Friday, July 17, 2009

Money can't buy you love...

There's obviously something about Manchester City Football club that does not appeal...

Now as a typical Man Utd fan (i.e. someone not from Manchester!) I don't feel a natural animosity to Man City, as perhaps I would Bristol Rovers (also being a Bristol City fan raised in Bristol), so it's not a biased opinion. But has anyone else noticed that no-one seems to be that keen to go to Eastlands, no matter how much money is on offer?

City have so far spent £55m signing Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz and Carlos Tevez - decent players certainly, but hardly the 'Galactico's' that they were after! £200k a week not enough for Kaka; £250k a week appears not to be enough for John Terry. Emanuel Adebayor seems to be on his way from Arsenal, but really that's no big shakes...

Executive chairman Gary Cook insists that players coming in are an investment for the future; he wants Man City "to become the darling of world football." He added: "I think Man City has a strong heritage in the world of football, particularly in England. We've become the focus of attention, most definitely in the past 12 months."

That will happen when you spend £150 million in 12 months and still have a first 11 team that reads...

1 Shay Given
2 Wayne Bridge
3 Micah Richards
4 Richard Dunne
5 Pablo Zabaleta
6 Shaun Wright-Phillips
7 Gareth Barry
8 Stephen Ireland
9 Robinho
10 Carlos Tévez
11 Roque Santa Cruz

I don't know about you, but I don't think the likes of Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea will be too concerned - they might give Arsenal a run for their money, but when you consider the current Real Madrid squad (with my choice of first 11 highlighted in yellow) (and look at the names left out!) who do you think will be the 'darlings of World football' in the coming years? Not sure if they'll win anything though...I'll still put my money on Utd...
Forwards
Posted by Dave R at 9:36 AM

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