read my post.

Technically Miggy is a very good player with his left foot.

I assume any sale that is less than 20m for him would actually actively damage us for PSR reasons this season as it would come in at a loss? As he signed a five year deal, it means we can only sell him at 16 million next season, and 12 million the year after. And that's only to break even. He's going to be a millstone around our neck for years.

He isn't but Joelinton needs a rest and we need the rest of the squad to contribute. We can't play the same XI every game.

Yeah I'd do Willock for Joelinton for this game (just as Miley isn't proven on the left). It's a risk, but Willock is going to need to show he can contribute at some point this season if we are to make top four anyway.

Why the fuck didn’t Trippier take that!!

Christ this Barnes injury has come at the worst possible time.

I don’t think Pope comes straight back in now does he?

Dan burn man you are class