Surely there are gonna be a few striker movements now? What does it mean for aguero? Can they keep him, negredo and jovetic happy? Dzeko surely a goner
Pellegrini said last week that he's going nowhere, I would bloody love to have him though. They proved to themselves last year that 4 big name strikers just doesn't work, which ever one isn't playing is always going to get ants in their pants.
Dzeko has been out of the picture at City for a while now and although Tevez and Balotelli have gone, he's now going to be playing 2nd fiddle to Negredo and Jovetic.
Rooney's transfer to Chelsea is almost complete after Colleen agreed personal terms... with John Terry. Twice last night and once again this morning.
And on a weird selection of players. Jovetic is pretty good but the other three big signings wouldn't improve our squad much at all as far as I can see.
Yup - they seem to have reverted to the sort of targets they were pursuing under Shinawatra, very good players, but nothing special. Replacing Tevez and Balotelli with Negredo and Jovetic is a big step backwards in my opinion. The Fernandinho signing is particularly baffling, when we signed Paulinho for half the price and is ahead of him in the national team.
The problem that the likes of Chelsea and (particularly) £ity have is that teams will take the piss out them on price, knowing full well that the Russian and Arab will pay. If £ity had been in for Paulinho, for example, you can guarantee that he'd have cost them well north of £20 million. It'll be the same for when Rooney goes to Chelsea.
Just off topic. We currently have Manusa in Sydney to play an exhibition match tomorrow. tonight they had their final training run at the Sydney Football Stadium,apparently 25,000 turned up paying $15 to get in(thats about 7 or 8 quid). The match tomorrow is a sell out approx 84,000 will watch at the Olympic stadium. The whole city has gone Man U crazy! Bucket anyone!
If they really want FFP to take effect, they need to enforce a rule that for every £5m they spend outside their means, that's one outfield player less they can start with. The moment it dawns on Chelsea, Man City, Monaco et al that they risk playing every match with at least seven players less than their opposition at kick-off they might start to balance the books - or face the inevitible drubbings that follow.
That's actually quite a good punishment I reckon hbic. Think you took it a bit far, but if you told clubs that if they didn't spend within their means they had to play 10 games of the season with 10 men, they'd quickly listen.
Not 10 games of their choice though. I can still see them being able to spend their way to beating a bunch of teams with 10 men
Not if the one player they weren't allowed to use was their goalkeeper. The best way, though, is to deduct 1 point for every £1m a club spends beyond their means. If that means Monaco start next season in Ligue 1 with -80 points, that would certainly see a sudden spree of book balancing across European football.
