Jerome Boateng (Merged)

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"I learned that night about the passion
and commitment of the City fans. They
made it very hard for us and got
behind the side in a great way"
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Roberto Mancini’s vision and ambition, his own firsthand knowledge of City fans’ passion and a desire to improve are the three overriding factors in Jerome Boateng swapping the Bundesliga for the Premier League.

The versatile 21-year-old defender flew into Manchester from Berlin yesterday morning for a medical and will officially become a City player in three weeks time on July 1.

He is now in South Africa preparing for Germany’s World Cup bid where he hopes to further enhance a growing reputation as one of the best young defenders in Europe.

“I am really looking forward to the World Cup and then to joining City,” he said during an interview with mcfc.co.uk before having a look around the City of Manchester Stadium.

“I spoke at length with Roberto Mancini and he impressed me with his plans for the team in the coming seasons. It was a very good conversation.

“And I know about City from when Hamburg played here in the Uefa Cup. I played in the second leg which we lost but won on aggregate on the way to the semi-finals.

Boateng is not expecting any difficulties settling into his new surroundings. Although he has not spoken English since his schooldays he has a good enough command of the language for it not to be a barrier to conversations or interviews and there are familiar faces at Carrington already.

He is a former Hamburg teammate of both Vincent Kompany and Nigel de Jong and spoke with the Belgian a couple of months ago about life in the Premier League.

“He told me of the strength of the English game, the passion of the fans and like the coach he spoke of the vision of the club to win trophies,” confirmed Boateng.

“I can’t wait to work with so many top players and show what I can do and become a better player. I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game. I can play at full back on either side but I prefer the central defensive position.”

Watch out for a video of Jerome’s visit on mcfc.co.uk on Monday.
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He's a good signing no doubt but he just said his preferred position is central defence, we already have 3 decent central defenders so i can see one of the 3 being unhappy leading to an exit.

and the only way 3 central defenders work last season was because of perfect timing of injury's so that was all fine and dandy

if he's going to play right back then richards is deff going to leave which is a shame imo but yea..... lol
 
“I can’t wait to work with so many top players and show what I can do and become a better player. I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game. I can play at full back on either side but I prefer the central defensive position.”


YES!!! I can finally prove he is a centre back!! GET IN!!!!
 
sam the drummer said:
He's in my seat the cheeky fecker!
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He cant be, by the looks of things he's in the Colin Bell stand, which is the West Stand.
 
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