City End Eto Chase - Official

Im not going to do the usual Rag thing by saying "he was shite anyway". I am genuinely gutted we pulled out, Eto'o is a great player and he would've improved our team a fair bit. The positive note is that we have shown that we wear the trousers when it comes to transfer dealings, hope we approach players of similiar quality. Wonder how the press will interpret this?
 
i'm not that gutted we've pulled out tbh, not doubting his ability or anything and i never really thought he'd come to us anyway, think city need to pull their finger out now and get someone decent signed up, i.e Tevez!
 
After the fuss has died down, the club being associated with the likes of Eto and Kaka can only be good.

We've got Robinho, we need one or two more in his class. They will come. We just have to have a bit of patience.
 
his loss, if we get tevez,still think weve got enough to score plenty of goals with hopefully, tevez,robinho, santa cruz and belalmy in reserve, with stephen ireland chipping in with a few.
 
I know im clutching at straws, but can you not imagine chelsea asking us to drop interest in eto'o as part of the tery deal. Or am I just cushioning a fall with by setting myself for a bigger fall?
 
biffa said:
JohnMaddocksAxe said:
What is all this 'great to see us not being messed around stuff as we called it off'?

Why are people so keen to swallow the spin?

We've obviously already been dicked around for several weeks, the whole affair got into the public arena and, if the player is the greedy cnut that people are now claiming and just wanted some interest to get a new contract, then, by that reasoning, he is the one who has got what he wanted and City have got nothing other than another transfer target who has said he isn't interested.

Now, personally I don't care whether people turn City down or not. I think they should have the ambition to go for people and anyone in the press or in the ranks of fans of other clubs who take the piss over it is a clown imo.

However, City, Cook, Hughes, whoever would have cut their left bollock off to get Etoo. They have obviously been pandering to the bloke for some time. So don't mistake all this 'City end interest' stuff for anything other than PR to try to avoid the 'City given brush off again' headlines.

If Etoo phoned up tomorrow and said 'I'll sign for what you are offering they'd be on a plane to Barca tomorrow. And rightly so.

It's all spin. Just like the 'we won't pay over the odds' spin that they come out with.

Of course we fucking will. That's the way of the world when you are loaded. Don't pretend otherwise.
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You have the ability to start an argument in an empty room. Of course it's PR, what we are saying is that ii's good PR, City can't afford to have the bad PR we had after the Kaka deal went tits up. Nobody is pretending.
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There's a few 'we are calling the shots/great professionalism/that'll show em/we're in charge type comments on this thread. There's loads on the transfer forum.

I just get a bit annoyed by spin (in anything, not just football) and it makes me laugh that people swallow it so easy.

I mean, that article in the Evening News today, FFS.

Be patient, we won't get everyone, and then this less than 24 hours later. I take it as a bit of an insult to my intelligence, to be honest.

Am I honestly supposed to read that and think 'Oh, ok I won't be disapointed' and then a few hours later think 'Well, I'm not disapointed Etoo isn't coming because I was told not to be this morning'.

I accept a certain amount of spin and bs is always going to be necessary but there's a bit too much of it coming out of City over the past year imo.

Mind you, when people lap it up so much, why not?
 
JohnMaddocksAxe said:
What is all this 'great to see us not being messed around stuff as we called it off'?

Why are people so keen to swallow the spin?

We've obviously already been dicked around for several weeks, the whole affair got into the public arena and, if the player is the greedy cnut that people are now claiming and just wanted some interest to get a new contract, then, by that reasoning, he is the one who has got what he wanted and City have got nothing other than another transfer target who has said he isn't interested.

Now, personally I don't care whether people turn City down or not. I think they should have the ambition to go for people and anyone in the press or in the ranks of fans of other clubs who take the piss over it is a clown imo.

However, City, Cook, Hughes, whoever would have cut their left bollock off to get Etoo. They have obviously been pandering to the bloke for some time. So don't mistake all this 'City end interest' stuff for anything other than PR to try to avoid the 'City given brush off again' headlines.

If Etoo phoned up tomorrow and said 'I'll sign for what you are offering they'd be on a plane to Barca tomorrow. And rightly so.

It's all spin. Just like the 'we won't pay over the odds' spin that they come out with.

Of course we fucking will. That's the way of the world when you are loaded. Don't pretend otherwise.
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It makes people feel better:)

Of course we get dicked around. Its inevitable given the targets we are after and like yourself I don't really care but as I said people invest a lot in the 'daily will he/won't he' bollocks so making out Cookie is a business mastermind or whatever makes people feel better.
 
I might be clutching at straws, but.......this could be a ploy by City to force the deal.

Barca and Eto'o's relationship must now be untenable. It would appear that Barca have made it clear they don't want Eto'o by letting him enter the final year of his contract and insulting him with a 2 year extension on the same till. Barca want to cash in because they need money for Eto'o's replacement. If they don't sell, Eto'o walks on a freebie and they'll have to stump up €40M from scratch to replace him.

Eto'o may now have to spend a year at club that do not want him whilst potentially missing out on untold millons from us. Sure, he'll get a signing on fee at the end of next season, but no-one will match our wages for a then 29 year old. Inter or AC may appeal, but I doubt they'll offer much more than £100K a week which represents a £15m loss to Eto'o over a comparable 3 year deal with us.

City have seen this stalemate develop between Barca and the ridiculous loyalty payments in their contracts and Eto'o's greed and said 'Right, we're walking'. By doing this, they will now force Barca and Eto'o to compramise or they'll both loose out.
 
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