Given Staying At City

[scorer]

From another thread:

1 Shay Given
2 Joe Hart
3 Stuart Taylor
4 Aleksandar Kolarov
5 Jerome Boateng
6 Joleon Lescott
7 Wayne Bridge
8 Micah Richards
9 Kolo Toure
10 Pablo Zabaleta
11 Adam Johnson
12 David Silva
13 Gareth Barry
14 James Milner
15 Patrick Vieira
16 Yaya Toure
17 Nigel de Jong
18 Vincent Kompany
19 Shaun Wright-Phillips
20 Emmanuel Adebayor
21 Carlos Tevez
22
23
24
25

Felipe Caicedo
Jo
Robinho
Roque Santa Cruz
Kelvin Etuhu
Michael Johnson
Shaleum Logan

With Robinho out and Jo and Caicedo probably in that would mean that two out of Etuhu, Johnson and Logan would have to beat out Santa Cruz. With the number of games ahead of us, I think I would take the guy who scored a goal every other game for Blackburn on the chance he can turn things around. The reason everyone assumes he is out of the 25 is everyone assumes he is leaving for Italy. If he is not he should get as good a shot as Jo....

What about Ballotelli???? Or being young isn't he included in the number??

 

[Rammy Blue]

What about Ballotelli???? Or being young isn't he included in the number??

Doesn't count mate as under 21.

 

[mike channon´s windmill]

Fair play to Shay - he has gained my full respect for this decision - good man

 

[Akira]

Good stuff. But it pains me to see Given as a backup.

 

[alera]

Good I am happy he is doing the right thing.

He should get some games now in the cups. Keepers get injured and suspended, we have alot of games to play, he has a chance of winning something at city. No chance if he went to Fulham.

 

[lionheart]

Excellent news as we will need him for Europa League and Carling Cup ties. So much for a certain ITK on here who said many times that Shay was definitely leaving.

 

[Cambridgeblue]

Best news of the window if true.

Hope Given will get decent runs in the cups as a reward for this loyalty... we paid the price for Hart's absence last season and it would have been criminal for history to have reapeated itself.

Note to Robinho - THAT is how you show true class, by staying, working hard and forcing the manager to pick you. You do not show true class by moaning, pissing off to Brazil and then returning to agitate for a move to Italy or Spain.

 

[FantasyIreland]

So much for a certain ITK on here who said many times that Shay was definitely leaving.

How do you know he wasn't set on a move? Things change.....

Rather than seizing an opportunity to slag people who offer info,to their knowledge,correct at the time of posting,why not offer a little credit to Mancini/Marwood,or whoever it was reponsible,for persusading him to change his stance?

 

[lionheart]

So much for a certain ITK on here who said many times that Shay was definitely leaving.

How do you know he wasn't set on a move? Things change.....

Rather than seizing an opportunity to slag people who offer info,to their knowledge,correct at the time of posting,why not offer a little credit to Mancini/Marwood,or whoever it was reponsible,for persusading him to change his stance?

But the person concerned said that Given was definitely leaving rather than saying that he might be considering leaving, quite an important difference. Just another attention seeker in my view.

 

[jeffmr2]

Was there much interest in him apart from Arsenal?