Famous Nick

Grealish on loan? I think he could revive his form-career under Howe, and we could do something like half of his salary + 6-8m loan fee which covers his another half of salary for City. that way it doest blow our salaries within other players. wouldnt do a permanent deal as not sure how ambitious he is long term. feels a bit like he gave up after their treble win, like won it all, what else there is to fight for... but short term, in a WC year he might give his all...

I think we should look at similar profile and price as Hall and Livramento were. 30-35m price tops, young homegrown with lot of talent. they are ok to sit on bench first 6-12-18 months, not make a fuss if they arent starters week in week out. Also lot of resale value later on as home grown status is an extra premium these days. either from current rich clubs where they wouldnt get much chance or lower half sides ready to step up. imo McAtee a good player, interest in him from top Bundesliga clubs, can see him going there for two years then 50-60m transfer back to PL in two years time. I hope at least 1-2 players can be found in this profile a the squad and the bench needs ore quality for the brutal schedule we are going to have now with the new format CL where we likely not finishing in top, but be good enough to be inn top24, meaning total of 10 extra games just to reach last 16. (last time it was 6 group games to reach it)

Any names who could come in as a replacement? bit worried it could have a bad effect on our window that DoF just leaving right before window is starting. certainly not an ideal situation even if this guy didnt do much so far.

I wish this whole Saudi league stuff would go away. they put incredible money into, latest is salary of Inzaghi is like 3-4x higher than what he was on Inter, also now its tax free, this is just not going anywhere imo. I cannot see people start to watch Saudi league in large numbers. With C. Ronaldo soon finishing there, I think general interest will die down, he was the main hype factor imo around it. Instead of that they should focus on Newcastle and try to see City and PSG as examples in terms of results. Qatar and UAE are small players compared to Saudi Arabia. luckily for those two clubs they didnt care about making Qatar league and UAE league much more than it is... Of course PSR is huge block ahead of us but seemingly there are loopholes we should explore instead of watching rivals explore it (Chelsea) and completely get away with it. With our CL status for next season new line of sponsors should be coming in too, both Saudi and non-Saudi ones. there arent even legal rules around APT now imo with how City proved the whole thing is a mess and illegal. now would be the time imo to make some deals even if look bit overpriced. we need to strike while iron is hot, we cannot allow not getting CL end of next season, as then we need to sell top players and we are back to square one.