Karlos13 wrote:
Good to see the myth about citys owners being your normal football club owners and not wanting instant success being blown apart by yesterdays events. Oh and thanks for taking all the media attention away from Utd's abysmal performance at Fulham as well.
On the flip side, it's nice to see they do want to sit back and watch hism squander another £100 million as he would surely have done. The evidence was there for all bar the most pig-headed that he just didn't have what it takes to take us to the next level. It's not instant success we want but some sign that we are moving in the right direction at a decent pace. There was little sign of this for me. If we'd carried on progressing at this rate, then we would be achieving our goals in about 2050. Only the complete and utter ineptitude of Liverpool has saved us from being as far away from the top four as what we were under Sven, just two years ago, before Hughes spent £250 million.
The media will always have it in for us due to the way we are trying to build a team. They don't like it, fans of other clubs don't like but we'll get used to it. I don't think United fans lose much sleep about nobody liking them.
Fourth spot has never been so there for the taking and our shambolic defence over the last few games have cost us dear. A lot of people forget that in those ten games, when we won one, decent sides would have expected to win eight or nine of them. It was the easiest run of fixtures we could possibly have hoped to have been given.
I just wonder, one day, whether Hughes will look back and see Kolo Toure as being largely responsible for his downfall? He bestowed the title of captain upon him and he has let him down in every area including leadership, command of his defence and not least his comical defending.
Couple that with the signing of Lescott and the transformation of what has been one of our best ever defences (in a sh
it team too) to one of our worst, for the large sums spent and you probably have the key to his downfall.
In my book, the sale of Dunne and the pig-headed insistance on keeping the partnership of Toure and Lescott together, to justify his expenditure, has certainly been the major factor.
However, the strange substitutions, the inability to motivate the big guns such as Robinho and Adebayor and the tactical naivety have all played their part.
Stability is wonderful but you need the right man. The owners clearly saw that Hughes was not going to be the man to take us into the big time. As for Mancini, well, that's another story and I will reserve judgement for a later date.
I think a lot of City fans have spent so long in the doldrums that they see anything in the top half and a few cup wins against mediocre sides as the best thing that's ever happened and all is well. We've never had this kind of money before and neither has anyone else.
The past has gone and it is not against what happened to us in the past that we should be measuring ourselves against. It's other clubs of similar stature. The fact is Villa and Spurs look much better 'teams' and have spent only a fraction of the money, despite starting from a reasonably level playing field with us.
Your starting to sound like Fergie 
