I know Manchester City are biding their time ‘til January. I know they have enough cash to buy any swift-footed super-star footballer out there. I know Hughes is like a hundred-metre sprinter, feet at the blocks, dying to dart into market with his bundles of cash clutched in his grips and a mad manic grin on his face, looking to construct his super team with the Champions League in his crosshair.
But after 17 games, City find themselves 18th. Hmm. Not really sniffing the arse of a Champions League spot, are you?
Champions League? Or Championship? Will they even have the muscle in the market to buy these players? Why would superstars want to join a club that’s hanging out in the relegation zone, one only a stones throw away from the biggest club in the world?
If you’re going to take the cold plunge and live in Manchester (no offence to Mancunians), there had better be a good flippin’ reason why it’d be for City. Right now, it won’t be for their success record.
It will be fascinating to watch the movements; it will really sort the ambitious from the money-grabbers.
Because you don’t have to be a scientist or anything like that to realise City probably won’t make Champions League this season.
If I were a superstar footballer I’d hang back, see what happens and in the unlikely event City are victorious, then maybe I’d and go live in Manchester… well, perhaps (no offence to Mancunians).
That aside Hughes should really pick his battles. Long-term, fine, you got bundles of cash so you can buy whoever you want and go for Champions League (go for it, go crazy) but think about the short-term too, for god’s sakes man, you have to win your games. That surely should be the first hurdle to tackle?
Though that midweek 3 – 1 loss to Racing Santander didn’t matter in the slightest, it did. A whipping like that never helps team morale or cohesion, and it’s that exact sort of blasé attitude that’s got them into the relegation zone.
It ain’t a lot of good having all that cash in the Championship (but if QPR didn’t get promoted together they could make the Championship a pretty prosperous place).
Everyone blabbers on about how it’s still early – when does that old cliché ever wear off in the season by the way? We’re almost half way through, it’s not still early. And despite, the upcoming transfer market, City are in trouble, like every other team at the foot of the Premiership.
And so what if Hughes gets to buy big names? The way the Premiership is going if he doesn’t win any games soon he’ll be gone before you can say ‘Robinho’!
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