Trent said something interesting today about Manchester City's spending plans for the summer. It apparently looks like Sparky has no clear-cut idea who to buy this summer. Instead, he just opens the many gossip columns that have sprung up at most footy websites, blogs and forums, sees who the Big Four are looking to buy and then makes a bid for those players.
Actually, Trent has probably hit the nail right on the head. Mark Hughes, for no rhyme and reason, is looking to boost its midfield and attack while it's Achilles' heel, the defence, is being less attended to and, when I say "less", I mean not attended to at all. There was a team way back when that tried this experiment, Tottenham, that had 6 strikers on the books and all 6 started. The motto then was, they score 1, we score 2. It was epic, it was exciting, it led Spurs to no trophies at all.
It's said that those who do not learn from the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them again. If Man City doesn't learn from those lessons from the past, it too may repeat the same mistakes all over again. People may love you for your attacking flair, and people like Roman Abramovich may praise you for epic to-the-death football, but you won't win games without a solid team in all departments. If you can, Mark Hughes is a genius. Not much chance of that happening, then.
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