crossiemancity

Why do you want Joe Hart? you have Peter Cech ffs, the best keeper in the world. Hart was great while he way playing for us, but Given is better, plain and simple. Likely he will be better for another 2 seasons also, that takes him to 35. If I was Joe Hart, 24 years old, id be happy to stay on season long loans at Birmingham (where he'll see alot of action!) then come back in 2012 and become number one at City as a 26 year old, approaching my peak years at what will probably be a team challenging at the very top by then. He was always a great shot stopper, but there was some worrying parts to his goal keeping skills also, playing every week is the only way to improve, and thats what he is doing. But seriously, if you want a keeper at the moment, youd have Given would you?? no chance. Capello has noticed Hart, he capped him right?? He only needs to be playing every week to go to the world cup, doesnt matter if he is on loan or not.

As for players going backwards under Hughes, your quite right. Too much time as spent on graphs and tables of physical performance in training and in games. More time needed to be spent man managing and looking at tactics and formations. Mancini has already shown he has a plan B and is not afraid to change things after 10 mins, if he can tell its not working, not unlike Mourinho eh?? The honeymoon period is well under way and we have 7 or 8 "easier" league games, which we would have drawn under Hughes, but so far we are looking like being capable of beating the battler teams. You know that success comes from beating all the w**key teams, and drawing or getting to the odd win against the big teams. This is what we have struggled to do, but hopefully Mancini has sorted this out. Adebayor was a monster of a player in our first 4 games, then he fell apart and was obviously not happy with something. Robinho is coming back from a bad injury, and agreed, he isnt interested in away games, but home games, you see flickers of the robinho who owned for the first few months of last season. Sometimes he isnt effective, but he draws the attention of a couple of opposition players, creating space for others. I think we have the real deal with Mancini, very early days, but I already have faith that he knows what he is doing and quickly spots where its going wrong. Your probably getting bored now, so i'll leave it at that.

Man City fan here, coming in peace. On Sturridge, we found that he usually refuses to play or train unless he is 100% fit, we have people on our forum who go and watch training, and he would walk off the field fairly regularly for very lame reasons. The attitude is a huge problem, and while he is still young he can get away with it, but the time is now for him to sort it out, and really make a statement while you have Anelka injured and Drogba away. I think most City fans were abit (secretly) gutted when he decided to leave, theres no doubt he can be a huge talent, he was a MASSIVE part of our youth team that won almost everything, including beating you guys in the youth cup final. I've seen him play on many occassions and I was impressed, however it always looked like he was playing for himself, he is trigger happy and needs to be constantly moaned at to pass to players in better positions. I reckon Terry might be a good role model for him, Sturridge does need someone to sort him out, someone who has been there and done it all before him. I think 5 million would be a fair fee. If he blows his chance with you lot, he will end up at a Bolton or Westham, maybe Fulham, but I dont think another top 4 club would take a chance on him until he proves himself. Good luck.