Not a chance.

First, citeh should qualify for europe with their current players. Only then will players such as Kaka and Messi join thew club. If citeh do not qualify this season, I reckon the chances of Robinho leaving are not impossible.

TBF, citeh have a decent squad to do so, just look at their squad for a moment...

1)Joe hart - prolly england no.1 if capello decides to pick him
2)Micah Richards - a quality player, already knocked Neville out from his RB position.
3)Ireland - Best player from them this season, decent player.
4)SWP - Needless to mention of his pace
5)Bridge - yet to play
6)Kompany - FM legend LOL

And their strikers... Robinho, Jo, Vassell, Sturridge, Benjani, Bojinov...Pretty decent players, except maybe for Bojinov who has been injured since he signed for them.

With this squad compared with Hull City - who are doing above expectation, pretty tough to pick eh?

Bojinov is not injured, but was loaned out to Juventus if I'm not mistaken.

Let's be realistic, at the end of the day, money still plays an important role in decided-making for the players. Not everyday you come across someone like Paolo Maldini or Ryan Giggs.

When Mark Hughes asked for more time, I suppose he wants more time to recruit world-class players to fight for the Europe place next season. This season will be spent finding these players instead of being competitive in the league.

In the long run, yes, Manchester City will emulate Chelsea, or even be better than them in terms of spending power. Well, they already are.

Bojinov is not injured, but was loaned out to Juventus if I'm not mistaken.

Let's be realistic, at the end of the day, money still plays an important role in decided-making for the players. Not everyday you come across someone like Paolo Maldini or Ryan Giggs.

When Mark Hughes asked for more time, I suppose he wants more time to recruit world-class players to fight for the Europe place next season. This season will be spent finding these players instead of being competitive in the league.

In the long run, yes, Manchester City will emulate Chelsea, or even be better than them in terms of spending power. Well, they already are.

Only Mourinho can make City special...Hughes just don't have the x-factor

But I do admire him for his bit of magic with poorer club...Blackburn for instance.. 

Football, as the name, goes in a circle.

If you don't have the dough, you wont be able to challenge the top teams. Without the opportunity, only players with lesser stature are willing to join.

The point here is, Chelsea managed to achieve with their money because they were at the very least challenging in the european competition. With citeh, the future looks bleak for them, even with papa-money behind them.

Qualify for Europe, then we'll see the likes of Kaka/messi coming in.

It took you so long to come to this conclusion?

Thank You Captain Obvious!

hughes sacked liaw meh ?

Yap.....
Lahm, Benzema will all be good additions.
Lure Drogba too will be grrreat.

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Added on January 16, 2009, 7:00 amEverything will fall in place once Kaka the big fish is reeled in.
Other top players will follow suit seeing that the Sheikhs are serious.

ROFL. He's already trademarked CR7. It's already his official brand. There are caps, clothes and what not selling under that label. Wow. Citeh fans nowadays. Can't believe what I'm seeing here.

Binge on Kaka
Get a top notch goalie (or at least Dida)
Buy Alex (from Chelski)
Sway  Ronaldinho
Pry Daniel Alves from Barcelona
Sign Andrei Arshavin
Recruit Franklin  Rijkaard
all for less than £200million  and this is doable.
Thats my samba team

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Added on January 16, 2009, 2:53 amAnd to crown it all get CR9 in summer for £160million. Don't forget the American owners are paupers with huge outstanding loans and debts to service. That goes for Liverpool  too (Torres).
In the overall scheme of things the UAE group owners (with estimated fortune of US$1trillion) will put Abu Dhabi and its $billions investments on the world map. After all its neighbour rival Dubai spent $billion/s on golf ventures and Tiger Wood.

This is Entertainment BUSINESS.
With Chelski (it was just personal) and its owner's fortune has dwindled. Arsenal will not win EPL because it did not spend the critical money ( a couple of key players) to bring them over the top.

Mind u TS.....stop with the name calling in ur post as u r offending others team.......btw it seems lik u lik dida very much although i do think he has pass his prime time......given will be a better choice considering wat he had done for newcastle.....but still 1 thing for sure....the market price for many of those average player will be increasing a lot if city really do splash cash lik pouring water.......just like wat chelsea did last few years ago......and the gap between some of the club will be growing more n more........bad thing or good thing??u decide.......

 

not sure how that is name calling as chelsea themselves wanted to trademark that term, but they lost out.
which means they somehow like it

That is so not true mate, please watch it. State some names who wanted that term on Chelsea.

Chelsea FC beaten to Chelski trademark by small drinks firm

One-time Chelsea chairman Ken Bates had previously approached Europa Wines with proposals to sell its rights to the Chelski name or to enter into a joint venture with the club.

TU Duke. No offense meant to Chelsea fans. Actually I like RA hence Chelski. He was like a  fresh air to appear on the footie scene.

No worries mate. How can they take offence when their own club wanted to trademark it? It would be similar to how Newcastle fans took offence to a poster that called them "the zebras" when that's what they are called in England. I just think people are defensive by nature but it does help to check one's facts first.

While everyone around the world is gasping for that 110M bid for Kaka, he is one player that Man City doesn't need, what they really need is a hardman in the centre, someone who can provide some steel for the midfield and protect them, with Kaka and Robinho, as well as whoever they sign, they might be scoring goals for fun, but the defence is just as likely to ship the same amount or more. 

Even Robbie Savage would do for the moment... 

Mind u TS.....stop with the name calling in ur post as u r offending others team.......btw it seems lik u lik dida very much although i do think he has pass his prime time......given will be a better choice considering wat he had done for newcastle.....but still 1 thing for sure....the market price for many of those average player will be increasing a lot if city really do splash cash lik pouring water.......just like wat chelsea did last few years ago......and the gap between some of the club will be growing more n more........bad thing or good thing??u decide.......

 

No. Not that savage    
Gerard

BTW did i offend u?  Pls. retract above for I find that very personal and derogatory.

We will sell u Gerrard after 5 years 

And we want a price like Kaka's, can we?

I thought TS stands for Thread Starter? Derogatory? What?

His TS probably means THIS SHIT, perhaps?     

no u didnt offend me becoz u can know tat i'm a liverpool supporter here.....just a reminder tat u shouldn't do it for causing misunderstanding.....n i bet it really not tat hard right to type chelsea rather than chelski??forgive me if u think my word r rude.......and the TS is meant ThreadStarter........

 

While everyone around the world is gasping for that 110M bid for Kaka, he is one player that Man City doesn't need, what they really need is a hardman in the centre, someone who can provide some steel for the midfield and protect them, with Kaka and Robinho, as well as whoever they sign, they might be scoring goals for fun, but the defence is just as likely to ship the same amount or more. 

hammers has rejected a 4th bid of 9.2 million pounds from city for bellamy...

dumb city, inflating the market.
ppl know they can pay so everyone is now playing hard to get.
it will be very funny if bellamy finally sells for around 30 million

Read that the deal has gone up to about 240 million quids. Madness. That'd be enuff to buy the whole Villa XI I reckon. That's top four material right there.

You can't count Carragher and Gerrard as free just because they are from the academy.

Latest Paper Talk say

Hughes is signing Terry. and Hughes will lose his job to Rafa Benitez in the summer

man utd earned the money through their success not by sugar daddy

ok im not a MC fan...im MU fan...but wat i just wana say is that MC is lucky enough to have a rich owner so we cant blame anything...lets guess...if the owner bought arsenal....so wat would u guys said???will kaka transfer to arsenal becum such a big issue...NO.....so we jsut hope that if kaka transfer to MC...MC will becum one of the big force and it would be something good if we see a good team emerge to be one of the world best!!

btw it would be lovely if manchester has 2 big clubs..like milan

You are right. I concede that to you.
But what will you say about CR9 whose childhood dream was to play for RM?

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Added on January 18, 2009, 6:14 pm
My sentiments exactly.

Agreed to a certain extent. However they maintained their top flight status thru continuous predatory practice of raiding top talented players from lesser EPL teams. No?

see my list below
Rio (from Leeds)
Berba (from Spurs)
Roo (from Everton)
Tevez (from WHU)

and from other
Owen Hargreaves (BM)
Vidic (from ?)
VDS
Nani
Anderson
Evra
Park
CR7

i think the point why all people criticise man city is they spend 100m for a player ... and the boss expect instant success ...

before roman buy chelsea, chelsea already a force in the premier league ... won the fa cup and cup winner's cup ...

unlike city now, not even the top 8 teams ... and dream of cl football ...

if you pay too much for a foreign player, they will turn to salary worker, means every week just come to kick the ball, whether win or not also doesn't matter ...

your theory?

Who knows maybe this is a new start for Man City, they could be a real force perhaps with more quality signing and Kaka might be remembered as a start of the revolution.

they have to start somewhere don't they?I agree it's a step too big to take Kaka now but if they can afford it and Kaka likes the deal, why not?[IMHO it's still a crazy deal]

assuming that Kaka will join them, they will now have Robinho and Kaka which means people will start to consider when Man City come knocking the door cos they already have big name players there.

risks is of course obvious, but they've got what it takes to bear the risk.

I believe it will be another surprise from MC b4 transfer windows close.

your theory?

Who knows maybe this is a new start for Man City, they could be a real force perhaps with more quality signing and Kaka might be remembered as a start of the revolution.

they have to start somewhere don't they?I agree it's a step too big to take Kaka now but if they can afford it and Kaka likes the deal, why not?[IMHO it's still a crazy deal]

assuming that Kaka will join them, they will now have Robinho and Kaka which means people will start to consider when Man City come knocking the door cos they already have big name players there.

risks is of course obvious, but they've got what it takes to bear the risk.

simple to prove, once they got 11 super stars to start every matches but still not able to win anything, then confirm they are salary workers ...

so how ... bellamy the new superstar ?

Kaka's £107m move to Man City is off

Kaka's proposed £107-million transfer from AC Milan to Manchester City was dramatically spiked on Monday night with both clubs claiming to have pulled the plug on the deal.

The development came at the end of a day when a deal for the Brazilian playmaker appeared tantalisingly close.

Man City's executive chairman Garry Cook lead a club delegation in meetings with Milan officials and Kaka's father, Bosco Leite in attempt to broker what would have been a world record transfer.

However, in a statement the Premier League club said they had pulled out of negotiations as there was little chance of a deal being done owing to the complexity of the terms.

Cook told the club's website: ''Whilst Manchester City Football Club has an obvious interest in world-class players of the quality of Kaka, we owe it to our fans that such a transfer must work on every level; commercially, financially, in terms of results on the field and within Manchester City's broader community.

''The club felt that it was unlikely that the two parties could reach common ground for an agreement. The discussions reached only a preliminary stage and the player was not involved at any time.''

Somewhat contradicting City's claims were comments from Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister and Milan's owner, who said Kaka himself rejected the move.

''Money is not everything for Kaka, there are things more important than money. We are happy. We offered the player the chance to consider the offer, but he has higher values,'' Berlusconi told Italian television when explaining the 26-year-old's decision to turn down a move to the Eastlands club.

''It was down to me and also to him," added Berlusconi. ''When I heard he would prefer to stay, that he didn't think he would be missing a great opportunity and he prefers the values of our flag, the values of closeness and friendship, the warmth and the affection that all the fans have shown him in these days, I said 'hooray' and we hugged. Kaka is staying at Milan.''

On learning the news late on Monday hundreds of fans gathered outside Kaka's central Milan home where they celebrated his decision to remain with the Rossoneri.

Last week, in his only public comment since the saga began, Kaka said: ''I want to grow old at Milan. My aim is to become the captain of this team. I have already turned down some big offers.''

Despite his declaration, City continued to pursue the 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or winner, and over the weekend appeared close to agreeing a deal after Berlusconi said it would be tough to hang on to the player given the sums of money being discussed.

Kaka, who was courted by Real Madrid last year and also linked with a move to Chelsea, played in Milan's 1-0 Serie A win over Fiorentina on Saturday and was clearly moved by the response of the fans inside the San Siro.

The Milan fans had been demanding talks with City were stopped and protested against a possible sale outside Milan's city centre headquarters.

Kaka deal didn't go through as reported by soccernet.com

Real Football  1 - 0  Fantasy Football

Last season we took maximum points from MU but what the heck nobody took advantage.

This time we will take 3 points and CR9 (make him an offer he can't refuse).

   
We have the money to take the honey. No?

Looking forward to the Derby?

The 6 points you took from United didn't bear any significance to City whatsoever right? Still not in CL. So umm, what's the point in bragging about it? rofl.