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Originally Posted by Sparky***
They’re not signing them to be world beaters, They’re bringing them in to keep them in the league. Once they’ve achieved that, then they really will put on the afterburners and start signing some proper players.
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This. Who did people expect them to sign? They’re not going to attract world beaters to a relegation battle. They’re signing to stay up and I reckon they will. Chris Woods will score goals, Kieran Trippier is a top full back. Lingard will do very well if he goes. The signings will lift them.
From there, they’ll sign better because they can promise PL football and REAL start of the ‘project’.
Signing big players has a compounding effect too. City started smaller, it wasn’t Aguero and De Bruyne. It’s was Shay Given and Wayne Bridge. Then you have that slightly bigger profile In Robinho and it starts to have an effect. Then it was Tevez, Adebayor, Vieira. It builds… It took them a few years and a change of manager. And they were starting from a better position than Newcastle now.
They’re signing what they need for now and nobody cares now that city bought Kelvin Etuhu in that first summer.
Newcastle will get there. It’ll just take a while.