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Elano causing trouble???
If this is true it would certainly help explain the awful performances of late...
"Mark Hughes to sell Elano after fall out"
Elano has been axed by Mark Hughes over suspicions he is trying to get the Manchester City boss sacked.
And Jo and Tal Ben Haim could also be on their way during the transfer window as the manager takes a tough line with his City flops.
Hughes is determined to straighten out his under-performing squad after being told his job is safe for now by the club’s Abu Dhabi owners and Elano is his first victim.
Hughes’ patience with the Samba star finally snapped when he put in a lacklustre display in training on Saturday on the back of his woeful showing in the UEFA Cup defeat to Racing Santander on Thursday.
The pair rowed and Hughes dropped the £8million playmaker from his squad for the 2-1 defeat at West Brom on Sunday, which leaves the Blues three points adrift of safety.
Hughes and his staff became suspicious that Elano may be trying to stir up trouble among the club’s Brazilian players when a couple of hours later Jo rang in, claiming he couldn’t travel to the Midlands because he was ill, even though he had been fine at training.
City had been warned by Elano’s former coach at Shakhtar Donetsk, Romanian Mircea Lucescu, that he can be a bad influence in the dressing room.
Lucescu even accused Elano of trying to get him sacked by trying to unite Shakhtar’s Brazilian players against him as his way of getting back at him for dropping him.
This was the final straw for Hughes, who fined Elano for criticising him earlier this season, and the former Santos man has played his last game for City under the Welshman.
He will offload the Brazilian international next month, either on loan or in a permanent deal, and Lazio and Espanyol are keen on him.
Elano, 27, who rivals Nicolas Anelka when it comes to sulking, has previous and he stopped playing for former boss Sven Goran Eriksson midway through last season, even though the Swede was prepared to mould his team around the temperamental star.
He copped the hump with Hughes in his first week back for pre-season training during City’s low-key trip to the Faroes for their UEFA Cup opener against EB/Streymur in July.
If this is true it would certainly help explain the awful performances of late...
"Mark Hughes to sell Elano after fall out"
Elano has been axed by Mark Hughes over suspicions he is trying to get the Manchester City boss sacked.
And Jo and Tal Ben Haim could also be on their way during the transfer window as the manager takes a tough line with his City flops.
Hughes is determined to straighten out his under-performing squad after being told his job is safe for now by the club’s Abu Dhabi owners and Elano is his first victim.
Hughes’ patience with the Samba star finally snapped when he put in a lacklustre display in training on Saturday on the back of his woeful showing in the UEFA Cup defeat to Racing Santander on Thursday.
The pair rowed and Hughes dropped the £8million playmaker from his squad for the 2-1 defeat at West Brom on Sunday, which leaves the Blues three points adrift of safety.
Hughes and his staff became suspicious that Elano may be trying to stir up trouble among the club’s Brazilian players when a couple of hours later Jo rang in, claiming he couldn’t travel to the Midlands because he was ill, even though he had been fine at training.
City had been warned by Elano’s former coach at Shakhtar Donetsk, Romanian Mircea Lucescu, that he can be a bad influence in the dressing room.
Lucescu even accused Elano of trying to get him sacked by trying to unite Shakhtar’s Brazilian players against him as his way of getting back at him for dropping him.
This was the final straw for Hughes, who fined Elano for criticising him earlier this season, and the former Santos man has played his last game for City under the Welshman.
He will offload the Brazilian international next month, either on loan or in a permanent deal, and Lazio and Espanyol are keen on him.
Elano, 27, who rivals Nicolas Anelka when it comes to sulking, has previous and he stopped playing for former boss Sven Goran Eriksson midway through last season, even though the Swede was prepared to mould his team around the temperamental star.
He copped the hump with Hughes in his first week back for pre-season training during City’s low-key trip to the Faroes for their UEFA Cup opener against EB/Streymur in July.