City_Sean
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Guardian saying he's close to the exit door.
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Jimmy & Joe To Sign New Contracts
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oakiecokie
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SuperMario's Fireworks. said:Guardian saying he's close to the exit door.
Really ?? Got a link to it SMF ?
chris85mcfc
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SuperMario's Fireworks. said:Guardian saying he's close to the exit door.
Who was on the aisle seat?
If he doesn't sign that bloody contract by end of January then I hope the club has the balls to drop him from the CL squad. He has made a fool out of the club and would cost the club alot of money.
Why should the likes of willy and sagna be sacrificed. They left their old clubs where they were playing week in week out and committed themselves to gods own club, MCFC.
Stuff him. Let him rot unless hes prepared to commit.
Why should the likes of willy and sagna be sacrificed. They left their old clubs where they were playing week in week out and committed themselves to gods own club, MCFC.
Stuff him. Let him rot unless hes prepared to commit.
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'Manchester City are running out of time to tie James Milner down to a new deal, with the two parties still a long way off reaching an agreement and the England international currently weighing up three proposals from clubs in Spain and Italy, including a particularly attractive pre-contact offer that he would be free to sign this month.
While there is no guarantee that Milner will accept any of the opportunities in front of him at the moment – any pre-contract agreement with an overseas club would need to be signed before the end of the window – the chances of the midfielder remaining at City are receding by the week. Arsenal and Liverpool remain the most likely suitors if Milner chooses to remain in the Premier League when his contract expires in the summer.
City have not yet given up hope of keeping Milner, who joined them from Aston Villa in a £26m deal in 2010. Club officials met with Milner’s representatives last week and they are not a million miles apart when it comes to an agreement on the figures put forward in the proposed contract.
For Milner, however, the financial package is not going to determine where and when he signs his next deal. If the former Leeds trainee leaves on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling at the end of the season, he will be well remunerated wherever he pitches up. The burning issue, in Milner’s eyes, is what happens on the pitch over the next few years. He turned 29 earlier this month and, in short, wants to be playing every week.
Milner gets on well with Manuel Pellegrini, City’s manager, but there is no escaping the fact that he is frustrated with the amount of playing time that he has had under the Chilean and Roberto Mancini before. Although Milner has featured more regularly this season – he has started 11 Premier League games so far compared to 12 in the whole of the previous campaign – he is aware that injuries to key players, including Samir Nasri, Yaya Touré and David Silva, have helped his cause at times. When everyone is fit, Milner knows he is not a mandatory pick and is more likely to find himself on the bench.
Being substituted at half-time on Sunday, in the 2-0 home defeat against Arsenal, was a big disappointment and will have done nothing to allay Milner’s concerns about how he is viewed at City, especially as Nasri was injured for that match and Touré away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Pellegrini has spoken warmly about Milner’s attributes on plenty of occasions and often expressed his wish to hold onto the player. Yet there was bemusement among Milner’s camp when the City manager intimated earlier this month that an agreement between the club and player was imminent. “I hope that James will stay here and he will sign his contract in the next few days,” Pellegrini said following the 1-1 draw at Everton.
Despite regular and amicable talks with City, the bottom line is that Milner has never been close to putting pen to paper. Furthermore, while it is likely that the two sides will get together again soon, there are no further discussions currently scheduled to take place. Perhaps most significantly, it is hard to see how City can satisfy Milner’s desire to be starting more matches.
While the prospect of playing abroad is appealing, and the formal offer that has been tabled in the last fortnight from a top European club has provided serious food for thought, Milner has more to take into consideration since becoming a father last year and it may well be that he arrives at the decision that the timing is not right to venture overseas.
All of which will encourage Arsenal and Liverpool – Chelsea tried to sign Milner when he joined City from Villa but are not believed to be interested this time round – that there is a golden opportunity to pick up an England international, still in his 20s, on a free transfer in less than six months’ time.'
While there is no guarantee that Milner will accept any of the opportunities in front of him at the moment – any pre-contract agreement with an overseas club would need to be signed before the end of the window – the chances of the midfielder remaining at City are receding by the week. Arsenal and Liverpool remain the most likely suitors if Milner chooses to remain in the Premier League when his contract expires in the summer.
City have not yet given up hope of keeping Milner, who joined them from Aston Villa in a £26m deal in 2010. Club officials met with Milner’s representatives last week and they are not a million miles apart when it comes to an agreement on the figures put forward in the proposed contract.
For Milner, however, the financial package is not going to determine where and when he signs his next deal. If the former Leeds trainee leaves on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling at the end of the season, he will be well remunerated wherever he pitches up. The burning issue, in Milner’s eyes, is what happens on the pitch over the next few years. He turned 29 earlier this month and, in short, wants to be playing every week.
Milner gets on well with Manuel Pellegrini, City’s manager, but there is no escaping the fact that he is frustrated with the amount of playing time that he has had under the Chilean and Roberto Mancini before. Although Milner has featured more regularly this season – he has started 11 Premier League games so far compared to 12 in the whole of the previous campaign – he is aware that injuries to key players, including Samir Nasri, Yaya Touré and David Silva, have helped his cause at times. When everyone is fit, Milner knows he is not a mandatory pick and is more likely to find himself on the bench.
Being substituted at half-time on Sunday, in the 2-0 home defeat against Arsenal, was a big disappointment and will have done nothing to allay Milner’s concerns about how he is viewed at City, especially as Nasri was injured for that match and Touré away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Pellegrini has spoken warmly about Milner’s attributes on plenty of occasions and often expressed his wish to hold onto the player. Yet there was bemusement among Milner’s camp when the City manager intimated earlier this month that an agreement between the club and player was imminent. “I hope that James will stay here and he will sign his contract in the next few days,” Pellegrini said following the 1-1 draw at Everton.
Despite regular and amicable talks with City, the bottom line is that Milner has never been close to putting pen to paper. Furthermore, while it is likely that the two sides will get together again soon, there are no further discussions currently scheduled to take place. Perhaps most significantly, it is hard to see how City can satisfy Milner’s desire to be starting more matches.
While the prospect of playing abroad is appealing, and the formal offer that has been tabled in the last fortnight from a top European club has provided serious food for thought, Milner has more to take into consideration since becoming a father last year and it may well be that he arrives at the decision that the timing is not right to venture overseas.
All of which will encourage Arsenal and Liverpool – Chelsea tried to sign Milner when he joined City from Villa but are not believed to be interested this time round – that there is a golden opportunity to pick up an England international, still in his 20s, on a free transfer in less than six months’ time.'
Well played James. Well played. Cast in the role of salt-of-the-earth honest northern bloke, he made City think he'd sign a new deal if they played him more. And play him they have. But then the time comes and he wants more, something City apparently can't succumb to. And now he's set to land a huge signing-on fee somewhere and leave City embarrassed at losing a vital homegrown player who is worth 8 figures under a long-term contract.
Well played James. If he was Ivorian and named Yaya, Bluemoon would already be in meltdown.
Well played James. If he was Ivorian and named Yaya, Bluemoon would already be in meltdown.
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You get people slagging him off on here for being a mercenary, and hanging the club out to dry
And the sheer irony is that those same people want him to sign a new contract
Just why would those people want a so called mercenary at the club?
We should have sold him last summer, and yet for some bizarre reason we have took a footballers word that he is going to sign a new deal
And the sheer irony is that those same people want him to sign a new contract
Just why would those people want a so called mercenary at the club?
We should have sold him last summer, and yet for some bizarre reason we have took a footballers word that he is going to sign a new deal
chris85mcfc said:You get people slagging him off on here for being a mercenary, and hanging the club out to dry
And the sheer irony is that those same people want him to sign a new contract
Just why would those people want a so called mercenary at the club?
We should have sold him last summer, and yet for some bizarre reason we have took a footballers word that he is going to sign a new deal
He hasn't signed the new deal and my prime concern is for Manchester City FC not James Milner.
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I reckon Milners prime concern is whats best for him.....Ray78 said:chris85mcfc said:You get people slagging him off on here for being a mercenary, and hanging the club out to dry
And the sheer irony is that those same people want him to sign a new contract
Just why would those people want a so called mercenary at the club?
We should have sold him last summer, and yet for some bizarre reason we have took a footballers word that he is going to sign a new deal
He hasn't signed the new deal and my prime concern is for Manchester City FC not James Milner.