Manchester City Thread

[tshirtman]

we should have got a hat full of goals today, I don't know why Mancini didn't bring Dzeko on early in the second half, give Aguero some help up front,
it got a bit to nervy towards the final whistle, thank ~~~~ Joe Hart is on top form, excellent stop from Bent.

we've got a two week break from the prem now, then we'll have Balotelli, and the Toure brothers back for the Blackburn game.

[mtv1]

we should have got a hat full of goals today, I don't know why Mancini didn't bring Dzeko on early in the second half, give Aguero some help up front,
it got a bit to nervy towards the final whistle, thank ~~~~ Joe Hart is on top form, excellent stop from Bent.

we've got a two week break from the prem now, then we'll have Balotelli, and the Toure brothers back for the Blackburn game.

don't begrudge a win ye were saving yerselfs for next week

[tshirtman]

City have released there own video Playlist, watch all the,
Goals scored this season,
Extended Highlights,
Inside city,
Tunnel cam,
Question and answer session with players. (askmario is deffo worth watching)
Exclusives
Classic games
Goals of the Month
EDS(reserves) Highlights - including us beating Man u. 4-2 in the seniors cup.

watch here:

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/cityTV/playlists

[tshirtman]

Tevez seems to have shot himself in the foot, his reasoning for not coming off the bench against bayern munich was "there was a misunderstanding", now in an interview with American TV, he says the following:

Tevez claims he sat back down on the bench after warming up because he believed Mancini was employing a more defensive approach after taking off striker Edin Dzeko and replacing him with holding midfielder Nigel de Jong.

"I was kind of in a bad mood and when (Mancini) brings on De Jong and takes off Dzeko, and we're losing 2-0, I thought it was a defensive substitution. So I decided to sit back on the bench," he said in an interview with Fox Sports in Argentina.

"So I'd already warmed up for 10 minutes and he has this attitude that he wants to lose 2-0 instead of 4-0.

"So I sat down and at the same time Dzeko comes off and is really angry and has a go at Mancini. He then sees the tunnel is closed so he has to sit down next to him and they start to have an argument.

"Dzeko was speaking Bosnian and Mancini would swear at him in Italian, so it was a real mess.

"So I go and sit down and he doesn't see me because he's having this discussion. But then he turns around and sees me and you can imagine what happens. He's in the middle of an argument.

"So then he tells me to keep on warming up and treats me like a dog. So when he spoke to me in that tone of voice I said 'no I'm not going out'.

"So I was willing to play but the coach was in such a foul mood, because he had that argument with Dzeko, he started on me as well, started swearing at me.

"That was him, because I was very calm. I was just sitting on the bench and you could see from the footage I was calm and just talking to (Pablo) Zabaleta. Mancini said some horrible things to me."

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I hope the FA read this and see they where duped either by Tevez himself, or his scumbag agent, Joorabchian, and reinstate his initial fine imposed by City, he's also lied to the PFA, who should wash there hands of him.
regardless of how the manager speaks to a player. and we all know about the "hairdrier" treatment Fergie gives out, you do as you told, that's why their the Manager.

[aleister crowley]

I'm sorry but I've just been reading about the interview and this guy is NOT sorry about anything he's done.

Joorabchian claimed Tevez's thoughts about the incident in Munich gave a misleading impression of his current frame of mind and claimed the player was determined once again to prove himself an asset for City, if given the chance.
To aid the situation, it is believed Tevez will drop his appeal to the Premier League against a six-week club fine, totalling around ?1.2million.

Well that's nice of him isn't it?

Joorabchian said: "He's saying he will get himself ready as the club have requested him to do, because the club have said Carlos coming back can only be an asset to them.
"I've spoken to the club today, I've spoken to the club regularly on a daily basis and I think everyone agrees that from a football point of view Carlos can only be an asset.
"Now him and Mancini have obviously managed to resolve issues. What he had explained in his interview is how he felt back then. I think that the club and Carlos are taking this in a very positive way.
"He has a lot of repairs to do with the fans and he realises that and he has said that he's ready to apologise if he's done something wrong.
"And he's said that he sincerely never felt that he was doing something wrong at the time, and he understands that his actions may not have implied that."

I think they may have to resolve some more issues now he's stated Mancini treated him like a dog!
And he's ready to apologise IF he did something wrong???

The striker revealed he was ready to apologise if the club deemed it necessary.
"I do not think I was wrong, but if they (the club) think so I apologise. I am ready to return, to win and do the best for the club's shirt," he added.

That doesn't make sense either. So he's willing to apologise for something that he doesn't think was wrong?

[tshirtman]

TEVEZ....NO

[tshirtman]

Can you imagine Tevez facing a manager like John Sitton, this guy is class.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_lPJ8hHP0&feature=related]John Sitton half time rant V Brentford - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obixCOVTVwY]John Sitton sacks player and offers out two more - YouTube[/ame]

[aleister crowley]

Official video for the HUGE new Ruff Sqwad anthem MARIO BALOTELLI

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W225lzEbVew"]Ruff Sqwad - Mario Balotelli - Official Video - YouTube[/ame]

[dzogani]

Crazy Mario

[80R15]

Aleksandar Kolarov, one of the best MAN CITY Player!

[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.

[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]

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

[zee24]

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

[dzogani]

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