Will they kiss and make up?
If you believe the Sun that is, oh and the Mail. The papers are claiming that Bellamy and Mancini had a huge bust-up and that Mancini told the short tempered Welsh international to leave and not come back for THREE months.
OOPs. And all over a one-on-one training session with Mancini’s Manchester minions.
The showdown on Wednesday was apparently because Bellamy refused to come in on his own yesterday, to take part in training to help rehabilitate his right knee, after being asked to by one of City’s Italian trainers.
But Bellamy wanted Mancini to call and invite him in personally, if that’s what he wanted. He was then ordered back to the managers office by Chief Executive, Garry Cook where an ‘insider’ lifted the lid on the heated row between Bellers and Mancini:
“The manager was yelling ‘Why are you always questioning me? Why won’t you do as you are told? Why are you always questioning everything at training and in games?’. Bellamy argued back that he only wanted what was best for the club. But Mancini snapped ‘I want you to leave now. And do not come back for three months’.”
It will be interesting to see if the bust-up is mentioned in Mancini’s pre-match press conference this afternoon; Man City take on Liverpool this weekend as both sides battle for the Premier League’s final European qualification spot for finishing 4th.
I would take Craigers back in a heart-beat. Still one of my favorite players. City are going to look very different come August, I think.
Well, they’ll have Gago, for one.
Well I meant as far as players leaving goes, but yeah. Though Gago doesn’t scare me one bit.
Of course Bobby denied the whole thing in the pre-match presser today.
http://mcfc.co.uk/News/Team-news/2010/February/Bellamy-in-the-mix-for-Sunday
I’m kind of inclined to believe it though, or at least the basic premise.
If Mancini is in charge of summer transfer policy, we’ll not only be bringing in Gago, but every other defensive midfielder known to man.
Martin O’Neill doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Sometimes, players and managers have a bit of a contretemps.
>And all over a one-on-one training session with
>Mancini’s Manchester minions.
Bellamy warned them that Guido, the massotherapist, was too eager to massage his knee all the way to the vas deferens and he would pop him next time.
Mancini on the other hand insists on proper ball fondling therapy.
So this really was inevitable.
Besides, who would ever think that a guy who has fought with
teammates, managers and fans and who threathened to leave when Hughes got fired and ScarfBoy got hired would then go on to cause trouble with the new foreigner coach?