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| Read this today when looking at the latest transfer rumours. I'm not too keen on selling Distin, but this could work.
Manchester City: Distin out, Silvestre in?
Tagged: Manchester United, Manchester City
Written by Bernard Roberts
Posted on July 30th, 2006
The longer Silvan Distin’s new contract offer goes left unsigned the more likely his departure looms. The Manchester Evening News are today indicating that City will allow the French central defender to leave for £5million, and that Middlesbrough and Portsmouth are poised to acquire his services.
With £5 million in the City coffers how would Stuart Pearce go about replacing his regular centre half?
The emergence last season of Micah Richards has been a tremendous boost to the club and it’s fans. In an otherwise poor run in to last season Richards was the one bright star, playing at fullback, centre half and central midfield. Interviewed recently on the club’s own website Richards stated that centre half was his preferred position. It’s my own personal opinion that already Richards is not far off being a better player than Distin, and I would have no qualms if he teams up with Richard Dunne for the coming season.
If or when Distin departs a very good a first choice pairing of Dunne and Richards will be supported by the promising youngsters Nedum Onouha and Matthew Mills. The only problem I can envisage is if Richard Dunne were to get injured City would then have a very young pairing at the heart of their defence.
Although Stuart Pearce has strengthened his central midfield and strikers he has not replaced the left sided players Kiki Musampa or Albert Riera, who he released from their loan spells at the end of last season. The pre-season games so far have indicated that the immerging youngster Ishmael Miller is being groomed for this position but despite showing very good form he has yet to cut his teeth in the highly competitive premiership.
Whilst City have some decent players to chose at fullback, most notably Nedum Onouha (right back) and Stephen Jordon (left back), if the club wants to move up a level then quality, established players need to be brought in for these positions.
If Stuart Pearce were to look across town he may notice that Mikael Silvestre has been pushed down the pecking order at rivals Manchester United. With the arrivals of Vidic and Evre, plus the return to full fitness of Brown and Heinze, it could be fair to guess that Silvestre will only have a bit part to play in United’s season.
Silvestre to me is primarily an excellent left back. With his energy and pace he could give someone like City options coming forward from the back as well as being sound defensively. The added bonus to City would be that should Richard Dunne get injured then he could provide experienced cover at centre half. Also were Ishmael Miller to struggle then he could be pushed up to provide natural balance at left midfield.
Would Silvestre move to City?
With the 28 year old expecting to feature less and less at United he may want to play regular football at the prime of his career. A move to local rivals City would mean he doesn’t have uproot from Manchester. And last, but by no means least, City’s new signing from Lazio, Osomane Dabo, has already spoken of Silvestre as a friend from their earlier careers in France, who helped him with advice on his latest move. A friendly face at City would help smooth any potential move.
Would United sell Silvestre?
As mentioned before United now have sufficient cover at left back and centre half. Even though Silvestre would still be a valuable squad member United are looking to strengthen in other positions, and a decent offer of between £3m to £4million may yet tempt them to sell. Although the speculation was that Ferguson was to have an ample war chest for summer transfers the reality seems to be less promising, and selling the likes of Silvestre may be an option.
If as expected Distin departs Manchester City soon then Stuart Pearce could do worse than to use most of the funds on his fellow compatriot across the City. Any money left over from the dealings could then be used towards prising Steve Sidwell away from Reading.
Manchester City fans may not like going after a United player but in this case I think it makes perfect sense.
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| | £5 million? What club's going to pay that for a player who'll be out of contract in five months and can sign a pre-contract now? Perhaps it should read £0.5 million - that would be a more realistic sum. Silvestre is a decent player, he'd be a good replacement for Distin at the end of the season perhaps, but I suspect he'd prefer to be at a club playing in the Champions League.
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| | | Posted 02/01/2007 19:30:48 | |
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| Cant be arsed reading the article, but reading the headline i'll tell you now that i'd rather eat my own shit than have that shite munich in our team
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| I take your not in the best mood today then Fatsquid.
All we know is that we dont know --
What is gonna be
Please brother let it be
Life on the other hand wont let you understand
Why were all part of the masterplan
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| Cooder (02/01/2007)
And quit the munich bullshitNope, 'tis a nickname, nothing malicious. Not mocking death or anything like that, but adopted more because of the way United have milked that disaster by selling video's and all that shite. What happened is very sad, but it's hard to imagine them as they are without it. They were famous because of it. If they are happy to milk it, then they will be nicknamed munichs. It's also a tad hypocritical to ask me to stop refering to them as munichs, but not saying anything about a thread where we're guessing which celeb will die first this year. I realise i have jumped to a conclusion about what you were accusing me of, but i assume that was what you meant.
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| So if it is a nickname with no malice intent, I imagine calling a Pakistani person by the abbreviated form is also acceptable?
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| Bramhallblueben (02/01/2007)
I take your not in the best mood today then Fatsquid. I'm in a reasonable mood, i just don't want anymore rags at our club in the coming years (with the exception of Paul Scholes, i'd take him), especially when they are shite
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| JoeyBoy8 (02/01/2007)
Read this today when looking at the latest transfer rumours. I'm not too keen on selling Distin, but this could work.
Manchester City: Distin out, Silvestre in?
Tagged: Manchester United, Manchester City
Written by Bernard Roberts
Posted on July 30th, 2006
The longer Silvan Distin’s new contract offer goes left unsigned the more likely his departure looms. The Manchester Evening News are today indicating that City will allow the French central defender to leave for £5million, and that Middlesbrough and Portsmouth are poised to acquire his services.
With £5 million in the City coffers how would Stuart Pearce go about replacing his regular centre half?
The emergence last season of Micah Richards has been a tremendous boost to the club and it’s fans. In an otherwise poor run in to last season Richards was the one bright star, playing at fullback, centre half and central midfield. Interviewed recently on the club’s own website Richards stated that centre half was his preferred position. It’s my own personal opinion that already Richards is not far off being a better player than Distin, and I would have no qualms if he teams up with Richard Dunne for the coming season.
If or when Distin departs a very good a first choice pairing of Dunne and Richards will be supported by the promising youngsters Nedum Onouha and Matthew Mills. The only problem I can envisage is if Richard Dunne were to get injured City would then have a very young pairing at the heart of their defence.
Although Stuart Pearce has strengthened his central midfield and strikers he has not replaced the left sided players Kiki Musampa or Albert Riera, who he released from their loan spells at the end of last season. The pre-season games so far have indicated that the immerging youngster Ishmael Miller is being groomed for this position but despite showing very good form he has yet to cut his teeth in the highly competitive premiership.
Whilst City have some decent players to chose at fullback, most notably Nedum Onouha (right back) and Stephen Jordon (left back), if the club wants to move up a level then quality, established players need to be brought in for these positions.
If Stuart Pearce were to look across town he may notice that Mikael Silvestre has been pushed down the pecking order at rivals Manchester United. With the arrivals of Vidic and Evre, plus the return to full fitness of Brown and Heinze, it could be fair to guess that Silvestre will only have a bit part to play in United’s season.
Silvestre to me is primarily an excellent left back. With his energy and pace he could give someone like City options coming forward from the back as well as being sound defensively. The added bonus to City would be that should Richard Dunne get injured then he could provide experienced cover at centre half. Also were Ishmael Miller to struggle then he could be pushed up to provide natural balance at left midfield.
Would Silvestre move to City?
With the 28 year old expecting to feature less and less at United he may want to play regular football at the prime of his career. A move to local rivals City would mean he doesn’t have uproot from Manchester. And last, but by no means least, City’s new signing from Lazio, Osomane Dabo, has already spoken of Silvestre as a friend from their earlier careers in France, who helped him with advice on his latest move. A friendly face at City would help smooth any potential move.
Would United sell Silvestre?
As mentioned before United now have sufficient cover at left back and centre half. Even though Silvestre would still be a valuable squad member United are looking to strengthen in other positions, and a decent offer of between £3m to £4million may yet tempt them to sell. Although the speculation was that Ferguson was to have an ample war chest for summer transfers the reality seems to be less promising, and selling the likes of Silvestre may be an option.
If as expected Distin departs Manchester City soon then Stuart Pearce could do worse than to use most of the funds on his fellow compatriot across the City. Any money left over from the dealings could then be used towards prising Steve Sidwell away from Reading.
Manchester City fans may not like going after a United player but in this case I think it makes perfect sense.This article is from July 2006. Hence its pretty useless! According to this Distin should have gone already! |
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