Mike N said:Fowler was a disgrace. Special fitness regime my arse!
He missed that penalty because he was fucked. He didnt get fit because he didnt give a shit about us. He looks in better shape now then when he was with us!
Twat of the highest order.
peoffrey said:DontLookBackInAnger said:peoffrey said:I've got higher esteem for him than I had for Sven, Pearce and Keegan. It's not fair on Hughes that City were taken over just months after he got the job. They'd inevitably want their own man.
And Sven had less than a week to put a team together once he had monies released to him before the season started....
Sven had been looking at players for a long time and only got the go ahead to sign them once the takeover had been ratified. We had a great start under him but the decline was shocking. I genuinely don't believe he had it in him to turn things around. I'd have kept Corluka only. Elano was class but doesn't want to play Club football.
peoffrey said:Mike D said:So what took them 18 months to realise something that we all knew after 6 months. We will never know why they let him buy more players and spend rakes more cash when in one season he took the club systematically backwards having lavished £150 mil on an entire team.
The damage that clown did annnouncing his departure over the tanoy after the game along with the Taffia and then handing them there P45's would have been more fitting.
Clubs that have had success have generally earned it by stability. Changing the Manager regularly doesn't work. Think how little City progressed when it was Clark, Neal, Coppell etc.
Hughes needed one full pre-season backed by Sheikh Mansour before they could decide whether his vision fitted theirs. 1 win in 12 made that decision. I still wholeheartedly believe that he did a great deal of good for this Club - although I'll concede he was never going to be good enough for the ambition we now have.
Had we handled the Hughes situation better then we'd never have received most of the poor publicity that we did. It was typical City again.
Mike D said:peoffrey said:Mike D said:So what took them 18 months to realise something that we all knew after 6 months. We will never know why they let him buy more players and spend rakes more cash when in one season he took the club systematically backwards having lavished £150 mil on an entire team.
The damage that clown did annnouncing his departure over the tanoy after the game along with the Taffia and then handing them there P45's would have been more fitting.
Clubs that have had success have generally earned it by stability. Changing the Manager regularly doesn't work. Think how little City progressed when it was Clark, Neal, Coppell etc.
Hughes needed one full pre-season backed by Sheikh Mansour before they could decide whether his vision fitted theirs. 1 win in 12 made that decision. I still wholeheartedly believe that he did a great deal of good for this Club - although I'll concede he was never going to be good enough for the ambition we now have.
Had we handled the Hughes situation better then we'd never have received most of the poor publicity that we did. It was typical City again.
I couldn't give a flying f*ck about how we handled the situation why did we hand him a wodge of cash to prove what every man his dog and next doors cat knew. I firmly believe we put Hughes out of his misery after season one and brought in Mancini we would have played champions league football this season.
I'd take them back if they were up for a cold night in November, but neither of them were. And when have Brazilians worked long-term in the Premier League?LoveCity said:Both Robinho and Elano (*ducks for cover*) would be very useful tools in Mancini's squad if they were professional. Elano has said himself things might have been different if he'd still been there when Mancini took over.
SWP COME HOME!! said:Mike N said:Fowler was a disgrace. Special fitness regime my arse!
He missed that penalty because he was fucked. He didnt get fit because he didnt give a shit about us. He looks in better shape now then when he was with us!
Twat of the highest order.
Having recently read Fowler's autobiography I have to state that I feel your comments are a bit harsh. Granted he didn't do himself many favours whilst with us but I think there were a few extenuating circumstances that saw to us not seeing the best of him in a City shirt, especially seeing as the team around him weren't exactly world beaters!
nijinsky's fetlocks said:Definitely Alan Ball.
I wish he was still alive,just so that I could celebrate him dying again.