Ya but for some reason Mancini "doesn't like wingers". The guy is just so stubborn and wrong-headed about so many things re: tactics, player selection, how to construct systems to fit your team. There's no way that City are going to be consistently compete with and win against really good teams in the champions league if they don't have a manager who can bring in some consistency (especially in team selections) and actually get the best out of the considerable resources they have.
I'm kind of excited about Liverpool too, Mooley. I used to like them a lot when I was a kid and its nice to know that they actually have a very competent manager/decent ownership situation now. They desperately need another striker and a creative attacking midfielder in January though (as well as a couple of full-backs, and some wingers who are better than the sum total of henderson and downing, but you can't do everything at once). If I was an old-school Liverpool fanatic I'd have some very conflicted feelings about Kenny Dalglish right now; 35 mil. on Andy Carroll, 20 mil. on Downing, and another 20 mil. on Henderson. It's just cruel that the guy that they bring in to rebuild the team still has to use the mediocrities left over from Dalglish's failed transfer strategy and is left with almost no money to buy players that HE actually feels he can use. Can you imagine what Brendan Rogers could have done with almost 80 million pounds this summer?
Mancini is a joke. I'm an Ajax fan and I was in the stadium during Ajax - Man city. One of the strenghts of ajax is keeping the playing field wide, with the full backs coming up. And mancity kept on keeping the field narrow, so the full backs of ajax could come up all the time. this resulted in 2 goals for Ajax, after that mancini didn't know what to do anymore and he brought in kolarov, balotelli an dzeko. so he played 424 with 4 strikers up front and kolarov to deliver crosses. Any coach could do this, such a dull strategy.
And for liverpool last year you're absolutely right. How many stupid transfers have they made last year. The thing Ajax does is they scout players from the age of 6 to 21 for a maximum of 1,5 million, the play in the youth and than they're play a few years in the first team. I hate to see them go, but in the Netherlands there is no money to compete with salaries in other countries.
Ibrahimovic, Sneijder, vd Vaart, vd Sar, Vertonghen, Vermaelen, Kluivert, Davids. and the list keeps on going an going. All from Ajax. No there's a talent called viktor Fischer, an 18 year old Danish boy and in 5 years I see him with the best of the world. So talented.
Fischer had an brilliant assist and a goal against psv. 2 weeks ago. the blonde guy around 1:10
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