Thursday, October 7, 2010

Billionaire club: What is the differences between Man City and Chelsea?

When Thaksin bought Man City in 2008, most of the pundit claimed "This is good for BPL competition. We need more competitive club with great players to compete each other." In Thaksin era, Man City hired Sven Goran Eriksson as manager. Eriksson bought many potential players with name like Elano, Geovanni, Bojinov and Jo to fit their squad. After Eriksson sacked and Thaksin involved in politic chaos in his own country, Man City welcomed Abu Dhabi billionaire, Dr Sulaiman.Al-Fahim as CEO. Sulaiman want Man City to become great team in the world so, he need some changes to his current squad at that time. The first victim is manager Mark Hughes. After few month in charge, Hughes been sacked due to poor run of form despite successful bought Brazilian playmaker Robinho from Real Madrid and been replaced by Italian tactican Roberto Mancini.

Mancini sees his current squad during that time cannot be a top club unless new players under his favorities been added to the squad. James Milner, Yaya Toure, David Silva, recall Joe Hart from Birmingham after loan spell last season, Jerome Boateng, Kolarov, Mario Balotelli, Patrick Vieira, and Adam Johnson. These are the new players add to the squad. The question is how about the others great names that Mancini already have? In my opinion, assembling great players in one club is a good ones. Not good is when they only seat on the bench and not playing regular 1st team player.


 Compared to Chelsea, they only buy the players which is fit the 1st team squad. Lets compare what Chelsea and Man City current squad players. (Not include reserve team)

System 4-4-2 4-5-1

Chelsea Man City



GK Petr Cech Joe Hart
Defender Branislav Ivanovic Micah Richard
Defender John Terry Kolo Toure
Defender Alex Vincent Kompany
Defender Ashley Cole Alex Kolarov
Midfielder John Obi Mikel Gareth Barry
Midfielder Micheal Essien Nigel de Jong
Midfielder Frank Lampard James Milner
Midfielder Florent Malouda Yaya Toure
Striker Nicolas Anelka David Silva
Striker Didier Drogba Carlos Tevez



Bench Ross Turnbull Shay Given
Bench Hilario Adam Johnson
Bench Yossi Benayoun Jerome Boateng
Bench Jose Bosingwa (injured) Wayne Bridge
Bench Daniel Sturridge Joleon Lescott
Bench Salomon Kalou Patrick Vieira
Bench Yury Zhirkov Shaun Wright-Phillips
Bench Paulo Ferreira Emmanuel Adebayor
Bench Ramires Roque Santa Cruz
Bench
Jo 
Bench
Vladimir Wiess
Bench
Pablo Zabaleta
Bench
Dedryk Boyata
Bench
Michael Johnson
Bench
Mario Balotelli


By look at it, are these Man City players who seat on the bench will plays regularly with the great 1st 11 available? When will be it? These are the question will be ask among the pundit. In my opinion, these billionaire club seems like wanna kill the career of the footballers. If this continues, I believe and not surprise if the players played for the moderate club in moderate countries such as Croation league, Scottish league, Belgium league, Greek league, or Dutch league in order to get 1st team football.


Not like Chelsea, Ancellotti loves to rotate their players just like he did for AC Milan couple year back. But when you talk about Adebayor who did well at Arsenal, Santa Cruz at Blackburn or even Lescott at Everton, these are good and top class player. They deserve to be among 1st team football but it has been killed by........ MONEY.

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