u/Alburg9000

Can someone please explain why people are picking and choosing when buying/developing young players is OK…?

I’ve had people argue we need to drop young players and start buying more established talent because the young players were the reason for the last two seasons (They weren’t)

Yet I’ve seen people get excited sbout us buying Savinho (21 y/o) for 50-60m, and now Fernandes for even more (21 y/o)

I’m also seeing people excited about some of these younger wingers we’re looking at…do you guys understand if our young players were in these teams they’d be performing just as well??

I’ve come to understand people don’t actually care about age, ability etc they just care that it LOOKS like we’re doing something by spending alot even if it’s detrimental/non-productive

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I’m completely confused on how this Vuskovic situation has sprung up…yes RDZ deserves some control over the footballing strategy but why is he being allowed this much after a few games?

Yes he kept us up but he’s not even given Vuskovic a chance? I’m now seeing reports of us signing Gakpo…wtf

Why are we rushing a rebuild in such a low stakes season? This feels like a complete overreaction to two years of under reacting - I fear we’re lining up even more problems in 2-3 seasons

Alright, everyone! Hope this is alright to post.

It seems like you're on the verge of signing Savinho from City, so I thought I'd give an overview of how City fans feel about him and how I feel about him personally? Delete if you want, mods.

I'll be honest, virtually no City fan is sad about this deal. 99.9% of us are fine with him going. Getting £60m for him is honestly being seen as a really unexpected surprise.

I'll start with the pros. There are some. He's got that ability to run in a slow-FAST-slow-FAST-slow-FAST-FAST manner that full-backs absolutely hate. He's good at nipping away from people and finding space behind his full-back.

There have been occasional patches of good form, especially over December to February in the 24/25 season, where he's worked really hard in a good run of games and has managed to combine his attributes with consistent effort for a few weeks.

He seems to have a decent relationship on the pitch with Haaland, too. He's provided more than a few assists for our big Norwegian number nine, which is something even Doku initially struggled with. It's only really De Bruyne who's really been in full sync with Haaland.

And the main headline, I suppose, is that he's still very young and has time to develop. He's 22 years old and won't be 23 until the end of next season. A manager like De Zerbi should be able to get something out of him, and might be forgiving with him than Guardiola ever was.

Now for the cons... Erm, honestly, we (the club and the fans) just don't think he's got it. That X factor wingers need. He's got all the individual ability and skill to be a top class wide player, but getting all the dots to connect at the same time seems like something he'll never quite manage.

He's definitely better on the left, where he can go on the outside of his full-back, but when the goal gets near it's like something takes over him. His finishing is nervy and weak, his crossing can be erratic. When he beats his man and gets a chance to cross, it's 50/50% that it'll even go near the right person.

He just has this annoying tendency to get himself into really good positions and then produce nothing. Then that missed chance gets in his head and he can't get it out. When he goes through on goal there's very little faith that he'll go round the keeper and score, or provide the perfect cut-back for a tap-in.

And on the right he just seems to get lost nowadays. Miscontrols the ball, struggles to beat his man, doesn't fully understand where he's meant to be, doesn't have that creative spark to beat a packed defence, and can't really be trusted to find something big when the chips are down.

He seems like a decent kid and he should have a really high ceiling in the right set-up, but a lot of Blues just don't think he's got that dog in him. The potential is mostly there, but he's not kicked on this year after a patchy but sorta promising first season. £60m this is a big risk for you guys.

Playing for a Spurs team that won't faced parked buses as often as City do might be the making of him. He definitely plays best against teams who don't sit in the box and leave a bit of space behind the full-backs on the counter. It might be the case that Pep was holding him back.

But... yeah, you guys will need to be patient with him.

Further reading:
The Bluemoon Forum transfer thread about Savinho: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/savinho-may-2026-spurs-linked-again-p218.369146/page-218

Savinho's Bluemoon Forum performance thread from the 25/26 season: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/26-savinho-2025-26.368689/

Just my opinion

i made a thread a few weeks back saying we shouldn’t rush the rebuild and seems like the club are doing exactly that…

Van de Hecke and Savinho

These are not smart signings imo, seems like they’re available and the club wants to take a punt on them

Signing above average-mediocre players for big money and high wages is stupid sorry, we have one game a week it’s the perfect opportunity to find out which of the young players are good enough

We may do well and people will use that as an example of something but this seems rushed and panicked imo

Use next season as a building block

Use youth players, give them minutes

We don’t need to rush straight back into europe/CL football

We have talent that just needs to be coached

It’s more beneficial to find out which young players have a chance here and which ones don’t

I get people want to win now but I think it has to come organically, we need to develop players

Does anyone else find it interesting how different the reception is on each platform…?

Youtube is like 90% positive comments, with less focus on the cast

Reddit is 90% negative, very anti joe and more critical of the pod and cast

Twitter is about 50/50 depending on the day or week, also noticed it’s more pro flip

I’ll link the thread/comment later but I’ve noticed from comments in this sub and other footy subs, so many non-fans speak confidently about our situation?

Is this a general thing or spurs specific? When did we get so many ‘neutrals’ who follow us?

The comments were complete nonsense (for some weird reason, non-fans were defending Frank lol) but was being upvoted which was shocking to me

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/ugTsVf2qIl