The Manchester City Society II

Interesting comments from Mancini after the game - 'it's over'. Mind games? Or genuinely believes this?

We get this all the time though.
-Caicedo was doing well averaging more than a goal every two games
-We then spend £70 million on Tevez, Adebayor and RSC
-Adebayor does ok and Tevez well, RSC flops
-We sign Balotelli and play him on the wing for half a season
-Adebayor doesn't do much wrong but is replaced by Dzeko
-Dzeko when he's getting some form together is replaced by Balotelli who now plays centrally
-Dzeko doesn't quite hit the ground running so we sign Aguero

Now we have Aguero, Adebayor, Balotelli, Dzeko and Tevez with RSC written off as a flop and Caicedo who would be perfect for us as a 4th striker leaving for peanuts. And we also have to accomodate Guidetti who's done well in the Dutch league. Unless we lose 3 of those strikers and get a decent fee we won't spend big on another striker.


Compare Dzeko's record at Wolfsburg and Cavani's and are they really that different?

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How many more strikers will you guys buy? Damn that's terrible, why get rid of caicedo. Although jo was terrible, balotelli was bought because mancini knew him so fair enough, aguero was bought as a replacement for tevez, but tevez had no suitors. Dzeko was bought for no obvious reason. Maybe I guess mancini didn't trust balotelli enough/tevez leaving so he bought dzeko, only way I can get my head around buying him. Not that he's a bad player, but a big name who's just a bench warmer and barely gets games isn't worth 27 million despite his talent.

We've also forgot robinho. Star player for a season, was then dropped and made to play once every two games after buying all those players and he didn't have it.

Cavani is probably as good as dzeko, forget him like you said. How many more strikers are you possibly gonna buy, your strikers over the past 3 years have costed at least 100million.

I would say stick, unless balo and tevez go, there is no need to buy a striker, tevez and ade should be going, but you'll be fine with dzeko, balotelli, guidetti(if he keeps up the form) and aguero.

Before anyone says anything, barcelona have one striker(although he never gets injured) and another left winger who is a striker naturally while real madrid have two with a third makeshift striker in ronaldo, you guys will be fine with those 4 tbh. Guidetti does deserve a chance, so there's no need for a big name. Unless you want to do daniel sturridge mk2, we'd love to mug you guys off again .

Why do people not get that Mancini respects United. Always he talks with an annoying amount of respect, admiration etc. Maybe he just rightly believed they would beat Spurs, and equally rightly believes they will win the title. Simple.



You have a strange patronising tone considering you're a Chelsea fan. Jealous we're a lot better now no doubt.

Also as a side point I believe Kolarov is the best left back in the league and probably the world.

Can't be saying stuff like that when you're a Chelsea fan surely?

How much did you lot spend? Jheez.

Premier league titles, none. There's no need for me to be jealous. Plus we can win the title next year tbh, we've had a relatively poor season and that's really it.
I think the way you do your transfer business is a joke tbh. But then again, your team needed a giant revamp in comparison to ours. Anyway, I wasn't being patronising besides the daniel sturridge comment. You're not as bad as liverpool in doing transfers, then again no one is as bad as liverpool.

I was just telling the truth in what happened with some of the signings, adebayor was a good signing, but stupid because of the wages paid to him. Tevez was a great signing, Dzeko was a signing in case tevez or adebayor leaves fair enough. Aguero was a signing if tevez leaves, but none of them have left, so you're now left with 5 world class/high reputation strikers competing for 1 or 2 striker spots, you then have guidetti banging in goals, where is the space for him? You might end up selling him for cheap.

Remember when you wanted to sell ade and tevez for their full price, no offers came that were the full price, you only got loan offers and cut price deals.

Also as a side point I believe Kolarov is the best left back in the league and probably the world (I dunno who else there is though). Defensively he's like a centre back playing full back (Imo the best defensive fullbacks) in that he offers good aerial skillz and he's strong in the tackle, but because his delivery is so good he doesn't need to stray too far from left back while still offering a fantastic delivery. And when we push on he can offer as much as any wing back in the world. The only problem comes when he tries to play like a by line to by line full back because he doesn't have the pace for that.

Are you high?

1st 3 years of the Abramovich era:

2003-2004: spent £111.25mn
2004-2005: spent £89.05mn
2005-2006: spent £108.4mn

Over 300 million spent, so where the hell £120 million came from

200 million I corrected myself. We won the title in the 05 season. All I'm saying is that city have spent 400 million, they have one FA cup to show for it and are probably coming trophyless. We spent 200 million and got the double after and got to 2 CL semi finals in the first two years.

Nah. I'm down to earth and can see past a rocky couple of months where he was having to deal with coming back from injury and adapting to a new defence and league.