Manchester City: why blow £91m on just one player?

Kaveh Solhekol

Anyone who has seen Manchester City play this season will know that creating and scoring goals has not been their only problem. Mark Hughes needs a goalkeeper, some defenders, a couple of midfield players and a target man. So why blow £91million on one superstar who does not even want to play for the club? Wouldn’t Hughes be better off spreading his cash around? Look what you could buy for £91m...

1. Cristiano Ronaldo. Why have the second best player in the world when you can have the best?

2. Petr Cech, John Terry and Frank Lampard from Chelsea and still have enough loose change in your back pocket to make Valencia an offer they could not refuse for David Villa.

3. Why take a chance on a player with no Premier League experience when you can have proven quality? Arsenal could not say no to £50 million for Cesc Fabregas, Thierry Henry would cost less than £20 million from Barcelona and you would still have £21 million left to pay Pini Zahavi’s commission.

4. Why buy one player when you can buy a whole club? Get on the phone to Bjorgolfor Gudmundsson, buy West Ham United, close the club, sell Upton Park and bring all their players up to Manchester.

5. The credit crunch is starting to bite and Manchester United are £700 million in debt, so why not help out your neighbours by taking a job-lot of their players off their hands? For £91 million you could have Ryan Giggs, Carlos Tevez, Paul Scholes, Nani and Anderson and they would probably throw in John O’Shea for free.

Comments

[Dominic]

Some interesting ideas - the whole trouble is, though, that eventually it comes down to the player who has to want to move!

[Mansell]

What's your guess at Chelsea's selling prices for Cech, Lampard & Terry then? I doubt you'd get much change from 91mil from Cech & Villa alone.

[Joe]

Arsenal would never sell Fabregas for £50million when he is our captain and has nearly if not a decade ahead of him.

[Jonesy]

City's owners are making a mockery of the game in my opinion. It's all well and good having the ability to create your own personal dreamteam but all they are going to achieve is increasing the already over-inflated transfer fee's and players wages. All the top clubs should get together and deny City access to their players whatever the fee on the table may be. Chelsea were bad enough but City are making the Prem a laughing stock. What happened to development ????

[Devin]

i agree with jonesy, its bad for the game, they should just deny city, besides even if City get a great team, they will never be in the top 4, they cant do it and never will, it doesnt even matter if they have the best players in the world, it wont make a difference.

[Mark]

City is an underachiever team - it has always been. If Kaka is sold to City, it will be a mistake because Kaka loves Milan and dishing out this much money for a single player is no good for the football.

[sheva]

kaka is a living legend.he can really help city,but football is not 1 man show.he can create magic with support from robinho.they have got richards too in defence.