Nascent Blues
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macmanson said:CityPar said:Spot on. The fact is they are no longer good enough for where we want to be and have become casualties of City raising the bar. No-one likes to be told you aren't up to it and some even react badly. What we're seeing is immature players spitting the dummy out instead of getting their heads down doing a job at their new clubs and new levels.......
Your comment misses the whole point though. It's not that the players were moved on, it's the manner in which they were moved on that is the issue. The club has show a real lack of tact when it comes to dismissing players. These weren't players that asked to be moved, they were players the club deemed to be surplus to requirements and the club could have made minimal effort to curtail all of this negative press by simply extending some gratitude to the players they are forcing out. I thought I heard Mancini mention that he thought Ireland was a great player and that he hoped and thought he would do well at Villa (paraphrasing)? And as for Whoopi fucking Goldberg, who gives a fuck what he thinks? Somebody who was so looking forward to playing for us he fell asleep in the fucking airport!
Or maybe your right, maybe we should have rolled out the Red Carpet for him when he left, straight to a private Lear Jet with a full tank of fuel. Garrido didn't say a thing when he left. Cake dough didn't say a thing when he left. Bojinov didn't say a thing when he left. Gelson was unhappy that he wasn't getting games but didn't slag the club off when he left. I would point to the fact that these players were in fact professional in their demeanour and outlook when they left/released from our club.
If the club simply released a little blurb from the manager stating that the player's time at the club was invaluable, he was a good guy, etc, than these comments wouldn't have a leg to stand on and the player's would look petty. Irregardless if we mean the comments or not, the fact that you say them nullifies any attempt to be petty afterwards.
The press is just continuing to build on the owners being ruthless because of the way that Hughes was sacked and now how these players are being shipped out without a word. I'll admit the Hughes sacking debacle was ill conceived and could have been handled differently. However, regardless of how City played it we were always going to get the shitty end of the stick by the press regarding sacking Hughes. And do you honestly think that the press would have represented City as a bastion of goodwill if we'd let Ireland train with the first team for a couple of days?
Maybe in the future the club could get Michael Aspel to present a 'This is Your Life (as a City player)' type of programme for those players that leave. I know, maybe the good Sheikh himself could jump out on them with the big red book in his hands when they're least expecting it. This may show the press how sincere we are as a club and they may just start writing really nice things about us again.
The Hughes sacking has already wet the media's appetite and you can be rest assured that Mancini's every move will be magnified and scrutinized to death. We all know that as soon as Mancini loses his 3rd game before Christmas that the media is going to be beying for blood because a British manager was sacked with only 2 losses.
The fact of the matter is that the club have brought this shit on themselves because of horrible PR management. Whoever handles the club's PR needs to be demoted, or more suitably, sacked without prejudice.
The fact of the matter is that probably no other club in the Premier League has had such a high turn over of players, in the light of a national press that already had their knives sharpened, in such a small time frame. The club, in my opinion, was ALWAYS going to cop a load of shit from the press no matter how they handled the players leaving.
Let's see if, in a couple of years time when we're flying high and eating from the top table, the gutter press will slagging us off. I personally think they'll be kissing our ring.
Whoopi who?