City striker options/Rooney moving to PSG

[Swales4ever]

Is Dzeko off in the summer?

Guess he'd be bound to Naples in part exchange with Cavani.
I still love Edin, but...

Shrek off to a not self-sustained Club, would be proper fun.... unfortunately it's just proper bollox.

[ashton287]

Goals have been an issue for us this season, but for me the priority still would be to inject some pace and width into the side. Aguero's season has been interrupted with injuries, but in him we have a 25/30 goal a season striker and I'd expect him to bounce back next season.

If we're going to spend big money on a player, I would go for Bale. He would inject much needed pace into the side, and his goalscoring record is improving signifcantly. Not to mention, with him in the side, Dzeko (if he stays) would probably get more deliveries into the box where he is a big threat.

I'd be happy to go into next season with Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko and Guidetti as our 4 strikers, with Bale in support. And even despite his recent mini-revival, I still hope we get rid of Nasri in the summer and get a better replacement. Who that exactly is, I'm not sure at this moment but we probably could get a reasonable fee for Nasri (although not 25m) and reinvest the money on somebody else.

But the fact is we don't need wide players (even though we do) because it isn't how we play. We can't go and bring in wide players of any decent quality because it would mean one of 2 things. They sit on the bench for the majority of the season or we completely restructure the team and make them play a different way ala 352 which worked spectacularly well. Wingers would only ever be a plan B so I doubt we would spend 40-50 million on one.

[aaron bond]

I don't think we'd need to change the way we play massively if we bought Bale. The only 'wingers' players we've really had are AJ and Sinclair - AJ was only ever good enough to be an impact player coming off the bench, and whilst I doubt Sinclair is first-team material, we actually don't know if he'll ever be an impact player because Mancini doesn't give him a chance.

When Milner plays for us, he works very well down the wing with Zab and they compliment each other very well. We don't have the same threat on the left. Clichy gets forward very well but his delivery often lets him down. Whenever Nasri has the ball on the wing, he almost always refuses to cross it and ends up going backwards. If we had Bale getting into those positions, then I think we'd be more threatening.

His pace, particularly, would be a great asset for us.

Whether Mancini agrees with any of that is another thing!!!

Btw...I don't want to see the 3-5-2 again either :-)

[ross.mcfc]

I don't think we'd need to change the way we play massively if we bought Bale. The only 'wingers' players we've really had are AJ and Sinclair - AJ was only ever good enough to be an impact player coming off the bench, and whilst I doubt Sinclair is first-team material, we actually don't know if he'll ever be an impact player because Mancini doesn't give him a chance.

I was not a fan of AJ and agree with your assesment but there is one big difference between him and Sinclair. AJ would come off the bench at 3/4 nil at home and score or create another goal. Sinclair was given a chance to shine in comfortable home wins against Barnsley and Newcastle and coasted. I agree he has not been given enough chances but he should have grasped those two chances by the horns and worked his balls off.

[MilnersJaw]

i'd rather shrek have a car crash on the ring road and end up as the elephant man.

[zuricity]

This is a perfect assessment.

If you look at the League tables, up to this week-end, they'd won six more games than ourselves, whilst we've drawn six more than them. Both teams have lost four games each, but we've conceded fewer goals.

However, they've scored somewhere in the region of fourteen, or fifteen more goals than we have, hence our inferior draw/win ratio.

I'd love a new centre back but, in the summer, if we could only sign one top-notch player, it's got to be a forward to try and address this problem.

yep all of those deflections , penalties have sure helped the rags. the way some fans have reacted to drawing or even beating city. Chelsea, Liverpool , Sunderland and recently Everton.

You would think City played a Cup final every other week.

[phips]

dont think they will sell Rooney or buy Falcao. How on earth would Fergie accommodate RVP, Falcao, AND Rooney.

[Im_Spartacus]

dont think they will sell Rooney or buy Falcao. How on earth would Fergie accommodate RVP, Falcao, AND Rooney.

By selling Rooney?