Who will Eriksson bring to Manchester City?
News is filtering in today that Sven Goran Eriksson - he of England fame (and a respectable club management career before that) - has agreed in principle to manage Manchester City in a 3 year deal. It’s part of a 3-year plan by Thaksin (as alluded to in earlier comments) to turn Manchester City around and (presumably) take them to Europe.
We’ve talked about Eriksson record and discussed Thaksin’s potential impact on City as well. With Eriksson on board and Thaksin taking over Manchester City, there is one big question that has to be asked:
Who will Eriksson bring on board?
Manchester City need to replace Joey Barton, but they also need reinforcements up front, to clean the deadwood in the current squad and most importantly, to get City off to a good start in the Premiership and be able to maintain it - something that Pearce wasn’t able to do.
You’ve got 50mil to spend, you have license to do whatever it takes to turn the team around and you have a fan base and nucleus of players that can help the club make a play for European football. Who will he bring in though? Who will be Eriksson’s Beckham, his go-to guy, now that Barton has gone?
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He’ll buy a couple of sweedes including freddie that maybe in part of a deal that includes cash+him= Richardz. GOT MY FINGERZ CROSSED!!!
Egyption Gooner - dream on, will never ever happen!
Apparently, Mourinho is offering Sean Wright Phillips for sale for only 10 million. I think he would be a young sparkplug for ManCity this season and create some actual offense for them.
Dudek in — Weaver out.
In: Gravesen, Saviola, Ljungberg, Benayoun, Harewood, Hyypia.
Out: Corradi, Dabo.
I think if he wants to make Shinawatra happy and NOT spend all of his money then i think Javier Saviola the Barça reject would do well. I think hes got something Michael Owen-esque about him, small and hard working. And also to please Shinawatra he should bring in an Asian midfield player maybe to develop or maybe to go straight into the side because I think that Asian, particularly Korean midfielders are incredibly hard working. If not he can always bribe Gudjonnsen with stupidly high wages to play there.
Saviola seems a long shot, but City are a better option for him than Boro(if that was ever true :p). Ljungberg is realistic and Defoe, Gudjohnsen and Bellamy are all likey to be searching for a new home.
He will most certainly go for some of those rediculous players he used to call up to England(Konchesky, anyone?), and some Swedes, of course, to add up to Issakson. Anyway, I wouldn’t be too optimistic if I were a City fan.
http://goal.com/en-US/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=338024
I am happy that I am right, but goal.com can be unreliable, so let’s see what happens.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE-MAN CITY TO SIGN ROLANDO.. C’mon, even the blue boo half of Mancland need a bit of Cris Ron; every little bit helps no? Keep scrubbing away boys…
ROLANDO as in ROLANDO BIANCHI- NOT CRISTIANO RONALDO.
City are a massive club! Watch them go from strength to strength…
ttts - “He will most certainly go for some of those rediculous players he used to call up to England(Konchesky, anyone?), and some Swedes, of course, to add up to Issakson. Anyway, I wouldn’t be too optimistic if I were a City fan.”
Who’s sounding ‘rediculous’ now???!!!