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BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
Ha, I know what you mean, but certainly not 'poor' financially - he's rumoured to be on £100k+ a week at City, five year contract, guaranteed £25m in wages over the course of his contract.
I'd be a bit part player, playing 30 minutes as a sub once a month for that money.
I highly doubt hes in anything like 100k. Very max 70k and thats way over the top.
Namdrater
Player Valuation: £15m
Anyone else think that maybe he really would be best suited to playing CB? As we can all see he's not really the sort of player who's going to pick a good forward pass, but his composure on the ball, pace, size and drive could make him a quality ball-playing CB. He'd need to get a few games at the back there though.
noharmdone
Requested to be banned
Would still make him our top earner..
Summerskin
Player Valuation: £35m
No, and i've never bought into this idea either, he played there against Blackpool in a friendly a few years back and it was frightening.
He's a ditherer on the ball and isn't really one that's up for a scrap considering his size, would be an incredibly dangerous move to consider playing him there.
EFC David
Player Valuation: £30m
From The Mirror:
Jack Rodwell has revealed he has doubled his daily workload in a bid to beat his injury jinx.
England midfielder Rodwell joined Manchester City from Everton for £12million last summer, but has spent much of the season injured.
Rodwell, who has made just two starts for City, has changed his lifestyle to overcome his hamstring problems, including moving closer to the training ground so he has a shorter drive each day.
He also ditched a sports car in favour of a 4x4 vehicle to ease pressure on his back, took up yoga and also changed to a different PILLOW in a bid to end his injury misery.
And now the 21-year-old has revealed he is doing an extra hour-and-half's work every day to build up his core strength and overcome his fitness problems once and for all.
Rodwell, who played the final half-hour of Sunday's FA Cup win over Leeds, said: "I've been working really hard, keeping up my work and feeling as fit as ever.
"My main aim now is to stay fit. That's been my main problem for the last year or so, an inability to stay fit and shrug off little injuries.
"That's held me back, and I think if I can stay fit, the games will come.
"You have to rule out everything, and then nothing can be a problem. I think it's worked, but it's more to do with the gym work I've been doing with City.
"The physios have highlighted that and done a really good job. I've stuck to a six- or seven-week programme where I haven't had a day off.
"I've hammered the work, done a lot of hamstring work and luckily, touch wood, it's worked. I intend to keep that up for the rest of my career and hopefully I'll stay fit and strong.
"I come in early every day, have a load of treatment and then for half an hour before training I work on my own.
"Then after training, if necessary, I stay for some more strength work, so all in all I probably do an extra hour-and-a-half.
"One day it will be hamstring, another the back, or core fitness, to keep everything strong.
"I do yoga as well, two or three times a week, depending on how my body is feeling. Everything is helping.
"It may be down to the way I was growing, as I was only 20 to 21, and hopefully I have finished growing and it has all finished now and I can just move forward."
Jack Rodwell has revealed he has doubled his daily workload in a bid to beat his injury jinx.
England midfielder Rodwell joined Manchester City from Everton for £12million last summer, but has spent much of the season injured.
Rodwell, who has made just two starts for City, has changed his lifestyle to overcome his hamstring problems, including moving closer to the training ground so he has a shorter drive each day.
He also ditched a sports car in favour of a 4x4 vehicle to ease pressure on his back, took up yoga and also changed to a different PILLOW in a bid to end his injury misery.
And now the 21-year-old has revealed he is doing an extra hour-and-half's work every day to build up his core strength and overcome his fitness problems once and for all.
Rodwell, who played the final half-hour of Sunday's FA Cup win over Leeds, said: "I've been working really hard, keeping up my work and feeling as fit as ever.
"My main aim now is to stay fit. That's been my main problem for the last year or so, an inability to stay fit and shrug off little injuries.
"That's held me back, and I think if I can stay fit, the games will come.
"You have to rule out everything, and then nothing can be a problem. I think it's worked, but it's more to do with the gym work I've been doing with City.
"The physios have highlighted that and done a really good job. I've stuck to a six- or seven-week programme where I haven't had a day off.
"I've hammered the work, done a lot of hamstring work and luckily, touch wood, it's worked. I intend to keep that up for the rest of my career and hopefully I'll stay fit and strong.
"I come in early every day, have a load of treatment and then for half an hour before training I work on my own.
"Then after training, if necessary, I stay for some more strength work, so all in all I probably do an extra hour-and-a-half.
"One day it will be hamstring, another the back, or core fitness, to keep everything strong.
"I do yoga as well, two or three times a week, depending on how my body is feeling. Everything is helping.
"It may be down to the way I was growing, as I was only 20 to 21, and hopefully I have finished growing and it has all finished now and I can just move forward."
Good on him. Never nice to see a young player plagued with injuries, so hopefully he gets over them.
Summerskin
Player Valuation: £35m
He might (won't) go on to become a decent player but it was astonishing business in the here and now to get £12-15m for this kid.
Bravo all involved.
Bravo all involved.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
I don't think City will end up regretting the decision to buy Rodwell. In this era of non-athletic midfielders that cover barely any ground even the most limited holding player costs a fortune, so they haven't done too badly to get him for £12m.
They must be gutted that Michael Johnson didn't have an attitude like Rodwell's.
They must be gutted that Michael Johnson didn't have an attitude like Rodwell's.
Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
Maybe they did. Maybe they came up with a better one. Maybe they didn't come up with that one because it won't work.
I don't understand why some people see it as that as a club we're incompetent at everything. Of course the board are clueless but that doesn't mean the physios aren't as good as Man City's.
Summerskin
Player Valuation: £35m
Didn't we get an Olympic running specialist in because the way he was running was causing all of these problems?
Something like that anyway...quite leftfield like Saha's leeches.
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