Yaya Toure [Merged]

[Pam]

Our owners have more money than the UK has deficit. What does it matter who gets paid what for whom.

 

[Marvin]

Didn't realise this agent had "form". He's certainly very bold with his statements. After my tantrum, I'm coming round to thinking that this deal has still got legs. There's afew things that are coming to light such as the agent's previous statements, and the change in Presidency which suggest that we shouldn't be too hasty in making assumptions, and taking everything at face value!

We'll see, but I doubt it will be too soon. Doesn't look like anything will be concluded before teh World Cup so this has all the makings of another saga. Transfer window wouldn't be the same without it

How many pages? 700

 

[Inzi]

apprentley over wage demands

surely he's not demanding something like 200k a week because that's ridiculous if he says we're acting like a bankrupt club

something between 90k -120k should be fine shouldn't it?

i'm not sure if it's true but i read and heard somewhere that jerome boatang is being paid 85k per week

OMG CITY WHY!!

 

[larderland]

Our owners have more money than the UK has deficit. What does it matter who gets paid what for whom.

will ppl stop saying our owners...its our owner,we were not bought by the abu dhabi famiyl,just a member of it,its a personal purchase by sheik mansour,no one else and IT IS HIS OWN MONEY HE IS PUMPING INTO THE CLUB,no one elses,he owns 100% of man city,no one else

 

[Ticket For Schalke]

Our owners have more money than the UK has deficit. What does it matter who gets paid what for whom.

will ppl stop saying our owners...its our owner,we were not bought by the abu dhabi famiyl,just a member of it,its a personal purchase by sheik mansour,no one else and IT IS HIS OWN MONEY HE IS PUMPING INTO THE CLUB,no one elses,he owns 100% of man city,no one else

 

[mcfc1632]

Thing is, it's ok saying we won't be taken for mugs and we'll walk away from a deal when we think it's too much, but then we'll go and pay £25m for James Milner. We pissed and moaned about value for money last year aswell....then went and paid £24m for Lescott. No offence on Lescott (who i like) but the point still stands.

this, except personally not lescotts greatest fan, think hes very average

Thatwas in the days when the manager was driving the negotiations obsessed with certain names - Lescott and RSC in particular

I think that those days are gone now and we have a more professional approach to transfer negotiations

 

[Ducky_]

Toure's agent:

"He could come into the Cesc deal and Barca and Arsenal are struggling to come to an agreement.

"Everything has changed with City, because they talk a lot but then afterwards they don't appear to be a rich club but rather a bankrupt one."

What an odd thing to say.

We've obviously been quoted a ridiculous figure for him and walked away which has made him a bit bitter.

Well done City, don't let them take advantage of us.

 

[larderland]

apprentley over wage demands

surely he's not demanding something like 200k a week because that's ridiculous if he says we're acting like a bankrupt club

something between 90k -120k should be fine shouldn't it?

i'm not sure if it's true but i read and heard somewhere that jerome boatang is being paid 85k per week

OMG CITY WHY!!

ye heard hes on 85,crazy tbh,shud be 60 at the VERY MOST!!

 

[persvenality cult]

I think the Times have it wrong given what we know the agent has said now, and in the past. Are Arsenal going to pay more than City?

£29 Million for Yaya, and we think it's too much when we're bidding £20 Million plus for Milner. Paid more han that for Robinho. Were going to pay record feews for Kaka, Ronaldinho, Torres etc.

I think there must be more to this transfer than that. Saw an interesting post on this board from a Gooner which said that their President is about to change tenure...in days. Perhaps this is complicating matters, and the agent is now thryin to force this through before the new man comes in, with different ideas?

I don't know, but it's not making sense. We've shown a willingness to pay bigger fees than this in the past, and this is a really top player - will be our biggest potential signing to date - so there must be more to it.

it makes some sense to me. Platini's rules mean it's not a case of 'we're loaded so who cares?'. We have to make the sums work. Players don't have an absolute value. they are like everything else, if you are selling, they are worth what someone will pay you, no more, no less. Villa don't want to sell Milner, they have almost no need to. So we have to pay megabucks to make it worth them selling. Not to mention that Milner is 'home-grown' uk player, so carries an additional value. And other clubs have shown interest, so that drives up the price.

On the other hand Barca apparently have a pressing need to get cash for their Fabregas deal, Yaya doesn't want to stay and play second fiddle. I don't honestly think there is as much interest as his agent says, he is a good player but he would cost top dollar, and not many clubs who can afford him are looking for that sort of player.

Second thing is that when a club is working out how much they will pay for a player, they surely look at the whole cost, not just the fee. So the cost of buying Milner would be 25m, plus 100k p/w for 5 years, plus say a couple of million in fees, and on the other side of the balance sheet you'd say, he could be sold in three years time for the same amount of money. For yaya, say the fee was 29m. I reckon he'd want 140k ish p/w, which is 2m a year, 10m over five years. And I bet the agent is asking for a huge fee. He's 26 now so in four years time his value will have dropped significantly.... the difference in the headline fee might be 4m but overall it could easily be that he'd cost 20m more. City might very well look at Moussa Sissokho and say, hmm, he's not as good, but he could do the job, and he'd cost 30-40m less overall.

 

[ono]

apprentley over wage demands

surely he's not demanding something like 200k a week because that's ridiculous if he says we're acting like a bankrupt club

something between 90k -120k should be fine shouldn't it?

i'm not sure if it's true but i read and heard somewhere that jerome boatang is being paid 85k per week

OMG CITY WHY!!

It won't be wages. He's already stated that Toure is happy with an offer from an English club. If it's not us, he wouldn't even be mentioning us. He's talking about the deal with Barca, which is a bit rich considering he was moaning about the asking price himself the other day.