Linked with transfer targets Villa, Buffon, Fabragas, Tevez, and Jesus (great left footed shot, the Messiah), Manchester Citeh is making room at the Middle Eastlands for its drastically diminished transfer target estimations by shipping out—or attmepting to ship out—three malcontents.
And by 'malcontents' we mean people who may or may not want to see manager Mark Hughes take a mudshark up the pooper.
From Al Guardian:
Mark Hughes has identified a small but influential group of Manchester City players he fears are trying to lead a dressing-room mutiny against him. There has already been one meeting at which the ringleaders shared their grievances, and a fringe player has complained about Hughes to the club's executive chairman, Garry Cook.
The coup plotters? Two Brazilians and a Jew.
So, Mark Hughes is an anti-semite, eh. Actually he's just stupid.
That's not our assessment, that's merely an inference based on the fact that his squad is sitting 2 points from safety. But he's trying to move Jo, Elano, and Ben Haim, which also makes him kind of stupid.
Okay, if they are going to bring in around £100M in transfers in January, then some bodies have to go. Ben Haim has been offered to Blackburn as part of the Santa Cruz deal. That's no biggie. He's more than serviceable, but to get Santa Cruz that's an easy sacrifice.
But cutting the Brazilians loose? It's no secret that Hughes and Elano aren't bosom buddies—but the image of them in drag does make me giggle—but Elano was maybe one of the 5-7 best attacking mids in the Prem last season. Plus, if the Abu Dhabi owners want to continue to bring in Brazilians, it might help to keep some others around. Robinho barely knows that he's there to begin with, and seems to get the fuck out of there any chance he can. So, not the wisest move from a recruiting standpoint, but when you can pay players by the truckload, maybe that matters less.
In any event, this might all be desperate attempts by Hughes to stave off the inevitable: his getting sacked. Again, the team is just a couple of point from safety (but to be fair so is about half the table) and got humiliated in an FA Cup match 3-0 against Nottingham Forrest over the weekend.
As the Guardian article points out: "Yet Hughes's problems can be gauged by the fact that one of the players who was involved in Saturday's game was seen laughing and joking in the showers directly afterwards."
Bet it was the Jew. Oh, and Mark, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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I always thought Jesus was a goalie because of the "Jesus Saves" bumper stickers.
Jesus saves but Leroy scores the rebound.
Ben Haim to Blackburn makes sense.
Allardyce loved him at Bolton and he's only 26.
Ben Haim, A Personal Journey: How to go from Chelsea to Man Citeh to Blackburn in two seasons.
It will be a sad day when Ben-Haim retires and realizes that the highest point of his footballing career was getting Trezeguet sent off for a head butt in a WC Qualifying match that ended in a 1-1 draw.
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