If we play our cards right the 1% isn't in Malaga's hands & he can't do anything but he can make things more protracted than they need to be. The point was that, having been burned over Mancini, we need to learn and apply any lessons from that.Marvin said:Don't get that. Malaga have a new coach. Can the Malaga president block the deal to City, and even if he could, why would he?Prestwich_Blue said:The club have to tread very carefully here. People havily criticised the club executives over the perceived handling of the Mancini sacking so you can hardly complain if they're being more cautious this time.rickmcfc said:Like I said yesterday a total farce. Surely we knew all if this when we were poaching around him for the last 6 months? So this begs another question. Are Fernandinho and Jesus Pellegrini signings or ones the chairman wants to play for us? I hope we aren't becoming the new Chelsea where the board want a player and the manager has to make it work - like Torres and Shevchenko.
There are third parties who want to disrupt us as much as possible at the moment and are waiting for a chance to screw this deal up if one presents itself. They are probably whispering in the Malaga's President's ear so we have to be extra careful we don't trip up this time. Pellegrini is 99% coming to City but we don't want to trigger that 1%.
Eccles Blue said:Well according to the BBC SPorts page:
Manuel Pellegrini's appointment as Manchester City manager is being held up by a £3.2m contract dispute with former club Malaga.
The say this is a quote from the Daily Mirror.
I'm no cynic said:Eccles Blue said:Well according to the BBC SPorts page:
Manuel Pellegrini's appointment as Manchester City manager is being held up by a £3.2m contract dispute with former club Malaga.
The say this is a quote from the Daily Mirror.
It's a strange case is this. Malaga owe MP backpay, yet they have a manager-in-waiting who is hardly likely to go there if he is going to have the same pay issues. Something isn't right here and I fear it is going to drag on. Surely it's in the best interest of all concerned if the appointments are made NOW?
Marvin said:Didsbury Dave you are so clever.Didsbury Dave said:That's an off-the-record briefing by the club. The same kind of briefing which never came about mancini's future, and some of us kept saying was significant, and so it proved..Marvin said:The entire British media is running it.
They'll have been digging around for some time, and the fact that none have come up with any horror stories (for us) is reassuring
From the Guardian
You predicted over 12 months ago that mancini would get the sack, and over the course of the average tenure of a football manager you were eventually right. For your next trick you could tell us that Pellegrini will be sacked before he is even appointed and of course you will eventually be proved right.
I'd rather be blinded by loyalty.
One of my pet hates is turning on 606 on the radio and listening to the clamour from Arsenal and Chelsea fans to sack their manager
Graceyboy said:I'm no cynic said:Eccles Blue said:Well according to the BBC SPorts page:
Manuel Pellegrini's appointment as Manchester City manager is being held up by a £3.2m contract dispute with former club Malaga.
The say this is a quote from the Daily Mirror.
It's a strange case is this. Malaga owe MP backpay, yet they have a manager-in-waiting who is hardly likely to go there if he is going to have the same pay issues. Something isn't right here and I fear it is going to drag on. Surely it's in the best interest of all concerned if the appointments are made NOW?
No, it should read "...appointments are made CORRECTLY"
Why it's causing so many people so much discomfort that he hasn't signed yet I do not know
Too many people are activating their flapperons. Chill guys
willy eckerslike said:Ian Cheeseman has tweeted some more info. Sorry if already covered. (EDIT ^^^ somebody beat me to it).
Basically it sounds like if Malaga don't pay up MP his wages (and presumably bonuses for achieving a Uefa cup place - despite them being banned), then he can claim constructive dismissal (or whatever the Spanish equivalent is - dismissalo de constructivo?) which nullifies his contract. Therefore he becomes a free agent and City don't need to pay the £3.2 mill compensation.
In summary MP is coming (and probably Isco too) but it may not happen until it needs to happen.
Like has been said July 1stwilly eckerslike said:Ian Cheeseman has tweeted some more info. Sorry if already covered. (EDIT ^^^ somebody beat me to it).
Basically it sounds like if Malaga don't pay up MP his wages (and presumably bonuses for achieving a Uefa cup place - despite them being banned), then he can claim constructive dismissal (or whatever the Spanish equivalent is - dismissalo de constructivo?) which nullifies his contract. Therefore he becomes a free agent and City don't need to pay the £3.2 mill compensation.
In summary MP is coming (and probably Isco too) but it may not happen until it needs to happen.
Ducado said:Like has been said July 1stwilly eckerslike said:Ian Cheeseman has tweeted some more info. Sorry if already covered. (EDIT ^^^ somebody beat me to it).
Basically it sounds like if Malaga don't pay up MP his wages (and presumably bonuses for achieving a Uefa cup place - despite them being banned), then he can claim constructive dismissal (or whatever the Spanish equivalent is - dismissalo de constructivo?) which nullifies his contract. Therefore he becomes a free agent and City don't need to pay the £3.2 mill compensation.
In summary MP is coming (and probably Isco too) but it may not happen until it needs to happen.