MSP said:
Adebayor, Bridge and Santa Cruz are for sale for 2 years but we know how those sales went ;)
Adebayor will have a buyer this summer because he's had a good season, remember last summer we had two good offers for Adebayor (PSG and Zenit) that he personally turned down, but with our club likely to play hardball now (following the Tevez example), he will know he has to move on or rot in the reserves as we won't do another subsidised loan just as we wouldn't an unsubsidised loan with Tevez in January.
Players paid 30 millions euros and on 100k+ are not easy to sell unless on some football manager game. It might happen but personally I can't see anyone who is ready to spend 20+ millions on Dzeko or Balotelli and to match their wages in the same time. If I would be Dzeko I would never accept to move for much less wages.
Dzeko himself is said to be unsettled and now his national coach is telling him to leave. Does he want to spend next season as very much a bit part player, especially if Tevez stays (more likely as Tevez has both a higher asking price and higher wage demands)? Mancini is likely to favour Balotelli over Dzeko which could mean Dzeko playing FOURTH fiddle.
By the way, if Bayern Munich's interest is real they could pay Dzeko's wages without much of a problem. Ribery is on £165,000 a week and Bayern's wage bill is not far behind ours (<a class="postlink" href="http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7850531/espn-magazine-sportingintelligence-global-salary-survey-espn-magazine" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7850 ... n-magazine</a>).
I know you're repeating that line for months but it doesn't add any more reliable push to your imagined scenario.
I cite a good newspaper not my imagination.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/spanish-successes-mask-debt-crisis-7575791.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 75791.html</a>
The worst offenders are Atletico Madrid, one of those three Spanish teams still with a chance of winning the Europa League but owing €155m (£129m) to Spain's Inland Revenue – three times the amount that HMRC were pursuing Rangers for prior to the Scottish club entering administration.
Atletico Madrid's debt had stood at €215m last summer before they sold Sergio Aguero to Manchester City for €50m and were obliged to hand the money straight over to the tax man.
The fact that €40m was then spent on the Columbian striker Falcao owed more to Spain allowing third-party player-ownership than any improvement in the club's dire situation.
They had same debts last summer too but they didn't mind to use all Aguero's money to buy Falcao.
On top of the above article, someone in this thread posted the following:
bluecityboy said:
I don't know if it's been mentioned before but the information from yesterday's programme of Punto Pelota says Atletico owes 21 million Euros for him.
When you add it all up, it points to Atletico having serviced debt with the Aguero money and putting down only half at most of Falcao's transfer fee, leaving them now having to find the money for the other half - which won't easily come. Once again they're on the verge of missing out on the Champions League (unless Malaga mess up) and every time a powerful club has come for one of their players in the last 5 years they have almost always lost the player.
