Ireland distraught

bugsyblue said:
When I heard about Ireland demanding a £2m goodbye payment I thought it was a joke. Obviously it's coming from his agent who is trying to get him, and himself, as much money as he can. But it's a piss take to be frank and I thought the club was doing absolutely the right thing about playing hardball.

However, reading the article in the MEN (sorry if already posted but couldn't find it)

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1314078_ireland_left_out_in_cold_by_city" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/sport/football/ma ... ld_by_city</a>

I can't help but feel we're being very unprofessional by not letting him train with the 1st team. It's clear that Mancini is bringing the business side of things onto the training pitch. Bellamy has been told to stay away (rightly so if he is a disruptive figure in training but think it has more to do with trying to force him out) but now Ireland has been told he has to train with the reserves? This is a guy who has been brought through our ranks, has city in his heart, and yes hasn't been great recently but has performed very well for us in the past. He is NOT a reserve player, and even though he's probably leaving, and even though he isn't in our 25 man squad, how is letting him continue to train with the first team going to be a disruptive influence on the squad? He's never slagged us off to my knowledge and he's never been disruptive on the pitch, in the training room, or in the dressing room that I know of. And to treat him this way, because we want him to be part of the Milner deal is unprofessional and disgraceful in my opinion. Really don't like this side of Mancini. I hope I've got it wrong.
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IMO this is what City have been missing for too long. I agree Ireland is a totally different proposition to Bellamy and it hurts to see it... that said if we want to toughen up and win trophies, we better get used to it.
 
Dubai Blue said:
Billy Shears said that this decision to exclude him has come from above Mancini and that he is just following orders by not letting him train with the first-team squad.
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fucking marwood sticking his nose in again.
 
GStar said:
Dubai Blue said:
Billy Shears said that this decision to exclude him has come from above Mancini and that he is just following orders by not letting him train with the first-team squad.
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Typical fucking City...
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To be perfectly honest, that fact that Mancini acquiesced to Stevie training with the reserves is as sad as anything else in this entire episode. As a footballing man, and someone who's supposed to have a modicum of class about him, he should have seen that punishing someone for not moving to a managerless club is a classless act...
 
scorer said:
IMOthisis what City have been missing for toolong. I agree Irelandis a totally differentproposition to Bellamy and it hurts to see it... that said if we want to toughrn up and win trophies, we better get used to it.
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Which bit though mate, the 'unprofessional' slant it seems we're conducting ourselves in, the bowing down to the guys who should have no say on player matters day to day or booting people out he cba working with... because your amte Hughes was top at that last bit.

The other two, i'm not a fan of personally.
 
Guys we all love the club and the team but I think many are forgetting this is not happy families. This is a business and a results motivated one at that. Either all your favorites (I mean every single supporter here) stay and we keep fighting to scrape 5th place OR we get better players and the team improves. These players are rewarded very handsomely for what they know is the cut throat business of football. Ireland has not been up to the level of playing aside Champions league winners (Balotti, Yaya Toure), World Cup winner (Silva) and the like, he was given the chance to prove himself his form fell and better players have come in. If you do not perform at work and are given chances to improve but fail and there are others who can do you job you will get replaced. This is the game of life. Yes we are glad for the work Ireland did while with the team but its time to move on and we wish him the best. If his form had not dipped he would not have had anything to worry about.
 
BillyShears said:
GStar said:
Typical fucking City...
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To be perfectly honest, that fact that Mancini acquiesced to Stevie training with the reserves is as sad as anything else in this entire episode. As a footballing man, and someone who's supposed to have a modicum of class about him, he should have seen that punishing someone for not moving to a managerless club is a classless act...
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I'm just remembering all the shit we threw at Everton and Moyes for his treatment of Lescott... what makes it worse is that Ireland doesn't even want to leave.
 
He had his card marked when he joined the group that protested over Hughes sacking.
 
For the record I have no problem with Ireland being made to train with the reserves. He's not part of the 1st team squad so why would he train with them. We have a season to prepare for here, yet again the most important one in recent history.

On a second note I completely agree that Ireland should demand a severance pay. He has a contract with the club which the club has to honour. He doesn't want to leave but is being forced to by the club so they should pay him severance. Simple really.
 
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