Ric said:West Ham would be a good move for him, as Allardyce has a bit of a reputation for reigniting players' careers (certainly whilst at Bolton).
Think we'll do well to get a fee of any note for him though given his contract situation, unless we refuse to let him go on loan but that could be self-defeating. £5m would probably be a fair deal in the circumstances.
15% I think. Maybe.mrn1981 said:Haven't Oldham still got a 10% sell on clause?
El Mago said:LoveCity said:Two West Ham ITKs saying he could be going there... pending an agreement in wages (always a problem with a money motivated player like Richards).
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But a loan deal? We must have no cash offers if so. Someone on KUMB contradicted these saying it could be a £9m (LOL!) permanent deal.
Unless they structure it as a loan deal with more to be paid at the end of his contract.
We are all motivated by money.
Why do I leave my job to get paid less ?
Don't blame Micah, blame the person who offered him such salary.
BlueDeadHead said:El Mago said:LoveCity said:Two West Ham ITKs saying he could be going there... pending an agreement in wages (always a problem with a money motivated player like Richards).
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But a loan deal? We must have no cash offers if so. Someone on KUMB contradicted these saying it could be a £9m (LOL!) permanent deal.
Unless they structure it as a loan deal with more to be paid at the end of his contract.
We are all motivated by money.
Why do I leave my job to get paid less ?
Don't blame Micah, blame the person who offered him such salary.
He may be smart enough to understand that cutting his wages for one year and getting his career back on track (a career by the way that only has 5 years left) may be the best thing for his longterm finances.
worsleyweb said:BlueDeadHead said:El Mago said:We are all motivated by money.
Why do I leave my job to get paid less ?
Don't blame Micah, blame the person who offered him such salary.
He may be smart enough to understand that cutting his wages for one year and getting his career back on track (a career by the way that only has 5 years left) may be the best thing for his longterm finances.
why do you say 5 years - not having a go just asking why?
BlueDeadHead said:worsleyweb said:BlueDeadHead said:He may be smart enough to understand that cutting his wages for one year and getting his career back on track (a career by the way that only has 5 years left) may be the best thing for his longterm finances.
why do you say 5 years - not having a go just asking why?
That puts him at 31. Yeah he could play longer but that is getting near the end IMO for someone with his injury history. Probably should have said 5-7.
citysince88 said:The only criticism I think is fair of meeks is his expectation he should be getting more football thus why he turned the clubs offer down, for him to think he should be ahead of zabba is nigh on delusional given their past couple of seasons. You have to question whether Micah has the stomach for the fight.
It sometimes seems to me that more common sense should be exercised by posters given the perusal of this site by those media hacks who seek to do City harm. Smears about Micah and others who are moving on are manna for these creatures. There are interesting threads on RAWK about their efforts to minimise similar damaging posts at this very sensitive time.LoveCity said:Guessing he won't be even on the bench today... he was apparently at a casino till 4am this morning.
West Ham and Newcastle seem the most serious, with some interest from Sunderland. But his wage demands are incredible considering what he's done (nothing) in the last two seasons. Could go down to the wire this one. Oldham could suffer more than City, a 20% sell-on fee even from £6m would help them considerably.
George Hannah said:It sometimes seems to me that more common sense should be exercised by posters given the perusal of this site by those media hacks who seek to do City harm. Smears about Micah and others who are moving on are manna for these creatures. There are interesting threads on RAWK about their efforts to minimise similar damaging posts at this very sensitive time.LoveCity said:Guessing he won't be even on the bench today... he was apparently at a casino till 4am this morning.
West Ham and Newcastle seem the most serious, with some interest from Sunderland. But his wage demands are incredible considering what he's done (nothing) in the last two seasons. Could go down to the wire this one. Oldham could suffer more than City, a 20% sell-on fee even from £6m would help them considerably.
George Hannah said:It sometimes seems to me that more common sense should be exercised by posters given the perusal of this site by those media hacks who seek to do City harm. Smears about Micah and others who are moving on are manna for these creatures. There are interesting threads on RAWK about their efforts to minimise similar damaging posts at this very sensitive time.LoveCity said:Guessing he won't be even on the bench today... he was apparently at a casino till 4am this morning.
West Ham and Newcastle seem the most serious, with some interest from Sunderland. But his wage demands are incredible considering what he's done (nothing) in the last two seasons. Could go down to the wire this one. Oldham could suffer more than City, a 20% sell-on fee even from £6m would help them considerably.
Pellegrini has pointed to Richards' injury problems last season, but those close to the versatile defender insist he was unavailable for just 10 games last season.
Wow. That must have come directly from Richards' agent.LoveCity said:George Hannah said:It sometimes seems to me that more common sense should be exercised by posters given the perusal of this site by those media hacks who seek to do City harm. Smears about Micah and others who are moving on are manna for these creatures. There are interesting threads on RAWK about their efforts to minimise similar damaging posts at this very sensitive time.LoveCity said:Guessing he won't be even on the bench today... he was apparently at a casino till 4am this morning.
West Ham and Newcastle seem the most serious, with some interest from Sunderland. But his wage demands are incredible considering what he's done (nothing) in the last two seasons. Could go down to the wire this one. Oldham could suffer more than City, a 20% sell-on fee even from £6m would help them considerably.
While I think you're being extremely paranoid here, maybe they ought to look here to counter the propaganda Micah's representatives are feeding the press to paint City as the bad guy.
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Pellegrini has pointed to Richards' injury problems last season, but those close to the versatile defender insist he was unavailable for just 10 games last season.
Yeah... no.
I might be mistaken, but didn't Rodwell say a similar thing to the press recently?karen7 said:If he insists he has been fit to play then other clubs will think he must be rubbish if pellers wouldn't even play him when zab was knackered so why take a chance on him
If he just sits in the stand collecting his money for the next year he will go down in my estimations
Dribble said:I might be mistaken, but didn't Rodwell say a similar thing to the press recently?karen7 said:If he insists he has been fit to play then other clubs will think he must be rubbish if pellers wouldn't even play him when zab was knackered so why take a chance on him
If he just sits in the stand collecting his money for the next year he will go down in my estimations
If both are true, for me it just shows that Pellegrini didn't trust them enough to play. The fact we did a domestic double largely without them shows the manager might have had a point.