Where Man City's disastrous 2008 squad before mega-money takeover are now
dailystar.co.ukManchester City were not the global superpower that they have now become. In fact, the Abu Dhabi owners did not purchase the club until 2008 when former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra was in charge.The politician himself had only just bought City 15 months prior to the mega-money takeover but his short-lived era will always be remembered as a false dawn.
With Sven-Goran Eriksson at the helm, some truly bizarre names came and went before the likes of Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne moved to the Etihad.
But those superstars cannot hold a light to the real City trailblazers such as Valeri Bojinov, Elano and Martin Petrov. Here’s where they are now.Once signed for £8m - a sizeable chunk back in 2007 - but ultimately flopped after moaning about the food and weather, going back to Italy on loan just months after arriving.
The Italian striker is now in the process of becoming a horse trainer and owns a vineyard after retiring from football in 2017.
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