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Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak plays down heavy summer spending: We need quality, not quantity
Chief insists the club will not make big-money buys like previous seasons this summer, claiming they only need to sign ‘a couple of players’ and will strengthen where necessary
By Adithya Ananth
19 May 2011 08:32:00
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Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak has warned fans not to expect the kind of spending that has taken place during previous transfer windows.

The Eastlands outfit have spent heavily since Sheikh Mansour took control of the club in 2008, with players such as Carlos Tevez, Yaya Toure, James Milner and Edin Dzeko commanding hefty price tags.

Roberto Mancini's men managed to end a 35-year long trophy drought this season by winning the FA Cup, while they have also qualified for the Champions League by securing a place in the top four.

Several players have been linked with moves to the blue half of Manchester, but Al-Mubarak insists that the signings during the summer will portray quality over quantity.

"It won’t be like last summer, or the summer before," he told the club's official website.

"What you will see this year is strengthening the squad in areas that we feel require more depth.

"We don’t need quantity, as today we have quality. We just need a couple of players."

The chairman also showered praise on the club's chief executive, Garry Cook, for all that he has done during City's rise in fortune.

"I feel strongly a winning mentality is coming into the team," he said. "We have an incredible foundation for incredible years ahead. We have a great operation, headed by Garry Cook, who has done a phenomenal job."


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Nope, they will sign at least five £20m+ players.
 
By a couple of players he means a couple of 30 + million players.

But I think they'll sign around 4.
 
Sanhesz and Baines are as good as theirs!! After those two I dont really see much point in them signing players like Fabregas as they already are well stocked in midfield with Silva, Toure etc .
 
Yeah, they'll have money to spend through trimming their squad in my opinion. The biggest impact on their summer spending is whether Tevez stays or goes, that would free up £40million or so + wages.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak plays down heavy summer spending: We need quality, not quantity
Chief insists the club will not make big-money buys like previous seasons this summer, claiming they only need to sign ‘a couple of players’ and will strengthen where necessary
By Adithya Ananth
19 May 2011 08:32:00
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Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak has warned fans not to expect the kind of spending that has taken place during previous transfer windows.

The Eastlands outfit have spent heavily since Sheikh Mansour took control of the club in 2008, with players such as Carlos Tevez, Yaya Toure, James Milner and Edin Dzeko commanding hefty price tags.

Roberto Mancini's men managed to end a 35-year long trophy drought this season by winning the FA Cup, while they have also qualified for the Champions League by securing a place in the top four.

Several players have been linked with moves to the blue half of Manchester, but Al-Mubarak insists that the signings during the summer will portray quality over quantity.

"It won’t be like last summer, or the summer before," he told the club's official website.

"What you will see this year is strengthening the squad in areas that we feel require more depth.

"We don’t need quantity, as today we have quality. We just need a couple of players."

The chairman also showered praise on the club's chief executive, Garry Cook, for all that he has done during City's rise in fortune.

"I feel strongly a winning mentality is coming into the team," he said. "We have an incredible foundation for incredible years ahead. We have a great operation, headed by Garry Cook, who has done a phenomenal job."


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Depends what you term as "spending big".

I don't think they'll sign more than three or four players but no doubt at least of couple of them will be blockbuster signings who will cost a fortune.
 
I reckon they will still spend the biggest this summer (in England). Possibly second to Chelsea, but they will still spend at least £50 million net. They also have some players to ship out, like Adebayor, but I think they will still spend a lot more than they take in.

This is probably reactionary to the criticism they get for spending shedloads - they're trying to deflect that by saying they'll only buy what's neccessary and make out like they aren't artificially inflating the market.
 
It will be funny if the financial regs force them into selling players who don't agree to go because of the extortionate wages they've been given at City, leading them into a position where they can't buy anyone, and then they have to release players for feck all, and end up on a downward spiral, which causes their supposed imminent dominance to consist of a solitary FA cup victory
 
They will need to sell the likes of Bellamy & Adebayor first so they can register new signings in the 25 man PL squad.
 
I think I read somewhere that financial rules won't affect them because they are bulding some sort of a shopping center around the stadium.
 
Sarni said:
I think I read somewhere that financial rules won't affect them because they are bulding some sort of a shopping center around the stadium.
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Well the whole idea of that is to make them look self sufficient.If the income generated is ploughed straight back then I suppose it is.

I don't thunk it'll stop them spending to get where they want.....World Domination
 
stubie1234 said:
And look at how much money will be wasted on paying them their wages.
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As opposed to having them in the squad and not playing them, and not being able to sign anyone else for the first season in the CL? Drop in the ocean for the owners anyway.

Besides, if they can't sell them they'll probably be loaned out.
 
How many strikers do they have?

Anyway, i think they'll wait for us to make a move for our targets and try to feck it up by bidding higher.

Hope SAF wraps up our transfer dealings within the first week of the summer and then we can all just relax and enjoy the circus which surrounds the other clubs.
 
They won't buy many players, but they'll buy expensive. This is also a warning to other clubs - they aren't going to overpay any more.

City are getting settled, for us, the most dangerous thing they can do is start working together. They already have enough talent to compete and depth. A proper left back, another CB, and another CM and they should be done and dusted. If Tevez or the Crazed Italian leaves, we'll see them buy another striker. But otherwise they're set with strikers and keepers.

The danger to us, is them not unsettling what they already have.
 
This is the Summer United have been waiting for.

City can only afford (due to the FFP) to bring in a couple of stars and will be releasing a few of the big earning squaddies.

Madrid will only be looking for defenders.

Barcelona will be in for a couple of players, probably focus on Fibreglass and a left back.

Tottenham will be looking for Strikers (and bargains)

Arsenal will be looking for everything under the age of 23 that is not a goalkeeper...

Which leaves us looking at Midfielders and Wingers.

None of the competition of previous seasons and a somewhat deflated transfer market due to clubs getting their accounts sorted for the impending FFP.
 
JayWalker said:
They will buy 4-5 players and an equal amount or above will be shown the door to balance the squad numbers.
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I think so too. They will be targetting the title next season and for that they'll need a good few number of players. I don't think one or two will be enough unless they're absolute world class players.

Sadly, money talks and I can all of this happening next season according to plan. Except for all that they have we have something far better - Sir Alex Ferguson (well apart from being a better and bigger football club in every single way).
 
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