The World seemed to be turned on its side for a while. It’s transfer deadline day and City could beat us to our target, as well as breaking the British transfer record on the same day.
The World hadn’t gone mad though, as by midnight, our target signed for us, not even gracing Mark Hughes with a meeting. Then City got dumped out of the League Cup in the 2nd Round by a League 1 side. But there still was something that wasn’t quite right…
“The plan is very interesting, with real possibilities. I have come here to play for the title and to win things in Europe,” said Zabaleta.
“I know you have Chelsea, Arsenal, Man United and Liverpool but I still think we will finish fourth. I am confident,” said Ireland.
“This is a great time to start winning games against the bigger teams so we can prove we are here to win the title,” said Robinho.
“We have to look at a Champions League place first and then go from there,” said new signing Jo. “This club will win the Premier League.”
But then, Kaka has said he wouldn’t play for them. And Fabregas. And Henry. That mattered little though, because the only team in Manchester were doing their talking on the pitch. With three games played, they broke in the top four. Champions League here they come.
Then they lost to Wigan, then Liverpool, but their top four form would be restored against a hapless Newcastle side, surely. They were in the relegation zone, picking up just five points from seven matches, and they have Joe bloody Kinnear as their manager!
It wasn’t to be though, despite getting a penalty in the 12th minute which saw Newcastle go down to ten men, City couldn’t pick up their first win in a month. Replays showed Habib Beye actually won the ball, but that mattered little to Styles, who brandished a red card and awarded a penalty for Robinho to slot away.
Yet with an hour played, City were trailing to the ten men of Newcastle, only saved by a late Steven Ireland goal, which came after Newcastle had been playing with a man down for 75 minutes. But hey, they’re still in the top 10, well, 10th to be exact, on goal difference alone, so don’t rule them out of winning one of those coveted Champions League spots just yet!
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Spot on. You just have to laugh at City these days! They pay way over the odds for Robinho and then crow about it to anyone who’ll listen. The fact that Madrid were trying to use Robinho as a makeweight in the Ronaldo deal says it all really. Robinho should have been as smart as Berbatov and given the Eastlands a wide birth!
Always been a Mickey Mouse club. The only difference is that now they’re a Mickey Mouse club with money!
Simmo – It’s perfect really, because now they have no excuse to be failures. In the past, they could just throw our money in to the argument. But now they have the most expensive player in British footballing history on their books. They say we bought our success… but they can’t even manage that!
True Scott. The whole bought the title thing was the last refuge of the buffoon! United have never been shy in hitting the transfer market with a blitz of cash but the money has almost always been spent with accuracy and precision. The point they miss is that United’s real strength is their management structure and belief in long term planning.
City will spend a fortune in the next twelve months and i can virtually guarantee they’ll still finish outside the top four. Their title challenge will, in the words of Eddie Izzard, “slowly dissipate, like a flan in a cupboard”
City have long been a team to make me giggle, they seem to open a new chapter in comedy every season, them quotes had me in tears!
I can see Mark Hughes getting sacked in the summer, and I wont have a bit of sympathy with him because my opinion of him has changed somewhat in the last couple of months.
But dont forget, Citeh are a massive club!!!
Theyve got the Cup Final coming up soon, and they are gonna get demolished
Mark Hughes’ City will be a tougher team for us to face but that doesn’t change the fact they’re highly overrating their own worth. We have over half a century of success that’s evidence in our trophy cabinet. City cannot buy that for any money and their dreaming if they think they have the balls big enough to step out of our all encompassing shadow!
Im just looking forward to our turn to rectify last seasons results against them …
I feel pity for them that you guys keep thrashing them..
Nah.. just kidding here XD
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im actually a little dissapointed that they arent doing better, for one reason only, i,d have loved them to take fourth spot from them bin dipping twats, but its looking highly unlikely!
MASSIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!