Players who have left us under a cloud or on bad terms?

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GoatersLeftShin said:
I suspect in the old days, we had a lot of players who were good at their clubs, understood what the manager wanted them to do and generally were good at it.

Then they came to City, a basketcase at the time. They'd play for different managers and most of them didn't know themselves what they wanted the players to do. Worse still, some managers would probably have come in and not rated them at all.

We were able to splash the cash at times in the 90s on players and I bet many players, and clubs, just couldn't turn our cash down. Imagine how someone like Holden felt going from a club like Oldham who had a style he knew inside out then coming to City where the style under Reid was alien to Oldham's. I can imagine many, many players came in only to be incredibly frustrated that they were made to look like turkeys. You can understand how some of these players left the club hating it. Jeez, I hated us at times! :)

Nowadays of course, it's a different club completely. If a player like Torres or Garcia want to leave, it's because he wants to go home and no one can blame him for that. It must be hard for a young lad in a different country afterall. Yaya was a strange one and I suspect it was his agent underneath it all wanting contract talks etc and Hart left because he couldn't play with his feet and Pep - correctly - identified that we wouldn't be able to play his style with him. I don't remember Hart badmouthing us though, he seems very pragmatic about it.

We've come a long way since the old days. If you want to remember what it was like, just have a look at United nowadays :)
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In interviews since he has praised the way Pep handled it, I believe he said they sat down for a four hour meeting before the decision was made.

He's seen a lot worse since, Nuno took a very different approach which Joe rightly felt a lot more badly about if you know what happened there.
 
Undr the Cosh podcast revealed Steve Howey left under a cloud. Run in with Keegan over being benched, think he walked out of the ground and went home, also called the boss something and Keegan took offence, he went to apologise in his office few days later and Keegan told him it was too late.

He also said it was one of only two regrets he had in his career, as he thought we had something here at the time and it was a good group to be part of.
 
Also Rosler. Remember it all turning sour when he left. Went to a pre season friendly and loads of kids there shouting don't go uwe as he came off the pitch, blanked them all. Was gutted at the time as knew it meant he was gone.
 
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