Milner and Silva do exactly the same job,they are neither midfielders nor are they wingers.If they had any sense they would sell Barry and when they signed Toure.With City,its a case of ''We'll sign that player so no-one else can have them''.They did it with Dzeko and Balotelli.
Silva is much more of a creative player than Milner. I don't think they needed to sell Barry because Toure plays in a different position to him. I agree about signing Balotelli and Dzeko though, they don't really need them.
I don't think City buy so others can't...I don't get the impression they're smart enough for that. I think they just buy whoever they can who's overhyped and in demand. Then at the end of the window, they see what they have and try to make the best of it. If they have 7x strikers, who cares? One of them will play well!
Okay Barry and Toure wasn't the best example,How about Barry and De Jong,both play the same position,However Barry isn't nothing more than an accomplished Michael Carrick.He's yet another one paced English midfielder.
My question is why sign BOTH of them.Mancini used Milner out of position against us.Its as I said making signings just for the sake of making signings.Its also '''We've got money and we'll buy players so the rest can't have them''.Its like Real Madrid. How are you supposed to win titles when you have a collection of players that are similar to what you've already had to start with?
True, but I think the maximums will be determined more by the financial value they can provide, rather than the amount of capital needed up front. The maximum you can get in media income and prize money from winning the CL is around ã40 million, and the difference between coming 6th in the PL and 1st is only around ã5 million in direct prize money. So to justify spending ã200 million on ten players, you would effectively have to say you will win the PL and CL for the next four or five years. Even with the best ten players in the world you couldn't guarantee you'd achieve that, given the potential for flops and the need to build a balanced team. Cos he has the money and cos he can. Remember that analysis MFG posted a couple of months ago about the successes and flops signed by SAF, Benitez, Wenger and Mourinho? Even if you look at it in the most optimistic light, at most half of the players each of those managers signed turned out to be long term successes. So on that basis, if you buy both Silva and Milner, one of them is likely to turn out to be a success. When you have a billion quid to spend, and success is more important than money, you don't sign one and wait for him to flop before bidding for the other, you go for both of them and stick with whichever one works out.
And of course as soon as the FFP rules kick in they will flog whichever one of them is doing worst for ã10-15 million and book that as profit to offset some of their losses. In the long run their massive squad may actually benefit them when the rules kick in.
With Citch, its not the amount of players they have, its the massive wage bill, they need to bring down
