Steve Daly explains why it went wrong

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British record transfer to City at the time talks about how the pressure affected him, including the criticism from supporters.

Could the same things have affected Robinho?
 
Can they also do a piece about where it went wrong for the endless list of big money rags that flopped......or is it only City where these things ever happen?
 
easy to say the fans got on his back and this and that
but you are a footballer and should know better

the manager /coach see him training week in week out
there is a old video on city back in the 80s and big mal and him are having ago at each other mal is say this and he did not like it

we was to big a club for him and big mal was a great coach and he should never talk back to him
when you have won most things like big mal you listen and take it in

thats to easy to point the finger at the fans and say that
but if you put in 100% in the game the fans dont care if we lose and see you
running your heart out for the club/badge
 
Re: Steve Daley explains why it went wrong

It's obvious to me that this has been edited a particular way. Steve was very appreciative of City fans during his time at Maine Road and he always felt he let them down.

I did an indepth interview with him at the start of the season and the article appeared in the City-Wolves programme. In that he talked passionately about how much he loved running out in front of the Kippax etc. He ultimately talked of how fans did eventually criticise him but it was very much after he felt he had let them down. He said that fans deserved more from him and that they were right to criticise.

I wish i was able to put the entire interview I recorded with him in the public domain and then people would hear how sorry he felt.

If you've bought the City-Wolves programme, have a read of the piece because that is 100% accurate and what he said, it wasn't edited to make out the crowd were on his back.
 
Re: Steve Daley explains why it went wrong

Gary James said:
It's obvious to me that this has been edited a particular way. Steve was very appreciative of City fans during his time at Maine Road and he always felt he let them down.

I did an indepth interview with him at the start of the season and the article appeared in the City-Wolves programme. In that he talked passionately about how much he loved running out in front of the Kippax etc. He ultimately talked of how fans did eventually criticise him but it was very much after he felt he had let them down. He said that fans deserved more from him and that they were right to criticise.

I wish i was able to put the entire interview I recorded with him in the public domain and then people would hear how sorry he felt.

If you've bought the City-Wolves programme, have a read of the piece because that is 100% accurate and what he said, it wasn't edited to make out the crowd were on his back.
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Spot on Gary. I saw him doing an after-dinner speaking gig and while his material was very self-deprecating (he does a great gag about arriving on the team coach at the Swamp for his first ever Derby), when I spoke top him afterwards, he had nothing but good things to say about City and our supporters
 
Re: Steve Daley explains why it went wrong

Gary James said:
It's obvious to me that this has been edited a particular way. Steve was very appreciative of City fans during his time at Maine Road and he always felt he let them down.

I did an indepth interview with him at the start of the season and the article appeared in the City-Wolves programme. In that he talked passionately about how much he loved running out in front of the Kippax etc. He ultimately talked of how fans did eventually criticise him but it was very much after he felt he had let them down. He said that fans deserved more from him and that they were right to criticise.

I wish i was able to put the entire interview I recorded with him in the public domain and then people would hear how sorry he felt.

If you've bought the City-Wolves programme, have a read of the piece because that is 100% accurate and what he said, it wasn't edited to make out the crowd were on his back.
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I thought in the video he was saying that he could understand the criticism but it didn't help, so in the end he couldn't see any option other than leaving.



And I don't doubt he's a nice bloke, but his football was crap at city.
 
I was at a dinner last friday..he was the speaker there, very funny, but word for word what he said on another one I'd seen him at 2 years ago.
Nice bloke though...Knows he was crap and laughs about it with everyone.
 
C1TY4LIFE said:
Never saw him play but me dad said he was woeful.

£450 a week 30 years ago for playing a sport that we all love my heart bleeds for you.
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I wouldn't quite go that far, but Allison really did believe he was the kingpin for his new tactical masterplan - but it never materialised.

Can't blame Steve Daley entirely for this; he had done well with Wolves before Big Mal came and plucked him from the wilderness to star in - well you know how things usually go when we're involved.. and don't forget these were the Swales days, lol
 
RBmk2 said:
Can they also do a piece about where it went wrong for the endless list of big money rags that flopped......or is it only City where these things ever happen?
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Garry Birtles, just mention his name to a rag of a certain age and watch the colour drain from his face. ;-)

As for Daley, if we'd paid a reasonable fee - say £500k - instead of a British transfer record of £1.4m he wouldn't have been looked on as such a failure. A decent enough player but never a top-class one.
 
mammutly said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2009/jan/19/kaka-manchester-city-steve-daley

British record transfer to City at the time talks about how the pressure affected him, including the criticism from supporters.

Could the same things have affected Robinho?
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not a fucking chance
 
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