Transfer Nightmare After Winning The League

johnnytapia said:
Norwich. And we lost.
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Absolute nothing game that Norwich would’ve been far more up for.

I always understood Mancini was set to be sacked at the end of the season but they brought it forwards after the Wigan abomination.

I remember seeing some Arsenal fans on the way back from Reading and thanking them for relegating Wigan that night.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
I see your creaney and i raise you christian negoui

Weve had some fuckin dross. Go before 86 (the year stoned rose referred to) and it gets worse. Tony cunningham. Doninic sullivan, trevor christie, and that little **** we signed from brum, robert hopkins.

But yeah, even post 86 and up to quite recent times there has been way worse than garcia. And he was shite
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Remember Hopkin? I'm still having fucking nightmares about him! Horrible gob shite. I was only a kid when he played(and I use that term lightly) for us, but I do remember him slaggin us off when he left and spouting some bollocks about Brum being a bigger club than us. Absolute twat of a man. Christian Negoui was Barry White agreed, but at least he scored in a 2-1 win at home to Rotherham(albeit with his hand) We could go on and on and on about all these shite players we've had so I'll leave it there. Haha! P.S Whilst Trevor Christie wasn't the Fred West(he did have the best fod)I've seen plenty, plenty worse.
 
Always Ali said:
Ha, it's all still too real in my mind for me to forget that 96-98 period, watching from the Kippax as we capitulated to Bury, or crumble at Edgeley Park. Dark days indeed.
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I went to Brighton in 83 when we had to win to avoid relegation, Kevin Reeves scored the winner late on and as we all know we were related the week later against Luton. I watched the 'highlights ' last week on you tube , we were dreadful, I forgotten how truly awful we were. We deserved to go down although at the time I didn't really believe that.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Remember Hopkin? I'm still having fucking nightmares about him! Horrible gob shite. I was only a kid when he played(and I use that term lightly) for us, but I do remember him slaggin us off when he left and spouting some bollocks about Brum being a bigger club than us. Absolute twat of a man. Christian Negoui was Barry White agreed, but at least he scored in a 2-1 win at home to Rotherham(albeit with his hand) We could go on and on and on about all these shite players we've had so I'll leave it there. Haha! P.S Whilst Trevor Christie wasn't the Fred West(he did have the best fod)I've seen plenty, plenty worse.
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Think it david whites book , he absolutely slagged hopkins. Said he was a thoroughly miserable msn who was disliked by the while squad
 
MCFC Wirral said:
Absolute nothing game that Norwich would’ve been far more up for.

I always understood Mancini was set to be sacked at the end of the season but they brought it forwards after the Wigan abomination.

I remember seeing some Arsenal fans on the way back from Reading and thanking them for relegating Wigan that night.
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Nah, he was dust before the final, everybody was singing the 'You can stick your Pellegrini up your arse' song outside the ground, and why I think he started Hart instead of Pants.
Pretty sure i read Barca leaked it.
 
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BufordUSABlue said:
Nowhere close I'm afraid mate.....
Gerry Creaney was as bad as i have ever seen and i have been going since 1968 so a proper FOC !
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I remember a night game, I think Barnsley in 96/97 possibly. Think it was first or second home game of the season. I was sat in corner of North stand where it met the Main. A ball was played to him towards the corner flag where I was sat, it was easily retrievable but he was blowing out of arse and just give up without a fight. I've never forgiven him for that. He was a fucking disgrace!
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Think it david whites book , he absolutely slagged hopkins. Said he was a thoroughly miserable msn who was disliked by the while squad
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When he, Hopkins, went to West Brom after City. I remember him slagging off all the young players that had played in the Youth Cup winning side, saying that they were nothing special. Anyway City played West Brom quite soon after his move and when the game kicked off Paul Stewart went straight over to him and dumped him straight on his arse suggesting that he wasn't the hard man that he portrayed himself to be. He was a bit of a dick was Hopkins I always felt that he thought he was too good for City at the time even though he wasn't a very good player at all, in fact he is in the top 5 worst signings ever. In my humble opinion.
 
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BufordUSABlue said:
Nowhere close I'm afraid mate.....
Gerry Creaney was as bad as i have ever seen and i have been going since 1968 so a proper FOC !
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Spot on and to think we let Paul Walsh go the other way in a deal where we gave Portsmouth money as well. Possibly one of the worse pieces of business ever.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
I remember a night game, I think Barnsley in 96/97 possibly. Think it was first or second home game of the season. I was sat in corner of North stand where it met the Main. A ball was played to him towards the corner flag where I was sat, it was easily retrievable but he was blowing out of arse and just give up without a fight. I've never forgiven him for that. He was a fucking disgrace!
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He wasn't in the right shape to be a professional footballer. He was too overweight.
 
I've always thought that the leadership of the club shat itself after we won the league in 2012 - clearly ahead of schedule.

Not sure about Begiristain but Soriano was definitely in situ as part of the 'get Guardiola' plan - I only remember that because of Bobby Manc's rant about how he should have stuck to running an airline.

The club had clearly decided that they were going all in for Pep at some point during Mancini's time at the club and I think they were worried about how they'd look giving Mancini the bullet if he'd started to build on the 2 trophies he'd won in 2 years... simple / underhanded method of dealing with the situation... hamstring Mancini in the transfer market which they knew would make him lose his rag, giving them an excuse to get rid of him, regardless of if it meant having to have a stand in (Manuel the laziest man in football) for a period until Pep was available.

I've always felt that the leaks about Mancini's position on the evening before and morning of the 2013 FA Cup final were deliberate sabotage of the first team by the hierarchy of the club.

Having been a season ticket holder since the middle of the Swales era it seems somewhat bizarre to say that turning up for a cup final at Wembley, 12 months after winning the league, I witnessed the worst pre-match atmosphere amongst City supporters in my entire time as a supporter.
 
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Let's just be glad the club have never repeated the same mistakes as they did that window. We could have been doing that every window since and we'd be a bigger laughing stock than the rags. The club generally have recruited incredibly well subsequently and made the right calls in terms of letting players leave as well. This summer has been scrutinised, but Doku looks excellent, Gvardiol is undoubtedly a fantastic player, Kovacic slotted right in pre-injury and it's only Nunes where you query if we made the right choice. And even then he's already shown glimpses of what he can do and delivered assists.
 
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