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man city hould have a 3-4-3 or a 4-3-3 formation with­ tevez, eto and robinho upfront, unless one of them­ could play on the wing to allow santa cruz room.

greedy Man utd !! so suck !

sam will the most stupid person , to stey in barca, GOD­ gave him the talent to make money not to save the­ europens not even spainish club,

d.papas..Nice one How do the teams at the bottom of­ the table compete with a team that gets 50mil CL, 50mil­ League, 10-15 mil Cup run, 60mil player sold. Of course­ United earned the 100 mil...buts it's a load easier­ maintaining your top4 slot when you have a 100mil­ headstart on the rest of the league. Thats why the top­ players end up at United, because they have offered­ MORE money than the rest, until now. How much is Rooney­ on?, Rio?, Berbatov? probibly more than the whole of­ Stokes squad. How many points does United expect to get­ from the two games against Stoke..all 6 paid for and­ dusted.
Earned! With respect, i wouldn't call it­ that.

Can a team ever have enough good players ? take­ Barcelona and Man United they win lots of things simply­ because they have very strong squads, 2 players for­ every position and that's what it takes to be­ successful.

Mark Hughes has played for both Barca and­ Utd and i believe he is trying to take a leaf out of­ their books and
although people might see it as a­ difficult task to manage all these "big­ ego's" as it was put, he'll be more than­ capable, he's had a good upbringing in Fergie and­ i'd be sure that if any players step out of line­ (like Robinho and Elano did last season) then they will­ be dealt with, do not underestimate Mark Hughes­ he's nobody's fool.

Mark Hughe stated just a­ few weeks ago that he wanted players in first before he­ started selling or releasing and when he's happy­ with the players he's brought in then you will­ start seeing a lot of them going in the opposite­ direction.

Andy, the argument about money is that UTD earn theirs!­ They do basiaclly have a mortgage. But so does half the­ population! I'm sure city will progress but i think­ the main complaints about city and chelsea is that­ players are joining for the wages, i mean Kaká was a­ joke realy and before him you were after ronaldinho,­ now its eto'o? And i'm sure you remember the­ robinho incident (i'm happy to join chelsea) lol!­ This isn't a dig at city, fair play to em, Just­ explaining peeps grievances

You remind the player that his ego and the rights to­ his ego, has been bought for the wages he gets­ paid...
The same way CRon, Rooney, Berbatov, Ferdinand,­ Torres, Gerrard, Keane, Crouch, Raul, Toni, Benzema and­ the rest of the top players are kept in check.

I do­ find it a bit tiresome to read all the blurb about­ salery caps now that someone has come along that is­ willing to pay the rates required to lure top players­ to the club. It was never ever mentioned when Rio was­ bought as the most expensive defender of the time or­ when Becks went to Real..or when Rooney was bought for­ 30mil. If you happen to have an American owner that had­ to mortgage the next 5 years worth of TV rights in­ order to buy and saddle the club with debt...thats­ because the shareholders of the day wanted to cash in.­ The money from Cron to go on players or pay off some­ debt...lets see shall we. Baconface picks the team but­ Mr Glazer decides how the clubs finances are used.

Totally agree...no-one said anything about Man Utd­ buying loads of players!!, Berbaflop at over­ £30million!!!...not a word!. Disgraceful...come on­ City, i hope we win the league...then everyone else­ will say we bought it!!!

willjoss absolutely. Defence was a shambles last season­ and he hasn't done a thing about it.

to 3D, Robinho's going no where, Vassell is out of­ contract thank god, he's over the hill and will be­ let go on the 1st of July on a free, Boj may stay or­ may go, he's good when fit, but sadly has had­ injury after injury, lovely fella though.

The media bias towards Manchester United knows very few­ bounds, the question of cost was rarely if ever raised­ when Sir Alex Ferguson spent what was then mega bucks­ on Eric Cantona and other players from around the­ world. But now Chelsea and Manchester City are spending­ big its suddenly a sin. But then we never see bias in­ ourselves do we?
GMH

I can't see how this marriage of stars is going to­ be anything but an unhappy one.
Too many big egos, too­ few starting places.

Also, has Sparky forgotten that a­ solid defence is key to grinding out results in the­ Premier League?

I think that City has bought too many players during­ the last season.They didn't need Bellamy and they­ will certainly will lose Vassel, Bojinov and­ Robinho.Bojinov has great potential.He is young, quick­ and scores when he has the opportunity.Robinho is the­ type of player that I call a "dribbler".He­ has a big arsenal of skills but just couldn be­ conssistent enough. I have remembered Vassel since the­ Euro 2004 when he came on as a sub for England. Him and­ Defoe could be a nice attacking couple. Jo could be to­ his way to Everton. He is a decent striker but I like­ him too.

Robinho, Eto'o, Tevez when we play good teams like­ Chelsea Arsenal, United and Petrov, RSC, SWP when we­ play the midtable teams like Wham, Villa, Everton, and­ Bojinove and Bellemy when we play the rubbish like­ Spoors, etc.

yet another @#$% journo trying to stir up @#$%, i'm­ sick to death of reading such negative @#$% all the­ time, you need to report to a job center and get a real­ job because you're clearly no good at at this­ one.
atleast 6 strikers will be sold so you're­ argument is utter garbage and Eto'o wont be the­ highest paid player in the world thats if he comes­ which he probably wont simply because City sources have­ stated they wont offer any more than £160,000 a week so­ please do yourself a favour and report things correctly­ or better still dont bother reporting at all, go­ fishing instead and play with your maggot friends.

Mark Hughes will have to show his skill in man­ management in keeping the squad happy. I think­ realistically, the likes of Vassell, Benjani, Caicedo,­ Evans, and even Bojinov and Bellamy will be out the­ door at Eastlands this summer...