City End Eto Chase - Official

[yozzer]

Re: Eto'o No

anger management,,jack nicholson,adam sandler ..take a look guys and chill

 

[phil williams]

he will come beging us 2 sign him next season then we will tell him he can play .but he will have to cut the pitch and we will pay him 10 bob?

 

[bluemoondays]

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.

Sounds plausible, Barca lose him on a free and Eto'o misses out on a huge pay deal now City have walked off. Barca and Eto'o need to sort their shit out or both lose big time, maybe more developments in a few weeks time?

 

[mammutly]

Behind the scenes at City, something isn't quite right when it comes to bagging top players.

But I believe that in time, the club will get it right.

Using the rags as perhaps the clearest example ( and don't forget Hughes was schooled there), the person that makes deals happen and soothes the player's egos or whatever is Ferguson. Look at the Berbatov saga. Alex Ferguson drove to the airport himself and picked the player up. He did not leave it to 'suits'.

Mark Hughes said in January that some people at the club needed to learn how football deals are done. That lesson remains outstanding IMO. Forget the people around the player for a moment. If Eto had been personally convinced/committed to the move, he would have come to City. Ronaldo has just gone to Real for just that reason.

I think there is too much reliance on 'business' and 'strategy' to the detriment of the personal factor. It should not be left to the likes of Cooke to convince players like Eto to come to City. Hughes should be doing that - personally.

 

[LCBblue]

All WUM's now apologise and eat ur humble pie!

 

[manchester blue]

Behind the scenes at City, something isn't quite right when it comes to bagging top players.

But I believe that in time, the club will get it right.

Using the rags as perhaps the clearest example ( and don't forget Hughes was schooled there), the person that makes deals happen and soothes the player's egos or whatever is Ferguson. Look at the Berbatov saga. Alex Ferguson drove to the airport himself and picked the player up. He did not leave it to 'suits'.

Mark Hughes said in January that some people at the club needed to learn how football deals are done. That lesson remains outstanding IMO. Forget the people around the player for a moment. If Eto had been personally convinced/committed to the move, he would have come to City. Ronaldo has just gone to Real for just that reason.

I think there is too much reliance on 'business' and 'strategy' to the detriment of the personal factor. It should not be left to the likes of Cooke to convince players like Eto to come to City. Hughes should be doing that - personally.

Disagree. Ferguson practically kidnapped Berbatov at the airport in panic that he was heading to us. I think there is nothing wrong with the way we are going about it. Fact is we're not yet an attractive enough proposition.

 

[biffa]

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.

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.

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?

Because football, and in particular City, are such big news world wide it's would be so easy for City to get caught out and get bad publicity, they are being pro-active with spin. I share your frustration JMA, but it will be right come the end of August. Trophies are on their way mate :)

 

[mammutly]

Behind the scenes at City, something isn't quite right when it comes to bagging top players.

But I believe that in time, the club will get it right.

Using the rags as perhaps the clearest example ( and don't forget Hughes was schooled there), the person that makes deals happen and soothes the player's egos or whatever is Ferguson. Look at the Berbatov saga. Alex Ferguson drove to the airport himself and picked the player up. He did not leave it to 'suits'.

Mark Hughes said in January that some people at the club needed to learn how football deals are done. That lesson remains outstanding IMO. Forget the people around the player for a moment. If Eto had been personally convinced/committed to the move, he would have come to City. Ronaldo has just gone to Real for just that reason.

I think there is too much reliance on 'business' and 'strategy' to the detriment of the personal factor. It should not be left to the likes of Cooke to convince players like Eto to come to City. Hughes should be doing that - personally.

Disagree. Ferguson practically kidnapped Berbatov at the airport in panic that he was heading to us. I think there is nothing wrong with the way we are going about it. Fact is we're not yet an attractive enough proposition.

If Mark Hughes had gone to Eto in the same style and said 'look son! Come with me to City' I wouldn't have complained.

We aren't going to get to be an attractive proposition without securing the right players. Barry and RSC are not the right players.

 

[RealMancsAreBlue]

You have to wonder if Robinho is going to want to stay if we fail to sign any 'big' names....... I doubt he saw the big 'project' as being Roque Santa Cruz and Wayne Bridge......

 

[Nelly's Left Foot]

"Barry and RSC are not the right players."

Ok must be right if MM has spoken.