I havent blamed the club for the Tevez saga, I dont like it how City (or anyone, it could be Anji in years to come in Russia) are able to keep players from playing and stated that similar could easily happen given how they can throw money around without caring.
I also didnt say Tevez did this because he was 4th choice, re-read my post, take off your blinkers and realise that my example is on a different tangent and one that could feasibly happen... Man City are and will continue to buy up foreigners, with that, they will get the mardy ones... already have ie Robinho, Balotelli, Tevez... all ready and able to blow at any point.
My point about Aguero is and ive only used him as he is flavour of the month... IF City went out and signed the players ive mentioned and he becomes 4th/5th choice, then we could easily see this situation again and again and again.. City are not going to be like Barcelona, bringing through talent to compliment superstars.. City will be after the quick fix (and rightly so if you have the cash) that means signing all and sundry, which eventually will cause problems.
Id like to see Tevez play, it dosent really matter for who and should the situation as above come about, then I dont want to see those players also sat around sucking their thumbs.
Tevez might be a banker but he deserves to play football as its such a short career to have.
Its easy to clap along with Sky Sports over this affair, but I actually enjoy forming an opinion and not sew myself to the butt cheek of Graeme Souness and his cronies.
1) He signed the contract, the club pay his wages, and if he isn't fit to play the manager decides he isn't fit to play. At the beginning of the season Tevez came back to training overweight and not even close to match fitness. By the time he was ready to be properly used he refused to come on. Clubs fault? I think not.
2) Nice bit of xenophobia, but we have our very own mardy arse in Adam Johnson, who was English last time I checked. Bit of a naff point to be honest.
3) If he's good enough to be 1st choice he'll be 1st choice. If he's not he won't be. Nothing wrong with that. But we've built the squad now. With FFPR we can't buy a new squad, and won't buy a new squad, every transfer window. People still forget we've built a squad in double quick time, it was always going to be heavy going in the beginning.
4) Missed the announcement on making the best training facility in the world then? We're not aiming to do it like Barcelona, we're aiming to do it better. As I've said above, we're not looking to buy a new squad every transfer window, the aim is to build a sustainable project.
5) He could have been playing if he kept himself in shape and didn't act like a constant arse. The club did not just freeze him out from the start of the season for no reason. If you want to think that because it fits in better with your view of big bad mean City fine, but it's wrong.
6) Lol. Yeah, I always follow Sky's lead on the club I've supported all my life
Try harder.
As for the re-reading of your post and taking off my blinkers, lets break it down
Personally im fed up with Man City now, it was novel at first and for their fans fair play to them, they have had to deal with a lot of 'poop' over the years so I dont begrudge them success or anything.
However as a football fan, I want to see Tevez playing and playing somewhere that he can be happy. The problem is that Man City can ruin the peak years of his career by forcing him to sit out his contract and not worry.... that is my main problem with everything atm and I dont think Tevez will be the last player associated with that team who does this or something similar.
Ok so your first point, you want to see Tevez play. Well you're probably in quite the minority there as he's done almost everything in his power to STOP HIMSELF PLAYING. His playing is of his own doing, not the clubs. City aren't ruining the peak years of his career at all, he's doing that to himself.
As I said, its novel atm, players want to be part of the first Man City to win this, that, or the other for x amount of years... and in the main, the current subs/backups are English who generally just plug on with it, happy with 1 start in 3 or 4 and 30mins in the other games.
Are they? We've had a pretty well rotated squad so far at not even the busiest point of the season, and I'm pretty sure our backup hasn't been mainly Englishmen. Players are on the whole getting starts and minutes on the pitch. Players are playing well to show why they should keep a starting berth whenever they get the chance, and the table shows we're doing it well.
BUT when the backups become players like Yaya Toure or Dzeko or AN Other.. then the problems will begin. I know that is a different tangent to why Tevez has done what he has, but once you get mardy foreigners in thinking they are the billy bigs' and then because of the cash City buy another 3 or 4 stars in, those that fall down the pecking order wont be as smiley as they are at the beginning.
Well you're just creating fictional sticks to beat us with here. Yaya Toure won't be a backup if he plays like he is. If he suddenly starts only playing good enough to be a backup, then he'll be a backup. What's wrong with that? If he wants to move on the club will let him go, like we have done with everyone so far (And yes, we did put Tevez up for sale in the summer, not our fault no-one wanted to buy him).
And if it happens again, who is to say that Aguero wont be in Tevez situation in 2/3 years time... if City sign Neymar, Ganso....Messi.... Higuain...etc etc What if Aguero at his peak of 27 is all of a sudden 4th or 5th choice, because thats the power the cash at City will do/become. And then we have a player like Aguero who gets moody, goes home under stress... its all ifs and buts, however I can see this just being the precedent.
See above. If Aguero does a Tevez, hands in a transfer request, refuses to warm up/come on for a huge game, slates the City the club is based, refuses to turn up to training and generally acts like a grade A ****, he'll deserve exactly what Tevez is getting now too. If Aguero hits 27 and he isn't good enough to be 1st choice striker he won't be 1st choice striker, where is the problem? Position in a team isn't a right, you earn it.
The only precedent that will be set here (hopefully) is no longer can a player have all the power and **** around a club to his own benefit.
