Soriano & Txiki effect ?

[Dethred]

balo-gone

To whom though? Berlusconi said he won't be joining Milan today.

This, the same man who fucked an underage prostitute? I'll believe anything he says.

 

[MSP]

Yep, he said his hart has decided Silva and Ibra stay in the moment they both probably had all package ready to fly :)

 

[Barnett89]

Here's the full Duncan Castle article:

MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen their wage bill rise above £200m and threaten the club’s ability to comply with Uefa’s Financial Fair Play.

Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.

After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.

Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.

First-team regulars who are considered replaceable include Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry and James Milner — who are entering the final 18 months of their contracts — as well as Aleksandar Kolarov, Edin Dzeko, Kolo Toure and Mario Balotelli. The turnover of players is expected to accelerate in the summer when a final decision will have been made on Roberto Mancini’s future as coach.

City’s recently published annual report showed that total payroll costs grew from just under £174m in the previous year to £201.8m, the highest so far reported in the Premier League. On revenues of £231.1m, the club lost £97.9m, an improvement on the previous year’s record red figures but clearly unsustainable under Financial Fair Play.

With regulations limiting the club’s losses to €45m (£36.7m) over an initial three-year period, Soriano knows City’s commercial income must increase, but he is also determined to make spending more efficient. Working on City’s books before he was installed as chief executive, he identified the high number of unproductive professionals as one of the most serious issues.

Begiristain’s assessment of what City were paying in wages since he was appointed at the end of October has only reinforced those concerns. Both men also feel that the quality of players beneath the senior squad must be improved.

That belief was underlined by the travails of the club’s Elite Development Squad in this season’s European and domestic competitions. City finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus in their NextGen group, winning just once.There was also only one victory in 12 Under-21 Premier League matches as City finished second bottom of their section.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Barry is 32, on 110k p/w, not world-class and never will be.

whether he is deemed "world class" or not is not the issue, the issue is that he is consistently one of City's most effective performers

 

[Blueroses]

Here's the full Duncan Castle article:

MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen their wage bill rise above £200m and threaten the club’s ability to comply with Uefa’s Financial Fair Play.

Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.

After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.

Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.

First-team regulars who are considered replaceable include Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry and James Milner — who are entering the final 18 months of their contracts — as well as Aleksandar Kolarov, Edin Dzeko, Kolo Toure and Mario Balotelli. The turnover of players is expected to accelerate in the summer when a final decision will have been made on Roberto Mancini’s future as coach.

City’s recently published annual report showed that total payroll costs grew from just under £174m in the previous year to £201.8m, the highest so far reported in the Premier League. On revenues of £231.1m, the club lost £97.9m, an improvement on the previous year’s record red figures but clearly unsustainable under Financial Fair Play.

With regulations limiting the club’s losses to €45m (£36.7m) over an initial three-year period, Soriano knows City’s commercial income must increase, but he is also determined to make spending more efficient. Working on City’s books before he was installed as chief executive, he identified the high number of unproductive professionals as one of the most serious issues.

Begiristain’s assessment of what City were paying in wages since he was appointed at the end of October has only reinforced those concerns. Both men also feel that the quality of players beneath the senior squad must be improved.

That belief was underlined by the travails of the club’s Elite Development Squad in this season’s European and domestic competitions. City finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus in their NextGen group, winning just once.There was also only one victory in 12 Under-21 Premier League matches as City finished second bottom of their section.

Thanks for posting it :)

So glad to hear that we are going to see changes soon
Upwards and onwards!

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Barry is 32, on 110k p/w, not world-class and never will be.

whether he is deemed "world class" or not is not the issue, the issue is that he is consistently one of City's most effective performers

But he is word class, as he's one of the best at what he does. Might not be pretty but gaz baz is quality. It's a shame people can't see it.

 

[kippaxblue76]

Barry is 32, on 110k p/w, not world-class and never will be.

whether he is deemed "world class" or not is not the issue, the issue is that he is consistently one of City's most effective performers

But he is word class, as he's one of the best at what he does. Might not be pretty but gaz baz is quality. It's a shame people can't see it.

Wouldnt say world class but one of if not the most effective player in his position in the league,a lot of people dont realise what he does for the team, a vital cog IMO.

 

[Neville Kneville]

whether he is deemed "world class" or not is not the issue, the issue is that he is consistently one of City's most effective performers

But he is word class, as he's one of the best at what he does. Might not be pretty but gaz baz is quality. It's a shame people can't see it.

Wouldnt say world class but one of if not the most effective player in his position in the league,a lot of people dont realise what he does for the team, a vital cog IMO.

Barry is just about the best player around at doing that job. He reads the game better than anyone imo. If he had Micha's athleticism, he would be the best midfielder in the Premier League & captain England. It's only his lack of pace etc that keeps him from that level.

 

[Malty]

No world class players coming to the Etihad?

 

[MC ID]

We need to keep the homegrown quota up so don't expect any English players to be moved on unless we have cheap replacements lined up, it's more than likely most of our players will get reduced, or more performance based contracts instead of just moved on.

We are in the annoying situation where we need to sell before we buy.

 

[Tevez City]

Re: Soriano & Txiki effect ?

Losing Barry and Milner will be a big blow for City.

Chelsea had only few shots on target against City and that was because Milner and Barry.

 

[kippax neil]

Barry is 32, on 110k p/w, not world-class and never will be.

whether he is deemed "world class" or not is not the issue, the issue is that he is consistently one of City's most effective performers

Totally agree, ironically thought he had his poorest game for some time against Reading.

There are a certain group of players though who have got us to this level but are deemed not good enough to take us to the next. Unfortunately, Barry is one of them.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Here's the full Duncan Castle article:

MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen their wage bill rise above £200m and threaten the club’s ability to comply with Uefa’s Financial Fair Play.

Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.

After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.

Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.

First-team regulars who are considered replaceable include Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry and James Milner — who are entering the final 18 months of their contracts — as well as Aleksandar Kolarov, Edin Dzeko, Kolo Toure and Mario Balotelli. The turnover of players is expected to accelerate in the summer when a final decision will have been made on Roberto Mancini’s future as coach.

City’s recently published annual report showed that total payroll costs grew from just under £174m in the previous year to £201.8m, the highest so far reported in the Premier League. On revenues of £231.1m, the club lost £97.9m, an improvement on the previous year’s record red figures but clearly unsustainable under Financial Fair Play.

With regulations limiting the club’s losses to €45m (£36.7m) over an initial three-year period, Soriano knows City’s commercial income must increase, but he is also determined to make spending more efficient. Working on City’s books before he was installed as chief executive, he identified the high number of unproductive professionals as one of the most serious issues.

Begiristain’s assessment of what City were paying in wages since he was appointed at the end of October has only reinforced those concerns. Both men also feel that the quality of players beneath the senior squad must be improved.

That belief was underlined by the travails of the club’s Elite Development Squad in this season’s European and domestic competitions. City finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus in their NextGen group, winning just once.There was also only one victory in 12 Under-21 Premier League matches as City finished second bottom of their section.

Not sure there's anything in there that the average fan couldn't have written.

wage bill too high - check
too many professionals - check
some of them unproductive - check
quality must be improved - check
usual suspects, possible transfer activity - check
but not 'til the summer - check
continued losses won't meet FFPR - check
income needs to be higher, expenses lower - check
EDS not doing very well, needs to improve - check

Doesn't take insight to guess that these are areas the new executives are looking at.

 

[johnny crossan]

Here's the full Duncan Castle article:

MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen their wage bill rise above £200m and threaten the club’s ability to comply with Uefa’s Financial Fair Play.

Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.

After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.

Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.

First-team regulars who are considered replaceable include Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry and James Milner — who are entering the final 18 months of their contracts — as well as Aleksandar Kolarov, Edin Dzeko, Kolo Toure and Mario Balotelli. The turnover of players is expected to accelerate in the summer when a final decision will have been made on Roberto Mancini’s future as coach.

City’s recently published annual report showed that total payroll costs grew from just under £174m in the previous year to £201.8m, the highest so far reported in the Premier League. On revenues of £231.1m, the club lost £97.9m, an improvement on the previous year’s record red figures but clearly unsustainable under Financial Fair Play.

With regulations limiting the club’s losses to €45m (£36.7m) over an initial three-year period, Soriano knows City’s commercial income must increase, but he is also determined to make spending more efficient. Working on City’s books before he was installed as chief executive, he identified the high number of unproductive professionals as one of the most serious issues.

Begiristain’s assessment of what City were paying in wages since he was appointed at the end of October has only reinforced those concerns. Both men also feel that the quality of players beneath the senior squad must be improved.

That belief was underlined by the travails of the club’s Elite Development Squad in this season’s European and domestic competitions. City finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus in their NextGen group, winning just once.There was also only one victory in 12 Under-21 Premier League matches as City finished second bottom of their section.

Not sure there's anything in there that the average fan couldn't have written.

wage bill too high - check
too many professionals - check
some of them unproductive - check
quality must be improved - check
usual suspects, possible transfer activity - check
but not 'til the summer - check
continued losses won't meet FFPR - check
income needs to be higher, expenses lower - check
EDS not doing very well, needs to improve - check

Doesn't take insight to guess that these are areas the new executives are looking at.

he's got it 100% correct though :-)