moomba said:Damocles said:moomba said:Pretty sure they did.
Not in any official marketing they didn't, look it up
Claudio Reyna said that he would be back for pre season. That to me is a claim by th club that he would be there from the start.
New York City FC Sporting Director, Claudio Reyna, said: “This is the perfect opportunity for Frank. He is in great shape following the World Cup, and training and playing with our colleagues in Manchester will enable to Frank to be fit and ready for our inaugural training camp.
“Everyone has been hugely impressed with Frank’s positivity, and I’m sure he will bring a lot to City during his stint with the club. We wish him well for his spell with Manchester City and look forward to welcoming him back to New York in the New Year.”
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted to welcome Frank into his squad. He said: “Frank is a world class midfielder and this is an opportunity which works perfectly for everyone, the player, Manchester City, and New York City.
“I’m looking forward to working with him and integrating him into our squad. New York have made a fantastic signingby recruiting Frank, and I’m really pleased that we’ll be able to have him with us for the first half of our season and help prepare him for his new challenge.”
Easier said than done, for some......moomba said:This is from a quick google. I don't think we need to kid ourselves that the club/club/group didn't give people the impression that he would be there from the start. We did, it was a cock up, we move on.
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New York City FC Sporting Director, Claudio Reyna, said: “This is the perfect opportunity for Frank. He is in great shape following the World Cup, and training and playing with our colleagues in Manchester will enable to Frank to be fit and ready for our inaugural training camp.
“Everyone has been hugely impressed with Frank’s positivity, and I’m sure he will bring a lot to City during his stint with the club. We wish him well for his spell with Manchester City and look forward to welcoming him back to New York in the New Year.”
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted to welcome Frank into his squad. He said: “Frank is a world class midfielder and this is an opportunity which works perfectly for everyone, the player, Manchester City, and New York City.
“I’m looking forward to working with him and integrating him into our squad. New York have made a fantastic signingby recruiting Frank, and I’m really pleased that we’ll be able to have him with us for the first half of our season and help prepare him for his new challenge.”
SilverFox2 said:We should both remember that our owner has a plan that he is prepared to invest in long term using his ADUG investment team. CFG is only part of their investment arm and New York will no doubt benefit as we in Manchester have regarding investment for the formally desolate East Manchester local community, massive housing and recently University projects.
He has funded both of our teams plus others around the world so I think we should both be grateful that we have been chosen and be patient regarding the different business plans for our respective teams.
As a longtime and older than most fan of MCFC I have often despaired about our then owners and our often uncompetitive team.
This did not destroy my resolve to continue my support for them in fact it intensifies for most City fans, we enjoyed being the underdog and we are used to all the derogatory comments made by the media and fans of other more successful clubs.
We now have to get used to the success our owners have brought so this is very new to us. Believe me that if any mistakes have been made regarding real or assumed promises by our owners they will make up for this in long term investment, be patient with them and dare I say us.
Our owners have a global plan that other owners fear and up to now have shown no stomach to emulate.
moomba said:This is from a quick google. I don't think we need to kid ourselves that the club/club/group didn't give people the impression that he would be there from the start. We did, it was a cock up, we move on.
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New York City FC Sporting Director, Claudio Reyna, said: “This is the perfect opportunity for Frank. He is in great shape following the World Cup, and training and playing with our colleagues in Manchester will enable to Frank to be fit and ready for our inaugural training camp.
“Everyone has been hugely impressed with Frank’s positivity, and I’m sure he will bring a lot to City during his stint with the club. We wish him well for his spell with Manchester City and look forward to welcoming him back to New York in the New Year.”
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted to welcome Frank into his squad. He said: “Frank is a world class midfielder and this is an opportunity which works perfectly for everyone, the player, Manchester City, and New York City.
“I’m looking forward to working with him and integrating him into our squad. New York have made a fantastic signingby recruiting Frank, and I’m really pleased that we’ll be able to have him with us for the first half of our season and help prepare him for his new challenge.”
The only thing we seem to have truly been guilty of is not disclosing every detail of the contract we signed with Frank. Which strangely enough is what everybody else does.Damocles said:moomba said:This is from a quick google. I don't think we need to kid ourselves that the club/club/group didn't give people the impression that he would be there from the start. We did, it was a cock up, we move on.
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New York City FC Sporting Director, Claudio Reyna, said: “This is the perfect opportunity for Frank. He is in great shape following the World Cup, and training and playing with our colleagues in Manchester will enable to Frank to be fit and ready for our inaugural training camp.
“Everyone has been hugely impressed with Frank’s positivity, and I’m sure he will bring a lot to City during his stint with the club. We wish him well for his spell with Manchester City and look forward to welcoming him back to New York in the New Year.”
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted to welcome Frank into his squad. He said: “Frank is a world class midfielder and this is an opportunity which works perfectly for everyone, the player, Manchester City, and New York City.
“I’m looking forward to working with him and integrating him into our squad. New York have made a fantastic signingby recruiting Frank, and I’m really pleased that we’ll be able to have him with us for the first half of our season and help prepare him for his new challenge.”
I'm not saying that they didn't give that impression, I'm saying that they never outright said it.
They still didn't say it in that article either, they only said he'd be back in the new year which he will be
Dubai Blue said:stony said:Most of the other theories thrown around have also been ridiculous, so my point still stands!Dubai Blue said:It's a ridiculous theory. Why would we alienate the New York fans and risk a huge investment just to appease a player who will only be here for short time.
I certainly agree with that bit. I keep hearing journalists and fans of other teams saying the whole thing was bullshit and he was always going to stay at City for the whole season. I don't believe that for one minute; he may have stayed to cover for Yaya in Jan, but that would have been it. None of us expected him to have the impact he has, and plans have had to be adjusted accordingly.mrbelfry said:Think we were taken by surprise how good he has been