MAN CITY SPENDING SPREE KICKS ENGLAND IN THE TEETH
For one big reason why England fail so consistently at the World Cup and European Championship, look no further than Eastlands.
Manchester City have so far spent more than £60m this summer and all on more foreign imports.
Their outlay could be close to £200m by the time the new season starts.
No doubt City fans are excited and can’t wait for the richest club in the world to open their cheque book again.
Yet this is spending gone mad and to the detriment of the English national team.
After the debacle of South Africa the usual cry went up for the introduction of new English talent. Get some young players in to replace the tired old failures!
Where are they? Pushed to the back of the queue by clubs like City, who, it appears, have no interest in allowing home-grown talent to develop.
Take the deal that has persuaded Ivory Coast’s £25.5m midfielder Yaya Toure to leave Barcelona and head for the Premier League.
He didn’t want to quit Spanish football and even said one day he would like to return to the Nou Camp.
The deal thrown at Toure was just too good to turn down. Not surprising, is it, when you are offered a basic salary of £185,000 a week rising to £221,000.
Let’s get one thing straight here, Toure is not worth that kind of money. He is a good player, that’s all. Not a world-class talent and will certainly not be in the top ten players in English football next season.
So, why have City thrown the Crown Jewels at an okay player? I have no idea.
They have also signed David Silva from Valencia for £24m and Hamburg’s Jerome Boateng for £10.5m. We can only presume these players have only come for the money.
What City are buying are good players to take them to the next level and that is the top four of the Premier League. These are not players to help them win the title.
You wonder how much a week they would pay Fernando Torres or others who are regarded as the best? The mind boggles.
There is nothing wrong with ambition and yet we get it so wrong in this country.
Why can’t we develop our own talent and bring forward English players who might just help us win something in the future. City have got so many players that some will have to be sold.
Micah Richards, who needs guidance, is likely to be discarded and there is not even a guarantee Gareth Barry will get into City’s first choice side.
If you are a young Englishman looking up at City’s first team then your future is cloudy.
Does the game care? Sadly, only a minority.
The fans who turned on England after South Africa will soon be back to where their heart really belongs. Club football.
Ask a City fan what he or she would prefer over the next two years. Their club to win the Premier League with a side packed with foreign players or England to lift the European Championship?
There is only one answer, I’m afraid and it isn’t England.
The FA’s director of football Sir Trevor Brooking had to go cap in hand this week to persuade clubs to allow their Under 19 players to represent their country. How embarrassing is that. Shouldn’t this be compulsory?
English clubs were actually considering withdrawing their young talent from the European Championships tournament that could be vital to the future development of the national side.
Other nations would have encouraged their players of tomorrow to go and take part.
In the past two years Germany have won the European Championships at Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 levels and that, I’m afraid, tells the story.
We only worry about the national side when tournaments are on top of us. When there is failure the outcry starts and nothing happens. It will be the same in two years’ time and beyond.
After what happened in South Africa, the England team is at rock bottom. We are a laughing stock. How many people care?
City supporters will not mind who wears the shirt next season just as long as they move higher.
Going the other way is the England team.
dailystar.co.uk
That could possibly be the most stupidest thing i have read from the media.
You couldn't make it up, every fucking thing we do is wrong. I really would like someone to tell me were all these top english footballers that are available to buy are hiding because i can't think of any that are available and are better then what we have brought in.
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