Manchester City should spend big without caring for public opinion, and what the hell I mean by that? Open thread.

Van Djik wasn’t signed because Manchester City didn’t want to pay up, and we have seen many other occasions this turned into an upset. Koulibaly, Koundé and now settling for Ruben Dias is settling for less when the club should only accept for the best.

Dias isn’t a bad centre back, neither is Ake, but were they what the club needed for the backline? No. Txiki should’ve paid up and get this over with. Same with Chilwell when you have Mendy collapsing once every three matches or getting injured for months.

Liverpool spent massively on Alisson and VVD, look at the end results. They knew when to get the marquee signings.Evident that in the Pep era, rather than spending big once, Txiki goes for spending two or three times at a lesser price.

The last players that Manchester City spend to bring at all costs (not talking about cost-benefit in the long term, but how it was seen at the time): Walker, De Bruyne, Sterling, Mahrez, Laporte, Ederson and Sané.

The only player that wasn’t successful by this method as Mendy.

Say Txiki had spent big on Chilwell and Koulibaly in the summer of 2019, things would have turned out drastically different.

Txiki is making the same mistake this window. Ake and Dias rather than 80m straight away on Koulibaly or Koundé, bringing Ferran Torres rather than going for Sancho, and Chilwell’s at Chelsea so they’re likely to get a lesser player.

What Manchester City have done wonderfully well and Txiki deserves a lot of praise for is keeping the wage bill hierarchy in order, which causes far more impact than spending 60m on a centre back rather than 80m.

Looking back on the defeat vs Leicester with a clear head, wouldn’t say this Manchester City season is doomed, many injured players and no pre-season, but what worrying is initiall looks like a repeat of last season and that should never be allowed to happen.