Official - City end interest in Eto'o [merged]

[samharris]

same old shit city get your act together for fuck sake. why not bid for messi now im sure he will come as well :(

Do one rag.

But the rags did one...they got michael owen.

 

[Ntini77]

He'll still sign

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

I never want us doing business with Barca, Real Madrid or AC Milan. The problem you get with these clubs is that all their presidents need to be voted in. Nobody wants to lose face. Fuck them all off and deal with teams whose politics dont stand in the way of business. Again, well done Cook.

Well in the case of Milan is needs to get voted into the country too!!

Haha true, but can you see my point? Dealing with these people is far to complicated with politics attached to every deal.

Im delighted we have walked away. It looks as though Tevez should be completed by Tuesday and that to me will be a perfect front line. As good as anyones in the league.

I said the same thing last summer after the Ronaldinho deal, but if anyone doubts how far we have come in 12 months, if we were to bid for him now it would hadly be news.

 

[happyblue.]

Happyblue:- In your opinion how do you feel this will affect the rest of the so called "done deals"? Tevez, Lescott?

Not one jot mate, Tevez is as nailed on as you can get without signing (let today be a warning though!!) Lescott is agreed but not signed.

Seriously mate I think today has shown nobody should count their chickens until the player is holding up the sky blue shirt.

 

[bowdonblue]

Aaaahhhhhhh shite - can't say I'm not disappointed that the Eto'o deal is off.

HOWEVER - let's wait and see who has been brought in at the end of the transfer window before we decide whether or not it's been a succesful summer.

 

[blueinsa]

classic sales negotiating technique being utilised by City...."the take-away close"

our money is no longer on the table and we have walked off, let's see if Barca come running after us to drag us back to the table.

we lose nothing now, fuck Barca and Laporta and they are the ones who are going to have to look twats now if they want our cash.

the reason has to be Barca or Eto'o expecting us to buckle and pay the loyalty bonus.

well done Khaldoon.

Villa Rammy?

That would ruffle the feathers!

 

[Damocles]

damocles

well your entitled to your opinion mate, but why do all the so called ITKs back track on what they have said every time we are rejected by a marque players

i hate to say this and i thought i wouldnt say it all year, but typical city! we let one of our £18mill strikers go to everton on loan for another year, and sell fernandes (headless chicken i agree) and why?? why let everton take jo? yes i know we need rid as he aint good enough IMO but why loan him? why reject an offer for ched evans? (another who aint good enough YET for the prem) i just dont get the clubs thinking, even cook said this week about city till i die being a bad thing as kids look at it as dying, what a pathetic thing to say! CITY TILL I DIE means i will support vity no matter what from the day im born to the day i die, through thick and thin like we all have, im sorry but i just dont like the guy

I do see the trend of backtracking, but the so called proven ones just post in good faith, things change in football. I imagine that many Chelsea ITKs are suffering from Robinho is 100% nailed on hangover too.

 

[Blue Coop]

I like the way that it was reported that we had given either a 24 or 48 deadline (depending on which paper you read) and we pulled the plug before either.
Shows we won't be fannied about again, but wish we could keep our dealings as private as we did with Barry.

I've said on here before that I'm not sure about Mr Cook (How many other teams CEO's could you name?) but I am sure about the owners, and they employ him, so that's good enough for me .

We are still in the early days, and there is NO WAY we'll finish in the top 4 with this present squad, but there is still a fair way to go in the transfer window.
We still need a devestating finisher like Eto'o and the price we had agreed for him was fair enough, but he would have been missing for a month in the New Year for the African Championships.
David Villa doesn't seem to want to leave Spain, Huntelaar seems to be going to Germany so maybe we'll end up with Forlan.
Can't think of any others really.
Sad, but other clubs need to know that we won't be messed about.
Todays actions could be a big turning point for City in terms of respect from other clubs.

How many other clubs are chasing the top players?

The spending clubs are always easy to name people inside the clubs.

Kenyon for Chelsea, Perez for Madrid Etc.

 

[Danny St.helens CTID]

gstar

read there posts mate, hes 100% done, oh no hes not we need to agree loyalty bonus, tevez will be signed first week in july, oh no he wont it will be such a day, nobody knows anything, we just all read the papers and claim were ITK, yes there is ages to go in the transfer window, and we will sign players but who? who will take us that next step who will realistically come to city? and no i aint jumping the gun its the truth, we need to win something before going after players like this mate, and not the carling cup which sparky wants!

 

[Stevinio]

I get the feeling city and barca are not to blame for this. From what i can gather Eto'o and his agent are not answering calls. Well he's pissed on his own chips now, he could have been a legend. He might still come crawling out from under his rock yet. I think putting a statement on the OS might wake him into switching his phone on.