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Manchester City FC is an English football club based in the city of Manchester. They are currently members of the English Premier League and now the takeover is complete Thaksin Shinawatra is chairman of the club, the club made a pre-tax profit of £16.97m in the year ending 31 May 2006 they have bought a lot of players for the club. Rolando Bianchi - £8.8 million, Elano - £8 millon, Valeri Bojinov - £5.75 million, Martin Petrov - £4.7 million, and Javier Garrido - £1.5 million.
Though originally formed in 1880 as St. Marks (West Gorton), they then became Ardwick A.F.C. in 1887 before changing their name to Manchester City F.C. in 1894. The club has won the League twice, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice and the European Cup Winners Cup (Intertoto) once. The club's most successful period was during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they won several major trophies under the management team of Joe Mercer and his assistant Malcolm Allison, and with great players such as Colin Bell and Francis Lee.
TOP FLIGHT HONOURS
English champions - 1937, 1968.
FA Cup winners- 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969.
League Cup winners - 1970, 1976.
European Cup Winners' Cup – 1970
Charity Shield winners- 1937, 1968, 1972.
However, Manchester City has not won a major honour since 1976. The club's decline led to relegation twice in three years in the 1990s, meaning they spent one year in the third tier of English football. However, the club has since regained Premier League status, putting City back in the top flight, the division in which they have spent the majority of their history.
The club’s home colours are sky blue and white. Traditional away kit colours have been either maroon or red and black; however, in recent years several different colours have been used. In the 04/05 season, the team wore a white shirt with purple shorts and white socks, while the following season, the away kit was all navy blue. In 2006–07 season, they sported an all-black (with grey trim) second strip. For the 07/08 season, white pin stripes appear on the home and away shirts. The away kit is all purple in colour. There is also a third kit, which consists of a white shirt with a sky blue flash over the club badge, sky blue shorts and white socks.
SQUAD
Andreas Isaksson
Kasper Schmeichel
Michael Ball
Vedran Corluka
Richard Dunne
Javier Garrido
Nedum Onuoha
Micah Richards
Jihai Sun
Blumer Elano
Deiberson Mauricio Geovanni
Dietmar Hamann
Michael Johnson
Martin Petrov
Rolando Bianchi
Valeri Bojinov
Stephen Ireland
Emile Lokonda Mpenza
I'm working on perfecting the 4-2-3-1 formation in my game at the moment, i'm lying in 5th having beaten clubs such as Arsenal but I keep getting the odd battering away, 5-1 by Chelsea and 5-0 by West Ham so obviously theres still work to be done, maybe having more defensive settings when playing away
Well, playing as Manchester City now and I thought I'd add my thoughts to this thread.
The squad you inherit with Man City is one in a very strong position. With a superb back four (I play from right to left, Richards, Corluka, Dunne, Garrido) with some decent enough back up, I've left that pretty much alone.
Midfield is where most of my changes are being implemented. I have decided to play a varied 4-5-1, utilising a Christmas tree formation. This necessitates a holding player and two attacking midfielders.
Thus, I'm hoping to bring in Van Der Vaart; a player who I don't think I have to comment on I've also got my eye on a Brazilian attacking midfielder called Cani from Villarael; right now he's considering my contract offer. In the important holding role I play Fernandes over Hamann as I like to have my holding midfielders with a bit of pace. His lack of work ethic could be a problem though.
If these two transfers go through, my midfield will be Hamann in the holding role, on the left Martin Petrov, on the right Cani with van der Vaart and Elano in the middle. That would be a sublime midfield for me.
My striker will of course be Bianchi with Mpenza as back up; although to be honest Bianchi has disappointed so far. Any tips on how to get the best of him?
The team is the following;
---------Isaksson------------
Richards-Corluka-Dunne-Garrido
-------Fernandes--------------
Cani--------------------Petrov
------Elano----V de Vaart-----
-----------Bianchi------------
Another worry of mine is Schmeichal; I'm not sure the young lad's up to it just yet. I might look to secure another goalkeeper.
Originally posted by LincolnCanary:
My striker will of course be Bianchi with Mpenza as back up; although to be honest Bianchi has disappointed so far.
Although saying that he's just gone and scored a hat trick in my final friendly against Oldham.
ive just finished the demo with city in 2nd place, 1 point behind utd
Bianchi has 19 goals in the league, 5 ahead of 2nd place.
Van der Vaart is amazing, easily my best player and I had to sell dunne cause he was doing rubbish and ireland and johnson just didn't fit in with my plans.
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