mat said:
Captain obviously and Carlos are represented by Ki-ora. Hughes goes to chelski takes carlos with him for 50 million and all 3 take their cut of the fee. No self interest involved in that whatsoever....
I think this is
exactly what Kia is working on. On TalkSport on Thursday, Kia said he wouldn't be speaking to Tevez for 'another week or so.' The next day, he's suddenly in Buenos Aires, lying and contradicting himself through a Sky interview about Hughes.
To my mind, only one of two things can have happened:
1. Kia has badly mis-advised Hughes to quit Fulham, believing that either/both the Villa & Chelsea jobs were available. Finding out that they weren't, he's backtracking on TV to sell Hughes anywhere he can. This could be good news for City - an embarrassed Kia might be more willing to do a new deal for Tevez.
Or:
2. Kia's been told Chelsea
are considering Hughes, possibly to work alongside Hiddink. If this happens, we're in for a ride and a half ... Kia would love nothing more than to take a massive swipe at City by moving Tevez to one of our top 4 rivals, and of course, pocketing another £2-3m. As far as I remember, Kia and Abramovich are connected through the 'superagent' Pini Zahavi, so this is definitely possible.
Either way, as always with Kia, there is more to run on this yet, and what he says is
never what he means.
I'm looking forward to the day when we can attract any top player we want - It's insane that our entire planning for next season depends on the whim of one gifted but very stupid striker, and his lying, cheating 'advisor.'