Declan Rice

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Bernard20 said:
You keep saying that… this isn’t Dickinson’s Real Deal! What makes you think we would waste our time with a perfunctory offer, that only serves to set up our actual offer?

We bid, it wasn’t enough, Arse bid more and we moved on.
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Something has changed and hopefully it's Bernardo saying he is staying

The asking price was a minimum of 100m , we bid less, so it was never going to be accepted , even more so with Arsenal still bidding.
 
Keeper! said:
Something has changed and hopefully it's Bernardo saying he is staying

The asking price was a minimum of 100m , we bid less, so it was never going to be accepted , even more so with Arsenal still bidding.
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This is the scenario I like the most, so this must be the truth on the ground.
 
Phil1 said:
She didn’t. She was talking unadulterated shite.
We didn’t get him because his value put on him by his club was more than we thought he was worth.
Nothing more, nothing less and nothing we’ve not seen before from ourselves.
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Mate, several of us raised doubts as to whether we were seriously interested, or trying to raise the price Arse would have to pay. Me included.

Arse Bid £90m, & City's eagerly awaited bid came in at... Wait for it... The same £90m offer Arse just had rejected by WHU, but with slightly more favourable payment terms! Lol :-)

Summat stunk to me mate, PLUS I can't ever recall us getting into a public auction & we were VERY quick to end our interest today for fear of pushing it too far & being left with a vastly overpriced Rice ourselves!

Regardless it worked! We matched Arse's bid. Arse panicked & will now have to pay £15m more than they wanted, & £35m above their opening bid! Quality move by Txiki! :-)
 
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Dribble said:
Mate, several of us raised doubts as to whether we were seriously interested, or trying to raise the price Arse would gave to pay, me included.

Arse Bid £90m, & City's eagerly awaited bid comes in at.... Wait for it... The same £90m Arse had just bid, but with slightly more favourable payment terms! Lol :-)

Summat stunk to me mate, PLUS I can't ever recall us ever getting into a public auction & we were VERY quick to end our interest.

Regardless it worked. We match Arse's bid. Arse panic & pay £15m more than they wanted! Quality move by Txiki!
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And not for the first time....;)
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Dribble said:
Mate, several of us raised doubts as to whether we were seriously interested, or trying to raise the price Arse would gave to pay, me included.

Arse Bid £90m, & City's eagerly awaited bid comes in at.... Wait for it... The same £90m Arse had just bid, but with slightly more favourable payment terms! Lol :-)

Summat stunk to me mate, PLUS I can't ever recall us ever getting into a public auction & we were VERY quick to end our interest.

Regardless it worked. We match Arse's bid. Arse panic & pay £15m more than they wanted! Quality move by Txiki!
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There are a million different reason as to how this turned out like it did but I can guarantee that in those million reasons not one of them will involve the absolute nonsense she was spouting.


* I accept a million may be an exaggeration *

:-)
 
It's amazing that we are not even in top 2 of net spend in last e.g 7 years and that we spend e.g 55 million for Haaland, 15 for Alvarez and relatively tiny amounts lately for players not that known but we used them exceptionally well, we are reluctant to give more than 90 for Rice here, and next season all we will be hearing again will be that City wins all the trophies because of spending too much, Arabic money buys City the trophies and all these utter BS.

Thankfully that fairy tale is becoming obsolete and ridiculous and most people except mostly hardcore Utd and Liverpool fans, laugh with that.
 
jimharri said:
I guess we'll soon be able to confine this thread to the dustbin.
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Pogba
Fred
Sanchez
Harry Maguire
Kaka

Just to name but a few we refused to pay over the odds for.
Why people don't trust City to make the right decisions by now is a mystery. Having the money, yet spending it wisely is the reason we enjoy so much success.

I remember the mardarses moaning about not throwing in a £150m bid for Kane "just to get it done".
Walking away and getting Haaland instead worked out well for us!
 
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