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#8 Jo (Manchester City)
The arrival of Sheikh Mansour as the owner of Manchester City has changed the club’s fortunes in a short time. The club has gone from being a cannon fodder to one of the most sought-after destinations in the game of football. However, Manchester City too made a few mistakes in their early days under Sheikh Mansour and one of the biggest mistakes of the club was signing Brazilian striker Jo for a whopping £19 million in 2008 from CSKA Moscow.
The then 21-year-old had scored goals at a healthy rate in Brazil as well as Russia and that forced the hierarchy at the erstwhile City of Manchester Stadium into believing that he was the man to bring about a change in the fortunes of the club. However, it was not to be as Jo failed to live up to his billing and went from being the poster boy at the club to an outcast in a short time.
After spending the 2008-09 season at City, a season in which he scored 3 goals in 15 appearances, Jo was sent out on loan to Everton for the next 2 seasons in the hope that a move away from the limelight might help him find his scoring boots but it was not to be as he came up a cropper during his 2-year loan stint at the Goodison Park.
After a series of failed seasons, Manchester City finally decided to cut their losses at the end of the 2010-11 season when he was sold to the Brazilian outfit Internacional.
