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Episode 40: Wildcard Wednesday
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Daily Manchester City - Join Keelin, Jools and Jack as we each make a 'Worst City Signings XI'
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Introduction to the Daily Manchester City Podcast
00:00:10
Keelin McNamara
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Daily Manchester City as brought and presented to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Keelan McNamara and as always I am joined by two of my excellent co-hosts. First of all Wales is finest export since the manic strength preachers Mr. Jules Jordan-Probert. Jules, how are you?
00:00:29
Jools
I'm even better now, you've just mentioned Manic Street Preachers. One of the best memories I've ever had in my life was seeing their 20th anniversary tour to Liberty Stadium, so good good good reference, thank
Wildcard Wednesday: Worst-Ever Signings
00:00:39
Jools
you.
00:00:39
Keelin McNamara
Absolutely exceptional. If you don't know, you should. I'm not sure why you wouldn't, but that's beside the point. And the unofficial mayor of Manchester itself, Mr. Jack Ward. Jack, hello, mate.
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm not too sure about that. I feel like it should be pretty official by now. I feel like the people that don't know definitely should know. No, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me on. and I say that like it's not part of our podcast, but it's good to be back, you know what I mean?
00:01:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
For another Wild Card Wednesday, our favorite day of the week. ah You've been looking forward to
Analyzing Defensive Signings
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
this one, haven't you Keelan?
00:01:08
Keelin McNamara
up Absolutely you say that like you're not our unofficial leader and we all know you are but it is what it is. and Anyway as Jack said we are indeed here on a Wednesday for Wildcards it is Wildcard Wednesday and today we're embracing the hate a little bit a little bit of therapy because Man City have been terrible the last couple of games and quite frankly if you can't beat them join them. So today's Wildcard Wednesday is Man City's worst ever signing 11 So boys, it's no secret that Man City have had some shockers over the last couple of years. For every Kevin De Bruyne, there's a truly terrible replacement in kind. And we're going to go through them in our starting 11s. So basically just a couple of ground rules. You can have any formation you want, any way you can get these lot in here that nobody else really wanted. That is absolutely fine. I've gone for the classic Mike Bassett Brexit E442. You'll see why later on.
00:02:07
Keelin McNamara
But anyway, let's get this kicked off, shall we? I'm looking forward to getting into this. Jules, we're starting with a goalkeeper in the back line. Who starts for your team?
00:02:15
Jools
And the back line. OK, so. um Do you want me to give a little bit about each one or just a couple?
00:02:22
Keelin McNamara
Yeah, whatever whatever comes to you.
00:02:26
Jools
OK, so um for ah the only goalkeeper I could really think of was Claudio Bravo, to be honest, because he came in with a huge reputation and one of the best goalkeepers in the world at Barcelona. Obviously, he was signed to be a progressive goalkeeper, good at his feet, but actually thought he was just as bad as Joe Hart while he was at City at with his feet.
00:02:46
Jools
And he was worse at goalkeeping than Joe Hart. So I thought it was a terrible sign in and Citi kept him for three years after he, after he didn't play anymore on like 150 grand a week as well. So signed for like 15 mil, spent like 30 odd on wages and didn't really get a good performance out of him. So he starts for me.
00:03:07
Jools
um But right back, we've got Mike on. Again, we i I'm thinking of kind of high expectations to low return type type of thing in this squad. And he signed as one of the best right backs in the world, but he definitely didn't play like it. And he was gone within a year. And in that year, United claimed their title back.
00:03:26
Jools
ah So it wasn't a very good year for him um and he was shipped out immediately. But at center back, I've gone for one of the worst sign-ins in city's history, ah in my opinion, and that is Eloquim Mangala.
00:03:37
Jools
who thought the city paid more for him after he left due to some kind of weird installments thing that they had. So he costed the club 42 million pounds. He was absolutely garbage. I think he had a good like first month. And then after that, he was continuing on goals, conceding penalties, getting sent off. um And that was just in the first couple of months. I don't think he played after that.
00:04:02
Jools
after getting shipped out on loan. So, ah next I've gone for a bit more of a light-hearted one. So, I don't... um He's a bit older, but his name's Glauber Berti, Kaltiro.
00:04:16
Jools
So in in the one in the one year that he was at the club, he didn't play, he didn't start any games and he only played 10 minutes, which was the last game of the season after being named on the bench 20 times and not coming on. Markey was brought him on for the last 10 minutes and the fans were chanting every time he got the ball cheering as if he was amazing. But we know what a cult hero really is, don't we boys?
00:04:42
Keelin McNamara
but so
00:04:42
Jools
and and And then left back, I think it's the worst signing in the club's history. So you may agree or disagree, but I've gone for Benjamin Mendy signed in 2017 for 50 million pounds.
00:04:55
Jools
He never played more than 19 Premier League games in one season. and His wages were extortionate and of course he turned out to be a bit of a wrong hand, didn't he? So in terms of, we would we don't have to get into the specifics of that, but I don't care what the courts say, I have my own opinions.
00:05:13
Jools
He cost an absolute fortune. He did never fulfill his potential, although he did look good on the pitch at times, you know, I will admit. um And then ah was using all those wages to do horrible things. So see you later, Mendy.
Critique of Midfield Signings
00:05:27
Keelin McNamara
Well, we are off to a brilliantly horrible, horrible situation. Jack, do you agree with what Jen says? Do you have anything different? Who's leading out your horrible pipeline for sitting?
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, it's funny because I thought I was actually going to go five for five with Jules because the first three names that you mentioned were the first three that I've got on my starting 11. The reason why Jules, you couldn't think of any other keeper other than Claudio Bravo is because Claudio Bravo is the worst keeper we've ever had. I remember and going into watch a few of the games at the Etihad in Pepspers season.
00:06:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
one that always springs to mind is at home against Middlesbrough.
00:06:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know this trend of us battering teams and then conceding one shot on target and that shot on target is a goal. That trend started with Mr Poppadom hands himself, Claudio Bravo, because I think it was a Dharma Traore that crossed the ball into Alvaro.
00:06:06
Keelin McNamara
Oh.
00:06:19
Keelin McNamara
What's
00:06:22
Jools
Always him, always him, always him.
00:06:22
Keelin McNamara
it was? for
00:06:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, nonetheless, and one shot on target, one goal. That was the story of Claudio Bravo's time at City. you know He became a little bit of a cool hero when he got reverted down to the the subs goalkeeper and had a bit of cop classic cool hero-ness in some of the Carabao challenges that we made. But he was awful as ah as a first choice keeper and it made the decision of letting Joe Hartgoe look so strange. Like Jules,
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've also got Maikon and Mangala at the back. Mangala needs nothing said about him. He had a fantastic debut against Chelsea. We were all sold an absolute dream, pocketed ah Costa. And since then, he was just absolutely dreadful. Maikon the same, he came as, you know, with such a massive reputation, but he was old, he was sluggish, he was fat, he didn't care, played what, maybe 12 games, that was it. It was kind of expected for me at that point. On the other side of the defense,
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got two more centre backs because I kind of wanted to avoid controversy and and and go for the obvious pick at left back, which I feel like we can all agree was probably the worst player that we've ever had at our club. But like it or not, he had games where he was pretty good.
00:07:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
and so i
00:07:37
Jools
i I know, but and time any any opportunity to throw them under the vest at this point, I think.
00:07:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. I'm all all about that train, but I've gone with instead two players who one's a bit of a cult classic hero, bit of a mean player in Martin Demichalis for that fantastic goal that he scored.
00:07:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Was it against Norwich?
00:07:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't remember that in the old one. yeah the greatest in our history yeah is fo upset but on the left side of the defence I feel like I can put him left back because he was small enough and he was just useless. One of the rogue Lamazia products, I'll never understand, Eric Garcia, what a waste of space. That game that we got batted against Leicester at home where we conceded two penalties, he didn't concede both,
00:07:55
Keelin McNamara
oh god two yard good shot
00:08:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
but he might as well have done. He was so bad that game and so bad in every game that I've watched him play. And for whatever reason, he was Pep's favorite player. He consistently, consistently started him week in, week out. I'll never understand this to this day. He's joined back Barcelona now and he's just as bad for them as he was for us. So that's my starting 11. That's the back line to kick us off.
00:08:46
Keelin McNamara
Well, no real shocks to anybody. We've all gone five for five in terms of players that each of us have in the back line. Claudio Bravo really don't need to add much more to that. He got sent off against Barcelona in the Champions League, acted like an idiot every other game.
00:09:00
Keelin McNamara
Right back's my column. He was cooked when he came here. He'd been cooked by Gareth Bale and he never really recovered again. Martin Demechelos, I've seen rocks erode faster than him.
00:09:11
Keelin McNamara
He was just slower than time.
00:09:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bye.
00:09:14
Keelin McNamara
Elliot King Mangala had a great debut, his next game against Hull, Ungolan gave away a penalty and that kind of set the tone for the rest of his time at City. And then the left back, we all know about the left back, he was equally as horrible on the pitch as he was off it, albeit for very different reasons. ah He had a couple of banging games where he looked like the best left back in Europe, I think at the Liverpool 5-0 game at home, but aside from that he was just absolutely terrible and there is no other way around that.
00:09:43
Keelin McNamara
Right, strong bad start with the back four and the goal.
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:09:46
Jools
a
00:09:48
Keelin McNamara
After this short break, we're going to go straight into the midfield where, boy, there are some stinkers that we have signed over the years. Be sure to stick around after this quick break.
00:10:25
Keelin McNamara
Alright ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to part 2 of this Wild Card Wednesday where we are giving you our worst ever signing 11 for Manchester City. Jack, I'm going to throw it over to you this time to start. Who's ruining the midfield for your team?
00:10:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Well you know what, it's going to be short and sweet for me because the formation that I've gone with was a 4-2-4 because as you'll come to find out, we have had some horrific, horrific forward options and I couldn't avoid putting them in the starting 11. So I've had to minimise it down to 2 midfielders.
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And those two midfielders I feel like summarise the worst of the post takeover era in my opinion. One of them is quite a recent name and it pays me to put him in because he seems like such a lovely bloke.
00:11:12
Jools
It doesn't paint Keeling. I know where you're going with this. so
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Calvin Phillips is just horrendous at football and it's been sad to see his downfall because he was so fantastic at Leeds, won England's Player of the Year, the year they made it so far in, I think it was the World Cup at that time and you know it's sad to see his decline because he did He used to be some player.
00:11:16
Keelin McNamara
but
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah He had the long balls in his locker, but playing that chaat kind of chaos ball at Leeds suited him best. And when he come into to Manchester City, not only was he overweight and unfit, but in the chances that he did get
00:11:42
Keelin McNamara
That's it.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
he just didn't perform at all and not only did he not perform it's not like he was a passenger in a game where you didn't really notice him you noticed him and for the worst he's never really had a stand-up performance in a city shirt where you can hand and heart say you know what you he was good tonight um so it's it's been disappointing his time at city but you know we've seen in his loan spells since then at West Ham and now Ipswich he's getting red cards left right and center and he's just not impressing so It's unfortunate for him, lovely guy, just didn't work out for him at City. And the other player is a player which you you two will know my rage for. In fact, I have to do a quick little shadow box.
00:12:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
but is this is it I hate Jack Rodwell. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I feel like he might be the worst city player I've ever seen him put on a blue shirt. He left a couple of years later, went to Sunderland, nearly sent them down. Oh, I can't stand Jack Rodwell. I need you to take the mic away from me, Keelan, because I could go all night about how much I hate him.
00:12:55
Keelin McNamara
Boys, I guess our next guest on the podcast is Jack Rodwell, I guess. ah spell that No, um listen, it's a good shot. That is an absolutely honking central midfield.
00:13:06
Keelin McNamara
Brilliantly terrible again, Jack. Very well done. Junz, who makes up your midfield?
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:13:11
Jools
ah Yeah, literally, I've gone 4-2-4 to accommodate the plethora of horrendous attacking talent and City have had over the
Debate on Attacking Signings
00:13:18
Jools
years, and those two midfielders are also mine. i'm ah well I'll talk a little bit more about Jack Rodwell since our Jack seemed incapable of doing so.
00:13:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:13:28
Jools
Of course, he came in with a huge reputation again, which is a theme at ah I think we're all kind of getting at, disappointment.
00:13:35
Jools
He was on the fringes of the England squad, if not already, at a cap or two by the time City he signed him. and it just never got going of course he had horrendous injury problems too but he was on really high wages for the time as well considering he'd only played about maybe three or four dozen professional matches but yeah I think he hurts because he could have been could have been some you know He could have been the guy could have been the guy that kind of um solved the pain from Michael Johnson type of thing. That's what comes into my head. But yeah, he turned out to be horrendous. Only scoring twice, only playing 20 odd games, I think it is.
00:14:13
Jools
um I have written it down 25 games. So yeah, I'll go through some honourable mentions for centimetre as well then. We got Javi Garcia for me as well. um I'll tell you what, I'll wait to do that for Keelan to do yours in case any of these sneak into your centimetre field. So yeah, go on.
00:14:31
Keelin McNamara
Well, I'll tell you right now, we're 3-for-3 in central and midfield picks. There's no one else that could have been. It had to be Jack Rodwell and Calvin Phillips. Calvin Phillips is just a horrible, horrible football player. you know Two left feet, has no vision, no IQ, just looks like a lost child every time he's in midfield.
00:14:51
Keelin McNamara
I have just such little confidence in him protecting him at defence, but that's a different conversation. And yeah, overall, maybe the biggest waste of money that we've ever spent on anybody ever, and we spent £15m on him. So, fun. ah Jack Rodwell, much the same story, just a terrible, terrible player, you know, was half-decent forever, massively. We only spent something like £15m, but that was £14.9m too much.
00:15:19
Keelin McNamara
never did much for City scored two goals on the final day of the season losing to Norwich at home which kind of just makes it worse and then my two players out wide are Scott Sinclair on the left who played for your club gyms and so The only reason we bought Sinclair is so other clubs like Chelsea couldn't sign him, which is kind of a pathetic reason to have a professional football player on your ranks. Again, got paid a lot of money to do nothing. Sat on the bench nearly every game he was at City. And then on the right, I've gone for Nolito. There's a bit of an old-school throwback for people who don't remember. and
00:15:58
Keelin McNamara
Now to be fair, Nolito did start very well. I think he had six goal contributions in his first 11 games, just something when he signed from South of Ego. So he did do something, but he just gassed out and faded towards the second and the end of his first season.
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:14
Keelin McNamara
And it never got any better from there. So that is my midfield. And Really looking forward to coming on to the attack now because I thought we were all doing two attackers and Please make sure to stick around after this outbreak because you were gonna want to see what these two have to say because I know I do
00:17:00
Keelin McNamara
Alright and we are back with part 3 of this Wild Card Wednesday. So far all of us have managed to put together a backline that League 2 would be ashamed of and a midfield that's not much better again. Now that we come to the pinnacle of the team, the crux of awfulness from Manchester City and that is the frontline because my god have we had some stinkers leading the frontline over the years. I'm going to hand this over to Jules again, I can't wait to hear what this is going to be.
00:17:28
Jools
OK, so I'm going to go with and two. There's about six names that i I really can't decide on, but I'm going to go with two that I'm absolutely certain of. So a first is another throwback, and a bit beyond nullitl throwback. We're talking 2002, Kevin Keegan. So a striker called Matthias Vouoso.
00:17:52
Jools
I don't know if that rings any bells to you boys, but he was signed for three and a half million back in the early, in the early noughties, which was a lot of money. He never even played a game for city. In fact, Voroso himself says Kevin Keegan never even spoke to him, not once. And then he left and then that was it.
00:18:15
Jools
3.5 million in 2001 or 2002 for a striker who'd scored some goals in Argentina. It was Independiente, I think, and I don't even think he even had a conversation with the manager. He was there. He was like he was at City, but i don't not no one can confirm it except him, apparently.
00:18:33
Jools
and And alongside him, as another of my guaranteed strikers, it's got to be the one and only Joe. So so good, they barely named him once.
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, thank you.
00:18:47
Jools
Born for a club record 19 million in 2008. He cost City just over £3 million pound a goal. But not only that, he was absolutely rubbish.
00:18:58
Jools
And and not not not just like not just rubbish. He was like, I've never seen a striker this bad in a Premier League type of rubbish.
00:19:09
Jools
He couldn't control the football. I'd bought him from Brazil though, and somehow we he'd like come off the bench for like Adriana and stuff like, oh, this is a baller.
00:19:19
Jools
No, he was not a baller.
00:19:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:19:21
Jools
He was absolutely terrible. He was meant to be the figurehead of the new revolution at City. And in fact, he was the figurehead of embarrassment. Out wide. I'm gonna... Giorgio Samaras. There we are. Gonna go for Samaras. 12 goals in just 62 games. His long hair didn't stop all the hate that he got. He still had to brush it out the way. um Yeah, absolutely horrendous and you're all gonna absolutely love this last one because I...
00:19:53
Jools
ah Yeah, go on. I'll be controversial. Okay. So in terms of value for money and what you've actually got returns, Jack Relish is getting in this team.
00:20:05
Jools
Right. So yes, he was a pivotal part of the treble winning season. Okay. However, he's currently cost city 106 million pounds and 300 grand a week on, on, on wages.
00:20:18
Jools
And how many goals do you think Jack Relish has scored?
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
city?
00:20:22
Jools
Yeah.
00:20:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eight.
00:20:24
Jools
Yeah, he has got a couple more but he's played 135 games and he's scored 12. And he doesn't have many more c assists. I know he's not meant to be that type of player, but all we can go off is what we've seen on the pitch. And other than the travel winning season, I've heard City fans complain about him pretty much nonstop in terms of the output that he delivers. And considering he's the most expensive sign in the city's history, by nearly double the amount of number two, I think there is a strong case, if not just for conversation's sake.
00:20:58
Keelin McNamara
Oh, I don't know. That's bold, Jules. I don't know.
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's controversial.
00:21:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that is controversial.
00:21:02
Keelin McNamara
Yeah.
00:21:03
Keelin McNamara
but I mean, I mean, you look at the role he's asked to play. You look at his role in winning the Champions League and the travel. a i don't We'll leave that one up to the people.
00:21:13
Keelin McNamara
I don't know. it it's It's controversial, but it's not like the worst, most controversial one that could have been said. and We'll leave that up to the people who listen. Jack, who makes up your front four?
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Well, yeah, I do think that was a controversial shout. I completely disagree. I feel i feel like Jack Grealish has been, okay, yeah, you want more output from him. Absolutely. Everyone wants to see him score more and assist more. and And I do get frustrated with the fact that he doesn't seem to release the ball.
00:21:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
early enough. However, I have never watched Jack really play for Manchester City Football Club and and come away from that game going he has such a poor game. Maybe you're saying that you should have scored that chance or but he's
00:21:54
Jools
That's not true. That is so not true.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
promise true That is absolutely true. He's never ever had a bad game for City. I completely stand by that point and you can throw every game that you want at me where he's not scored or and not assisted. He has never had a bad game because he's always, he's like and a midfielder on the wing and that's what Pep signing for is that ultimate control. He stretches teams. How many times in and the start of this season and last season have you watched Docu and Savio playing on the wings?
00:22:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, with their chaos ball and and they don't really know what to do. and And you're just crying out for someone to stretch the play. Jack Gris to hold the ball on the wing and and bring it back inside and stretch the defenders, bring two, three out with him and switch the ball over to the other side where we've got all that space.
00:22:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
He does things that you're not seeing on the stat sheet at the end of the game. And that's
00:22:42
Jools
i I do appreciate all of that. like you know I do understand that. But what I'm saying is we we need to judge him alongside the other top 10 most expensive signings in history. Do you know what I mean?
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
and but i I don't think we I don't think we do at all because His type of profile is nothing like any of the other top ten in that they're all gonna be
00:22:59
Keelin McNamara
There's a lot of intangibles for Grealish, I do agree.
00:23:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. And yeah, it is big money, so you do have to judge him harshly. and But I feel like if he had been 50, 60 million, everyone's opinion of him would be so much different.
00:23:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But because he's English, because he was young at the time, and because he was an England star, i at an international, yeah, he had that big price tag. And do a I believe that he is worth that big price tag?
00:23:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, but am I happy with him as a sign-in?
00:23:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. like
00:23:26
Jools
let me just give one sentence okay so he's had four seasons at the club now and he has had one ah and disputably really good season and even in that season he wasn't better than the one season Rubino was class at City.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
What?
00:23:46
Jools
That's the first city. The first year that Rubenio was at City, he was better than Jack Grealish was, definitely. Rubenio was top 10 in the Ballon d'Or. Rubenio was top 10 in the Ballon d'Or that year and he scored 16 Premier League goals and he was he won like 10 Man of the Matches the first year he was at City.
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
so you help me say
00:24:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I feel like that's enough No
00:24:07
Jools
we're're We're revising history incorrectly if you don't think the first year Rubenio was at City, he was class.
00:24:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Virginia was many things, but but a consistently great player was not one of them. He had he had his games, he had his flashes.
00:24:19
Jools
and i never i never never said that I never said that. I said his first season he scored 16 and finished top 10 at the Ballon d'Or.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but you said you said that he had his his his first season at City was better than Grealish.
00:24:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
i comp Let's just agree to disagree. week there
00:24:34
Keelin McNamara
Boys, it's coming off the rails.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
allma
00:24:36
Jools
He was playing for a mid-table team and he got 20-plus goal assists and Grealish has never had that once in his life.
00:24:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. maybe You got back the goals and assists now.
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you're moving the goal post. Anyway, we'll... we Yeah, but Rabinio was one of the world record transfers back in 2009. So you in if you're adjusting it by...
00:24:47
Jools
and he costs three and he costs And he costs three times more.
00:24:57
Jools
Yeah, it's one of the top 10 players in the world that year, yeah.
00:24:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and oh No, not a chance. Anyway, we'll move on. My four players up front, I have got Joe. Funnily enough with Joe, he is still playing football, it believe it or not.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
37 years old, he's playing football at Itabarito FC. in Brazil. well We'll give him his credit where he's due. He had the cheapest Premier League shirt ever in existence. Cost nothing to print his name on the back. A few letters, that's it, you're done. But everything that Jules mentioned about him, he was all those things. Really bad. I also have Giorgio Samaros because you know he was just so incredibly poor. and Not much to say about him going forward. and That's about it.
00:25:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And elsewhere, yeah, yeah, exactly. and Elsewhere, I think I'm going to go with these two. One a little bit more recent, and but Wilfred Bonny, right, was, the the fact that it was either him or Paolo Di Bala is enough for me to have him on the list because imagine Pellegrini using Paolo Di Bala in a city team. It would have been great vibes. It would have been funnt fantastic. but instead We've got, come on Wilfred Bonny, score some goals for Swansea. And he did not do that for City all that often. and Iconic pretty, pretty much an iconic Premier League player, but certainly not a fantastic player that we thought he was going to be at City. Still don't know why we're signing too many. And my last forward on that front line has to be.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Roque Santa Cruz because wow, what a useless player he was. I think he scored four Premier League goals for us in like a season that he was there and then left the next season.
00:26:37
Keelin McNamara
Jack, do me a favor, just to recap your front four one more time. we've We've been through so many names, I can't remember who's starting up front.
00:26:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
So not much more to be said about him. That's my frontline. That's my 11 complete of the worst city players, Keelan.
00:26:48
Keelin McNamara
Uh-huh. Mhm. Mhm. Ah, okay. Yeah, that that is a truly atrocious front line. Although the great god, Georgia Samrass, being thrown into that, I don't know if I love that slander.
00:26:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
So my front four is Samaras, Joe, Wilfred Bonnie, Lockhay Santa Cruz.
00:27:02
Keelin McNamara
You know, he went up north for Celtic. He did a job for us for a number of years. Absolutely loved that man. But at the end of the day, we're sticking to City. He wasn't very good at City. It is what it is.
00:27:13
Keelin McNamara
So it's time to come down now to the top two, top two strikers. And um for me, I was going to say I would have been shocked if no one had mentioned Wilford Boney, but Jack did. So I will, I'm going to stick with Wilford Boney because I mean, dear God, he was absolutely horrific.
00:27:34
Keelin McNamara
and I was going to put Rabinio, but you've already mentioned Rabinio, so I'm going to stick Stefan Javić in there. There's another throwback. and He was absolutely terrible, scored two goals against Aston Villa one night and did nothing else. and That really should round out the team ah right about there. um So unless anybody has any other final thoughts, I think we'll end it there for today. Some truly terrible players there on a pretty horrible trip down memory lane. And yeah, that'll that'll pretty much do it for today. um I want to thank Jack and June's very much as always for joining us. ah Very good episode there tonight, boys. And we will catch you on the next one. Thanks as always for watching, listening. Make sure to catch us everywhere you get your podcasts. And until next time, goodbye.