Bale to City in the Summer?

[mancity1]

Why do City fans care what a transfer fee is?

We throw money around like confetti. Some sticks. Some doesn't.

If he's good enough let the Sheikh worry about the fee.

That's ok in an open market DD but FIFA have other ideas on why its important for the long term benefit of the game as a whole to limit transfer fees and we will have to toe the line on that front irrespective of the money we have available.

Personally I think its a good thing for us as well.

Its madness buying the likes of RSC and Jo to name just two of many example for the amounts we have knowing that within a year their fee will have been reduced by 80 per cent on the market assuming they fail to produce or want out.

 

[Jakson1991]

I think that while Bale is having a good season and some think he may have peaked, that Adam Johnson can compete to be better than him in the coming years. wouldnt wana line the spuds pockets with 30+ million especially when its been said they value him at 50 mill! rediculous

 

[lee-mcfc]

re: re:

love how the media completly change the quotes...

so no' because it wont happen.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I think that while Bale is having a good season and some think he may have peaked, that Adam Johnson can compete to be better than him in the coming years. wouldnt wana line the spuds pockets with 30+ million especially when its been said they value him at 50 mill! rediculous

Bale wide left, Johnson wide right, Dkecko in the middle with Tevez sitting deep. Shoehorn in David Silva (somehow) and we won't have to worry about Spurs for a long long time.

 

[Bobby Taylor's Pub Team]

Because many of us care deeply about the club and its reputation and aren't children playing top trumps.

What has an incoming transfer fee got to do with reputation?

When in comes to tranfers our reputation is that we pay big bucks for whoever we want.

Whether we pay £25 or £45 mill for Gareth Bale that won't change one iota.

So if we paid £100 for Lee Bradbury it wouldn't have made any difference? Or £1,000 for RSC? There's clearly a link between fee and expectation, from fans, the media and even the player himself. Expectation becomes part of an overall perception of the club.

I'm not comfortable with the club getting ripped off for every player in vogue at a certain moment in time, it tarnishes the reputation of the club. Anyway, I can't see this one happening and 45mill is clearly an invention.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

What has an incoming transfer fee got to do with reputation?

When in comes to tranfers our reputation is that we pay big bucks for whoever we want.

Whether we pay £25 or £45 mill for Gareth Bale that won't change one iota.

So if we paid £100 for Lee Bradbury it wouldn't have made any difference? Or £1,000 for RSC? There's clearly a link between fee and expectation, from fans, the media and even the player himself. Expectation becomes part of an overall perception of the club.

I'm not comfortable with the club getting ripped off for every player in vogue at a certain moment in time, it tarnishes the reputation of the club. Anyway, I can't see this one happening and 45mill is clearly an invention.

When we paid £3m for Lee Bradbury it was practically all the cash we had raised from a share issue. So it was a disaster for the club as we had no money left.

The situation now is different. It's a drop in the ocean.

Of course we get ripped off, that's because we are absolutely loaded.

Put it this way, the money we have lost on Robinho and RSC together would probably buy this player.

 

[ayia napa blues]

Cant see it but would be good to watch

 

[mancity1]

What has an incoming transfer fee got to do with reputation?

When in comes to tranfers our reputation is that we pay big bucks for whoever we want.

Whether we pay £25 or £45 mill for Gareth Bale that won't change one iota.

So if we paid £100 for Lee Bradbury it wouldn't have made any difference? Or £1,000 for RSC? There's clearly a link between fee and expectation, from fans, the media and even the player himself. Expectation becomes part of an overall perception of the club.

I'm not comfortable with the club getting ripped off for every player in vogue at a certain moment in time, it tarnishes the reputation of the club. Anyway, I can't see this one happening and 45mill is clearly an invention.

The days of a City price for a player and a much lesser figure for every other club for the same player are numbered for many reasons and I agree the reputation of the club as being shrewd in the transfer market is very important and at present we are seen by everybody as a cash cow and quite frankly a laughing stock.

Their is no way Liverpool or any other club for example would have forked out and in fact needed to fork out any where near the money we forked out for Santa Cruz to name but one example and that's irrespective whether he justified his fee or not.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

a laughing stock.

Noone in football is laughing at City. The whole game envies us.

 

[Bobby Taylor's Pub Team]

When we paid £3m for Lee Bradbury it was practically all the cash we had raised from a share issue. So it was a disaster for the club as we had no money left.

The situation now is different. It's a drop in the ocean.

Of course we get ripped off, that's because we are absolutely loaded.

Put it this way, the money we have lost on Robinho and RSC together would probably buy this player.

I'm saying the reputation of what I still perceive as "my" club is important to me, and sometimes the throwing around of money has embarrassed or annoyed me, whether I'm talking 15 years ago or today. Valuing Bradbury at 3mill devalued the man, nothing's changed and I still have my humanity. These numbers are huge and significant, particularly in these hard times.