Quite a few players up for sale it appears. Sven's not going to have his squad full of average Championship players. Good on him. This morning Mills, Dabo and Dickov have all been told they can leave Eastlands, while Samaras, Schmeichel, Vassell and Miller are also set for the chop.
Its a sign that City are moving onwards and upwards, though not all are pleased. A supporter's group, Citizens against Success, has been formed with a view to preserving Manchester City's "unique" heritage and culture.
A spokesman for Citizens Against Success said this morning "who does Sven think he is? Over 100 years of misery and medicority are under threat here and we are not prepared to sit and watch it pass us by. We're proud of our shit heritage and will do everything we can to ensure that we stay in the gutter."
Apparently, Citizens Against Success are planning a fans buy-out of the club. They propose to appoint a joint management team of John Gregory and Brian Horton with Francis Lee as Director of Football. Their first acquisitions would be Michael Ricketts and Shaun Goater, with a view to achieving 3 straight relegations in as many years.
all true , how we will cope with jealous snipes from rival fans I dont know , now we can splash the cash our image as a perrenial struggle team may well be cast off for good.
Rivals comfortable with our shitness are now beginning to dislike us , manure fans are sick as fuck.
That would be another top signing. Always been impressed when i seen this guy in action for Palermo last season aswell as for the Aussie's in the World Cup.
Have to say Svens doing the complete opposite of any team before that has been known to have lots of money and thats making shrewd value signings.
How many times were West Ham, Chelsea paying way over the odds for players? Havent seen City do that once and in fact, this £4m deal is a pretty cheap one as i wouldve valued him a bit more than that.
Only one word for the weekend's performance - mint!
Great start although West Sham were awful.
Nice interview here from the beeb , for once it's not a snipe at Sven:
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Video stars
Premiership | Manchester City
by John S - BBC Sport 12 August 2007
Sven-Goran Eriksson must have taken a great deal of pleasure in watching a rerun of his video stars' 2-0 away victory over West Ham on Saturday.
Since taking over as manager at Manchester City, the Swede has endured plenty of sniping from the British media, notably over the way he has recruited eight new players using - among other sources of information - videos to gauge the effectiveness of his new signings.
But on the evidence of City's win over West Ham, Eriksson clearly knows a thing or two about talent identification. And why not! He is, after all, someone who as a club manager won 18 trophies in Sweden, Portugal and Italy.
From the elan of Elano, to the bullishness of Bulgarian Martin Petrov, City showed a lot more quality than they did last season, as Dietmar Hamann was quick to point out on Match of the Day.
Perhaps the sniping of the media tells us more about England and English football than it does about Eriksson.
The media were always quick to pin the national team's failings on Eriksson rather than an underperforming group of players.
We were told that Eriksson was no Winston Churchill - he was dismissed as the Iain Duncan-Smith of English football.
The media conveniently forgot that, as a club manager, Eriksson had a record of producing entertaining and usually successful sides.
Before Eriksson came to England, I interviewed David Platt about the Swede when they were together at Sampdoria.
Platt recounted a story about Eriksson employing a chef, who was hugely popular with the players - as much for his sense of humour as his cooking skills.
It is a tale that says much about how much emphasis Eriksson places on the importance of team bonding.
Moreover, contrast the way City played on Saturday to the manner of their performances under Stuart Pearce.
The former City manager epitomised the traits of English football that fans and pundits invariably drool over - passion and commitment.
Yet the quintessential hard man of English football, forever remembered with his eyes blazing and fist raised after scoring that penalty against Spain in Euro 96, proved less capable of maintaining any semblance of discipline among his squad.
Pearce’s reign was scarred by a grotesque indiscipline.
As well as a poor man-management, Pearce's track record in the transfer market was equally lamentable.
What is Pearce doing now? Relearning his trade in the lower leagues, perhaps? Of course not, he is now in charge of his country's future international stars as the England Under-21 coach.
You could forgive Eriksson for thinking that the joke is on England rather than on him.
Thailand's Supreme Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on corruption charges.
The ruling came after Mr Thaksin and his wife failed to attend court in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The court was to hear the first of a series of cases being brought against the former leader, who was ousted in a military coup last year. Since then he has been living in the UK and recently bought Manchester City FC.
Last week was excellent, I was "buzzing" about it, i love svens baldy face so much.
We have two Brazilians playing now instead of Dabo and Dickov. We will play good football and the sky is the limit!
Year on year he should have more money to spend, and I think soon we'll be the new Totenham where people talk about us challenging the big four.
Either that or we'll finish 12th this year, then get relegated the next.
Its not just the new signings, its the youth we have too in Onouha and Richards at the back who are fantastic defenders.
Then Johnson (My old school mate) and Ireland in the middle, Ireland is loving it these days, surrounded by people who are as good on the ball as he is for the first time in his life.
Was an excellent uncharactheristic citeh performance, last 5 years we'd have drawn that game without a doubt but we stuck at it and prevailed. Derby did ok and just lack a bit of quality to supply their huge forwards. They got behind our left back a few times and should have scored first with a bit more luck.
Nevertheless we had a lot of quality footballers on the park and just about deserved it
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The Official Manchester City thread 2007/08
