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Depends on the lad, doesn't it. If Mino's involved, then he holds all the cards against us. If the lad does seem to want to join, then... how would you really know that was the truth? He's young and smart, and well advised. It's easy to use a club to get a bigger salary from elsewhere.
If the word was he was interested, then you can bet Mino will extract every last penny from Txiki and co. They would have to put their fate squarely in his hands. He could just laugh at them and fuck them over publicly yet again, despite Erling maybe never even for a second having thought seriously about anywhere but Real.
It's like... hmm. Here's how I see it. What happened with the super league, we fucked the others over, took them over the point of signing the contracts, then dumped them and acted contrite to UEFA and the FA. The biggest losers in reputation where Perez, and the American owners of Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool, Spurs. The only one who actually lost their job, was Woodward. Woodward being Mino's perenial cash cow. Perez being the one with the agreement in place for Haaland.
You see how inadvertently, we'd aligned Mino and Perez. PSG stayed at the top of the tree in terms of UEFA positions. Mino worked wonders for them, Perez knowing this means he will take Mbappe to Real. Mino now holds that last card in the game, the ace of spades, Haaland.
It's a power game. We won the first round, hilarious little bluff that one. We lost the second, when we went back to Levy & Spurs, who were also stung by our about face in the superleague. We folded before the river, left ourselves short going forward, and Spurs looking defiant and stronger. Then Utd pulled a fast one. Didn't mind because it looked poor for PSG/Real/Mino regarding Mbappe replacements. But really - Mino is sitting there with the whole game in his right pocket, waiting for us to start betting.
He could easily just play nice and give it to us for a high price. That could be the true answer for his 'business'. But realistically, we've upset a lot of people. Even him - look back to Txiki/Pep/Ibra. Sure, they say there's no problem, but you really wanna believe that?
The problem is that our scalp is valuable. Destabilising and making fools out of us yet again, would be a token highly valued by members of that extensive list of influential high profile owners and chairmen who may want to hurt us, stop us, for professional and personal reasons..
Really, City's best choices here for me are -
1. Chairman says. It's do or die. Fuck this up and I can't protect you, this is your standing as a result of your dealings in this market. You made this bed and will now lie on it.
2. Let a different person handle this one, not the usual guys. And do so publicly.
3. Go elsewhere. Anyone think Kane looks like a good fit LOL?
Anyway, that's my thruppence. I won't be waiting for news. It will please some of you to hear I'm taking a break from the club and board for a bit. The Mendy thing has confused thing - how I percieve last year's heroics - and left me questioning who we are as a club. Evans, Bannell, Johnson, Robinho, Mendy, is quite a list, and others have fallen for the high life in different ways.... should we be doing something different here? Anyway, I'm going to let the dust settle on that, and get off the hamster wheel.
If the word was he was interested, then you can bet Mino will extract every last penny from Txiki and co. They would have to put their fate squarely in his hands. He could just laugh at them and fuck them over publicly yet again, despite Erling maybe never even for a second having thought seriously about anywhere but Real.
It's like... hmm. Here's how I see it. What happened with the super league, we fucked the others over, took them over the point of signing the contracts, then dumped them and acted contrite to UEFA and the FA. The biggest losers in reputation where Perez, and the American owners of Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool, Spurs. The only one who actually lost their job, was Woodward. Woodward being Mino's perenial cash cow. Perez being the one with the agreement in place for Haaland.
You see how inadvertently, we'd aligned Mino and Perez. PSG stayed at the top of the tree in terms of UEFA positions. Mino worked wonders for them, Perez knowing this means he will take Mbappe to Real. Mino now holds that last card in the game, the ace of spades, Haaland.
It's a power game. We won the first round, hilarious little bluff that one. We lost the second, when we went back to Levy & Spurs, who were also stung by our about face in the superleague. We folded before the river, left ourselves short going forward, and Spurs looking defiant and stronger. Then Utd pulled a fast one. Didn't mind because it looked poor for PSG/Real/Mino regarding Mbappe replacements. But really - Mino is sitting there with the whole game in his right pocket, waiting for us to start betting.
He could easily just play nice and give it to us for a high price. That could be the true answer for his 'business'. But realistically, we've upset a lot of people. Even him - look back to Txiki/Pep/Ibra. Sure, they say there's no problem, but you really wanna believe that?
The problem is that our scalp is valuable. Destabilising and making fools out of us yet again, would be a token highly valued by members of that extensive list of influential high profile owners and chairmen who may want to hurt us, stop us, for professional and personal reasons..
Really, City's best choices here for me are -
1. Chairman says. It's do or die. Fuck this up and I can't protect you, this is your standing as a result of your dealings in this market. You made this bed and will now lie on it.
2. Let a different person handle this one, not the usual guys. And do so publicly.
3. Go elsewhere. Anyone think Kane looks like a good fit LOL?
Anyway, that's my thruppence. I won't be waiting for news. It will please some of you to hear I'm taking a break from the club and board for a bit. The Mendy thing has confused thing - how I percieve last year's heroics - and left me questioning who we are as a club. Evans, Bannell, Johnson, Robinho, Mendy, is quite a list, and others have fallen for the high life in different ways.... should we be doing something different here? Anyway, I'm going to let the dust settle on that, and get off the hamster wheel.