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There seems to be a growing number of players and ex-players going to the press and shooting their mouths off about City not having what it takes to win the league. Their argument seems to be that because we haven’t done it for so long, we don’t understand what is needed to finish the job.

Whilst I accept that City as a club are a little wet behind the ears when it comes to winning titles, our playing staff certainly aren’t!

I had a quick look at who of our current squad has won domestic league before, the findings are quite encouraging!

Kolo Toure
Vincent Kompany
Gael Clichy
Nigel de Jong
Yaya Toure
Edin Dzeko
Mario Balotelli
Owen Hargreaves
Wayne Bridge

That’s 9 players we have at the club who know what it takes to win a league, we can also add Mancini and Kidd to the list of league winners, and of course Spanish Dave has a World Cup winners medal.

I am going to have to disagree with such luminaries as Les Ferdinand, Mark Lawrenson, Denis Irwin, Harry Redknapp and all the others and say that City have exactly the right people in place to bring the league title to the Etihad.

Lawro loves us you need not worry about him. I dont think hes predicted a loss for us all season!

Come March they'll all be singing a different hymn .... I hope

Good Post , There are a lot of winners In that dressing room and with the noises the others are making Hart Milner Barry so many more that want to be ,The future is Blue . So many people want us to fail so bad It must be kiiling them that we are Top Of The League Can I say that again It sounds so Good TOP OF THE LEAGUE,,,,,,,,

King Kev wrote:

Kolo Toure
Vincent Kompany
Gael Clichy
Nigel de Jong
Yaya Toure
Edin Dzeko
Mario Balotelli
Owen Hargreaves
Wayne Bridge

wayne bridge is the key! mark my words!!

Harry talking about us not having what it takes? Uhm, how many league winners do the spurs squad have and when did they win the league last? Reality check pleease!

Welcome it, absorb every comment because they'll all look fuclin stupid come the end of the season.

This is not taking into account you've listed a rag, two spuds and a mickey-mouser.

Who are all these people saying these things anyway, do they all know what it takes, have these media types been there and done it, bottled it and got it in abundance? The answer is, of course, no. They are using the old cliche to reinsert their favoured teams at the top, without them actually being there. It's just a way of keeping their, and their supporters hopes alive stating that Taggart and his team know how to win the league.

Does Mancini not have the know-how to win the league, has he never won a league before? Or what about the players, have we nobody in the squad who have won league title's, or even Champions League title's for that matter?

And what about the Rag players, have Smalling, Jones, de Gea etc spent a season winning the Premier League, do they have the know-how to win a title, have they got what it takes?

The only thing I know is that we are top of the league and we have a real chance if we do as well in the 2nd half of the season. It's not guaranteed, nothing is but at least we've set a marker for what we want to achieve.

Many of the decent pundits, not affiliated to the Rags are actually predicting us to take it so I'll ask once again, who are these people saying 'We haven't got what it takes'?

We havent? Aw shit, lets not bother trying then...

Wayne Bridge? Sorry KK you can't have that one!

Yep, we've no chance. Unlike Spurs who of course have a history of carrying off titles - providing of course you discount the past 51 years.

King Kev wrote:There seems to be a growing number of players and ex-players going to the press and shooting their mouths off about City not having what it takes to win the league. Their argument seems to be that because we haven’t done it for so long, we don’t understand what is needed to finish the job.

Whilst I accept that City as a club are a little wet behind the ears when it comes to winning titles, our playing staff certainly aren’t!

I had a quick look at who of our current squad has won domestic league before, the findings are quite encouraging!

Kolo Toure
Vincent Kompany
Gael Clichy
Nigel de Jong
Yaya Toure
Edin Dzeko
Mario Balotelli
Owen Hargreaves
Wayne Bridge

That’s 9 players we have at the club who know what it takes to win a league, we can also add Mancini and Kidd to the list of league winners, and of course Spanish Dave has a World Cup winners medal.

I am going to have to disagree with such luminaries as Les Ferdinand, Mark Lawrenson, Denis Irwin, Harry Redknapp and all the others and say that City have exactly the right people in place to bring the league title to the Etihad.

David Platt won the league as a player too.

Goaters 103 wrote:Yep, we've no chance. Unlike Spurs who of course have a history of carrying off titles - providing of course you discount the past 51 years.

Indeed. Strange that none of the reasons why we are incapable of winning the league seem to apply to tottenham.

Socrates wrote:

King Kev wrote:There seems to be a growing number of players and ex-players going to the press and shooting their mouths off about City not having what it takes to win the league. Their argument seems to be that because we haven’t done it for so long, we don’t understand what is needed to finish the job.

Whilst I accept that City as a club are a little wet behind the ears when it comes to winning titles, our playing staff certainly aren’t!

I had a quick look at who of our current squad has won domestic league before, the findings are quite encouraging!

Kolo Toure
Vincent Kompany
Gael Clichy
Nigel de Jong
Yaya Toure
Edin Dzeko
Mario Balotelli
Owen Hargreaves
Wayne Bridge

That’s 9 players we have at the club who know what it takes to win a league, we can also add Mancini and Kidd to the list of league winners, and of course Spanish Dave has a World Cup winners medal.

I am going to have to disagree with such luminaries as Les Ferdinand, Mark Lawrenson, Denis Irwin, Harry Redknapp and all the others and say that City have exactly the right people in place to bring the league title to the Etihad.

David Platt won the league as a player too.

I should also have included Patrick Vieira.

Tokyo Blue wrote:

Goaters 103 wrote:Yep, we've no chance. Unlike Spurs who of course have a history of carrying off titles - providing of course you discount the past 51 years.

Indeed. Strange that none of the reasons why we are incapable of winning the league seem to apply to tottenham.

Ofcourse they don't, they play free flowing, attack minded beautifull football and thus have scored -18 goals compared to us! That excempts them from such trivialities as "being good enough".

Fesan wrote:

Tokyo Blue wrote:

Goaters 103 wrote:Yep, we've no chance. Unlike Spurs who of course have a history of carrying off titles - providing of course you discount the past 51 years.

Indeed. Strange that none of the reasons why we are incapable of winning the league seem to apply to tottenham.

Ofcourse they don't, they play free flowing, attack minded beautifull football and thus have scored -18 goals compared to us! That excempts them from such trivialities as "being good enough".

let's face it...Siege R Us. Come on CITY!

Well - look at it a different way........ How many of the scum red bastard players have this 'special experience'??
and I mean properly - not just in the wings

Not that many when you look closely at it and most of them that do seem to be in general having their skills level woefully exposed this season - e.g. Evra - or cannot seem to go more than a couple of games without injury

Of course they have their new midield signing - but if that is a positive ('cos lets face he has looked absolute shit) - well then KK can have Wayne Bridge for me

I think that these claims are stupid..that we dont have what it takes. thats just dumb.


but also, i dont really think that the number of players on our team with domestic title medals makes a difference.
if it did, then we would still be in the champs league as we have a number of players (mostly the same) that had been
in the CL and a few that had even won it.

Thats just bull. All it takes is a decent enough team thats hungry for gold. And we are more than a decent enough team.

Not sure but doesn't 'Arry have experience at relegations and bankruptcies....