‘As a City fan for more than 50 years, it gives me a nice warm glow to hear you saying that you're just using us as a stepping stone to bigger and better things.
’And all these years I've been telling anyone who would care to listen that City ARE a big football club. What a fool I've been.’
This was his response to these fantastic comments from Anelka:
"I either decide to win titles or to have an easy life. I will always choose football if a great club makes an offer. My objective is to give my maximum for City in order to find a big club.
"To win titles you need players who have the capability of doing so. If we stagnate between eighth and 15th place, it's impossible to progress. If I am going to score goals and not win, there is a risk of being fed up.
"Playing for eighth place is good but I miss the Champions League. I need to be playing in it- and I should be playing in it. The ideal would be that City become a great club, but if that happens I will be 35 years old.”