Manchester City Thread

[tshirtman]

If Tevez plays I fear it will cost city the title,
40 years ago(1972) city where 5 points clear at the top of the first division with 8 games to play, Malcolm Allison decided to bring in Rodney Marsh for ?200k from QPR, in the hope it would give them the push to win the title, but it backfired badly, City finished forth, Marsh unbalanced the great squad we already had, Colin Bell and Mike Summerbee, in midfield, and Francis Lee and Wyn Davies up front, them four could tear any defense apart, and had played together since October,

this is what will happen if Tevez comes back into the squad, last season everything went through him, where as this season we are playing more as a team playing a one touch passing game, and as a complete unit, anyone can see we haven't missed or don't need him, I hope to christ if the owners are intent on playing him it will only be in the Europa league, or the reserves.

[zee24]

Fair enough guys your club you know more then what i do of what's going on, but i beleive Mancini will bring him back when he feels he needs him, that's the kind of guy he is. It will be a good thing for City tho Tevez = more goals and that's what will be needed to win some of the fans back, a win win situation for your boys.

[aleister crowley]

Manchester City finally got the apology they had been waiting for on Tuesday when striker Carlos Tevez said he was sorry for his behaviour over recent months, setting up a possible return to action at the Premier League club.


The Argentine striker also withdrew his appeal against a gross misconduct charge handed to him after he spent three months in his homeland without the club's permission.


"I wish to apologise sincerely and unreservedly to everybody I have let down and to whom my actions over the last few months have caused offence," Tevez said in a club statement.


"My wish is to concentrate on playing football for Manchester City Football Club," added the 28-year-old, who has not played for City since refusing to warm up in September's Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich.


City manager Roberto Mancini, who after the events in Germany said Tevez was "finished" at the club, has previously suggested the striker could play again if he simply apologised.
With that apology now uttered, the question will be whether he will now get the chance to take part in the club's pursuit of a first league title since 1968.


He acknowledged last week he would have to be "brilliant" on the pitch to win over fans who burned shirts with his name on and having not played competitively for more than four months there are also question marks over his fitness.
City said the striker had begun a training programme "designed to return him to optimum fitness."


His prolonged and unauthorised absence prompted the club to fine him six weeks' wages after finding him guilty of gross misconduct for serious breaches of contract.


Tevez had lodged an appeal with the Premier League over the charge but has now withdrawn it, according to the club.
CHANGE GAMES


The return to Manchester and the apology are the start of the major bridge-building Tevez needed to do before any possible appearance in a sky blue shirt.


He did not help his cause last week when on the day of his departure from Argentina he accused Mancini of treating him "like a dog" in Munich and criticised his manager's handling of the entire situation.


Mancini rejected his accusations and said that if anything he had been too nice to the rebel forward.
However, the Italian has also said it would be better if Tevez was playing for the club as he was the sort of player who could change games.


The former City captain, whose work rate and goal-scoring prowess have never been in question, could make a return at a key part of the season.


Sitting two points clear of champions Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table with 60 points from 25 games, they might welcome the comeback of last season's joint top scorer for the title run-in.

At the end of the day he can apologise all he wants.
He burned his bridges with the majority of the fans 5 months ago.

[zee24]

Manchester City finally got the apology they had been waiting for on Tuesday when striker Carlos Tevez said he was sorry for his behaviour over recent months, setting up a possible return to action at the Premier League club.


The Argentine striker also withdrew his appeal against a gross misconduct charge handed to him after he spent three months in his homeland without the club's permission.


"I wish to apologise sincerely and unreservedly to everybody I have let down and to whom my actions over the last few months have caused offence," Tevez said in a club statement.


"My wish is to concentrate on playing football for Manchester City Football Club," added the 28-year-old, who has not played for City since refusing to warm up in September's Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich.


City manager Roberto Mancini, who after the events in Germany said Tevez was "finished" at the club, has previously suggested the striker could play again if he simply apologised.
With that apology now uttered, the question will be whether he will now get the chance to take part in the club's pursuit of a first league title since 1968.


He acknowledged last week he would have to be "brilliant" on the pitch to win over fans who burned shirts with his name on and having not played competitively for more than four months there are also question marks over his fitness.
City said the striker had begun a training programme "designed to return him to optimum fitness."


His prolonged and unauthorised absence prompted the club to fine him six weeks' wages after finding him guilty of gross misconduct for serious breaches of contract.


Tevez had lodged an appeal with the Premier League over the charge but has now withdrawn it, according to the club.
CHANGE GAMES


The return to Manchester and the apology are the start of the major bridge-building Tevez needed to do before any possible appearance in a sky blue shirt.


He did not help his cause last week when on the day of his departure from Argentina he accused Mancini of treating him "like a dog" in Munich and criticised his manager's handling of the entire situation.


Mancini rejected his accusations and said that if anything he had been too nice to the rebel forward.
However, the Italian has also said it would be better if Tevez was playing for the club as he was the sort of player who could change games.


The former City captain, whose work rate and goal-scoring prowess have never been in question, could make a return at a key part of the season.


Sitting two points clear of champions Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table with 60 points from 25 games, they might welcome the comeback of last season's joint top scorer for the title run-in.

[zee24]

Wayne Rooney, the definition of irony: mocking other footballers for failing to perform at an international tournament in Africa.

Remind me when was the last time Wayne played in a International final for his country??????

[aleister crowley]

Manchester City's Yaya Toure hits back at Wayne Rooney: Hopefully he won't be laughing at the end of the season

The Ivory Coast international has struck back after the Manchester United striker poked fun at the 28-year-old following his country's Africa Cup of Nations final defeat to Zambia

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has hit back at Wayne Rooney after the Manchester United striker taunted him and his brother Kolo on Twitter.
Rooney used the social networking site to poke fun at the two Ivory Coast internationals after they lost the Africa Cup of Nations final to Zambia last week.

Toure told the Sunday Mirror: ?If Rooney thought Ivory Coast losing was funny then that?s up to him. I like Rooney. He is a great player.

?He will know a lot of the Ivory Coast players like me, Kolo, [Cheick] Tiote and [Didier] Drogba so he?ll have an opinion.

?I think many people believed Ivory Coast would win. Even my friends said to me that they thought it was impossible that we would lose. All I can say is that losing in the African Nations has made my determination to win the Premier League even bigger.

?Hopefully at the end of the season it will be me laughing and not Rooney. That would be good.?

Zambia emerged victorious on penalties after the Africa Cup of Nations final remained goalless after 90 minutes and extra time, with Didier Drogba missing from the spot in normal time.



Manchester City's Yaya Toure hits back at Wayne Rooney: Hopefully he won't be laughing at the end of the season - Goal.com


Wayne Rooney = tosser!

[tshirtman]

god only knows why you bought him.

coz we can

[dzogani]

Kolarovs better then Cliche tho, god only knows why you bought him.

[zee24]

Kolarovs better then Cliche tho, god only knows why you bought him.

[tshirtman]

New Chief executive - target income ?400M, Marwood out ?

Manchester City will set their soon-to-be-appointed chief executive a target of more than doubling the club's income to ?400 million (Dh2.3 billion) a year.

The target, one that exceeds by nearly ?70m Manchester United's record revenue for an English club, underlines the ambitions of the club's Abu Dhabi ownership to establish City as one of the global game's principal powers.

City reported a turnover of ?153.2m for the 2010/11 season, a sum that placed 12th in Deloitte's annual ranking of football club incomes. That figure, although a 22 per cent increase on the preceding year, left City behind United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham on the list of Premier League earners. It also came in tandem with a loss of ?194.9m.

A significant portion of that deficit was the product of "front-loading" expenditure on a squad capable of competing for the Premier and Champions league titles. But the club's hierarchy is aware that income, particularly from commercial sources, must be multiplied to convert City into the kind of self-sustaining business required by Uefa Financial Fair Play regulations.

A stadium naming-rights deal with Etihad Airways will add around ?35m a year for the next decade.

The club's top executives ultimately want to surpass United's annual revenue, which reached ?331.4m in the year ending June 2011.

The identity of Garry Cook's replacement as chief executive has been kept a tightly guarded secret, the process handled by the executive-recruitment company Odgers Berndtson and the most senior members of City's hierarchy.

The new chief executive is likely to be found from outside the world of football. Also, City have stressed that they will bring in only one new executive into their management structure.

Ferran Soriano, formerly the vice president of Barcelona, was briefing friends that he had been offered the job, while Soriano's sports director at Barcelona, Txiki Begiristain, was also privately confident of joining him at City.

Soriano's candidacy has been complicated by the voluntary bankruptcy of Spanair; the Catalan had been the airline's chairman since leaving Barcelona.

Discussion within the club has suggested that the responsibilities of the football administrator Brian Marwood could be under threat, with the incoming chief executive to be handed control of player transfers and contracts
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I hope Marwood gets the boot, he's another hanger-on, like Cook was, if it was up to them two we'd have had Wenger as manager, when they wanted rid of Hughes, this shows the real ambitions of the club. the only reason city dropped down the rich list is because the spuds had champions league football last season, it's expected city will go up 2/3 places by the end of this financial year.

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/manchester-city-will-set-new-chief-executive-target-of-doubling-clubs-income

[tshirtman]

Porto 1 - City 2
Excellent result against a hard team to beat,
don't often say it, but I thought our best player tonight was Lescott.

[tshirtman]

Aleksandar Kolarov, one of the best MAN CITY Player!

no m8 it's taken him 2 seasons to settle into prem, and makes to many mistakes, best player by a country mile for city and in the premiership is David Silva.

[80R15]

Aleksandar Kolarov, one of the best MAN CITY Player!

[dzogani]

Crazy Mario

[aleister crowley]

Official video for the HUGE new Ruff Sqwad anthem MARIO BALOTELLI

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