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

[simon23]

Firstly I just want to say that pulling the plug here was an excellent move by City, gives us a lot of respect as people's been saying!

But don't worry, there are other world-class players we can pursue!
Luís Fabiano - Robbie and Elano help us out with this one?
Zlatan Imbrahimovic - I rate him as top 3 in the world, not very realistic target but oh well...
Sergio Agüero - Biggest talent in the world apart from Messi at the moment, dare I say? Zab can put in a good word or five!
Edin Dzeko - Amazing talent, but supposedly he's signed a new contract and been promised a move next year with a £20m minimum release fee...
Diego Forlán - Aguero's partner in crime has shown quality for many years now, does seem a bit inconsisted perhaps.
Grafite - People forget he had an amazing season as well with Wolfsburg...
Bafétimbi Gomis - Two/three fantastic season with a relative weak Saint-Étienne in Ligue 1.
André-Pierre Gignac - Possibly the new Henry, even been called up to the French national team now. Serious class act!

fabiano i agree with
ibra.....no way he would be a success in the prem...also massive lazy sod as well so wouldnt be a MH type player
aguero.....agree with what you say about him....however he is not the type of forward we are looking at...we need someone of a drogba/eto'o/torres type
forlan......failed last time in the prem big time
the rest ive never seen play (or not enough to comment on them)
Giuseppe Rossi - I know certain people has a problem with him because he was a youth player at the Rags, but to those I have a simple question: have you seen this kid play recently? He's fucking amazing! And he might bare a grudge against Bacon Face so perhaps he'd like to join us...

 

[Ducado]

gutted that we have pulled out and i think its a mistake to do so.....we havent pulled out of the tevez deal so why wait for one player and not for the other.

it will prove an even bigger mistake when someone else snaps him up (which i could see someone doing right at the end of htis transfer window)

as for plan b......

well i hope we have one as the strikers we have are not going to get us anywhere near the top 6

Rsc....good but injury prone and.........also not even in the same league as eto'o
boj.....good but plays as a second striker
bellamy......plays as a second striker and injury prone (more than rsc)

the rest you can forget....they simply are not good enough and never will be

even with tevez.....(if we get him).......he is similar to boj and bellamy in style of play.......

so the problem still remains. We need an out and out striker in the style of eto'o........but who realistically is there that is left to go for and i can only think of one player and that is fabiano.......but could we be too late on this one

as for ibrahimovic.....NO NO NO....would prove a huge flop in the prem......just too tough for him...he would sped most of his time on his backside complainging about the treatment he was receiving from defenders

villa....never going to come as wants to stay in spain

huntalaar....so slow he would really really struggle in the prem as well......would fair no better than bianchi did

we have a huge problem now but luckily we have time to sort it out.........but there are only limited options. That is why i think it would have been prudent to persue more that one target at a time and even if we are getting messed around slightly by eto'o (and his agent) we shold still maintain an interest and see what happens......he is good enough ot take us to the next level........not many other forwards (and certainly the ones we have right now) arent

Life is too short, just move on, you don't know why we pulled the plug nor does anyone, and you don't know who else they are talking to, you and quite a few others need to stop turning this into a catastrophe, it is anything but!

 

[mcfc_die_hard]

Do you think that city may have walked away but still left the 25 million on the table ?

 

[Lomas has a lob on]

Maybe Cook is forcing Barcelona's hand.

i want to agree with this but if this were the case i think mr cook may have leaked stuff to the press ie were looking at other avenues as well as eto'o or eto'o isn't our only option etc etc, but to put it up on the OS states to me that this is over (hope im wrong) surely if we went back on this mr cook would loook silly by placing such a statement on the OS

hmmm how would he look silly? He would be a deal making god to get eto'o here. The press would say that the statement made last night was a stroke of genious.

silly is probably a bad way of saying it, but to come out to the OS is a pretty defiante way of stating its over, dont get me wrong i'd be delighted if eto'o did still come but with cooks statement, it would be misleading to us the fans if we were still in 4 him! just my opinion

 

[Ducado]

Do you think that city may have walked away but still left the 25 million on the table ?

I doubt it, I think the sticking point (IMO) was the loyalty payment

 

[Bongo Joe]

Do you think that city may have walked away but still left the 25 million on the table ?

We may be rich but we aren't going to leave money on Barca's table for nothing! ;)

 

[bluebean]

Now before you all jump on me and and wage war this is just an opinion...

why not put in a very tempting one off take it or leave it bid for Torres? say 60M

he's changed his tune recently and has been praising us in the press? he could be tempted?

 

[SWP's back]

what a big mistake. we could of at least waited a bit longer

were already gettting called an 'embarrassment" once again even though we pulled out:S


people can tell me to shut up n alll that but tbh i dont give a fuck

Shut up. (Oh and by the way - It's 'would have' not 'would of')

 

[mcfc_die_hard]

Do you think that city may have walked away but still left the 25 million on the table ?

We may be rich but we aren't going to leave money on Barca's table for nothing! ;)

haha i have got to say that i am PMSL at that reply haha

 

[bookiesgirl]

Do you think that city may have walked away but still left the 25 million on the table ?

I doubt it, I think the sticking point (IMO) was the loyalty payment

i agree think it was the loyalty payment, he is going to have the same problem whichever club goes in for him, he will have to reduce his demands or sit tight for a year and go for nothing.