City Nearly Ticking All The Right Premiership Boxes !

This was passed to me recently and is a letter from a City fan sent into a newspaper.

I'm beginning to understand it all now.

...and he's quite right, we are almost there ;-)



Apologies about the image quality, but if you can't make it out, here's a translation:-

As a Manchester City fan, I finally understand what a club needs to thrive in the Premier League:

• A billionaire owner
• A foreign manager on a 5 year contract (or 3 English managers per season)
• A new sponsored stadium
• Season ticket prices at a minimum of £700
• Two foreign goalkeepers
• Two players (preferably strikers) whose names end in " i " or " o "
• At least four players who wear gloves in all games from October to March
• Two or three squad members who qualify for the England, Wales of Scotland U-21s (for Carling Cup duty only), and finally...
• As a ready made excuse for not making the top four, at least four players who will be away on duty for the African Cup of Nations

We are getting there !

Man City January Transfer Rumours Vol 1

It's that silly time of year again where every player seems to be linked to every other club.

Now let me see, what's being doing the rounds so far in no particular order of inaccuracy:

Incoming:

• Izale McLeod ( MK Dons )
  
• Freddy Eastwood ( Southend United )
• Euzebiusz Smolarek ( Borussia Dortmund )
• Afonso Alves ( Heerenveen)
• SWP ( Chelsea )
• Marouane Chamakh ( Bordeaux )
• Robert Koren ( Lillestrom )
• Ivan Klasnic (Werder Bremen)
• Will Hoskins ( Rotherham )
  
• Steve Sidwell ( Reading)
• Greg Halford ( Colchester United )
  
• Blaise N'Kufo ( Twente Enschede )
• Matthew Upson / David Dunne ( Birmingham)
• Billy Sharpe ( Scunthorpe )
• David Nugent ( Preston NE)
• Will Hoskins ( Rotherham United )
  
• Caleb Folan ( Chesterfield )
• Billy Jones ( Crewe)
  

Outgoing:

• Micah Richards to Chelsea
• Bernardo Corradi to Chievo, Verona
  
• Joey Barton to the Rags, Everton, 'Boro, Newcastle
  
• Danny Mills to Hull
• Hatem Trabelsi to Arsenal
  
• Matthew Mills to Crewe
• Sylvain Distin to Villa, 'Boro, Newcastle, and now probably Chelsea

Surely it's now time to get rid of this ridiculous transfer pantomime that's played out twice a year; it really is becoming a complete farce !