After a season which saw extreme ups and down’s Manchester City have finally ended their long trophy wait. After thirty long fruitless years, the Citizens finally ended their Silverware drought wining the FA cup at Wembley against Stoke City, the same day their derby rivals Manchester United clinched the Barclays Premiere League.
Now they have something to compensate for their extravagant spending since they were bought in 2008 by oil-rich UAE’s Abu Dhabi United Group. According to Details City splashed over £250million since the Middle Eastern Groups takeover just to compete among England’s and Europe’s elite.
Manchester City F.C, founded as St. Mark’s (West Gorton), in 1880 and who later became Ardwick Association F.C in 1887, have managed this season, not just to win the FA cup but also clinched automatic qualification for next years UEFA Champions League by finishing third in the Barclays Premiere League. City’s efforts to achieve major silverware in the last three years is worth acknowledgement but the lack of foresight has resulted in financial losses for the club, The belief at Eastlands that progress is inevitable has worked positively for City. Perhaps City’s lineup can be considered as the most fantasy oriented in the world after Real Madrid C.F who re-established their fantasy based expensive lineup the Galácticos
The City Side boasts the likes of strikers Argentinean hit man Carlos Tevez, Bosnian Super Star Edin Džeko, Italian wonderkid Mario Balotelli, experienced Togolese Emmanuel Adebayor. City’s midfield is run by Ivorian Yaya Toure, English James Milner, Adam Johnson, Gareth Barry,Shaun Wright-Phillips, Spanish maestro David Silva, Dutch Nigel de Jong, and French oldboy Patrick Viera. Their defence is governed by Belgian Vincent Kompany, German Jérôme Boateng, English Wayne Bridge, Jolen Lescott, Togolese Kolo Toure, Serbian Aleksandar Kolarov and Argentinian Pablo Zabaleta, Their Goal is kept safe by the rising star Joe Hart who has been compared to the likes of Spanish world no.1 Iker Casillas, as well as the experienced Shay Given.
The Manchester City 2011-12 away jersey for the 2011/12 season will be manufactured by Umbro and their sponsor will remain UAE’s airline Etihad. This is one of the latest Premiership football shirts to be released for next season will be traditional red and black which came from former assistant manager Malcolm Allison, who believed that adopting the colours of AC Milan would inspire City to glory.
City won just the Charity shield wearing the red-black striped kit in 1972/1973. Lets hope they can achieve more this time around.
Their third kit is dark navy blue with light blue lining. City will now star amongst Europe’s Elite, playing in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the tournament’s history. Celebrate their historic achievement by buying their new kit for the 2011/2012. Lets hope that City continue their progress and surprise us by winning big next season.
Soucre: Footballshirtblog
