Warning Sign Has Been Given

Hughes was given the boot by the City owners with former Inter Milan coach, Roberto Mancini taking over with immediate effect. In his column for The Sun, Wright lambasted the three players. The former Arsenal striker said: "In Robinho, Emmanuel Adebayor and Joleon Lescott, these three signings, for various reasons, contributed to Hughes getting the boot. "Robinho and Adebayor are not players you would want in the trenches. "When you hear certain stories coming out of City about Robinho, he doesn't strike me as the kind of player a manager can hang his hat on, and Adebayor left a club like Arsenal among all sorts of player unrest stories.
"They have not lived up to their very expensive price tags and I have the feeling they will not care less that Hughes has been replaced." Wright was forthright as he passed judgement on Lescott who has been unable to produce the form he showed at Goodison Park. The former England striker added: "Lescott is an excellent player but was a bad signing purely in terms of how much was paid. City effectively got Everton into a headlock and made them sell a player they did not want to. "Of course, in the end, it was good business for Everton as £24 million is a hell of a lot of money.
"Yet they ended up with a player who, through no fault of his own, was worth nowhere near that amount of money and Lescott has found it very difficult to keep up to the standard of his price tag."
With Mancini already introduced to the press at a media conference on Tuesday, Wright is unsure if the Italian tactician can withstand the pressure at City. Wright explained: "Now, Mancini has been given a three-year contract but I wonder whether he will still be at Eastlands in three years time. "If he doesn't start doing well immediately, Mancini will find himself under pressure - particularly as he will buy big next month and City's owners will once again be expecting immediate results."