As the end of the Premier league season draws near much of the current media talk is about the summer transfer market with the usual rumour mongering and sometimes tongue in cheek reporting that goes with it. Manchester City who were linked with anybody that could stand on their own two feet during the January transfer window, and with cash in abundance are already subject to the usual scandalous reports.
If stories are to be believed, Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o is the latest of a string of La Liga players to turn down the opportunity of gracing the Eastlands stadium next season.
The good news for City manager Mark Hughes is that Robinho seems set to stay, but then again an offer from a Champions League playing club could, I am sure change that situation.
Manchester City’s progress this season will not help to attract the quality of player’s that the club has set it’s sights on, leaving me concerned whether they will ever be able to tempt the world’s top stars to join Robinho.
Despite the presence of Robinho, Kaka’s snub appears to have set a precedent among the likely candidates for a big money move to City with top players insisting on Champions league football over a huge wage packet. Obviously it will only take one of those players to agree to a move, Eto’o, David Villa or whoever and other ’stars’ will follow.
But is that really likely to happen?
Or should Manchester City set their sights a little lower, as with Craig Bellamy for instance and build a team that will quickly attract the personnel that they are chasing by playing decent football, both home AND away and fighting for the Champions league place that will surely land them the riches they desire?
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