Mc Donald Mariga deal done (Merged)

Don't remember him much but I know he was part of the pretty exciting Helsingborg team from a couple of years ago. Couldn't really say if he's good enough for our squad though.
 
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City's first about 722 million player!

Now that would be funny if true. (can't say why, otherwise I'd be obsessed)

Nairobi — Parma have accepted a E10 million offer (about Sh722 million) from Manchester City for Kenyan international McDonald Mariga, according to reports from Italy and England.

Mariga had been linked with Italian champions Inter but Parma sporting director, Pietro Leonardi, apparently met with City on Thursday.

He was able to convince the English club over 22-year-old Mariga's E10m fee during a series of talks which untangled the move.

Once the transfer is compelete, Mariga will become Kenya's richest sportsman and the first ever to play in the English Premier League.

City turned to Mariga after seeing negotiations stall with Real Madrid in their attempts to sign Fernando Gago. City were ready to bid £6million for Mariga, according to reports in Italy, and could offer Valeri Bojinov as part of the deal.

Bulgaria striker Bojinov, 23, has scored four goals in 15 appearances since joining Parma on loan at the start of the season and he is keen to stay in Italy.

Harry Redknapp tried to sign Mariga for Portsmouth from Swedish side Helsingborgs three years ago, but work permit issues scuppered the deal.

But the 6ft 2in marauding midfielder has cemented himself as a regular at Parma, winning many admirers after joining the club in 2007.

Signed four-year deal

Mariga would be an alternative to Gago, who was keen to sign City only for Madrid to block his exit.

Mariga started his playing career at Pipeline FC. He was a member of the Kamukunji High School 'Golden Boys', which also included Dennis Oliech (Auxerre), that won two consecutive national championships in 2002 and 2003.

The central midfielder went to Sweden in 2005 to play for third Division side Enkopings SK. After only one season at ESK, he signed for Helsingborgs IF before the 2006 season. His success at Olympia was immediate.

Following initial interest from Redknapp, Mariga looked set to sign for the Premier League team, but work permit issues held up the deal which was supposed to have cost around E2.7 million.

He moved to the Serie A club Parma on loan in August 2007. Mariga agreed to a four year deal to keep him at Parma for four years until the end of June 2012, after the club paid a transfer fee for E1.94 million. The deal was brokered by former Swede great Martin Dahlin.

Mariga played 35 times for Parma in the Serie B during the 2008-2009 season scoring three time to help them back to Serie A for the 2009-2010 season.

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Re: City's first about 722 million player!

Havent heard about this guy to be honest!

But haha, Imagine the stick we would get for that!
 
Is due in Manchester tomorrow for a medical according to Sky Italia.

Babelfish translation:
Mariga greets the Parma: agreement caught up with City
The Ghirardi president has said yes to the offer of the Citizens for the transfer of the keniano: 10 more million the cartellino than Bojinov. While to ten years of distance from its first experience in gialloblù, Hernan Crespo is ready to make return house

After three seasons Mc Donald Mariga it is ready to leave Italy. In spite of the interest of the Inter, the Parma has decided to yield the player to the Manchester City saying yes to more the million offer ten the cartellino than Valeri Bojinov, currently on loan own to the Parma. To push on the negotiation it has been in particular Roberto Mancini, that it has always appreciated the keniano centrocampista and has express demanded it managing its.

The agreement has been caught up in the afternoon, even if the president of the Parma Tommaso Ghirardi and the general executive manager Peter Leonardi had already defined the understanding with the English club in the late evening yesterday. Mariga has not been trained with the companions to the Sport Center of Collecchio in order to conclude the practical ones of the cession (in primis the English working papers) and tomorrow it has in program the decisive step for the transfer: the medical visits.

While to ten years of distance from its first experience in gialloblù, Hernan Crespo is ready to make return Parma. The player has been yielded from the Genoa in turning it of attacking that he has been involved the passage of Nicholas Amoruso from the Parma to the Atalanta (contracted till the 2011) and Robert Acquafresca from the Atalanta to the Genoa.
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