After 10 years, City has completely masturbated

Dreaming, a dream, Manchester City fans can not believe Sheikh Mansour change the whole place.

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After 10 years, City has completely masturbated
"I signed the contract before I could see the training ground," Vincent Kompany recalled when he agreed to come to City just a week before the 2008 semifinal match.

"They should have shown you those places before signing the contract but that time was not," Kompany laughs. Because the Belgian midfielder was contracted in a room filled with ... paper boxes inside the City of Manchester yard (former name of Etihad). It's more like a warehouse than a workroom and it warned Kompany about what's next.

Indeed, when recalling that moment, the City players did not think of themselves as a Premier League side when they looked at the training ground. The old Carrington training ground was a disaster in its own right.

"I remember the first time I went to the bathroom, there were two rooms and one of them had a door hung upside down, almost overwhelming," Kompany told the crowd. his fondness.

Kompany in the old training ground of Man City
Kompany in the old training ground of Man City

"In the gym, there is a machine that you can not use because it is completely rusted, and if you have to do it, you will have to take it very seriously. that".

"The sandbag for boxing is as long as the swords of the Samurai have been cut, and you have only one glove to punch and are forced to develop one side of the body. Heaters".

In 2010, Yaya Toure joined City from the wealthy Barcelona team. At that time, the training ground at Carrington was invested more than 500,000 pounds to renovate but still makes Ivory Coast star shock:

"Carrington is like a second-team training ground, and I've been complaining a lot lately when I came here, and after a while I did not dare to shower because I was uncomfortable. "

Toure was sick with what he saw in Manchester City
Toure was sick with what he saw in Manchester City

"Once I saw the horses running through the training ground, it seemed pretty funny, I remember telling Kolo Toure what if the team really wanted to do something, why did they practice it? seriously, everything must change ".

"We used to have no pay for staff," said Pete Bradshaw, a senior city official who served as the infrastructure director. Some people even have to bring pencils or fountain pens from home. "

"It was a difficult time and the staff went through it. They were forced to learn how to calculate what they needed to spend."

City manager Garry Cook recalled: "This team, this training ground is not what people know through television, it's just media products. The money flowed, all the worst of the worst and attracted the bad guys. "

The money of the boss has changed City
The money of the boss has changed City

But suddenly everything changed. Kompany was the most astonished: "We went back to the training ground and they changed all the facilities, these were just short-term, but seemingly millions of pounds were poured into just one. in 2 weeks".

By gradually acquiring full ownership of the team, Sheikh Mansour began to pay attention to the details that his predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra, never paid attention to. Not only does Man City have new facilities, they have a new training ground and have just opened the world's most modern young academy. After 10 years, Man City is really rich and not only exists on the surface.