Bellamy to the dippers?

[allblackcitizen]

Can't see any benefit at all in this, and unless the stories like this and about the Adebayor deal are countered by the club (I'm hoping they're not true) we're in real danger of being seen as a soft touch for future transfers.

That's my fear as well. We have set ourselves up as a charity rather than a business by the looks of it!

I'm all for giving Bellamy a free transfer... if that means the contract is cancelled. But if it means we're ALSO paying him off, that's madness.

Same for Adebayor. Loan him out by all means, but not if it costs us money. However, I am more confident that the Adebayor deal will see us paying none of Ade's wages. Or so it's been claimed.

I did say at the start of this transfer window that Bellamy was only ever going to go on a free, that talk of us getting £4m was fanciful.

I just hope the club haven't created an image where we "give away" all the players out of favour. At some point we have to make a stand and get some money in![/quote]

I'm afraid this image will continue to gain force for as long as we so publicly and obviously freeze out players who are no longer in the manager's plans. The fact that they are no longer in the manager's plans is fine in itself, but I don't agree with them being ostracised so publicly by the club. It's bad on a human level (until a player is transferred he should be part of the club and treated as such) and it's bad on a business level (every other club are encouraged to take advantage of a situation we have created unnecessarily). Bellamy, Bridge, even RSC have some value to other clubs and we shouldn't be subsidising it. Hell, the rags somehow managed to get £3m for Obertan and Bellamy, even at 30+ and with 2 dodgy knees, is twice the player that wierdo will ever be.

Of course, it's also encouraged by the universal knowledge that ultimately the Sheikh don't exactly need the money.

 

[Andouble]

at the time, we had to buy these good but not great players to take us from mid-table to a European team. We're paying the price now, but these types of players were vital to what we were trying to do at the time. Had to be done, really.

 

[allblackcitizen]

at the time, we had to buy these good but not great players to take us from mid-table to a European team. We're paying the price now, but these types of players were vital to what we were trying to do at the time. Had to be done, really.

Agreed. But I don't think we should be casting them aside in the way we are doing, like just so much rotting garbage. Doesn't do much for the club's image or balance sheet.

 

[Andouble]

at the time, we had to buy these good but not great players to take us from mid-table to a European team. We're paying the price now, but these types of players were vital to what we were trying to do at the time. Had to be done, really.

Agreed. But I don't think we should be casting them aside in the way we are doing, like just so much rotting garbage. Doesn't do much for the club's image or balance sheet.

agree wth you there. You'd think 2 men and professionals like Mancini and Bellamy would be able to have a professional working relationship. Guess not.

 

[mancboy123]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

 

[southern muppet]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

To be fair as far as we know Adebayor never had any problem with Hughes or Mourinho.

 

[eastlands oasis]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

To be fair as far as we know Adebayor never had any problem with Hughes or Mourinho.

thats because he didnt work with them long enough to piss them off with his strops, he never worked with either for more than 6 months.

 

[Mancio]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

To be fair as far as we know Adebayor never had any problem with Hughes or Mourinho.

so why mourinho doesnt signed him now ?<br /><br />-- Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:12 pm --<br /><br />

at the time, we had to buy these good but not great players to take us from mid-table to a European team. We're paying the price now, but these types of players were vital to what we were trying to do at the time. Had to be done, really.

i disagree. City could have got the same goal signing young gifted players from all over the world instead of the fuckying "PL proven" aged players.

 

[pudge]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

To be fair as far as we know Adebayor never had any problem with Hughes or Mourinho.

so why mourinho doesnt signed him now ?

-- Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:12 pm --

at the time, we had to buy these good but not great players to take us from mid-table to a European team. We're paying the price now, but these types of players were vital to what we were trying to do at the time. Had to be done, really.

i disagree. City could have got the same goal signing young gifted players from all over the world instead of the fuckying "PL proven" aged players.

'Young and gifted' doesn't mean they live up to their potential or hack it in the Premier League, the toughest league in the world. Added to the fact that 'wonderkids' cost more than most players.

Also on Mourinho not signing him, he could have had the best relationship in the world with him, doesn't mean he has to sign him does it?

 

[allblackcitizen]

Bellamy has never managed to have a professional relationship with any manager of any club hes ever been at much like adebayor. This will never change until they realise that it is them who is the prob not everyone else

Not quite true that is it. While Bellamy is no doubt a difficult character to manage, Hughes and Robson (at Newcastle) managed him pretty well. I don't remember Bellamy having too many issues at West Ham or Celtic either. Or his early clubs for that matter.