"Manchester City face the prospect of a £30million wage bill next season for players that manager Roberto Mancini no longer wants. Mancini is desperate to ditch Emmanuel Adebayor, Craig Bellamy, Roque Santa Cruz, Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jo and Nedum Onuoha from his first-team squad, but has found his plans hamstrung by the astronomical salaries that players are banking at Eastlands. City are ready to take huge losses on a group of players recruited by former boss Mark Hughes who cost the club a staggering £85m in transfer fees alone. But so far there have been no takers, with clubs unwilling to meet either Cityâs cut-price valuations or the big-money deals currently being paid at Eastlands. Adebayor, who cost £25m when he arrived from Arsenal two seasons ago on a deal worth £130,000-a-week, is being touted around Europe for £14m." I know Bridge has had a bad spell at West Ham (amazing debut HA!), but I still think he's an improvement on what we have already. SWP would be a great signing as would Bellamy and Onuoha, but I don't know if Coates will ever want to (we all know he can) pay the ridiculous wages these guys are on. Thoughts?
Bridge has lost any pace he possessed and is generally a poor defender,one to steer clear of really. SWP is not the same player who left us for Chelsea but could be ok given a run of games to rebuild his confidence,Bellamy is top class albeit a bit injury prone and onuoha if played as a centre half could turn into a really good player.Wages will be the problem,its a pity players don't want to just play for the love of the game but would rather stagnate on a bench
RVF - and how much is he on per week - £150K per week If Real didn't want to pay that - I cannot see Uncle Peter stumping up that sort of cash - probably give him a heart attack. Anyway and as said, some would rather sit on the bench and earn oodles!! Funny old game innit?
