Isco

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

Well I want to know the reason why Txiki has no matched Madrid's €24m bid, it's absolutely criminal in my mind we have not payed that.

How do you know what we have or haven't bid? I certainly don't and neither do you. Perhaps we matched it but he just prefers to go to Madrid. Perhaps he'll still come to us.

If we have matched it mate I think he will come to us.

Put yourself in Isco's shoes, it would be career suicide going to Real at this moment in my career.

He still needs to develop and be under the wing of a manager who knows and understands him and will be patient with him.

Madrid want ready made superstars for success now, they don't have time to develop players in the meantime as their expectations are ridiculous.

Watching Malaga last season showed us Isco had his good games and and bad games, he is still developing, and I don't think going to Madrid will help him become the player he wants to be.

He declared it was game time he wanted before the euros competition, I guarantee he would have more at City.

Look at Madrid as well, if they get their targets this Summer in Suarez and Bale to name just some, they will look like this:

-----Suarez---
Ronaldo-Ozil-Bale

Good luck to him getting the amount of game time he really wants in that side, plus he is fighting Di Maria, Modric, Callejon and Kaka.

I sound a bit angry and I apologise, but I hope you can see where I am coming from mate.

I know exactly what you're saying. But let's play devils advocate for a minute.

You've been made an offer by one of the most glamorous clubs in the world. You get to stay in Spain in a culture you're familiar with. You will have a top class manager. You're more likely to play for the national team playing for a Spanish club. You have a chance of playing in a CL final or semi final most seasons. The downside is there's lots of competition in your position.

If you go to City you play under a manager you know and trust plus you'll get plenty of games but the club is still very much in a development phase. We've never got out of the CL group phase. You're in an unfamiliar culture (although there are plenty of Spanish speakers). Perhaps you'd be tempted if we offered stupid money but we don't do that anymore.

 

[kye1991]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

TIXI - OFFER GARCIA TO MALAGA ON LOAN

That will clinch it

let them fucking have him if it seals the deal throw in kolarov tevez and barry too

 

[nederblue]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

I'm not a rag.. In Arabic in my dialect, Raggi means watermelon. I only posted the Marca post as it kept popping up on the twitter feed. Sorry for the confusion.

Raggi is a Moroccan porn actor. Proof you are a RAG if I ever needed it...

"Raggi has been active since 1994. In late 2011 Raggi suddenly departed from the adult industry[citation needed] due to reports of a drug-related arrest. Raggi appeared in a large portfolio of various adult videos, mainly European hardcore anal pornography."

 

[Joehannes]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

Didn't ISCO say I will decide my future yesterday - that didn't happen either unless he has decided and no formal release anywhere yet.

If he has told us he's not coming, would have expected to hear something from the club.

According to AS (inb4 "Spanish media!"), the hold up is whether Real Madrid will loan Cheryshev to Malaga. People saying Isco's quotes are old are wrong - he said it yesterday and was reported to be very excited as he said it. I think people are really clutching at straws - every bit of evidence points to a Real Madrid move and the player himself implied it without being able to confirm it (as the clubs are in the final haggling process over the loan of a player before it's all signed). AS say it could be announced Thursday or Friday.

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Completely agree with this. I'm not a pessimist when it comes to City and transfers, but it strikes me that this deal is done to Madrid.

Really surprises me though that people think this is such a blow if we don't sign him. The characteristics which Isco has can be found in many players across Europe. Isco just happens to be flavour of the month and one of the easier transfers to do because his club are financially fucked and therefore have to sell him.

One thing Isco has that very few of the players with similar attributes have: Balls.

 

[Blue Haze]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

We learn the lesson once again- speed is everything. For 27 days of the January window, Isco had a 17m buyout. Many on the forum begged City to act. We didn't act. He signed his new contract on 28 January. Then all the messing around with Pellegrini's confirmation, letting him go to the U21 and having an outstanding performance.

We waited too long, each time thinking we could get a better price later. Whatever we were trying to save wasn't worth what we lost. Meanwhile Perez just rolled in and slapped down the cash, game over.

 

[CitizenTID]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

I said earlier in the thread that I reckon he will go to Real Madrid.

However, if on the off chance he comes to us does it no bother anyone that he want s to come (mainly) because of the manager? I mean, what happens if he gets sacked after 6 months, does Isco leave? What happens if Isco turns out to be shit, does Pelli have to play him all the time because he is his 'father in football'?

They are just a couple of concerns

He was pictured wearing a City shirt. That'll do it for me.

 

[Eds]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

On June 1 Marca even reported that we wouldn't be bidding for Isco!!!!

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

TIXI - OFFER GARCIA TO MALAGA ON LOAN

That will clinch it

let them fucking have him if it seals the deal throw in kolarov tevez and barry too

Are we trying to sweeten the deal or make sure he ends up at Madrid?

 

[mackenzie]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

Nothing official from either side.

Stay calm.

That's how I feel too. If it hasn't been announced yet than he is yet to have signed for either club.

 

[grim up north]

Re: Isco (Part 8 (weekend saga part 3))

Didn't ISCO say I will decide my future yesterday - that didn't happen either unless he has decided and no formal release anywhere yet.

If he has told us he's not coming, would have expected to hear something from the club.

According to AS (inb4 "Spanish media!"), the hold up is whether Real Madrid will loan Cheryshev to Malaga. People saying Isco's quotes are old are wrong - he said it yesterday and was reported to be very excited as he said it. I think people are really clutching at straws - every bit of evidence points to a Real Madrid move and the player himself implied it without being able to confirm it (as the clubs are in the final haggling process over the loan of a player before it's all signed). AS say it could be announced Thursday or Friday.

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Completely agree with this. I'm not a pessimist when it comes to City and transfers, but it strikes me that this deal is done to Madrid.

Really surprises me though that people think this is such a blow if we don't sign him. The characteristics which Isco has can be found in many players across Europe. Isco just happens to be flavour of the month and one of the easier transfers to do because his club are financially fucked and therefore have to sell him.

Agree with this cannot understand all the flapping