Sponging

Posted in FM Blog | On July 4th, 2008 | By Ash

When you’re building a team to achieve success domestically and across Europe, it’s a vital factor that you buy players to strengthen your side. When you start winning competitions, you need to build further on this success, that means selling players and raising money. When you’re trying to offload players, at the time, you don’t realistically think about it too much- you just want to get rid and raise funds. For me, Man City used to be a prime location where my dead wood players moved.

Little did I know, they were building a forte themselves from my players. Whilst buying them for a relevantly cheap price, they were also winning games, and slowly gaining more experience. It seemed Sven got better out of the apparent ‘dead wood’ then I did- and now I’m not too sure if selling them to Man City was a wise choice.

In season 6, they still have Xabi Alonso, Goran Pandev, John Arne Riise, Martin Skrtel and Vicente- all of whom were bought from Anfield for cut prices. Man City are now sitting first in the premiership (with one game on me, mind) and are still fighting in all competitions- and it doesn’t seem to be a one season wonder, they’re second to me in scoring the most goals and second to conceding the least

This leaves me with a question in mind, all of the players listed aren’t world class, aside from maybe Huntelaar, who could be questioned further. They haven’t really got any world class players- so how have they managed to become such a force in the Premiership? They’ve been labelled sleeping giants for some time now, and with Alex Mcleish as their manager, it’s a mystery how they’ve managed to perform so well from sponging.

Anyone had the same experience?

For now.

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