Failure this season will represent a mere postponement of the inevitable. We have already tempted players away from clubs who had a full season of CL football ahead of them. Toure and Adebayor left Arsenal, Tevez left the twats across the road and Barry said yes to us before he knew whether Liverpool were going to renew their interest in signing him prior to the start of this season. They all seemed happy enough to join City, in spite of the fact that we came tenth last season, and didn't even qualify for the Europa, let alone the CL. And over the course of the season, those players have been good enough to help us reach the very brink of a top four finish. The worse we can do is sixth.
Most, if not all of those players will stay. Others will join and make us stronger yet. Don't let them tell you that there you that there aren't enough top notch players on the planet willing to sacrifice one year of CL football to come to Eastlands. Last summer's transfer activities show precisely how wide of the mark that theory really is. It's a bit of a myth. There may well be plenty of players stupid or snooty enough to balk at joining us, even if they stand to double their wages by doing so, but I say bollocks to anyone who argues that no world class players at all will join if we don't get top four. That is a complete crock of shite, it really is. There will be plenty who are willing to forgo CL football for one season if it means joining one of Europe's most ambitious clubs and being paid the earth for doing so. And even if silverware is a player's first motivation, the possibility of joining a team capable of challenging for major domestic honours next year may be enough in itself to persuade them.
I am desperate for us to beat Spurs and desperate for us to make the top four this season, but if we don't make it, it will be easy enough to get over it. There's always next season.
Most, if not all of those players will stay. Others will join and make us stronger yet. Don't let them tell you that there you that there aren't enough top notch players on the planet willing to sacrifice one year of CL football to come to Eastlands. Last summer's transfer activities show precisely how wide of the mark that theory really is. It's a bit of a myth. There may well be plenty of players stupid or snooty enough to balk at joining us, even if they stand to double their wages by doing so, but I say bollocks to anyone who argues that no world class players at all will join if we don't get top four. That is a complete crock of shite, it really is. There will be plenty who are willing to forgo CL football for one season if it means joining one of Europe's most ambitious clubs and being paid the earth for doing so. And even if silverware is a player's first motivation, the possibility of joining a team capable of challenging for major domestic honours next year may be enough in itself to persuade them.
I am desperate for us to beat Spurs and desperate for us to make the top four this season, but if we don't make it, it will be easy enough to get over it. There's always next season.
