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Showing posts with label Daniel Sturridge. Show all posts

9 July 2015

Homegrown Quota, Sterling And Our Lack Of Activity So Far, The Scouser's Egg On Face



As the Sterling saga rumbles on I have found myself warming to the idea of him in a City shirt, in the beginning I thought Raheem wasn't worth the sky high price tag. Weighing up the pro's and con's though and looking closer at his progression since signing for the Scouser's, makes the Sterling capture more palatable.

Questions I asked myself were?

Why are Liverpool fans acting like Arsenal fans and treating Sterling the way they are?

Answer: Because they are upset about losing a big player with the quality and youth to succeed at the highest level. Initially I was buying into their idea that he was still raw, that he wasn't worth the £50 million so they should sell him fast, but then I started to pay more attention to Sterling. I 've been rerunning footage of the last few seasons and I have to say, he's not the finished product but he's certainly not raw. Has youth on his side and has bags of potential, under the right environment and coaches he could be up there with the best.

Do we really need him at Manchester?

Well as we are all aware we are subject to a homegrown quota both domestically and in Europe, yes we have our own youth products in Jason Denayer and Marcos Lopes but they are not wingers. In Raheem we would have an already proven and established England International LEFT WINGER. We just lost James Milner to Liverpool, a situation Liverpool fans are being smug over and haven't been exactly reserved about it. Add to that that Liverpool fans have taken the proverbial out of Manchester City and our fans, after capturing Sturridge by claiming we can't produce talent and we don't give youth a chance. Signing Raheem Sterling would make for a much more palatable capture right about now. We need a left winger to replace James Milner and share the workload with Samir Nasri, signing Sterling would be one almighty slap in the face for Liverpool fans.

Sign Sterling: YES

Our lack of activity? 9 days in to the transfer window and we have only signed Enes Unal, a young Turkish International Forward from Bursaspor. A lot of potential apparently and on first impressions he looks like a good capture but he's a couple seasons behind a first team place, so don't expect to see him in action along side our greats just yet.



Another Englishman we're apparently after signing is Fabian Delph from Aston Villa, the word is he apparently out performed our very own Fernandinho last season.

Fernandinho made 33 appearances in 2014/15 scoring 3 goals
Delph made 23 appearances in 2014/15 scoring 2 goals

I'm sorry but I'm against Fabian Delph joining Manchester City, he isn't anywhere near good enough. I would never pick him over Fernandinho, but I do see the urgent need for someone better in that position. The Pogba saga has died down after our apparent U'turn walking away, on that note I'm kind of glad because he's not worth the reported £71 million when we can go out and buy just as good for much less. Pogba's teammate Arturo Vidal for £30 to £40 million for instance. We have too much up and coming talent to positively warrant the signing of Fabian Delph. Bringing in 28 year old Arturo Vidal wouldn't hinder our very own Marcos Lopes either, lets be honest Marcos Lopes will end up far a better player than Fabian Delph. I say Vidal and promote Lopes.

Sign Delph: NO

What do you think?


11 May 2014

That's Karma For You Liverpool, City Worthy Champions Of The Barclay's Premier League 2013/14

Championes, Championes, Ole Ole Ole!

Manchester City win the Barclay's Premier League title and do the double along side the League Cup, could it get any better?

Well it would take some doing after watching Trafford United bow out of Europe, City breaking the record of most goals scored in a single season. Being only the second English club to score more than 100 goals in the Barclay's Premier League, seeing Skrtel and Suarez punished for their dirty cheating football. And to top that off seeing the disappointment on the face of mercenary Daniel Sturridge, the Manchester City FC Academy graduate who ran down his contract and held Manchester City to ransom. The mercenary that walked out on Manchester City because they wouldn't pay him senior level wages, who ended up signing for Chelsea FC.

Karma is a Bitch isn't it Sturridge!

Manuel Pellegrini, we salute you, Manchester City FC, we salute you, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, we salute you.

18 April 2014

Our Season Still A Success Despite Loss to Clattenburg FC And Possibly No Title

It doesn't get any more simple than the fact luck ran out on us, unlucky that Micah Richards would clash with our captain Kompany in training. Unlucky that Yaya would depart with an injury at the most important point in our title chasing campaign, Unlucky that we had our top goal scorer out for most of the season, I honestly believe that if Aguero never got injured he would have blown Sturridge and Suarez away and we may have well have already wrapped up the title.

Come the end of the season if it wasn't to be then we can thank one person for that, his name is Mark Clattenburg who has to be the worst referee to ever officiate for the English top flight. If anyone it was Clattenburg that beat Manchester City and not Liverpool, if they win the title Liverpool can thank their lucky stars Clattenburg helped them win it. 

Keys decisions that went against Manchester City were the failed sending off of Luis Suarez for diving, after an initial yellow card for a prior offence. The failed booking of Sakho for his dangerous tackle on Dzeko, resulting in no penalty despite the fact Dzeko went down easy to avoid an injury.

Then there was Henderson's two footed challenge on Milner which was absolutely disgraceful despite Henderson making contact with the ball. It was clear to see Henderson was intending to follow through on Milner, as he quietly fist punched the air with a 'take that' expression.  This is one reason why the likes of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales will never achieve anything, English, British players have no respect for each other's well being and allow loyalty to their club to cloud their better judgement.

And last but not least the dirtiest player currently plying his trade in the top flight, step up to the plate Mr Skrtel. How he gets away with it all the time is beyond baffling, it's like watching UFC and football at the same time. Then came the blatant hand ball incident where he punched the ball away from Garcia if I recall correctly, thus resulting in a second penalty call that Clattenburg failed to officiate correctly.

But at the end of the day apparently these things even themselves out during the course of a season, something I'm not quite sure is true when at times it can cost a club a title or survival but hey ho there you go.

On the upside we're about to smash Man  United's 51 year old record set by the Busby Babes, all we need is two more goals and we enter the record book as the club who scored the most goals in a single season.

We have some promising young players about to try break into the first team over the next season or two, most notably Dutch Left Central Defender Karim Rekik,  should Clichy or Kolarov depart, or if Lescott leaves and we don't replace him then Rekik will do just fine. Welsh Midfielder Emyr Huws also, Huws will count towards our home grown quota and has impressed of late and looks a promising young player indeed.

Poor officiating continues to be something that is top of my agenda to date, but I'm not going to let them ruin the entire season for me and I'll look on the bright side instead as should you. I just hope our club can weed out the weak ones and replace with competent, name no names and excluding those who have had horrid times with injury.

Mistakes were made and our luck ran out but the title fight is not over yet and there's still hope, so I'll prepare myself for next season while I watch the end of the show but should we fail to top the league there's always next season.

With that covered I must say Brendan  Rodgers claims that Liverpool are doing it the right way are both naive, ignorant and unintelligent to say the least. Liverpool have spent millions over the last so many seasons under the radar of Chelsea, Manchester City & Man United. IF they win the title then to suggest they won it the right way, would be ludicrously incorrect and ignorant. In fact once they qualify for the Champions League, I'll be watching how they cope with the FFP considering the financial mess they are in off the field.

Until then lets enjoy the fact our owner has helped us take yet another step towards financial sustainability with the development of our EDS and Under 18's teams flourishing with top young talent.

Improved progression in Europe, yet another season of Champions League football. A League Cup in the cabinet, A good manager in Mr Pellegrini who has had a full season to work out who does and who doesn't cut the mustard. Two competent men at the helm who know what they're doing and continue to improve us, as well as our stadium being built larger to accommodate growing demand for season cards and still our fans get more value for money than any other club in the country.

It's only a matter of time before we get it right without the help of luck and with the ability to beat official's like Clattenburg and Co on a regular basis.

P.s. If you think Sturridge is good, wait until you see who else we've produced at youth level.