User:Mancini's Sandbox/2007–08
Manchester City | |
Season 2007–08 | |
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Owner | Thaksin Shinawatra |
Chairman | Thaksin Shinawatra |
Manager | Sven-Göran Eriksson |
Team captain | Richard Dunne |
Home stadium | City of Manchester Stadium (a.k.a. Eastlands and CoMS) |
Premier League | Ninth |
League Cup | Fifth round |
FA Cup | Fourth round |
Top goalscorer | League: Elano (8 goals) (24th highest in Premier League) All comps: Elano (10 goals) |
Season revenue | € 104.0 million (7th highest in Premier League) | (20th highest in world)
Average home attendance |
42,126 – over 19 PL home games (6th highest in Premier League) |
Highest home attendance |
47,321 Liverpool 30 December 2007 | v
Highest away attendance |
75,970 Manchester United 10 February 2008 | v
Lowest home attendance |
20,938 Norwich City 25 September 2007 | v
Lowest away attendance |
14,541 Bristol City 29 August 2007 | v
← 2006–07 2008–09 → |
Results summary - all competitions | ||||
Wins | Draws | Losses | Win % | |
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Home | 13 | 5 | 5 | 56.5% |
Away | 6 | 6 | 10 | 27.3% |
Both | 19 | 11 | 15 | 42.2% |
Results summary - Premier League | ||||
Wins | Draws | Losses | Win % | |
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Home | 11 | 4 | 4 | 57.9% |
Away | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21.1% |
Both | 15 | 10 | 13 | 39.5% |
The 2007–08 season was Manchester City Football Club's sixth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its eleventh season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of the its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it was the team's 116th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight.
Season review
[edit]The season started with a new owner in Thaksin Shinawatra and his newly appointed manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson. After spending three of the four previous Premier League seasons finishing in low mid-table positions (i.e., two to four places above the relegation zone), the Manchester City team was badly in need of an influx of new blood if it was to avoid a similar fate, or worse, in the upcoming season. Consequently, the newly infused funds from the club's wealthy Thai owner came at quite a fortuitous time for the team, and Eriksson was very active in the summer transfer market as he spent approximately £30 million adding eight relatively high profile players to the City first team squad.
As a consequence of this mini spending spree Manchester City started the new season strongly and spent a large portion of it occupying one of the top five positions in the Premier League table. Unfortunately, the strong results of the first two thirds of the season were not sustained in the final third and the team ultimately slipped down the rankings to finish the season in ninth place. This loss of form in the final months also led to Shinawatra summarily sacking Eriksson, a decision that was received with mixed emotions by the Manchester City supporters since both characters had achieved the status of "white knights" in their eyes for their respective financial and managerial contributions to the transformation of the club.[1] Two days after his end-of-season dismissal on 2 June 2008 Sven-Göran Eriksson was replaced as manager by Mark Hughes.[2]
This season also saw Manchester City gain entry into the next season's UEFA Cup competition by finishing sixth in the English "Fair Play" rankings (with the five teams above having already qualified for European competition).
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Team kit
[edit]The start of the 2007-08 Premiership campaign saw a number of changes for Manchester City, the most notable being the hiring of former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, while a somewhat less prominent change for the club saw the termination of Reebok as the team's kit supplier (for the four previous seasons) with the French sportswear manufacturer, Le Coq Sportif, now resuming this role once again. The shirt sponsor continued to be Thomas Cook, although the travel company had undergone a name change during the close season after its announced merger with MyTravel Group in June 2007, with the newly merged company now being called Thomas Cook Group.
The switch to a new kit supplier resulted in three new team kits for this season. The new home kit consisted of a return back to a full sky blue shirt, but now with vertical white pin stripes on the body (but not the sleeves and shoulders) together with matching solid sky blue socks and the traditional all white shorts. The shirt sported a Le Coq Sportif logo on the upper portion of both sleeves with the Manchester City crest in the centre of the chest above the Thomas Cook logo, while the City crest was also repeated at the base of the right leg on the shorts.
The new away kit - a striking solid purple colour but sporting the same vertical white pin stripes on the body of the shirt as the home kit plus all the same kit supplier, sponsorship and club crest logos - was possibly a throwback to the classic maroon and thin white striped shirts that had been the club's one-time strip created for its appearance at Wembley in the 1956 FA Cup Final against Birmingham City. In comparison to the new home and away kits, the new third kit consisted of a relatively conservative all white shirt and socks with solid sky blue shorts, with the white shirt sporting a thin sky blue diagonal sash across the front of the left shoulder. A new two-tone green (solid light green shirt plus solid dark green shorts and socks) goalkeeper's strip was also introduced for this season.
On 10 February 2008 during the club's local derby game against Manchester United the City team played in a one-off special kit to mark the 50 year memorial of the Munich air disaster. This kit appropriately contained no kit supplier or sponsorship logos.[3]
Historical league performance
[edit]Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991-92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).
Friendly games
[edit]Pre-season
[edit]14 July 2007 | Doncaster Rovers | 1 – 3 | Manchester City | Doncaster, England |
15:00 BST | McDaid 17' | MCFC report | 48' Corradi 62' Richards 64' Mpenza |
Stadium: Keepmoat Stadium Attendance: 6,375 |
18 July 2007 | Örgryte IS | 1 – 4 | Manchester City | Varberg, Sweden |
19:00 BST | Mwila 37' | MCFC report BBC Sport report YouTube video |
18' Bianchi 53' Corradi 61' Samaras 64' Logan 65' Fernandes 75' Dickov |
Stadium: Påskbergsvallen Attendance: 5,000+ |
21 July 2007 | Carlstad United | 0 – 4 | Manchester City | Karlstad, Sweden |
15:00 BST | 52' (pen.) | MCFC report | 5' Corradi 20' 51' Bianchi 52' Richards 78' Laird |
Stadium: Tingvalla IP |
28 July 2007 | Sporting Charleroi | 2 – 0 | Manchester City | Charleroi, Belgium |
18:00 BST | Oulmers 20' (pen.) Jovial 35' |
MCFC report M.E.N. report |
39' M. Mills | Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi |
1 August 2007 | Shrewsbury Town | 0 – 2 | Manchester City | Shrewsbury, England |
19:45 BST | MCFC report Guardian report |
42' Geovanni 81' Corradi 90' Dickov |
Stadium: New Meadow |
4 August 2007 | Manchester City | 0 – 1 | Valencia | Manchester, England |
15:00 BST | Corradi 74' | M.E.N. report Guardian report Dailymotion video |
10' Silva 52' Angulo |
Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 27,902 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England) |
Post-season
[edit]17 May 2008 | Thai League All-Star XI | 3 – 1 | Manchester City | Bangkok, Thailand |
17:00 (local time) | Ney Fabiano 37' Sripan 44' Chanabut 73' |
MCFC report | 22' Caicedo | Stadium: Rajamangala National Stadium Attendance: 25,000 |
22 May 2008 | Hong Kong Invitational XI | 3 – 1 | Manchester City | Hong Kong, China |
18:00 (local time) | Giovane 27' Festus 48' Liang 71' |
MCFC report | 15' Hamann | Stadium: Hong Kong Stadium Attendance: 20,000 |
Competitive games
[edit]Position in final standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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7 | Blackburn Rovers | 38 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 58 | |
8 | Portsmouth | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 48 | 40 | +8 | 57 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a] |
9 | Manchester City | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 45 | 53 | −8 | 55 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round[b] |
10 | West Ham United | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 42 | 50 | −8 | 49 | |
11 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 66 | 61 | +5 | 46 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[c] |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
For further information on European qualification see Premier League – Competition
Notes:
- ^ As FA Cup winners
- ^ Manchester City qualified as the highest-ranked team not already qualified for European competitions of Premier League Fair Play Ranking by The Football Association, the top association among UEFA Fair Play ranking winners.
- ^ As League Cup winners
Results summary
[edit]Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 45 | 53 | −8 | 55 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 20 | +8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 33 | −16 |
Last updated: 11 May 2008 (end of season).
Source: Premier League results 2007-08
Points breakdown[edit]
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Biggest & smallest[edit]Biggest home wins: 4–2 vs. Bolton Wanderers, 15 December 2007 |
Results by round
[edit]A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Individual match reports
[edit]West Ham United | 0 – 2 | Manchester City |
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MCFC report | Bianchi 18' Geovanni 87' |
Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Derby County |
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Johnson 43' | MCFC report |
Arsenal | 1 – 0 | Manchester City |
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van Persie 66' (pen.) Fàbregas 80' |
MCFC report |
Blackburn Rovers | 1 – 0 | Manchester City |
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McCarthy 13' Tugay 54' |
MCFC report | Dunne 65' |
Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Aston Villa |
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Johnson 48' | MCFC report |
Fulham | 3 – 3 | Manchester City |
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Davies 13' Bouazza 48' Murphy 74' |
MCFC report | Petrov 36', 60' Mpenza 50' |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Newcastle United |
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Petrov 37' Mpenza 47' Elano 87' |
MCFC report | Martins 29' |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Middlesbrough |
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Riggott 10' (o.g.) Elano 33', 63' |
MCFC report | Hutchinson 88' |
Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Birmingham City |
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Elano 36' | MCFC report |
Chelsea | 6 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Essien 16' Drogba 31', 56' Cole 60' Kalou 75' Shevchenko 90' |
MCFC report |
Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Sunderland |
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Ireland 66' | MCFC report |
Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Reading |
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Petrov 11' Ireland 90' |
MCFC report | Harper 43' |
Wigan Athletic | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Scharner 24' Melchiot 88' |
MCFC report | Geovanni 1' |
Tottenham Hotspur | 2 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Chimbonda 44' Defoe 82' |
MCFC report | Bianchi 60' Ireland 81' |
Manchester City | 4 – 2 | Bolton Wanderers |
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Bianchi 7' Michalík 48' (o.g.) Vassell 77' Etuhu 90' |
MCFC report | Diouf 31' Nolan 40' |
Aston Villa | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Carew 14' | MCFC report | Bianchi 11' |
Manchester City | 2 – 2 | Blackburn Rovers |
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Vassell 27' Nelsen 30' (o.g.) |
MCFC report | Santa Cruz 28', 84' |
Newcastle United | 0 – 2 | Manchester City |
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MCFC report | Elano 38' Fernandes 76' |
Everton | 1 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Lescott 31' | MCFC report |
Manchester City | 1 – 1 | West Ham United |
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Vassell 16' | MCFC report | Cole 8' |
Derby County | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Jihai 47' (o.g.) | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Sturridge 63' |
Manchester City | 1 – 3 | Arsenal |
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Fernandes 28' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Adebayor 9', 88' Eduardo 26' |
Manchester United | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Carrick 90' | BBC Sport report MCFC report MCFC video |
Vassell 24' Benjani 45' |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Everton |
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Petrov 90' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Yakubu 30' Lescott 37' |
Reading | 2 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Long 62' Kitson 87' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report) |
Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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Ireland 59' Onuoha 71' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Keane 32' |
Birmingham City | 3 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Zarate 40', 54' Queudrue 57' McSheffrey 77' (pen.) |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Elano 59' (pen.) |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Chelsea |
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BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Dunne 6' (o.g.) Kalou 53' |
Sunderland | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Whitehead 82' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Elano 79' (pen.) Vassell 87' |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Portsmouth |
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Vassell 11' Petrov 13' Benjani 74' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Utaka 24' Hreiðarsson 40' |
Manchester City | 2 – 3 | Fulham |
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Ireland 10' Benjani 21' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Kamara 69', 90' Murphy 78' |
Middlesbrough | 8 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Downing 16' (pen), 58' Alves 37', 60', 90' Johnson 70' Rochemback 80' Aliadiere 85' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Dunne 15' Elano 88' |
Second Round
[edit]Bristol City | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Orr 69' | MCFC report | Mpenza 17' Bianchi 81' |
Third Round
[edit]Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Norwich City |
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Samaras 89' | MCFC report |
Fourth Round
[edit]Bolton Wanderers | 0 – 1 | Manchester City |
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MCFC report | Elano 85' (pen.) |
Fifth Round
[edit]Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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MCFC report | Defoe 5' Zokora 19' Malbranque 83' |
Third Round
[edit]Third Round replay
[edit]Manchester City | 1 – 0 | West Ham United |
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Elano 73' | MCFC report |
Fourth Round
[edit]Sheffield United | 2 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Shelton 11' Stead 24' |
MCFC report | Sturridge 48' |
Playing statistics
[edit]Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only
Apps. numbers denote: Total no. of games played (No. of games subbed on, when applicable)
Red card numbers denote: No. of second yellow cards / No. of straight red cards
No. | Pos. | Player | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Total | Discipline | |||||
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Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | |||||
1 | GK | Andreas Isaksson | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
2 | DF | Micah Richards (vc) | 25 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 4 | |||||
3 | DF | Michael Ball | 28 (9) | 3 | 4 (1) | 35 (10) | 2 | |||||
4 | DF | Nedum Onuoha | 16 (3) | 1 | 2 | 3 (1) | 21 (4) | 1 | ||||
Sold | MF | Ousmane Dabo | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||||||||
6 | MF | Michael Johnson | 23 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 4 | ||||
7 | MF | Stephen Ireland | 33 (1) | 4 | 3 (1) | 3 | 39 (2) | 4 | 2 | - / 1 | ||
8 | MF | Geovanni | 19 (17) | 3 | 1 (1) | 3 (1) | 23 (19) | 3 | 4 | |||
9 | FW | Émile Mpenza | 15 (7) | 2 | 1 | 2 (1) | 1 | 18 (8) | 3 | |||
10 | FW | Rolando Bianchi | 19 (12) | 4 | 2 (2) | 3 | 1 | 24 (14) | 5 | |||
11 | MF | Elano | 34 (5) | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 38 (5) | 10 | 5 | |
12 | FW | Darius Vassell | 27 (6) | 6 | 3 | 2 (1) | 32 (7) | 6 | 3 | |||
14 | FW | Paul Dickov | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||||||||
15 | MF | Martin Petrov | 34 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 2 | - / 1 | ||
16 | DF | Vedran Ćorluka | 37 (1) | 3 | 3 | 43 (1) | 5 | |||||
17 | DF | Sun Jihai | 14 (7) | 2 | 16 (7) | 2 | ||||||
19 | GK | Kasper Schmeichel | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
20 | FW | Georgios Samaras | 5 (3) | 2 | 1 | 7 (3) | 1 | |||||
21 | MF | Dietmar Hamann | 29 (3) | 3 | 2 | 34 (3) | 10 | |||||
22 | DF | Richard Dunne (c) | 36 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 4 | - / 2 | ||||
24 | DF | Javier Garrido | 27 (5) | 2 | 29 (5) | 4 | ||||||
25 | GK | Joe Hart | 26 | 3 | 3 | 32 | ||||||
27 | FW | Benjani | 13 (1) | 3 | 13 (1) | 3 | ||||||
28 | MF | Gelson Fernandes | 26 (5) | 2 | 3 (2) | 3 (1) | 32 (8) | 2 | 6 | |||
29 | FW | Valeri Bojinov | 3 (2) | 3 (2) | ||||||||
30 | MF | Nery Castillo | 10 (8) | 2 | 12 (8) | |||||||
33 | FW | Ched Evans | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||||||||
34 | DF | Sam Williamson | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 | |||||||
36 | FW | Daniel Sturridge | 3 (1) | 1 | 1 (1) | 1 | 4 (2) | 2 | ||||
37 | MF | Kelvin Etuhu | 6 (4) | 1 | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 8 (6) | 1 | 1 | |||
38 | DF | Shaleum Logan | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
– | FW | Felipe Caicedo | 7 (7) | 7 (7) | 1 | |||||||
TOTALS | 42 | 2 | 4 | 48 | 60 | - / 4 |
Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season)
Last updated: 16 January 2011.
Source: (for players and positions) Season 2007-08 First Team Squad
(for squad numbers) Season 2007-08 Squad Numbers
(for actual stats.) All match Reports in Competitive games section above
Goal scorers
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All competitions[edit] |
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Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season)
Awards
[edit]Premier League awards
[edit]Awarded monthly to the player and manager that were chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor
Month | Manager of the Month | Player of the Month |
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August 2007 [4] | Sven-Göran Eriksson | Micah Richards |
Thomas Cook Player of the Month awards
[edit]Awarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS
Month | First Team | Reserve Team | Academy |
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August/September [5] | Dietmar Hamann | Richard Martin | Scott Kay |
October [6] | Elano | Ashley Grimes | Ben Mee |
November [7] | Vedran Ćorluka | Javan Vidal | Kieran Trippier |
December [8] | Richard Dunne | Karl Moore | David Ball |
January [9] | Michael Ball | not announced | Vladimír Weiss |
February [9] | Joe Hart | Paul Marshall | Greg Hartley |
March [10] | Gelson Fernandes | Adam Clayton | Andrew Tutte |
April [10] | Darius Vassell | Sam Williamson | Vladimír Weiss |
Football Association of Ireland awards
[edit]Player | Year 2007 awards [11] |
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Richard Dunne | International Player of the Year |
Stephen Ireland | Young International Player of the Year |
Official Supporters Club awards
[edit]Player | Season 2007–08 awards [12] |
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Richard Dunne | Player of the Year |
Joe Hart | Young Player of the Year |
Ben Mee | Most Promising Player of the Year |
Transfers and loans
[edit]Transfers in
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First team[edit]
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Reserves & Academy[edit]
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Transfers out
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First team[edit]
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Reserves & Academy[edit]
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Loans in
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First team[edit]
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Reserves & Academy[edit]
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Loans out
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First team[edit] |
Reserves & Academy[edit]
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See also
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References
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