Well done to the 7% of you who voted in my little angry post about emergency loans and guessed correctly that Citeh would land Marton Fulop from Sunderland to play out the season. Still don’t think it’s fair. Then again, if he concedes a bunch of goals, that would be funny.
UPDATE: It appears that Citeh are mad that the EPL denied their request to get Joe Hart back despite the lack of provision in his contract.
Said an EPL spokesman: “The situation just got too complicated. Birmingham were talking about compensation for dropping league positions and that might have cost over £1m as well as setting a precedent.Plus other clubs were concerned about Manchester City bringing in a top goalkeeper at the last moment. We do sympathise with Manchester City and we do want to help … but in the circumstances we could only advise them to look elsewhere. We have the integrity of the competition to consider and we could not be seen to helping one club while inconveniencing others. In the circumstances a request for an emergency goalkeeper is reasonable, we just felt Manchester City could look elsewhere for cover for their remaining three matches.”
I’m amazed that the league made the right decision. Well, half-right, but it’s better than they usually do.
Citeh get their way and still whine about it? WTF. I was pretty ambivalent about this move when I first heard about, seeing as it’s within the rules and I wanted to see all of Citeh’s built-in excuses removed, but if they are going to go on whinging even after they’ve been allowed to do this, f**k them in the pants.
I honestly would have preferred Gunnar, at least he has ties to the club. This does feel kind of cheap, but it’s within the rules, and if we don’t manage to reverse our whole not scoring in the past 180 minutes trend, we could have Zombie Bert Trautmann in between the sticks and it wouldn’t matter.
Or living Bert Trautmann even. Sorry buddy.
Good. Villa put two past Fulop in the first match against Sunderland in the league. Looking forward to Saturday!
Go Spurs ! I am glad that EPL didn’t allow Hart to return… but then again I am biased. :-)