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Will Samaras be the first of plenty of dead wood to leave Manchester City?

Posted by: Rob Facey, Wed 23rd Apr 2008
Tagged: Premiership, Manchester City

Football FanCast columnist Rob Facey responds to news that Georgios Samaras wishes to turn his back on Manchester City and while it will certainly be no great loss wonders who is the right man to fire City back the higher rungs of the Premier League.

Georgios Samaras has ruled out a return to Manchester City, telling the club that he would prefer to stay at Celtic - but would City want him back anyway?

Samaras became the most expensive Greek player in Europe when Stuart Pearce spent £6m on the striker in 2006, but he has since fallen out of favour at Eastlands failing to live up to his initial promise.

It seems that he is keen to pursue a career at Celtic Park where he has become an integral part of Gordon Strachan's team.

"All I know is I won't be going back to Manchester City, that is for sure," Samaras told Sky Sports when asked about his future career.

"I don't want to go back there.

"I'm glad I'm at Celtic and I am trying to reach the European Championship in the summer."

However, City have been linked with an outrageous £20m bid for Brazilian youngster Jo, as well as confirming that they have held preliminary talks with Barcelona's Ronaldinho, it is unlikely they will be worried about Samaras' lack of commitment?

Thaksin Shinawatra could be doing Sven-Goran Eriksson a favour by cashing in on the Greek striker as City continue their search for the star striker they so crave to propel them to the higher rungs of the Premier League ladder. Sven is under ridiculous pressure at Eastlands to succeed but it would be self defeating to change the management team after a very impressive first season in charge.

It would be advisable that the ex-England boss cuts out the players that no longer wish to be in the squad in order to launch a proper challenge for European football next season.

Assuming Samaras never returns, who is the man that City need to don the sky blue shirt and fire them to victory?

 

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Blue Moon
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I think there will be a big
I think there will be a big shift in personnel in the summer, Samaras is by no means a loss and neither will be the likes of Vassell, geovani and ireland.

Frank
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It does make me laugh that
It does make me laugh that Samaras may actually think we are bothered that he is being shipped out. He was the downfall of Pearce's reign who put all his eggs in one basket with him. Poor player and get rid, he will be the first of many.

tony
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Samaras is a drain on city,
Samaras is a drain on city, and has been since his arrival. I hope he does better in scotland, and we can take him of our wage bill and get a decent player in to lead the charge for europe. Sven is to good not to notice that Samaras is not up to premier league standard. come on the blues lets have some star names mixed with what we have and especially the youth with an FA Cup winners medal. Any player that is not proud to wear the Blue shirt of Manchester city, go play elsewhere. ( Celtic maybe! )

Blackpool Blue
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I can see Steven Ireland
I can see Steven Ireland going to Sunderland - and that could be good for all 3 parties involved! I think that Emile Mpenza will also be on the way out. I think we should keep Jihai Sun for commercial (certainly not playing) reasons. I think Darius Vassell will probably stay as a utility player, he doesn't score often enough, but works very hard for the team. I'm amazed that so many fans think that Geovanni Gomez should be let go. He has a really impressive goals per minutes on the pitch ratio, it is not his fault he rarely starts! The bigger omount of dead wood that certainly needs to be shipped out permenantly (as they are already out on loan) would include: Danny Mills, Rolando Bianchi, Bernado Corradi and Georgios Samaras. Finally - I would prefer Henry to Ronhaldino!

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