Source: Daily_Mail
HATCHET MAN: Big spenders City finally reveal their ultimate ambition: To win Europe's most pointles
Mark Hughes wants Manchester City [LNB]to end their barren run of 33 years without a trophy by winning the UEFA Cup.[LNB]But winning a competition that clearly means so little to so many will prove nothing at all.[LNB]City have spent more than anyone else in the Premier League this season but remain a long way off the finished article and if they win the competition Aston Villa[LNB]and Tottenham [LNB]couldn't be bothered to compete for, can do little more than paper over the cracks.[LNB] [LNB]Well worth it: Manchester City boss Mark Hughes paid £34m for Robinho and the best he can hope for is UEFA Cup success [LNB]Manager Hughes claims winning it would bring 'an understanding of what it takes to be successful', that it changes players' mentalities but it is hard not to think that doesn't apply until victory in a prestigious competition is achieved.[LNB]Look at Tottenham after they won another second tier competition, the Carling Cup, last season, it was hardly the catalyst for them to step up to the next level. Or Middlesbrough[LNB], who made the final in 2006 and are now fighting relegation.[LNB] More from Hatchet Man... HATCHET MAN: Am I bovvered? Penalty clown Vucinic might just as well have had an Arsenal shirt on...[LNB]12/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Skint FA continue to devalue their own flagship competition by staging Wembley semi-finals[LNB]12/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Fergie reveals the team he fears the most: Manchester United[LNB]12/03/09 HATCHET MAN: The numbers don't add up for 365, 24/7 33-year-old Beckham - Captain America you ain't[LNB]12/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Someone needs to tell Hodgson that life ain't so tough at Fulham[LNB]11/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Abramovich should not have lost Mourinho and now he can't afford to let Hiddink go[LNB]11/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Levy breathes a sigh of relief as Tottenham old boy Ramos fails to show him up at Anfield[LNB]11/03/09 HATCHET MAN: No-goals Kitson has to be the worst signing of all time. Fact [LNB]10/03/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE[LNB] Certainly, becoming UEFA Cup winners is hardly going to be turning point for City in the transfer market, the tipping point at which players such as Kaka will want to join them.[LNB]And if executive chairman Garry Cook continues to claim players such as the Brazilian would struggle to make their team because of the impressive form of Stephen Ireland, whether in jest or not, City will never be taken seriously anyway[LNB] [LNB]
