City stick to their guns...

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samharris

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Taken from the mirror this morning...

Barcelona were last night fighting a losing battle in a bid to persuade Manchester City to resurrect their £25million offer for striker Samuel Eto'o.

City pulled the plug on the deal late on Friday night after refusing a request from Barca president Joan Laporte to once again extend a deadline for the transfer to be concluded.

The Catalan club, desperate to sell Eto'o to the Blues to help fund their own £35m move for Valencia's David Villa, spent yesterday trying to resume negotiations with City's hierarchy. But chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarek was adamant City were no longer interested in Eto'o.

A City insider told Sunday Mirror Sport: "The decision to end negotiations with Barca for Eto'o is not a bluff.




"Khaldoon felt negotiations had reached a dead end and it was time to draw a line under the episode and concentrate on other targets.

"Khaldoon is not the kind of man to make U-turns once a statement of intent has been made public.

"He decided Manchester City were not going to get caught in the crossfire of the game between Barcelona and Eto'o."
 
JULES said:
thats funny because it just said on sky sports that eto had"snubbed" a move t city
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It makes for a better story with the word "snubbed" in it...we all know the truth and thats all that matters.
 
squirtyflower said:
JULES said:
thats funny because it just said on sky sports that eto had"snubbed" a move t city
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It's taken them a day and a half to finally come up with 'snubbed', my they are on fire at the moment.
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Especially as now the rags have been linked with him..looks better for them.

Which sounds best...

eto'o snubs City for united.......or City snub eto'o making room for United.
 
samharris said:
JULES said:
thats funny because it just said on sky sports that eto had"snubbed" a move t city
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It makes for a better story with the word "snubbed" in it...we all know the truth and thats all that matters.
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What is the truth then? He wasn't exactly racing across hot coals to join us, was he?

It's all just semantics. Yes, we pulled out of the deal. But only after it became clear that he had no real desire to play for us. "Snubbed" might not be the most perfect word ("ignored" would probably be better), but it's hardly a million miles away from the truth.
 
Dubai Blue said:
samharris said:
JULES said:
thats funny because it just said on sky sports that eto had"snubbed" a move t city
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It makes for a better story with the word "snubbed" in it...we all know the truth and thats all that matters.
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What is the truth then? He wasn't exactly racing across hot coals to join us, was he?

It's all just semantics. Yes, we pulled out of the deal. But only after it became clear that he had no real desire to play for us. "Snubbed" might not be the most perfect word ("ignored" would probably be better), but it's hardly a million miles away from the truth.
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Sorry ..but I thought it was all about the 12 million loyalty payment issue that was dragging on...he had the right to fight for it but not at the expense of making us wait or even contributing to it..
 
samharris said:
squirtyflower said:
JULES said:
thats funny because it just said on sky sports that eto had"snubbed" a move t city
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It's taken them a day and a half to finally come up with 'snubbed', my they are on fire at the moment.
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Especially as now the rags have been linked with him..looks better for them.

Which sounds best...

eto'o snubs City for united.......or City snub eto'o making room for United.
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Yes, I can't see them wanting to go for a City 'reject' lol
 
samharris said:
Sorry ..but I thought it was all about the 12 million loyalty payment issue that was dragging on...he had the right to fight for it but not at the expense of making us wait or even contributing to it..
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I think you'd be surprised at how quickly that issue would be sorted if it was tha rags or Milan who were in for him. He had no real desire to join us and the loyalty payment thing was a convenient way of keeping us at bay while he waited for other suitors.

But that's only my opinion, and you're perfectly entitled to yours.
 
Dubai Blue said:
samharris said:
Sorry ..but I thought it was all about the 12 million loyalty payment issue that was dragging on...he had the right to fight for it but not at the expense of making us wait or even contributing to it..
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I think you'd be surprised at how quickly that issue would be sorted if it was tha rags or Milan who were in for him. He had no real desire to join us and the loyalty payment thing was a convenient way of keeping us at bay while he waited for other suitors.

But that's only my opinion, and you're perfectly entitled to yours.
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At this moment in time it's difficult to say which premise is correct. It would be good if at sometime the truth came out, but it rarely does as neither party would have any reason to.
 
I think closer to the truth was,Eto;o didn;t snub us or ignore us.He said if nothing better then ok IMO.Our owner won;t except that by the looks of it, from any player and so he shouldn;t.With that attitude we would of got some sh"t package.Fair play to our owners,we are in good hands.
 
Dubai Blue said:
samharris said:
Sorry ..but I thought it was all about the 12 million loyalty payment issue that was dragging on...he had the right to fight for it but not at the expense of making us wait or even contributing to it..
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I think you'd be surprised at how quickly that issue would be sorted if it was tha rags or Milan who were in for him. He had no real desire to join us and the loyalty payment thing was a convenient way of keeping us at bay while he waited for other suitors.

But that's only my opinion, and you're perfectly entitled to yours.
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Your opinion is probably more close to the truth than mine tbh...The main thing is that we did the right thing and pulled out.
But where were the scum and Milan ??If anything we have had our Clubs great name in the papers once more with a high profile offer on the table, at least we've added to the great Manchester City pr Machine.
 
Always thought Khaldoon was great, turns up to matches and says all the right things in the media. Shame I can't say the same about Cookie.
 
Dubai Blue said:
samharris said:
Sorry ..but I thought it was all about the 12 million loyalty payment issue that was dragging on...he had the right to fight for it but not at the expense of making us wait or even contributing to it..
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I think you'd be surprised at how quickly that issue would be sorted if it was tha rags or Milan who were in for him. He had no real desire to join us and the loyalty payment thing was a convenient way of keeping us at bay while he waited for other suitors.

But that's only my opinion, and you're perfectly entitled to yours.
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Have to disagree. Eto'o os all about the money, and when it became clear that seeing out his contract was the most lucrative route, he chose that.
 
samharris said:
Taken from the mirror this morning...

Barcelona were last night fighting a losing battle in a bid to persuade Manchester City to resurrect their £25million offer for striker Samuel Eto'o.

City pulled the plug on the deal late on Friday night after refusing a request from Barca president Joan Laporte to once again extend a deadline for the transfer to be concluded.

The Catalan club, desperate to sell Eto'o to the Blues to help fund their own £35m move for Valencia's David Villa, spent yesterday trying to resume negotiations with City's hierarchy. But chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarek was adamant City were no longer interested in Eto'o.

A City insider told Sunday Mirror Sport: "The decision to end negotiations with Barca for Eto'o is not a bluff.




"Khaldoon felt negotiations had reached a dead end and it was time to draw a line under the episode and concentrate on other targets.

"Khaldoon is not the kind of man to make U-turns once a statement of intent has been made public.

"He decided Manchester City were not going to get caught in the crossfire of the game between Barcelona and Eto'o."
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That's just brillinat.

Well done Cooke, Khaldoon etc
 
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