The Likely 25

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City 25
1 Shay Given
2 Joe Hart
3 S Taylor
4 M Richards
5 J Boateng
6 K Toure
7 J Lescott
8 W Bridge
9 Zabaletta
10 A Kolarov
11 N Onouha
12 A Johnson
13 G Barry
14 D Silva
15 Y Toure
16 N De Jong
17 V Kompany
18 J Milner
19 P Vieira
20 S Wright Phillips
21 R Santa Cruz
22 M Balotelli
23 E Adebayor
24 C Tevez
25 C Bellamy

I think Santa Cruz and SWP will be off if we buy another striker and midfielder (other than Balotelli and Milner). Isn't a bad squad though!
 
SSN saying Ned is off to Sunderland so cross him out, Balo is under 21 so he can go leaving 2 spaces. RSC is not being given the love so I see it like this...

Bold for the changes
Home grown in italics

City 25
1 Shay Given
2 Joe Hart
3 S Taylor
4 M Richards
5 J Boateng
6 K Toure
7 J Lescott
8 W Bridge
9 Zabaletta
10 A Kolarov
11 Robinho
12 A Johnson
13 G Barry
14 D Silva
15 Y Toure
16 N De Jong
17 V Kompany
18 J Milner
19 P Vieira
20 S Wright Phillips
21 Jo
22 RSC
23 E Adebayor
24 C Tevez
25 C Bellamy

U21s, Dedryck, Balo, Nimely, Cunny, Ibrahim, Weiss, any others to add?
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We have 9 homegrown players here! All good.
 
1 Given
2.Richards
3. Bridge
4. Zab
5 M. Johnson?
6. SWP.
7. Ade
7. A johnson
8.Taylor
9.Kolarov
10.Boateng
11. barry
12 lescott
13. silva
14. vieira
15. kompany
16 hart
17 kolo
18 tevez
19 de jong
20 yaya
21 Jo?
22. milner?
23. bellamy?
24. robinho?

With No Nedum, ireland santa cruz?

weiss balotelli all dont need to be included...

Am i missing something, or is bellamy whinging over nothing?
 
BatleyBlue said:
Balotelli wouldn't need to be in it as he is 19 right?
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Exactly thats the beauty of it!

And Ned went out on loan to Sunderland.
So we actually have two spots that is not taken yet.

and all the twats in the media says we have a problem to decrease our team.
 
Vienna_70 said:
BatleyBlue said:
Balotelli wouldn't need to be in it as he is 19 right?
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Is it not only home-grown U21s who don't need to be included?
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25 man squad 8 have to be home grown any number of U21's can be used regardless of homegrown or not
 
GK:- Hart, Given, Taylor
RB:- Boateng, Richards
LB:- Kolarov, Bridge
CB:- Kompany, Kolo, Lescott, Onuoha
CM:- De Jong, Yaya, Silva, Barry, Milner, Vieira
LW:- Bellamy, Robinho
RW:- A.Johnson, Swp
ST:- Tevez, Adebayor, Balotelli, Jo

Youngsters:- Boyata, Weiss, Balotelli, Ibrahim,
 
Bluemooner33 said:
GK:- Hart, Given, Taylor
RB:- Boateng, Richards
LB:- Kolarov, Bridge
CB:- Kompany, Kolo, Lescott, Onuoha
CM:- De Jong, Yaya, Silva, Barry, Milner, Vieira
LW:- Bellamy, Robinho
RW:- A.Johnson, Swp
ST:- Tevez, Adebayor, Balotelli, Jo

Youngsters:- Boyata, Weiss, Balotelli, Ibrahim,
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Why no Bellers? i hope he doesn't leave :(
 
jonjake said:
City 25
1 Shay Given
2 Joe Hart
3 S Taylor
4 M Richards
5 J Boateng
6 K Toure
7 J Lescott
8 W Bridge
9 Zabaletta
10 A Kolarov
11 D Gonzalez
12 A Johnson
13 G Barry
14 D Silva
15 Y Toure
16 N De Jong
17 V Kompany
18 J Milner
19 P Vieira
20 S Wright Phillips
21 R Santa Cruz
22 Robinho
23 E Adebayor
24 C Tevez
25 C Bellamy
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Assuming Milner joins, Robinho stays, Ireland leaves, and there are no further departures...

GK: Given, Hart, Taylor
FB: Boateng, Bridge, Richards, Zabaleta, Kolarov
CB: Kompany, Lescott, K. Touré
SM: Bellamy, A. Johnson, Robinho, Wright-Phillips
CM: Barry, De Jong, Milner, Silva, Y. Touré, Vieira
ST: Adebayor, Jo, Santa Cruz, Tevez

Lots of these players can play in multiple positions too, which might count in our favour as the season progresses.
If neither Bellamy or Robinho are here at the start of the season, I would think Mancini would throw in another striker and midfielder for the sake of it, as I believe in that scenario he would use Milner, Balotelli if he signs and Silva as a wide-men, as well as using younger players such as Weiss.
 
My hope for the final 25:

GK - Hart, Given, Taylor
RB - Boateng, Richards
LB - Kolarov, Bridge
CB - Kompany, Kolo, Lescott, Luiz
DM - De Jong, Vieira, Zabaleta
CM - Barry, Milner, Yaya
WM - Bellamy, A. Johnson, Sweep
AM - Silva, Ireland
ST- Tevez, Adebayor, Jo

I think that includes 9 home grown?

Under 21s: Boyata, Ibrahim, Nimley, Balotelli, Assulin

Left out: M. Johnson

Loan: Weiss, Onuoha

Sell: Rocky, Robinho, Caicedo
 
If City wound up with more than 25 players for PL purposes, could the ones that didn't make it be instead selected for European matches and the cup games? I believe the theoretical maximum number of games is something like 70... so if a player wasn't available for the Premier League, wouldn't they still have the opportunity to play a LOT of games?
 
c4lv3rt said:
Bluemooner33 said:
GK:- Hart, Given, Taylor
RB:- Boateng, Richards
LB:- Kolarov, Bridge
CB:- Kompany, Kolo, Lescott, Onuoha
CM:- De Jong, Yaya, Silva, Barry, Milner, Vieira
LW:- Bellamy, Robinho
RW:- A.Johnson, Swp
ST:- Tevez, Adebayor, Balotelli, Jo

Youngsters:- Boyata, Weiss, Balotelli, Ibrahim,
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Why no Bellers? i hope he doesn't leave :(
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Read the list again, Bellers is on it ;-)
 
I'm looking at this and thinking that we will probably have a problem naming 25 players... I have us at 23, assuming the likely departures of those named.

GK (3) - Given, Hart, Taylor

DF (8) - Zabaleta, Richards, Boateng, Lescott, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Bridge

MF (9) - De Jong, Vieira, Barry, Johnson, Toure, Milner, SWP, Johnson, Silva

FW (3) - Tevez, Jo, Adebayor

Total homegrown: 10

Under 21s: Balotelli, Boyata, Assulin, Weiss and co.

Left out/sold/loaned:

Onuoha, Ireland, Bellamy, Robinho, Santa Cruz

IMO there isn't *that* much pressure to sell. I even have MJ listed in my squad to get to 23. I'd keep Ireland and preferably Robinho, but the latter doesn't want to stay.
 
Project said:
I'm looking at this and thinking that we will probably have a problem naming 25 players... I have us at 23, assuming the likely departures of those named.

GK (3) - Given, Hart, Taylor

DF (8) - Zabaleta, Richards, Boateng, Lescott, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Bridge

MF (9) - De Jong, Vieira, Barry, Johnson, Toure, Milner, SWP, Johnson, Silva

FW (3) - Tevez, Jo, Adebayor

Total homegrown: 10

Under 21s: Balotelli, Boyata, Assulin, Weiss and co.

Left out/sold/loaned:

Onuoha, Ireland, Bellamy, Robinho, Santa Cruz

IMO there isn't *that* much pressure to sell. I even have MJ listed in my squad to get to 23. I'd keep Ireland and preferably Robinho, but the latter doesn't want to stay.
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Your absolutely spot on. That's why selling Bellers and Ireland makes no sense to me, are we actually trying to start the season with a weaker squad than we have to?
 
Losing Bellamy makes sense if Mancini feels he is detrimental to his efforts. And let's be honest, he is.

Ireland makes less sense though. We don't need the money, we don't need the squad place (assuming nobody else is coming in) and he hasn't really been negative towards Mancini in the press. I'd feel a lot more confident with Ireland in the squad as backup/rotation to Silva than without.
 
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