Manchester City’s Odd Men Out
Roberto Mancini‘s first summer in charge at Manchester City has seen the club lead the race for new and exciting talent. But for every Aleksandar Kolarov that Manchester City sign, there’s a Wayne Bridge clicking his heels on the sideline.
As Manchester City‘s summer spending spree shows no sign of abating, keep your eyes peeled for some bargains leaving the back door.
Manchester City currently have 37 first team players. By season’s kick-off Roberto Mancini must have a Premier League required 25-man squad at his disposal. As the cream of Europe’s talent descends on the Eastlands, Roberto Mancini faces the unenviable task of trimming his squad. So which of Manchester City‘s odd men out are worth a punt?
Shaun Wright-Phillips. It’s starting to become a recurring theme with Wright-Phillips. Signed at the start or Roman Abramovich‘s revolution at Chelsea, SWP was shipped out as soon as the trophies started flowing. Fast forward two years and Wright-Phillips once again sees himself left behind in the dust of his club’s lofty ambitions. Wouldn’t pay a pound for his crossing but has speed to unsettle even the best. Bargain
Buy: 6
Wayne Bridge. As mentioned earlier, the arrival of the powerful and dynamic Serbian Aleksandar Kolarov more or less confines Wayne Brigde‘s Manchester City career to the history books. The former England international carries tons of baggage along with a decent left-foot. Bargain Buy: 7
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Manchester City do NOT have 37 players aged 22 and over that is for sure, and if we do, which 14 players did we sign yesterday that have not been made public knowledge yet?.
Even if James Milner, Mario Balotelli and Fernando Torres were to sign (latest to be linked that is why I have stated them), then
Our 25 man squad could quite easily be:
Hart, Given, Taylor (Gks)
Zabaleta, Richards, Onouha, Kompany, K Toure, Lescott, Kolarov, Garrido/Bridge (Defs)
SWP, A Johnson, Vieira, Ireland, Barry, de Jong, Milner, Y Toure, Silva (Mids)
Bellamy, Tevez, Adebayor, Torres, Robinho/Santa Cruz
Meaning we would only require to chose between Bridge & Garrido for 1 place, and Robinho & RSC for the other, with JO to leave on loan or sold.
Michael Johnson is injured until Oct/Nov, so it would be pointless to nominate him until January and then instead of Vieira.
Players under 21 or 21 on 1 Jan 10, and thus do not require registering for the 25 man squad are:
Cunningham, Boateng, Mee, Boyata, Wabarra, Trippier, Ibrahim, Weiss, Tutte, Kay, Clayton, Henshall, McDermott, Helan, Nimley, Guidetti, Balotelli & Ball (all have either played in US tour or appeared on bench before for City…or new signings, but younger than 21).
So there is no issue here at all, we might need to let 1 or possibly 2 players go if we were to sign both Milner & Torres for the 25 man squad, as Balotelli and any other kid we might sign between now and 1 Sept are part of the “unlimited” team.
Only problem could be nominated Europa Lge squad, as age is irrelevant there, they have to be nominated in a 25 man squad, and some unfortunately will miss out, but they will still play in both domestic cup comps (no registration required) and the Prem….as detailed above, selecting a 25 man squad is easy and of no concern to City at all.
GET YOUR FACTS correct, before spouting rubbish and passing it off as gospel, anybody can check Wikipiedia, but they have kids listed as part of the squad, and also the likes of Logan (released by the club, last having trials with Sheff U), Etuhu (doing time for Porridge), and Gonzalez (contract ends at begining of Jan)
I absolutly 100% agree with you!!! people need to sort there facts out and stop being jealous of an up and coming title winning team