Man City Transfers: 10 Players Screwed By Citizens’ Ludicrous Transfer Policies

6. Jerome Boateng

Jerome Boateng arrived at Manchester City as part of a typically-large spending spree by the club in the summer of 2010, joining from Bundesliga side Hamburger for £11 million. The likes of Yaya Toure, Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko and David Silva also arrived during the same transfer window but Boateng's stay would be short lived. Hardly ever used by City, the fullback only made 16 Premier League appearances during a forgettable 12-month spell at Etihad Stadium. His career at Eastlands got off to a bad start following a freak injury sustained on the plane home from Denmark following international duty with the German national side, after a collision with a drinks trolley. And things hardly got better thereafter; used as a squad player, the defender was so far down in the pecking order he was omitted from the match day squad for the 2011 FA Cup final. Boateng was another big-money signing who failed to make the grade at City and his arrival at the club during a flurry of big-money signings that amounted to £154 million proved that City's policy of signing high-profile, costly players can be hit and miss.