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@BluePhil8 said:
Him refusing to sign a £100k a week contract mid season suggests he knew another club was in for him. Plus him asking to not go on tour. Typical Txiki tactic from Barcelona. Think he needs to remember we aren't Barcelona.
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It was Liverpool who made it known that other clubs were interested, I think that with the way Liverpool have behaved if we had been talking with either the player or his agent before Liverpool had agreed a deal with us, i.e. 'tapping up', they would have run to the press or the F.A. I think he turned down a new contract with them as he knew that somebody better than Liverpool would be guaranteed to put a bid in for him, especially if he was on a free contract.
 
goalmole said:
I could have seen the point of offering them, say, 30mill and then letting Sterling agitate for a move and see how it worked out. But for 5mill it hardly seems worth it.
The ball now seems to be in our court. We've tested their resolve. They seem to be standing firm. Two choices. Pay up or walk away.
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I agree with that. We've tested the water, and they've stood firm (assuming press reports are true). We either pay up or walk away. Either way, we'll be damned by some on here.

I think it's got to the stage now where we just have to bite the bullet and pay.
 
There's more negatives to walking away at £45m than just stumping up the £50m required, than there are positives.

Sure doing this may show we won't be messed around but as Tolmie said, other players will see that we've left a 20yr who has laid his career at a club on the line to get to us in the lurch. We wouldn't be a club to be trusted from a player perspective.

Personally I believe we shouldn't waste a day more, pay the 50 so sterling doesn't have to be put through the ordeal of joining liverpools tour. It's going to happen anyway, why drag it out another week?
 
I don't think we should walk away. But I'm not too bothered if we make it look like we're walking away.

I don't think Liverpool have any desire to have Sterling in their squad next season and I think they're already looking at a forward or two they can buy with the proceeds. They want this deal done as much as us.

That's presuming there has been an offer and it has been rejected.
 
Ric said:
I agree with that. We've tested the water, and they've stood firm (assuming press reports are true). We either pay up or walk away. Either way, we'll be damned by some on here.

I think it's got to the stage now where we just have to bite the bullet and pay.
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Much as i hate the dippers, i have to admire the stance they have taken. They have valued their asset and have stood by that valuation. We should have gone into this negotiation being prepared to, in the last resort, pay the full asking price. if we have gone in this far and we never had the slightest intention of going all the way, then we have been, shall we say, a little bit naive. If we didn't intend to pay the full price then we should have made one offer that reflected our counter-evaluation and stood aside. We havn't done that, we have made another offer which has weakened our negotiating position. It is for this reason i feel we will have to pay the full asking price if we want to sign Sterling and it is for this reason that I feel we will.
 
City Raider said:
For the sake of future transfers it might be better we just walk away.
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I don't buy into that at all. If we walk away at £45m why would Wolfsburg then sell us De Bruyne cheaper than what they want to?

When the likes of Real offer for a player there is a sense of inevitability that it will happen with Real spending whatever the selling club wants. If you want the best you have to pay up
 
Paulmcfc2703 said:
I don't buy into that at all. If we walk away at £45m why would Wolfsburg then sell us De Bruyne cheaper than what they want to?

When the likes of Real offer for a player there is a sense of inevitability that it will happen with Real spending whatever the selling club wants. If you want the best you have to pay up
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That's the whole point. You're either a club that negotiates or you're a club that just pays up.

We seem to be a club that tries to negotiate but this only works if other clubs respect you're ability to walk away.

We're neither one or the other at the moment, are being played and everyone is watching.
 
We have to pay them 50m to get our man , Liverpool vill allways win the moral victory the press will see to that.
Our problem is not some moral high ground bullshit, it is to win trophies .
Let Liverpool football club talk about moral,istory they are better at talking then us.
Let City win football matches we are better at that,
Sterling is the best young talent there is we need him more then Liverpool for where we are going and he ( Sterling) knows it.
 
We have also Juventus and Wolfsburg eyes on us, if we blink first and pay Liverpool that unreasonable amount of money they want, what will prevent these clubs for asking even more of 70 for Pogba or 35 for De Bruyne ?
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
Txiki will walk away from this deal feeling like Billy Big Bollocks for not having been pushed around by Liverpool and leave us without a potentially World Class player and a young kid to face the vitriol of a club filled with mindless fuckheads.
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If we go back with a fourth bid of £50m (assuming we have bid £44m tonight as the Mirror suggests) then Txiki's credibility has gone forever in England. I don't see how he could keep his job afterwards. I'm starting to think that this deal isn't happening.
 
CityForever45 said:
We have also Juventus and Wolfsburg eyes on us, if we blink first and pay Liverpool that unreasonable amount of money they want, what will prevent these clubs for asking even more of 70 for Pogba or 35 for De Bruyne ?
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In that case we'll never make a top class signing ever again. If you want the best, you have to pay top whack and make the money back on prize money and sponsorships etc
 
I agree that we have to pay for the very best, but we have to be very selective, imo the only one really worth a fortune is Pogba, we can find alternatives to Sterling. Assuming that obviusly we are still in for the frenchman.
 
Sergi0 Na5r1 said:
Forget it, if they're being difficult just leave him there and grab their man-crush Alexandre Lacazette. That's what I'm going with at the moment with the hope it comes to fruition.
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Agreed. The way to play this is to start fucking with their transfers. Start bidding up Lacazette and Benteke, then see how they feel. Let them know whatever they squeeze out of us, we'll cause them more losses on the other end.
 
Wilf Wild 1937 said:
If we go back with a fourth bid of £50m (assuming we have bid £44m tonight as the Mirror suggests) then Txiki's credibility has gone forever in England. I don't see how he could keep his job afterwards. I'm starting to think that this deal isn't happening.
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With the greatest respect, that seems like a huge overreaction.
 
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