It's quiet 10, no apologies! (continued)

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Sorry to reignite the Brian Marwood debate but...

Roberto Mancini has had a major bust-up with his Manchester City bosses over their failure to land Robin van Persie.

City manager Mancini is on the warpath and has urged the club’s hierarchy to back him and not chief football administrator Brian Marwood in what has become a stand-off between the two men.

Marwood is determined to offload players - including Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz and Edin Dzeko - before going for Arsenal striker van Persie, and is stressing the need to balance the books and prepare for the new Financial Fair Play rules.

Van Persie is tipped for a move this summer after announcing he would not extend his Gunners contract, which expires at the end of the coming season.

He is understood to prefer a move to Italian champions Juventus or City's great rivals Manchester United, and a furious Mancini believes that is because the Premier League champs have not tried hard enough to land the Dutchman.

It has left Juventus and United further ahead of City in the race to sign van Persie, with the Italians indicating they are prepared to pay the £20m Arsenal say is RvP's minimum price after having an initial bid turned down.

Juve have also offered van Persie £190,000-a-week AFTER tax and have held talks with the Arsenal captain’s agent, Kees Vos.

The Gunners are understood to be bracing themselves for a new bid from United, after knocking back their opening gambit of around £12m.

Mancini is in a strong bargaining position, having recently signed a new five-year contract with the club he led to the title in May.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/robin-van-persie-transfer-roberto-1156503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... to-1156503</a>

It's 'has'....

 

[dctid]

Sorry to reignite the Brian Marwood debate but...

Roberto Mancini has had a major bust-up with his Manchester City bosses over their failure to land Robin van Persie.

City manager Mancini is on the warpath and has urged the club’s hierarchy to back him and not chief football administrator Brian Marwood in what has become a stand-off between the two men.

Marwood is determined to offload players - including Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz and Edin Dzeko - before going for Arsenal striker van Persie, and is stressing the need to balance the books and prepare for the new Financial Fair Play rules.

Van Persie is tipped for a move this summer after announcing he would not extend his Gunners contract, which expires at the end of the coming season.

He is understood to prefer a move to Italian champions Juventus or City's great rivals Manchester United, and a furious Mancini believes that is because the Premier League champs have not tried hard enough to land the Dutchman.

It has left Juventus and United further ahead of City in the race to sign van Persie, with the Italians indicating they are prepared to pay the £20m Arsenal say is RvP's minimum price after having an initial bid turned down.

Juve have also offered van Persie £190,000-a-week AFTER tax and have held talks with the Arsenal captain’s agent, Kees Vos.

The Gunners are understood to be bracing themselves for a new bid from United, after knocking back their opening gambit of around £12m.

Mancini is in a strong bargaining position, having recently signed a new five-year contract with the club he led to the title in May.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/robin-van-persie-transfer-roberto-1156503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... to-1156503</a>

Dont really know what to make of it really

If this report is true then i find myself agreeing with Marwood - we really dont need a new striker thats not too say we should not but one if available but for fucks sake we have a singificant hole in midfield and centre half which have to take priority

If however Marwood is insisting that we offload players before we can buy full stop then we could be stuffed

Dont understand how any manager would accept the sales of two top top draw quality strikers without having a replacement lined up and RvP is definately nowhere near lined up

If he goes to the rags then they are going to be extremely strong next season

 

[flb]

Sorry to reignite the Brian Marwood debate but...

Roberto Mancini has had a major bust-up with his Manchester City bosses over their failure to land Robin van Persie.

City manager Mancini is on the warpath and has urged the club’s hierarchy to back him and not chief football administrator Brian Marwood in what has become a stand-off between the two men.

Marwood is determined to offload players - including Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz and Edin Dzeko - before going for Arsenal striker van Persie, and is stressing the need to balance the books and prepare for the new Financial Fair Play rules.

Van Persie is tipped for a move this summer after announcing he would not extend his Gunners contract, which expires at the end of the coming season.

He is understood to prefer a move to Italian champions Juventus or City's great rivals Manchester United, and a furious Mancini believes that is because the Premier League champs have not tried hard enough to land the Dutchman.

It has left Juventus and United further ahead of City in the race to sign van Persie, with the Italians indicating they are prepared to pay the £20m Arsenal say is RvP's minimum price after having an initial bid turned down.

Juve have also offered van Persie £190,000-a-week AFTER tax and have held talks with the Arsenal captain’s agent, Kees Vos.

The Gunners are understood to be bracing themselves for a new bid from United, after knocking back their opening gambit of around £12m.

Mancini is in a strong bargaining position, having recently signed a new five-year contract with the club he led to the title in May.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/robin-van-persie-transfer-roberto-1156503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... to-1156503</a>

Regurgitated dogshit from the original Ferguson arse licker Bob Cass from the Daily Mail.

No quotes or fuck all, wouldn't wipe my crack on that red biased tripe.

 

[mancityscot]

as much as i think that story is taken a little too far, infact taken very far as there is no chance mancini will leave but i do think he may be getting pissed off with not being able to spend any money. we need a few new additions and i think mancini knows this. i believe there may be a bit of friction between marwood and mancini

 

[Roll On City]

The sooner Marwood Fucks off the better

 

[waspish]

Not one quote total bollocks! If Juventus have offered 20m they are mugs let him go there! Frankly I don't believe that either!! it's just an arsenal reporter doing the work of Wenger to get the best price for RVP

 

[Goo]

TH already warned us that these articles would be coming out.

Baconface is cosying up to the media again and that will always be at the perceived detriment of us!

Ignore it!

 

[waspish]

The sooner Marwood Fucks off the better

Don't fall for it the papers are full of shit

 

[Tevez City]

The sooner Marwood Fucks off the better

But Khaldoon may not agree with you.

 

[Ray78]

We are getting close to either agreeing a fee with Arsenal, or we are entering negotiations to agree personal terms with RvP. Bullshit articles like this one always crop up when we are landing a major target.