Damocles wrote:
Samaras is a bit of a myth amongst City fans now.
He played much of his City career on the left wing as Pearce thought his all round game was shite. He was our top scorer in 06/07 and scored 6 in his first 8 games. His biggest problem is that rotund alcoholic Richard Dunne and noted psychopath Joey Barton thought Dickov was more of a grafter thus a better player and told the papers. With Dickov, Hamann, Dunne, Barton and Vassell in our team, we were the definition of a bunch of workhorses over finesse and Pearce seemed to actively encourage it,which led to the now famous season of shit.
Pearce didnt have the dressing room under control and for some reasoned, signed a highly technical striker from Heerenveen then stuck him on the left wing of a bunch of plodders. Genius. He was also told that as a striker, he had to stop running out wide because he "wasnt Ronaldinho". Imagine if Wenger told a young Henry that?
We didnt play his football and he didnt want to adapt to ours. His stints pre-City at Heerenveen and post-City at Celtic show that hes a decent player who got stuck in a bad situation at City. Good luck to the lad.
If Samaras is so technically gifted, why's he playing in that pub league up North?
Pearce bought the wrong player from Heerenveen.
Huntelaar was banging all the goals in there and we bought fucking Sam Harris
As for Danny Mills, a nob off the pitch maybe, but he gave his all when he played.
The season before he joined we were so close to being relegated. A penalty taken by Dickov for Leicester saved by David James is pretty much what clinched Premier League survival
The following season, Mills and Thatcher were signed and they sealed a leaky defence.
Mills played for us for weeks with a broken leg and when he was frozen out, he did everything possible to play including going out on loan twice, unlike Wayne Bridge who refused a number of offers