City in a bid to replace the tons of average players they have signed in the past two seasons want to rush and and spend even more money on.........................even more average footballers.
Average would be a MASSIVE step up from SWP, he didn't make a useful or telling pass, run, tackle or really anything last night. Infact the funniest thing he did was, I think against Evans was rather than play the ball which he was closer to, he shoulder barged Evans, and ended up on the floor himself, was hilarious, might of even been a freekick against him.
Awful decision making, incredibly easy to predict and of the couple goals he's got this year I've seen a couple huge deflections off bad shots to go in.
I don't really rate Johnson at all, not as a fantastic future star anyway, but he's leagues above SWP. Petrov may show talent now and then, but he's a one trick pony, played on the right he cuts in at the same point every time, fakes a pass/cross then does a bad pass/cross. Of course the occasional shot/cross goes somewhere useful but mostly not, defensively his positioning is awful, offensively his decision making is terrible, predictable as hell and he's only slightly better on the left wing. Considering how ridiculously bad he is he laughably spends the entire game shouting at Bellamy/Tevez/whoever for every single misplaced pass. Theres a reason he was dropped completely under, Sven, Hughes and seemingly also Mancini after very few games. Theres also a reason he was cheap and Sven got him, and Giovanni, and a bunch of other crap, they are inconsistant trouble makers(Elano also).
Theres a very solid squad there now full of players who are fully capable of winning cups/leagues, but SWP, Barry and Zabaleta, well you won't get away with all three of them putting in their poorer performances. Boyata actually looks very promising for only his 4th or so game and being 19, leagues above Onoura. Richards is a freaking powerhouse going forwards or defensively, complete commitment, no fear, and takes lots of huge hits in tackles and gets up from them all.
If City get a half decent left back, a winger and start playing Ireland over Barry they'll be a really great team.
EDIT:- I might have missed other people talking about it, but is the whole Anderson thing true, on his way out after dissappearing, after yet another woeful performance. Saw a stat, not sure if it was true, that he's played in every Utd defeat so far, really is a terrible player and the only bad thing from an Arsenal point of view is that Fergies finally given up and might replace him with someone half decent.
