City unravel - Robinho walks out

[Rook]

To be honest I don't think any manager can handle big ego players. Drogba for instance has had some of the finest managers presiding over him and he still throws the toys out on a regular basis. The only thing that seems to keep ego players happy is having their ego massaged by regular success. This was never going to happen at City so buying in those kind of players was madness.

They needed to take our approach and build slowly, or alternatively the Chelsea approach and buy good players that hadn't thus far been at mega clubs. Can you imagine any City players displaying the cammaraderie that Cahill and Arteta did this week?

There's a lot more to success than having the best players.

Murinho can, plus he has the rep to attract talent. I was thinking he is coming next season but with City needing massive rebuilding I get the feeling that he might pass.

Like I said though, in football money always trumps poverty, even when you have a great manager like we do. City will be at the top of the league in a few years.

 

[teppic]

personally I think bellamy is a bad signing - disruptive in the dressing room, a bad character, low in ambition, mercenary and injury prone - they've also overpaid for him, to the tune of about £8 million.

He's 29, not going to improve and in three years time will leave for a nominal fee. Whilst he is fit they have a decent player, but what effect he has on his team mates and team position overall who can tell - he didn't uproot trees at Liverpool, got run out of town at Newcastle, was injured for most of west ham.

Hardly good business, but then, its just monopoly money innit.

that's a good post.

while i'm not going to backtrack, i agree bellamy is a prick who i would hate to see at everton.

i just think city need a good player, which bellamy sadly is, to replace some poor players upfront like vassell and benjani both of whom flatter to decieve imo. he will have a reasonable time there i think.

but yeah. monopoly money. 14 million? i bet that is what he earns in interest in a single day.

it got me thinking about what would i think if the same situation happened to everton.

tbh... i'd rather a super rich dude stayed away. of course i'd like some bloody money to spend... but if we had 104 million pound bids for kaka turned down it would make us look like a right bunch of ****heads. i'll leave that to city.

 

[neonleon]

it would and yet if he came here, he'd be joining a talented and successful squad as is. One that has a well established manager and needs only a handful of players to compete in the champions league.

what did we miss versus Liverpool? one or two world class players - they have gerrard and torres.

one world class player and we would have beaten them.