Goataldo wrote:Speaking to a blue mate tonight, who was claiming (dunno if he's a 'source close the club' or owt haha) that all the players have been increasingly pissed off with Mario for a while, and that's the main power shift behind him being got rid of. He was arguing that you never see him out with City players, just his mates/fam(yo), not one for the team ethic, and cited Joe Hart against the Arse last year as an example; apparently Joey was lipread shouting 'THAT'S YOUR FUCKING BOY' when he got sent off, i.e. to Bob. Soz for old news if it's old news to you. Reliable or not, it made me think about maybe being less disgruntled about it.
I dunno, for me it just turned out Mario at City with Mancini at this time just ended up being a perfect storm of interrelated complications. If they are to be uncomplicated, it int with us right now. It's a less than exuberant ciao from me, and clearly a coping strategy post, cos I'm genuinely a bit peeved at the absolute mad pile of bastard being sold.
I can only agree with You, Bud.
I said plenty of times, before and after the purchase that it would have, was and has been the most daft bet of Mancini,
If Bob was at another kind of Club, with a less wise Chairman, it could have costed his dream to climb to the top with a non established Club.
I see and have come to terms with his opinion of the immense potential which he could have felt as an irresistible challenge to his coaching ability, but it was just a wrong choice, particularly at the time, when he Bob was far from proven and established.
What I do argue, and I make it strongly, are two "details" of the shipping out:
a) the time: what if one of the remaining strikers gets a long injury. What if Tevez starts again to state on the pitch that he wants out to Boca and for free?
b) the price: rotten apple or not, Balotelli is one of the most regarded young talents in the whole football world, provides free advertising (good or bad, it doesn't matter in the present broken world we live) and sales merchandise. to think that the richest Club in the world was compelled to jump onto the sole, damnit few money coming now or never it's ludicrous behiond intelligence. Fucking Andy Carroll was sold for twice the price, ffs. nuff said.
as a result, even myself who finds FFP nothing more than comedy gold, I am quite concerned at the idea that next summer City shall probably have to find two top strikers and financing it with dirty £16 millions pissed out Berluskoni's scumbag.
Unless we won't decide to rely our next season bids on the absolute unproven potential of Guidetti, to cover Dzeko and Aguero in 4 competition. As per Tevez, which is however becoming more and more a playmaker than a striker, who knows what his attitude will be in the last season before getting a free agent?
