carl_feedthegoat wrote:Seeing Jo in there just makes me shake my fucking head.......I just cannto fathom it out what Mancini sees in him to justify including him on the squad.
End of the day mate, no-one made a proper offer to buy or take him on loan.
To the outside world it is clear to me...and I'm pretty sure also clear to City....and most importantly; Jo himself, that Jo is perceived as damaged goods as a professional footballer.
He has "flopped" to a greater or lesser extent at City, then twice at Everton and then at Galatasaray (or wherever it was).
We have his wage on our payroll whether we like it or not. No-one has offered to take that burden off our hands and we have less than the full complement of 25 players so it would be barmy to omit him. Mancini either obviously sees something in him and/or recognises that the only way we can really get rid is by cajoling him back into something resembling a professional footballer, getting him in the shop window as Jo Mk II (new and improved) and then either we have a player who is useful to us or one we can actually get rid of.
I appreciate the differing current views on Jo but I actually see something in him on current evidence. He's looked one of the players who, picking the ball up deep and going at defences (from a more central position) looks quite a threat. Yes, he then falls over, smiles, claps and fluffs a shot but he does have "something".....I think......maybe
