Blues in cheeky Berbatov bid-MUEN
madMental
CITY have made a dramatic 11th hour bid for United's number one target
Dimitar Berbatov.
The Reds have been locked in transfer talks over the signing of
Tottenham's Bulgarian star all summer but City, who are on the brink of
being taken over by an Abu Dhabi investment group, are attempting a
cheeky deadline day swoop.
The cash rich Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment have
reached an agreement to buy City, and their first instruction to the
Blues is to try and lure Berbatov for a reputed £28m.
The Blues may try and use Martin Petrov to persuade his international
team-mate to come to City.
The audacious move is bound to rile United, even if Berbatov goes to Old
Trafford as expected.
Meanwhile, the Blues have also been linked with a move for Valencia and
Spain star David Villa.
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+mrcakey
comes to us it seems his ambition may not be the best. That said, if they
have as much money as this deal would indicate then we might have a lot more
ambition ourselves.
This may be me being naive about the business reality of the deal, but if we
spend £30m plus commit to say £3m a year wages and then their due diligence
process shows up some irregularities that would allow them to back out of
the deal, we're going to be very, very screwed.
The other thing is that whenever a business takes over another business they
want to bring their own people in.
+mrcakey
madMental
that they are looking to buy a player TODAY for £30m. It's this guy
who's come up with the money for SWP and Zabaleta, so i imagine there's
nothing in the way of the deal to buy City being finalised- if it hasn't
been done already.
Chas
strikers do we need? Especially since MH seems to be drifting towards a 5
man midfield. And £30m for some sulky, lazy primadonna ?? Why? Still limited
cover at left back and on the wings though.
Having berated Man U and Chelski for buying success for many years now, it
won't sit comfortably with me if City do the same. The little boy in me who
stood on the Kippax on a Saturday afternoon many years ago still wishes the
club was owned by the fans, Barcelona style. But there's no longer any
Kippax, or standing, or Saturday afternoons, left. Just money, money, money.
What rule change was it that opened the money floodgates? Was it something
about the FA not previously allowing outside investment?
+mrcakey
news:Q5OdnaXpEaJqdybV...@posted.plusnet...
> Benjani, Jo, Bojinov, Vassell, Sturridge, Evans, Caicedo - how many
> friggin' strikers do we need? Especially since MH seems to be drifting
>
> Having berated Man U and Chelski for buying success for many years now, it
> won't sit comfortably with me if City do the same. The little boy in me
> who stood on the Kippax on a Saturday afternoon many years ago still
> wishes the club was owned by the fans, Barcelona style. But there's no
> longer any Kippax, or standing, or Saturday afternoons, left. Just money,
> money, money.
>
> What rule change was it that opened the money floodgates? Was it something
> about the FA not previously allowing outside investment?
>
I thought me and Jimbo were the chief Glass is Half Empty merchants here?!!!
First off - out of those strikers, there's only Jo that's world class and
even that hasn't been confirmed yet, Benjani - great, Bojinov - potentially
great if he can play for more than 10 minutes, Sturridge - one for the
future, yes I would like him to get a little more airtime but this is big
boys league and he needs to be brought in at the right pace, Evans - not
seen enough enough of him really but smiilar comments to Sturridge,
Caicedo - possibly a Ł5m oops. For a really effective strike force you need
four top strikers. At the minute we have, well, depending on how you count
them, between 0 and 5. Actually, we're also in talks with David Villa and
Mario Gomez according to Auntie. This is just weird. Hmmm...
See, you say Ł30m for a sulky, lazy prima donna; I say Ł30m for a world
class striker who's proved he can score in the Premiership. In any case, if
he IS a prima donna, he'll be very offended as Sparky's off playing golf
while he's speeding through Ringway.
Agree about wing cover and left back, but I respect Sparky for not panic
buying players to cover those positions that are no better than what we have
already.
I think perhaps we need to evalute what it is that binds you to the club.
I, like most here, would rather City won a trophy than England. By far the
greater portion of City's team are from outside of England. For even
longer, the greater portion of players has been from outside of Manchester.
Yet we still turn up and support them every match. Why? Because they're
our tribe.
I too hanker after the old days. Not in football terms, because the
football was a lot worse when I was a boy (yes it was), but for days when
people would twat annoying kids round the ears if they started playing up on
the bus and tell them to pick up their litter, and you could ring your phone
company or whatever and get through to someone in a local shop who could
speak English, and when you could walk down the street without being videoed
by a dozen cameras, when you could advertise your beer without having to
have a link to a website to tell idiots not to drink too much of it, when
you could build a path along the top of a cliff without having to post signs
every ten metres to tell people that cliffs are dangerous and they should
take care, when you could say what the fuck you wanted and if you were
talking bollocks somebody would tell you you were talking bollocks rather
than tell you you couldn't say what you wanted to say because it offended so
and so fucker's sensibilities.
But it's 2008 and those things are all shit now. What is not shit is
watching my football club have more money invested in it so that it might
begin to think about the merest possibility of the slightest chance of
competing with the self-propelling juggernaut that is The Top Four. They're
there because they were big clubs to start with, indeed 3 of them were the
biggest clubs to start with, and because success generates more money which
generates more success. Those four get in to the Champions League every
year, which gives them more exposure and more money and yada yada yada.
Ain't no-one outside of that circle ever going to get any success without an
eccentric billionaire owner who can afford to level the playing field a bit.
If there was a way to put the genie back in the bottle then I'd be all for
it, but this is where we are, so we have to operate in this environment. In
those circumstances I don't see any point in whining about possibly having
some SUCCESS for once which is something I've not seen in my 34 years (was
only 2 and a bit when we last won something and 7 and a bit when we last got
to the FA Cup final).
+mrcakey
Chas
desperately want some success. But that doesn't stop me (and, I suspect,
you) worrying that we're turning into the very things we don't like in order
to get that success. And I would rather see a great academy lad playing for
us rather than a world-class player who has no history with the club is only
here because of money. And yes I know that doesn't make sense, I'd certainly
make a shit manager.