Made no secret that I am unconvinced by him, but I decided to create a profile of his biggest strengths to provide balance.

Tactical Fit - He has plenty of experience holding width for Dortmund, and appears to fit the mould of a winger that Maresca wants.

Club Knowledge - Joe Shields recruited Gittens to Man City at 14 (per Secret Scout), and knows his character and attitude. Enzo Maresca coached him in the City Development Squad.

Experience - Despite being only 18 months older than George, he has 40 Bundesliga starts and the experience to come in and start Premier League games.

Dribbling - His dribbling data is exceptional, among the best in Bundesliga and is a differentiator at progressing the ball. This will fit Maresca’s system — as he will progress the ball reliably whilst maintaining control.

Shooting - He strikes the ball well, and takes shots from aggressive positions that our current wingers do not do enough. Watch some of his strikes, as well as his shooting data.

Familiarity - He has played with Palmer, Lavia, Delap before, and that is a strength to this deal that should not be underestimated.

What do you guys think of Gittens?

Via Tom Overend-X

Right footed Madueke.

FireSide

Gitten or Kitten!!

The question of whether to buy or not to buy a kitten can only be answered by what you want. A pet or beast that runs mice wild in the hood vs the options you already have to do this.

Better than George? Strength wise I'd say yes. He tries to shoot yes. But shooting is not a conversion. So is he better than Noni or Sancho or Neto?

Do we all remember Sancho Dortmund numbers? Was Dortmunds Sancho better than Dortmunds Gittens?. A big yes.

Now, what are our intentions? An upgrade or another squad player? What would he be?

People thow around numbers like shit. 50! .. 50 for this guy?

We paid 28M for Noni. 25M is being floated for Sancho, 42M for Palmer and 51M for Neto.

Value for money. This should be the bottom line.

Gittens is a Kitten. Nothing near 50M. 50Million or more should be an upgrade. Not another squad player. With that you'd rather add 20M and get a complete package in Nico Williams. If not Pay 25M for him.

It's not my money but we should cut the crap and do the surgical strengthening of the team. And if its additions then they better be worth the Value

#Alternatives

Nico williams is not the only option. United want Garnacho out. Only a crazy team can pay 50Million for Garnacho unless it's Arabia. Garnacho should go for anything between 20-30. I hate his antics at times but the kid has potential. For 20-30 that's a worth risk. For 50 its another Bullshit.

Yet still he is still not the only option. We are fans. Not sporting directors. It's their job to look for other options and alternatives.

Even the Gittens

The bottom line is VALUE.

Marseille are searching for a left-footed centre-back and have inquired about Renato Veiga's situation from Chelsea.

Via Marc Mechenoua

Even with limited minutes, Gittens still showed a fine end product, scoring 8 times and providing 3 assists across 1786 minutes of game time at a rate of a goal involvement every 162.4 minutes.

He proved in the opening months of the season how effective he can be with regular game time.

What stands out most about Gittens is his directness when on the ball. It’s well known that Maresca wants his wingers to play with freedom to create for others, and this approach plays to the 20-year-old’s strengths.

~ Ben McAleer via WhoScored

🚨 Alejandro Garnacho would prefer to stay in the Premier League this summer over joining Napoli and has his eyes on a move to Chelsea.

(Source: Sun Sport)

He’s not even worth £30m, i’ve watched him several times and he’s very very average, he’s raw and has glimpses of brilliances once in a while but if we want to compete for titles he’s not the one we need. He’s on the same level as Garnacho. People who don’t watch him think he’s good

This Fanbase needs to understand not every signing would turn out to be a Cole Palmer type signing. There would be more Diego Morreira type of signings than the Cole Palmer’s. more gash signings on the way. How many of the 70 players that we’ve signed have even been a success?

Chelsea have made a formal transfer request to Frankfurt for Hugo Ekitiké
However, Chelsea are unwilling to pay the £84.3 million that Frankfurt want to put into their coffers!

[ The Athletic ] 🎖 📰

Value for money?

This is exactly the thinking Arsenal used when they loaned Sterling. Him being terrible still cost them because they had to play Saka non stop, despite the low risk. We should not be justifying loading our team with mediocre players because of the low risk.

I always said Felix and Drewsbry Hall unnecessary, and now we're looking to sell them just 1 season after signing them. We can't keep making the same mistakes.

I got behind the Delap signing because I assumed he would be the only 'good value' signing we'd do this window, but if that's the strategy for the whole window I don't see us challenging for anything big anymore.

Right now we need needle movers, players that can take us from 4th to challenging for titles. Garnacho doesn't do that, Gittens doesn't do that, and I doubt any player valued under 50 million does.

So can we please stop justifying going for players that make no real difference to our situation.