Yaya Toure [Merged]

[avoidconfusion]

What an absolute tit this Agent is. He already looks like a dodgy slimy twat and he talks like one too:

 

[mcfc1632]

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!!

...yes - but we hear these things from journos that sensationalise things or outright lie - why believe them?

City will develop a wage structure and it will only be the mega stars that are exceptions

 

[Keith Moon]

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!!

Kolo is on 110K so I bet he wanted a Quid more..

 

[Blue Coop]

Can you imagine his agent should he not make it into the team one week?

Perhaps moving on is best, glad to see we aren't being taken for mugs with money!

 

[Keith Moon]

-Yaya, no no..

 

[mdmd]

What an absolute tit this Agent is. He already looks like a dodgy slimy twat and he talks like one too:

Isnt that Charlie Runkle from Californication ?

is this what he is trying to do to us ?

 

[Inzi]

Can you imagine his agent should he not make it into the team one week?

Perhaps moving on is best, glad to see we aren't being taken for mugs with money!

it's not really being taken for mugs though is it....

we are the richest club in the world...right? this enables us to pay the highest wages and transfers fee..

we have that right.....

and what is out aim? deffo top 4 this season possible title challenge

toure is one of the only top class mid fielders out in the market looking for the move and would definitely bring something different to the team no doubt

well that's my opinion anyway

 

[Marvin]

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.

Background information accepted, but the transfer market valuation of a top midfielder at £29 Million is fair if not on the low side. I couldn't believe it when I heard the fee a few days ago, I thought we're going to do this, so it's a bit galling to read that we think it's too much......but perhaps it's all part of the negotiations.

When you compare City to the traditional top 4 its clear that we are really lacking in midfield. We're not going to be able to fill that hole cheaply unless we take a gamble on a lesser known, and unproven player. In danger of making a false economy. get it wrong and miss out on the Champions League, change manager again, buy another raft of players etc.

Really should not lose out on this player through our own decision. If there were many allternatives then fair enough, but there aren't

But deal is not finished - I hope not anyway - so I shouldn't have spat my dummy out.

 

[persvenality cult]

Can you imagine his agent should he not make it into the team one week?

Perhaps moving on is best, glad to see we aren't being taken for mugs with money!

it's not really being taken for mugs though is it....

we are the richest club in the world...right? this enables us to pay the highest wages and transfers fee..

we have that right.....

and what is out aim? deffo top 4 this season possible title challenge

toure is one of the only top class mid fielders out in the market looking for the move and would definitely bring something different to the team no doubt

well that's my opinion anyway

what's the point in qualifying for the champs league if we get thrown out in three years time because our outgoings (read: wages) are massively higher than our income?

 

[Marvin]

it's not really being taken for mugs though is it....

we are the richest club in the world...right? this enables us to pay the highest wages and transfers fee..

we have that right.....

and what is out aim? deffo top 4 this season possible title challenge

toure is one of the only top class mid fielders out in the market looking for the move and would definitely bring something different to the team no doubt

well that's my opinion anyway

what's the point in qualifying for the champs league if we get thrown out in three years time because our outgoings (read: wages) are massively higher than our income?

Look we have to get there in the next two years or the regulations mean that we will never be able to break in, so it's therefore imperative that we try and sign players like this now in the the 2 year window. When we make the top 4, we can then start cutting back on the spending....as Chelsea have done.

The fee isn't expensive. Wages maybe....yet seemingly the transfer fee is the problem? Bizarre. Don'