I am not sure what you mean on bad terms but if you mean players that we would have wanted to be kept? I would've been happy to see both Milner and Delph stay. I was a fan of Negredo also. I thought Nolito was crap. Torres stinks of a pre-agreement but thought he would have been a world beater if he stayed at City. I am struggling to think of too many others.Was thinking today that this doesn’t seem to happen very often any more.
The goodbyes in recent years to Zabba, Kun, Silva and Fern and Vinny speak volumes of how well we look after our players. Even Otamendi didn’t have a bad word to say when we seapped
Can only really think of Nolitto who hated Manchester and maybe Torres who was homesick but says a lot that players seem to want to be here for a long time. Kev will do 10 years, Gundo not that far off 8.
In the old days we seemed to have a lot more who didn’t get us?! Robert Hopkins springs to mind!
Yes I remember thinking he was a bit of a tosser when he did that but in fairness we were a basket case. Has spoken more warmly about us, and particularly the fans, in the subsequent years.Going back a bit, but Kit Symons said a few bad things about us to the press when he left for Portsmouth. Said they were better equipped for promotion and glad he'd left...etc...etc.
We were a bit of a state, as a club, at the time, so maybe it was deserved, but you never want to hear it from a player who was kinda decent for us, do you.
So was i.Peter Barnes and Gary Owen...neither wanted to leave, both loved the club and were shell-shocked when Allison sold them to West Brom.
I used to love reading “Watson (Manchester City)… Barnes (Manchester City)” in the MEN when it published England line-ups. When Big Mal put them, Owen and Channon on the transfer list it was like an early warning (aged 9) of what it was going to be like getting your heart broken. Barnes and Owen mightn’t have left under a cloud, but I watched them go from under a dirty great big grey one.So was i.
Peter Barnes was my favourite player when i first started going games
Malcolm ruined us with his ridiculous second spell. Ludicrous transfer business after finishing 2nd a couple of years earlier. The sale of Barnes and Owen to this day was a travesty. What were the club thinking?So was i.
Peter Barnes was my favourite player when i first started going games
He wouldn’t have got out of the rain though in Manchester.I heard it was something to do with horses - or a horse (with no name).
Peter is the reason I’m a Blue. As a kid I looked like him, played same position, I liked the colour of the City shirt…So was i.
Peter Barnes was my favourite player when i first started going games
Are you foreseeing any snide comments from any of our expected/rumoured departures this summer?Was thinking today that this doesn’t seem to happen very often any more.
The goodbyes in recent years to Zabba, Kun, Silva and Fern and Vinny speak volumes of how well we look after our players. Even Otamendi didn’t have a bad word to say when we seapped
Can only really think of Nolitto who hated Manchester and maybe Torres who was homesick but says a lot that players seem to want to be here for a long time. Kev will do 10 years, Gundo not that far off 8.
In the old days we seemed to have a lot more who didn’t get us?! Robert Hopkins springs to mind!
Kernaghan was of our worst pound for pound signings of all time. A complete shithouseAlan Kernaghan
when he was shipped out and we were tumbling down the leagues he was quoted as saying something like he watches for our results every Saturday and allows himself a smile with every terrible defeat we suffer