Man City boss Hughes targets six big-name signings
Manchester City boss Mark Hughes is ready to buy big this summer.
The Times says at least a dozen players are expected to leave the club at the end of the season — Robinho, the Brazil forward, could be the most high-profile departure, provided that City can find a buyer for their £34.2 million record purchase — with Hughes targeting at least six new arrivals.
Franck Ribéry, the Bayern Munich playmaker, Thierry Henry, the Barcelona forward, and John Terry, the Chelsea captain, top his wish list, although the manager will have a tough job attracting any of those three players. Other targets include Kolo Touré, the Arsenal defender, and Roque Santa Cruz, the Blackburn Rovers striker.
“We are not too far away,” Hughes said. “We just need a couple of strong signings to address conspicuous issues in the team. Maybe the acquisition of different types of players to the ones we have already got will leave us in better shape.”
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Comments (13)
Dans still a moron because the old owners of city got in mark hughes and on the last day of the transfer season the arabs bought the club, so city couldnt have brought in another manager for transfers
City are never going to be able to buy the likes of Henry etc. They need to get realistic and sign good, already etablished premier league payers. When Chelsea was taken over, they bought the likes of Glen Johnson, Duff, S.Parker, Robben (not heard of at the time). They then used this team to etablish themselves and then attracted the likes of Drogba and Ballack. The sooner Man city realise this the better for them. It is no doubt that Robinho is having strops as you cant buy one world class player and put him in a team of muppets who are used to mid table.
Also, chelsea were fifth and were often floating around the top spot in years previous. City have never been in this position and there job will be even harder. Plus those city fans demanding Hughes be sacked and a world class manager in. The simple fact is no world class manager wants to manage a mid table team. They need to build a team with Hughes. Then, again to comapre with Chelsea, cn get a world class manager. As Chelsea got Mourinho when they finished second!
City are never going to be able to buy the likes of Henry etc. They need to get realistic and sign good, already etablished premier league payers. When Chelsea was taken over, they bought the likes of Glen Johnson, Duff, S.Parker, Robben (not heard of at the time). They then used this team to etablish themselves and then attracted the likes of Drogba and Ballack. The sooner Man city realise this the better for them. It is no doubt that Robinho is having strops as you cant buy one world class player and put him in a team of muppets who are used to mid table.
Also, chelsea were fifth and were often floating around the top spot in years previous. City have never been in this position and there job will be even harder. Plus those city fans demanding Hughes be sacked and a world class manager in. The simple fact is no world class manager wants to manage a mid table team. They need to build a team with Hughes. Then, again to comapre with Chelsea, cn get a world class manager. As Chelsea got Mourinho when they finished second!
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