Manchester City (a) 24/01 -Build up and match thread

[Kenny]

Should have been winning in the first half, Cutrone missed two absolute sitters.

One plus then, we have players as good as Cutrone

 

[Lycan]

Hwang is worse than Cutro

 

[sycophantia]

Hwang is worse than Cutro

Is he? I'm no Hwang fan but he has scored a few decent goals and he does work quite hard and presses quite well. Don't remember Cutrone doing any of that.

 

[leedswolf]

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Was class when he joined and then he got injured and can’t remember what happened

I thought he was bang average tbh.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Mikkel Biscuits looked a bit better than the alternatives in our awful start under DJ in 04/05 but this wasn't a high bar as we started the season with Craddock when he was shite and 77 year old Joachim Björklund. Lescott still very much easing his way back in too, shouldn't really have been playing at all but Dave Jones gotta Dave Jones. Keith Slowe played a few games.

Scored a good header vs Forest.

Got injured, which was the story of his career and went back to City.

When Hoddle got him back on loan, we'd learned how to defend (and draw) so he couldn't get a gig at CH and was parked out at RB on the rare occasions he got a game.

 

[Tredman]

Hwang is worse than Cutro

Definitely.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I wonder how many threads over a year we can get him on

(Still the oldest ever PL player, a record that might never be broken, he was 43 when he was at City)

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I can't find a picture of Ronnie Ekelund playing for us (Liverpool at home, pre-season 1999?) but he played for City too.

 

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[leedswolf]

I can't find a picture of Ronnie Ekelund playing for us (Liverpool at home, pre-season 1999?) but he played for City too.

Yeah, same with Lee Mills. Can't find a pic of him playing for City...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Question for the old 'uns:

Was it felt at the time that we properly ripped City off for Steve Daley or did it just not work out?

 

[Tony Towner]

'Played' is strong I've seen JSL put more effort in this season

 

[sycophantia]

Question for the old 'uns:

Was it felt at the time that we properly ripped City off for Steve Daley or did it just not work out?

He was genuinely good here. Not sure why it didnt work at City, maybe more competition for places there?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

'Played' is strong I've seen JSL put more effort in this season

He was bloody rubbish for us but fair to say he had serious personal issues that we knew nothing of then

I definitely did see him using a massive 1994 brick mobile phone during the warm-up once

 

[KiwiWolf61]

He was genuinely good here. Not sure why it didnt work at City, maybe more competition for places there?

He was genuinely on the cusp of playing for England when at Wolves - during the mid-70s he was one of the best half-a-dozen midfielders in the league.

From what I recall, and what Daley has said, it was put to him his chances of playing for England would be enhanced if he moved to a "bigger" club.

City still played overs for him and it never worked out for him, and he's always had the good grace to admit it was a mistake to move.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Question for the old 'uns:

Was it felt at the time that we properly ripped City off for Steve Daley or did it just not work out?

Daley was an excellent player, our best at the time by a long way as Hibbitt and Richards were past their best but he wasn’t worth what City paid for him. Malcolm Allison just went mad paying big money for Michael Robinson and teenager Steve MacKenzie around the same time. He probably thought Daley was the final piece in his jigsaw. If Daley had been sold a year earlier he wouldn’t have gone for half as much, but the market went mad in January 1979 when West Brom paid a British transfer record for the relatively unknown David Mills and then Clough broke the million pound mark with Trevor Francis. Daley probably sat between the two of them. Though he never played for England he was better than some who did and undoubtedly would have done if he played for West Ham or Spurs.

The fee really seemed a millstone around Daley’s neck at City and he never got close to the player he was at Wolves.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thanks chaps - my perception (mainly from my Dad and Grandad as well as you good folk) was that Ken Hibbitt was the better player.

And I've no doubt that Andy Gray was very good but even I know we shouldn't have chucked all the money straight on him.