BOF Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 The FA need to bring in squad caps. Stop the Sugar Daddy'd teams buying up all the talent with their limitless funds. Say, 26-30 registered players for the season. Ummm...you know that they've already done that with a squad size of 25? When was that?This article refers to it by stating that of the new squad of 25, 8 need to be home grown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 why would somone turn down £80k a week to ask for £100k a week? Or more to the point, if someone offered you £100k per week why would you turn it down to sign for £80k per week? because £80k a week doesnt exactly make you poor, these arent guys on the breadline trying to ensure futures for their kids if you were talking those figures a year i can understand it, but when players are making huge sideways steps or even backwards steps to city i find it hard to put it down to anything other than greed That doesn't answer the question. If you were offered £100k per week or £80k per week, which would you choose? It's very well sniffing at it, but it's their living. They are going to try and do as well out of it as possible. What im trying to say is the kind of money these guys are already on makes them beyond ever worrying about their living! Adebayor for exmple must have been what 22/23, arsenal had put 5mil in his bank, would have put 10mil more but he thought hang on thats not enough for my future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Here's my prediction, and its probably a fairly lonely one... City will be no better this season than they were the last. Silva - Will be a flop, Small, Flair driven Foreigners rarely make it in the Premier League. Toure - May add some steel, but thats nothing they didnt have before with De Jong. Milner - A good player, a fine player for a team competing at their current level, but isnt going to take you from the periphery of the champions league to title contenders. Theyve done little to resolve their main weakness, being their defense. Their players will need time to gel, again. The foreign players will need time to adapt. Theyve already taken steps to replace their best performers of last year; Bellamy is being ushered to the door and Adebayor, who had a pretty good season, seems destined to be replaced with another target man (Balotelli, Djeko etc). And on top of that theyre slowly replacing the players who have a passion for the club (SWP, Bellamy, Dunne, Ireland, Richards) with Mercenarys demanding £200k per week. I really cant see how signing Robinho Mark 2, Toure and Milner is going to take them from 6th place to competing with United and Chelsea, no way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 Even if Citeh were to stand still, they'll have signed one of our 2 best players and Spurs will potentially have the extra distraction of the CL to contend with; and MC only missed out last season by a few points so I think they'd still get 4th. I do think they'll be better in any case, but just saying they may not even need to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I suppose you can't really blame the players. They are in a job, heck Milner might not exactly love it at Villa and the fact he can get double what he's on at Villa, it's an easy decision for him. Different for us because we support the club but if we played for example at Blackburn and was on 40k then offered to go to Bolton on 70k, it wouldn't be a tough decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Even if Citeh were to stand still, they'll have signed one of our 2 best players and Spurs will potentially have the extra distraction of the CL to contend with; and MC only missed out last season by a few points so I think they'd still get 4th. I do think they'll be better in any case, but just saying they may not even need to be. The thing about City is with each big name they sign, the pressure builds. All it takes is a bad run of form, and the turmoil begins. Players will piss and moan, Mancini will get sacked, they'll bring in the wrong guy, the owners will become bored, sell the team, the new owners will sell off their best talent, and the S.S. Man City will sink into oblivion. Matter of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 They arent going from backburn to boton though are they? They are going from league challenging cl teams to one who has barely been top half in the last decade for double their money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Even if Citeh were to stand still, they'll have signed one of our 2 best players and Spurs will potentially have the extra distraction of the CL to contend with; and MC only missed out last season by a few points so I think they'd still get 4th. I do think they'll be better in any case, but just saying they may not even need to be. The thing about City is with each big name they sign, the pressure builds. All it takes is a bad run of form, and the turmoil begins. Players will piss and moan, Mancini will get sacked, they'll bring in the wrong guy, the owners will become bored, sell the team, the new owners will sell off their best talent, and the S.S. Man City will sink into oblivion. Matter of time. All this was said about Chelsea as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Yep, it's just wishful thinking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Even if Citeh were to stand still, they'll have signed one of our 2 best players and Spurs will potentially have the extra distraction of the CL to contend with; and MC only missed out last season by a few points so I think they'd still get 4th. I do think they'll be better in any case, but just saying they may not even need to be. The thing about City is with each big name they sign, the pressure builds. All it takes is a bad run of form, and the turmoil begins. Players will piss and moan, Mancini will get sacked, they'll bring in the wrong guy, the owners will become bored, sell the team, the new owners will sell off their best talent, and the S.S. Man City will sink into oblivion. Matter of time. All this was said about Chelsea as well Exactly. It's almost seven years later - they're still in existence AND they've won a heck of a lot more silverware than we have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 Exactly. It's almost seven years later - they're still in existence AND they've won a heck of a lot more silverware than we have in that time. Fixed. A username like yours shouldn't be making that error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplySpurfect Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 It'll be interesting to see what their 25 man squad looks like this season, and whether they sell the seven or eight first team players they no longer want or just leave them unregistered for the whole season. There's also new financial constraints coming in soon, from what I recall, so I don't see how they're going to be able to support all these players and their extraordinary wages. And what happens if those players struggle to adapt to England? It's not entirely unfeasible, especially with Silva. Plenty of extremely talented attacking players have come to England and found it too difficult to play here, only to then seek a move back to Italy/Spain/etc. With the wages City are paying, they're gonna be stuck with those players because no other team will come close to matching the wages they're currently earning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 You make some very valid points there SimplyS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4rvillan Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 When they are willing to pay £200k a week to a Barcelona cast off, £30m for James Milner and all the other Football Manageresque signings they make, they are single handedly destroying the English game by distorting the transfer market to the extreme. It WILL all end in tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 See the thing is, they aren't really distorting the transfer market that much, only in the case of the players they want. Take Milner, anyone else bid for him? Not that has been rumoured. Anyone who Man City don't want don't go for stupid money, its only when Man City get involved does the price go up and even then they get turned down by players because they can't offer what the players want in terms of guarantees, competitions etc, they are still only getting the mercenaries to an extent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 It'll be interesting to see what their 25 man squad looks like this season, and whether they sell the seven or eight first team players they no longer want or just leave them unregistered for the whole season. There's also new financial constraints coming in soon, from what I recall, so I don't see how they're going to be able to support all these players and their extraordinary wages. And what happens if those players struggle to adapt to England? It's not entirely unfeasible, especially with Silva. Plenty of extremely talented attacking players have come to England and found it too difficult to play here, only to then seek a move back to Italy/Spain/etc. With the wages City are paying, they're gonna be stuck with those players because no other team will come close to matching the wages they're currently earning. Good points simply. Anyone got a current squad list for City with their home grown etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Current Manchester City squad: 1 GK Shay Given 26 GK David González 27 GK Joe Hart 37 GK Gunnar Nielsen 2 DF Micah Richards 3 DF Wayne Bridge 4 DF Nedum Onuoha 5 DF Pablo Zabaleta 15 DF Javier Garrido 17 DF Jérôme Boateng 19 DF Joleon Lescott 28 DF Kolo Touré (captain) 30 DF Shaleum Logan 36 DF Javan lVidal 44 DF Dedryck Boyata 45 DF Greg Cunningham 6 MF Michael Johnson 7 MF Stephen Ireland 8 MF Shaun Wright-Phillips 11 MF Adam Johnson 18 MF Gareth Barry 24 MF Patrick Vieira 29 MF Kelvin Etuhu 33 MF Vincent Kompany 34 MF Nigel de Jong 40 MF Vladimír Weiss 48 MF Abdisalam Ibrahim — MF Yaya Touré 14 FW Roque Santa Cruz 16 FW Jô 20 FW Felipe Caicedo 25 FW Emmanuel Adebayor 32 FW Carlos Tévez 39 FW Craig Bellamy 52 FW Alex Nimely -- FW Robinho Obviously they are going to have to whittle that down to 25, and they almost certainly will be buying more players as the summer progresses. David Silva will sign if he passes his medical after the World Cup and the Milner rumours will not go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 So at the moment 11 of those players won't be registered? Could probably name them too lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 I realise this is a stupid question, but why do they need to whittle it down to 25? Did I miss a rule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted July 6, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2010 Well yes, it would appear I did. That's very interesting - does the restriction only apply to league games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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