I take a look at ranting Mancini, returning heroes, Wayne Bridge and Mark Hughes. Fun times.
Sympathy For Mancini
Roberto Mancini has spent the last week bemoaning his squad’s lack in depth. Looking at his squad, one would have to agree. Based on his favoured 4-5-1 formation, he would only have Gareth Barry, Owen Hargreaves, Nigel de Jong, James Milner and Yaya Toure able to call on in center midfield. His defence is also lacking in personnel with the likes of Aleksander Kolarov, Vincent Kompany, Gael Clichy, Joleon Lescott, Stefan Savic, Nedum Onuoha, Micah Richards, Kolo Toure and Pablo Zabaleta. He was also seen complaining to an M&M representative that there weren’t enough M&Ms in the fun packs to spell F.
Roberto may have a problem with counting having said that 6-7 cigarettes a day aren’t that bad. Normally people would agree 1 is bad enough, Mr Mancini.
Comeback Kids
Big waves were created with the return of Thierry Henry to Arsenal and Paul Scholes trading his coach’s tracksuit for a player’s kit. Now there is a clamor for cheap but familiar signings. Arsene Wenger had to padlock the gates to Bell Lane after police reports of seeing a 1.9m German identified as Jens Lehmann running around London Colney shouting ‘sign me up’. Joe Kinnear was also seen tracking down Marcus Gayle and Vinny Jones. Harry Redknapp has decided to bolster his squad for a title challenge. Close aides have heard him mention a Frenchman, David Ginola. Harry will have to rethink his persuasion speech after failing to wine’n'dine his son, Jamie into returning to the pitch. Ronaldo (the fat one) has generated interest from top European clubs after playing against Hamburg with Zidane’s UNDP team.
On The Move
Carlos Tevez seems to be going no where with Man City adamant that their €35mil evaluation be met. He is of course their main talisman having featured for them in various golf tournaments. Unwanted Wayne Bridge is reportedly on £95,000 a week. Roberto Mancini has hit out at Bridge, calling him a greedy player who would rather train with the youth team than play week-in week-out with Portsmouth. Damn him. Now if only a club will shell out Man City’s assume evaluation of £5mil for a player that has featured once in the first team this season. Greedy players.
Hughes Marks The Man
Sparky’s back. His curly top remains in London having signed for QPR. Dubbed a “strange man” and a “flop” by Al-Fayed, Hughes is no stranger to foreign owners having worked under Thaksin, Abdel and now Tony. He has only lasted a year at each of his last two clubs; Man City (sacked-16 months), Fulham (resigned-11 months) and with QPR’s CE Philip Beard stating Hughes will face the sack should QPR get relegated, don’t expect him to be at Loftus Road for a long time to come.
