ant london wrote:CityGer wrote:One of Hazzard / Bale
Subotic
Martinez
Two of Cavani / Lavezzi / RVP / Cisse / Ba /Benzema
One of Hoilet / McLean
Ade, Tevez, Balo, Dzeko, Johnno, Savic, Bridge, Santa Cruz, Kolo, Hargreaves to go. Must be a good £90 - £100Mil in fees there and more than enough freed up in wages to cover the wages of our targets.
I actually think the departures are pretty nailed on. Perhaps Johnno and Savic might survive but I'd say the rest are pretty much certs to leave. can't see Bobby trusting Balo or Dzeko for next season.
FFP is obviously the problem. I reckon even with £95Mil brought in we'd be left with a deficit of anything between £20 - £40Mil depending on which of those targets we brought in.
Much as I understand fully those who reckon Balo will be for the door I would say that there is very little chance of that happening for one key reason....saleability. I don't think there will be anyone out there willing to pay what we paid for him and after having staked so much on getting him in I really don't think Roberto/the club will want to take a bath on him. I think he'll get another season to justify the faith.
Agree on most of the rest of the outs....Johnno is borderline I agree. I think more likely than not if only because I think someone in the mould of Liverpool or maybe even Spurs might come in for him with a decent offer and I think we'd bite their hand off.
I could kinda see Savic surviving but definitely see him going out on loan if he does. I just again cannot see anyone coming in to buy him after seeing how badly he has floundered this season.
Kolo I don't think will be going anywhere. I think that the action he's had second half of the season will be enough to convince him to want to stay and that he's in with a shot of being a regular starter. I don't think he will be as I think we'll bring in the real partner for Vincent....
Dzeko I think will definitely go. There will be quite a list of clubs keen and I think we'll get a decent fee.
Tevez i hope goes, we should have been able to get his market value back up by then and he has to go for us to bring in someone like Lavezzi.
Then one of two quick (rather than "tricky") wingers....but if we do sign one or two of them then we absolutely need a target man (Cavani) if we do let Edin go.
All in all it feels a bit depressing writing that. I would have liked this summer to have been about consolidation and adding depth (as I think we've felt "thin" at times this season and it has hurt us) but it seems like some degree of reconstruction required as the playing staff really hasn't performed consistently enough to the level they should have been capable.
#frustrating
I've defended Johnson on here & I do think he's a talented player but watching him the last few games, his delivery is simply not good enough to do the job Mancini wants him to do. It's no worse than Silva or Nasri's but Mancini allows them to roam around & do other stuff. AJ is (wrongly imo) not allowed to do that; he's supposed to just stay out wide & he just isn't that special at that specialist job. If we'd had someone who is a fantastic wide player coming on in recent games, we would have scored ten. The areas are there to be exploited but where Giggs would whip a ball in AJ doesn't (neither do Nasri or Silva) & when he tries he gets it wrong.
Who that wide player would be, I don't know but definitely it isn't AJ. It could be a central player who drifts wide & delivers the ball of course. The key is SOMEBODY other than Kolarov, (who is a liability) delivering a decent ball.
Imo, we still have two teams, an A & B team. We need two A teams, which means that most of the players Mancini doesn't trust to start in the biggest games, need replacing with players he finds difficult to leave out.
That would mean AJ, Milner, Kolarov, Kolo, Hargreaves all going & a question mark over Dzeko. The question of Dzeko is; if we get a world class supplier of croses, will he get on the end of them ? I'm not certain. He got several fantastic crosses v Sunderland and wasn't in the right position to take advantage (nor was Balotelli). I recon if you'd swapped either of them for Brian Kidd, he would have been stood exactly where the ball went & headed it into an empty net.
If we keep Dzeko or Balo or both, we still need the bloke who will run into those areas to score goals. They don't.
We also have to consider the rules on 'homegrown' players & how that will influence the squad.
Personally, I'd have Bale as my No 1 transfer target, followed by the obvious usual suspects (Hazard, Munian etc).
I would rather have bats chewing on my testicles that watch Ronaldo in a City shirt btw. Why not just support real Madrid ?
City won't have any credibility left if we sign that cunt so what's the point in supporting City as opposed to anyone else ?
