Just what is going on at Manchester City?
by stresster on May 1st, 2008
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Out of all the Premier League football managers that should lose their jobs in the summer, would Sven-Goran Eriksson have been on anyone’s top three list? You could argue that Paul Jewell has done nothing to halt Derby’s depressing run of form (if anything, he’s made it worse), you might even say that Alan Curbishley has done little more than keep West Ham ticking over and may have taken the club as far as he can go.
However, the Swede wouldn’t have featured too strongly, especially with Manchester City achieving a creditable top-half finish, which included home and away wins against Manchester United. It’s with an air of disbelief that one picks up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph to read that agent Athole Still has made his top client available for work to the highest bidder. Form an orderly queue gentlemen…
“He is unlikely to continue but it is still not 100 percent sure that he will leave Manchester City,” Still said.
“After the last game of the Premier League, in two weeks, it will be definitively determined if he stays or not. But If any club wants to talk with Eriksson, call me. All the people have my number.”
When the story broke two days ago that Sven was likely to leave Eastlands in the summer, it was met with almost universal incredulity by supporters of Manchester City. After all, the former England manager has been a vast improvement on Stuart Pearce, making City of Manchester Stadium something of a fortress and bringing in some top talent, such as Elano, Petrov, Corluka and Benjani. There’s only so much that can be achieved in a season - it takes time to build an impressive squad, even with a stack of dirty money.
The events of the next two weeks will be interesting for us neutrals but are likely to be deeply disappointing from a City perspective. Do Manchester City fans wish that Shinawatra had never bothered buying the club in the first place?
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Tagged Under: athole still, Benjani, eastlands, elano, Manchester City FC, Manchester United, martin petrov, sven goran eriksson, Thaksin Shinawatra
danny - May 1st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
frank is wank
save our sven
Dave K - May 1st, 2008 at 7:21 pm
SOS (save our Sven) I urge all football fans to sign our online petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?savesven
MightyBlue - May 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Thaksin saved city’s bacon
Some City fans are deluded
Sven did nothing more than an ok job by using his Friends
Dancing Badger - May 1st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Just what is going on at Manchester CIty? I have no idea, but if you do find out I’d love to know. It’s madness.
Anonymous - May 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
sven cant go!!!!!!
justice jones - May 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Without Thaksins money we would be in the championship.
If he wants to sack Sven, I might not agree, but he owns the club so he can sack or hire who he ever likes. I just hope he has someone better lined up.
the'special'one - May 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Sven wouldn’t be here if the doc hadn’t decided to buy the club. He’s a ruthless businessman (£2billion doesnt just fall into your pocket) who expects the best at all times…he must’ve watched us play 1 up front against derby and thought….what the F**
And with nearly £100 million allready invested he’s given us a team that can compete for europe.. he’s got a 5year plan with or without sven…. The truth of it is that Thaksin owns us… he can do what ever he likes, im not saying he’s right to sack sven, we’ve definitly improved on the field, but in the end its with Thaksin’s money… I’m sure he’ll invest millions more…
I’m just going to enjoy the ride, it’s better than last season…
Anonymous - May 1st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Thaksin is clueless. Sven, the fans and his fellow board members deserve more respect than this. If he does sack Sven and regardless who he brings in I want a full refund from the club for my season ticket and won’t return to eastlands until Thaksin quits.
City fans will condemn Thaksin unanimously. Hang the banners from the rafters at Anfield and the Riverside and sing your heart out all City fans.
Kevin Williamson - May 1st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Thaskin’s a dictator, a mindless egomanic, who’s only in this for self promotion. And his money? huh, dream on people, he hasn’t used much of his ill-gotten gain from plundering Thailand.
The devil has many disguises, notice the similarity?
Whatever we think about Sven and the job he has done (good or bad), it’s the way it has been done.
Said at the start when he bought the club, it’s the worse move City have done in my 42 years of supporting this club.
Those that want to go along for the ride remember, there’s only so much petrol in the tank.
MrWeah - May 1st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
If City’s season had been the other way round with the bad patch being before Xmas and the good results after Xmas then there wouldn’t be any discussion about Sven getting the boot.
There are a lot of performances during the season that seemed to lack motivation or tactical know how from Sven, Everton & Blackburn at home, Derby away, the second half against Fulham to name a few. Something has been missing and maybe this is what Frank sees as a flaw in the Eriksson game plan.
For a first season in charge and with little time to prepare, but still being able to bring in quality players one would have to say it is a job well done by SGE.
Things can only get better if Sven is kept on. Frank needs to get better advisers who know something about English football. As many have already said it take s more than one season to built a squad.
Legend - May 1st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Just what is going on at Manchester City?
Isn’t it your job to tell us?
Apart from who has any Idea, all it shows me is our Owner is not Patient and although rumours may suggest otherwise he may once again Spend huge amounts to further push are Quality as a Team. I fo one hope its under Sven.
Anonymous - May 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm
sos
BLUE - May 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
WHt has sven done wrong… he’s taken six points of united and finishing in the top ten …. its better than anyother season … Thaksin is ridicliousand shouldn’t even be thinking of sacking sven SOS ( save our sven ) !!
futurecity - May 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I don’t think Sven should go - I’d like to see him have more time but it’s a bit late to show support now. I was at the Fulham game. The players were booed off the pitch and when they announced that the team and Sven would do a lap of honour to celebrate the season less than 10,000 of the 45,000 in attendance stayed behind. All that in front of Frank. Team booed off, no one stays behind - it hardly screams ringing endorsement. Even last night less than 20 people turned up to protest. It’s great to let loose with abuse but we’re a fickle bunch - no one cried when England fired Sven - he’s the same bloke. I just hope we get it all cleared up and someone - Sven or big Phil - or whoever can get on with it.
Wigan Blue - May 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Who knows?
Things haven’t been right for some time. A perfect example was on Saturday. First half we had a cobbled together, but perfectly balanced team. Petrov was devastating on the left, Elano was forging forwards on the right. Two wonder goals. And then what happened?
Michael Johnson was obviously totally unfit. Two yards off the pace, and 15 yards deeper than where he needed to be. It was embarrassing for us watching him, and it must have been terrible for the poor lad himself. So the obvious thing to do is substitute him, and give one of our recent signings a chance, right?
Wrong. Johnson is left hobbling around the pitch, and Ireland, who was playing one of his best games of the season is taken off. Result? The team is totally unbalanced, gaps left all over the field, and Fulham (Fulham! - who should have been consigned to the Championship where their owner - but not their fans, belongs), couldn’t believe their luck. Our defence took the rest of the afternoon off.
Was Sven trying to prove a point? To show Thaksin that he doesn’t have strength in depth? Once again, who knows? But if he then went on to a meeting with Thaksin where major issues were supposed to be decided on the strength of his performances this season, I personally am not surprised that Thaksin was disenchanted. I think Sven got told his fortune, big style, and didn’t like it.
So, to return to the question “What is happening at Manchester City”, I think we are in danger of total meltdown. Sven should stop being so naive - he’s a big lad after all. And Thaksin should ask himself wheter he really, really wants to piss off 50,000 blues. I would say that he really, really shouldn’t even think of going there. But who am I? Only a season ticket holder and supporter for fifty years.
CC Cracker - May 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Running a football club is not like running a Thai brothel. In a brothel the poor girls get a good fucking but that’s not supposed to happen to the members of football club. Shinawanker should realise that the only owners of a football club are the fans; they pay everyone’s wages, not some egotistical, ignorant manic condom-brain from a brothel country. Let him go back there and rehabilitate himself by spending money in some brothel, not by fucking around in our country where he obviously doesn’t belong. In a brothel you can get your ass kissed if you get your money out, but this is England and we’re not going put up with his perverted way of doing things. So fuck off, you haven’t impressed anyone, you’ll need to do more than sing to get yourself out of this, you arrogant street murderer.
gunnergeorge - May 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Jeez cc cracker. Tough stuff - but maybe not a million miles from the truth
wizard of odds - May 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 am
From what I have heard Sven has been sniffing around the Inter Milan job. The Man City hierarchy have discovered that Sven’s advisers have been in Italy and this is the reason for the breakdown in the relationship. Rijkaard and Scolari are the front runners to replace him.
Anonymous - May 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
sod this, anyone seen the results to that poll? People would rather watch spurs than arsenal and man utd? This site is full of north london chavs! Too bad for Sven, any manager that beats man utd twice in the season deserves to keep his job because he’s doing something right! Also Elano, Benjani, Johnson top players that he has helped become stars.
GunnerBoy85 - May 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
CC cracker ripped it, I’m a gooner and watching man city (the real manchester fans) beat united home and away was one of svens greatest highlights, beating world beaters like Tevez, possible best player on planet Ronaldo and Shrek. They were humbled by a more organised and perhaps luckier city side. Fair play to Sven, he’s a solid manager and knows what players to buy, apart from the left back who gave Chelsea 6 goals. And what a revelation Johnson and Hart have been, they could walk into any top side in this country, hopefully Arsenal along with Gareth Barry!
polaris - May 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I really don’t know what to think of whats going on at city at the moment, yes svens done a good job he started off playing very attractive football and achieved the top ten finish that the chairman asked for but in the end its a results business and if sven leaves and the club go on to be successful no one will give a toss about sven, cynical i know buts that how it works, its frank who will live or die by his decisions and as fans we will sure let him know if it all goes wrong, but remember one thing we were all behind pierce and look what happened.
Lance Poll - May 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
CC Cracker has cracked it alright. This Shinawanker guy is two things: a politician and a money-grubber. And in the past he has used politics to get money. Besides that he’s ruthless. He sent the Thai police out with orders to kill anyone they liked. In short he unscrupulous in what he does. One might say he’s an egomaniac. That’s why he’s over here, because they don’t want him over there. Being an egomaniac we can be sure he’s only bought Man City for the benefit of his over-expanded ego. And we can now see he’s unscrupulous in achieving his goals. His problem is that he might get away with his ego-tripping and money-cheating when surrounded by similarly corrupt dirty politicians, but I doubt he can get away with it on the world stage that football gives. Already his behaviour is being found out. Just a matter of time before the general English public see him for what he is, a dirty, greedy murderous thief. He’s is going to end up being one of the most reviled persons in recent British society. Mark my words.