Ajay said:
No smokescreen, people within the club are very dissappointed with Eto and his agent - we gave them 3 different deadlines and only the last was made pucblic - why: to make it known to the wider world that we meant business and show Eto he had one last chance!
So no smokescreen but now we can move on and conclude other targets.
In my humble opinion this has been a great piece of work by City, yes we may get the odd negative comment but in all let us remember that Eto neve said he did not want to join us - we told him that we have ended our interest!
Strange but today I am very proud of the club.
Ajay, I posted something similar last night. I think gary Cook has given himself some serious kudos and i for one am delighted that we pulled out with our dignity still in tact.
Also, this also says to me that Tevez is a definite. If there was any doubt then we would have pulled the plug. GC will never allow us to look as naiive as we did with Kakagate.
Other clubs will now sit up and take note. Skeik Mansoor said we wouldnt pay ridiculous pices and he is a man of his word here. clubs will know that offers will no longer be left on the table and any idea that other clubs had regarding how desperate we are to secure top quality players will now think differently.
Well done GC.
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