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Are Manchester City About To Go Into Meltdown?

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

When the Vedran Corluka story broke on Thursday, it seemed nothing more than transfer speculation hitting the news wires, stoked by the usual rumour mongers and agents, desperately trying to earn a bit of corn for themselves, pushing a transfer through. Manchester City denied it, Tottenha ... Continue reading »

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  • Blue Evertonian

    11 months ago

    Bloody Hell! This is a bad time for Man City fans. I was feeling sorry for myself with Evertons problems thusfar this year but I think things are even worse at Eastlands than Goodison. I can't imagine MH putting up with too much messing about with what he was promised when he signed on. I have a bad feeling about this.
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  • Paul Bestall

    11 months ago

    I know, I felt exactly the same about the events at Goodison too. Moyes really needs more support from the board to enable him to try and get you regular European football.
    The stories have been circulating since Thursday and are gathering momentum. A City fan I know doesn't even think they'll start the season!
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  • Austin

    11 months ago

    Do you have a source where it says that Thaksin took out a loan to buy the club? I had always heard the money came from what was left of his unfrozen assets.
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  • Blue Evertonian

    11 months ago

    Paul said:
    "A City fan I know doesn’t even think they’ll start the season"!

    That's obviously a worse case scenario but frightening none the less. City fans have been through enough in the past 10 years (or more) they deserve a period of success of SOME kind not to mention stability. If Shinawatra does decide (or is forced) to "dump" City then we can only hope it is done in the best possible way in order not to damage the club.
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  • Paul Bestall

    11 months ago

    Hi Austin, I do and the info I've seen is internal from MCFC.
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  • Weston

    11 months ago

    Karma's a bitch, eh? I feel bad for Citeh fans, but Thaksin had this coming to him and I had a strong feeling that they would crash and burn at some point during this season. Owner is an international fugitive, said Owner's wife is due for 3-year jail term, Owner goes behind manager's back to sell two top players, and said manager considers leaving before getting one league match under his belt with Citeh. Yikes.

    After reading this -> http://www.oleole.com/blogs/harryhotspur/posts/... it is clear that things are in a sharp downturn.

    Why the hell did they sell to this guy? I thought Spurs' board was dumb, but they really raised the bar.
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  • Weston

    11 months ago

    Hmm, not sure why that link doesnt work, but heres the meat of the quote listed in that post. From Harry Hotspur post:

    "When Spurs first made contact, it was Shinawatra's people that agreed a fee with Spurs and told Corluka he was free to leave. They did that without Mark Hughes' knowledge or consent...
    Behind the scenes a real row started between Hughes and certain elements of the board; Hughes furious that they had gone behind his back to sell Corluka to Spurs, and the board enraged that Hughes had effectively recalled him from London for the Celtic game.

    Spurs agreed the final details for the transfer with City yesterday morning, and Corluka put pen to paper on his player registration.

    Then City's people accepted the offer from Sunderland for Stephen Ireland, and Hughes went properly mental. Twice in 48 hours he felt he was having players he wanted sold from under him. In a rage, it was Hughes who called Ireland and told him he was expected to report to the CoMS to report for the Milan game. Hughes putting him on for a couple of minutes was a big statement on his part.

    Here comes the really interesting part.

    Hughes last night told Cook he was through with City and wants out, the sale of Corluka and Ireland being the straw that broke the camel's back. He said if the Corluka deal went through particularly, he would be on his way out of City too.

    At that point City have tried to derail the Corluka and Ireland deals."

    and so on... I guess we will see what happens in the coming days.
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  • Ryan

    11 months ago

    I just hope the FA don't punish the players or Hughes with a ridiculous point deduction along the lines of Luton, obviously we are a long way off from that point but just saying.
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  • Double Pivot

    11 months ago

    Do not, I repeat, do not quote Harry Hotspur. He doesn't know a thing. :)

    We've been hearing most of these rumors as the shit hit the fan with Corluka this weekend. I've even heard that one of the board members had to pay wages with his own money.

    I will say, the one thing that City can do immediately is sell Micah. That would get them 20-30 million and that would all be profit. That might spell them for a little while.
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  • Weston

    11 months ago

    Haha, technically its wasnt HH himself, it was a quote of a secondary source which he himself was quoting. But point taken nonetheless.
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  • AtlantaPompey

    11 months ago

    ManCity is in trouble.

    Blackburn is in open revolt against new manager Ince.

    Everton's David Moyes says they need 3-4 more players to be competitive in the league.

    All together now:

    PLAY UP POMPEY!!!
    POMPEY PLAY UP!!!
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  • Blue Evertonian

    11 months ago

    Oi! We'll sign 3 tomorrow!! (I read it in the mirror)
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  • Matt

    11 months ago

    If the finances were that bad, it wouldn't have mattered what Hughes said or did, Corluka and Ireland would no longer be at City.
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  • AT

    11 months ago

    Unmitigated claptrap.

    For one, Corlukas agent has not confirmed the deal has been done. He had passed a medical and agreed terms, City didn't sign off the necessary paperwork to complete the deal.

    Secondly, we earn revenue from the ground and as such it is an asset.

    Thirdly, why did Shinawatra need to take out a £200m loan for the purchase of an £80m company? £20m or so was what he spent on the deal, he took on a further £60m or so in debt.

    I think you need to find some more reliable sources.
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  • Andrew

    11 months ago

    I don't know what to think. I've been absolutely whacked since this media circus started. Just a question; WOULD SOME MEDIA GROUP START POSTING REAL NEWS with CREDIBLE SOURCES!!!
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  • Weasel

    11 months ago

    City in meltdown. Oh how we laughed. Wardle paid a short term loan of 2m months ago as a one off.

    Citys turmoil has been fabricated on the worst case scenario by the press. Every report uses the word COULD ie this could happen that could happen. No report is just reporting the news - it would read, Thaksin and his missus has skipped bail.
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  • Weston

    11 months ago

    It has been reported by credible sources however (i.e. MSNBC, BBC, etc.) that Thaksin has arrest warrants our for him (and his wife?) and that his assets have been or will be soon frozen.
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  • Neil

    11 months ago

    Absolute rubbish! If they were about to go under, then I'm sure players like Corluk/Ireland would have been sold, and Hughes wouldn't have taken the job. Cook wouldn't have moved all of his family over from America. It's rubbish, people claim they know inside sources but they don't, personally, I think it's pathetic.
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