Most Gutted you've Been About a player leaving

[Zabbasbeard]

Apologies if I am misremembering some if it - it was a long time ago now - but I still feel queasy in my stomach just thinking about it !

Nope, you're spot on with it. We all loved Big Mal, but think we knew even back then that something was wrong. On the bright side, it shows just what a remarkable job John Bond did with the remnants.

I was 12/13 at the time and it was before my first visit to City (1980, bitten and smitten on my first visit, when Johnny Bond had just taken over with us bottom of the League). It made no sense to a then "outsider" like me in 78-80 as to why all these great players were being sold, and it still doesn't. It kind of makes me wanting to question selling top players. Yes I felt a bit quesy when Tevez went this summer...just hope Negredo and Jovetic do the business...
I hated the Utd fans' facile "What's Blue and slides down the table" gags around that time. It was naturally all a big laugh to them.

 

[jimbopm]

Strangely enough I was pretty upset when Jerome Boateng left as I genuinely thought that he had great potential. Nigel came a very close second.

A champions league & German treble winner. Makes me wonder why we didn't keep him. I'm pretty sure he wanted to go back to Germany

Yeah he did, he joined city and picked up an injury, which while not serious was the exacerbated when he was hit by an air stewardesses trolley on a team flight. It meant he hardly got any game time over the course of the season, also Micah's form kept him out of the team.

 

[Deepest Blue]

Tommy Caton.

I knew it was game over for us when TC went.

 

[BlueMoon_1987]

Like others, I was truly gutted when De Jong left and especially because we failed to invest in an adequate enough replacement. Great player.

 

[stonie]

Buster phillips, how he never went for 15 mill I will never know

 

[George Hannah]

Denis Law, first time round and later on Trevor Francis. Bloody Italy!

 

[mcfctomlad]

Vladamir Weiss because I thought he wouldve been our best player for years and Craig Bellamy he was just an amazing little player, i was also gutted about Balotelli leaving<br /><br />-- Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:20 pm --<br /><br />

Strangely enough I was pretty upset when Jerome Boateng left as I genuinely thought that he had great potential. Nigel came a very close second.

A champions league & German treble winner. Makes me wonder why we didn't keep him. I'm pretty sure he wanted to go back to Germany

Yeah he did, he joined city and picked up an injury, which while not serious was the exacerbated when he was hit by an air stewardesses trolley on a team flight. It meant he hardly got any game time over the course of the season, also Micah's form kept him out of the team.

Boateng never seemed as if he wanted to play for us though

 

[woodieMCFC]

Balotelli and De Jong for me.

 

[Blue Theatre]

Apologies if I am misremembering some if it - it was a long time ago now - but I still feel queasy in my stomach just thinking about it !

Nope, you're spot on with it. We all loved Big Mal, but think we knew even back then that something was wrong. On the bright side, it shows just what a remarkable job John Bond did with the remnants.

Yes, John Bond immediately realised that what a whole team of inexperienced youngsters needed was some wise old heads; he brought in Bobby McDonald, Gerry Gow and Tommy Hutchison, and all was great for a while. But then of course he left abrubtly, leaving John Benson in charge, who unfortunately had all the charisma and motivating powers of a turnip ... and down we went to Division 2. And that, of course, was the start of the yo-yo years between the divisions that seemed to go on for ever. A million miles from where we are today !

 

[baildon blue]

Ali Benarbia one of my favourite players at City. I will never forget his debut against Birmingham. He was quality!!!!!