Totally agree which is why we aren't ever interested in loaning other clubs players, still envious that you get him for a season though and who knows there's no guarantee that Real would be against selling him even if he does do brilliantly for Arsenal. I do wonder if Sahin to Arsenal is all resting on Real getting Modric though....
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Totally agree which is why we aren't ever interested in loaning other clubs players, still envious that you get him for a season though and who knows there's no guarantee that Real would be against selling him even if he does do brilliantly for Arsenal. I do wonder if Sahin to Arsenal is all resting on Real getting Modric though....
adebayor continues to rock the boat. looking more and more likely that city will have to pay him off.
Emmanuel Adebayor has threatened to pull the plug on his move to Tottenham unless he is directly handed the £4 million transfer fee that has been agreed with Manchester City, Goal.com can reveal.
Sources have said that the Togo international has been offered a package that matches his current £170,000 City deal after the Premier League champions agreed to subsidise his basic Spurs salary on top of a £5m signing-on fee.
It can be revealed that the transfer fee negotiated by the two clubs to take Adebayor to White Hart Lane has now been lowered from £5m to £4m.
But the 28-year-old has told City he wants to be directly handed the entire £4m fee and effectively leave the club on a free transfer.
“He wants to punish Manchester City for how he thinks they have treated him,” a source told Goal.com. “He wants a free transfer and has told them that if he doesn’t get it he will stay at Manchester City for two more years.”
The latest twist in the saga comes 48 hours after Tottenham and City thought the deal was on the brink of completion following Adebayor’s season-long loan at White Hart Lane.
Andre Villas-Boas, the Tottenham manager, has been pushing club bosses to clinch the deal as he looks to improve his strike force by signing two forwards this summer, with Jermain Defoe the only senior striker currently in the Spurs squad.
Phil Smith, the agent who took Adebayor from Arsenal to City in a £25m deal in 2009, predicted in a radio interview earlier this week that the Spurs deal could still hit the buffers.
“I was involved in Adebayor going to Manchester City from Arsenal and he is quite ruthless when it comes to getting what he wants,” Smith said.
“He got a very good deal and quite clearly he wants his pound of flesh, not only on the way in but on the way out.
“And I think it's a deal that will die on its backside. Who is it that is going to come and give moneybags Adebayor the money that he wants other than moneybags QPR and I don't think they'd even be interested in him.”
As revealed by Goal.com, Adebayor returned to training at City’s Carrington training ground earlier this month to train with the youth team before taking a break as he waited for his move to Spurs.
Adebayor played a key role for Spurs on loan last season under Harry Redknapp, scoring 17 Premier League goals and providing 11 assists in 33 appearances.
The forward has been frozen out at City since lining up against Red Bull Salzburg in a Europa League tie in December 2010.
He has made just 45 appearances for the club in all competitions and spent the second half of the 2010-11 season on loan at Real Madrid before his year at Spurs
Emmanuel Adebayor has threatened to pull the plug on his move to Tottenham unless he is directly handed the £4 million transfer fee that has been agreed with Manchester City, Goal.com can reveal.
Sources have said that the Togo international has been offered a package that matches his current £170,000 City deal after the Premier League champions agreed to subsidise his basic Spurs salary on top of a £5m signing-on fee.
It can be revealed that the transfer fee negotiated by the two clubs to take Adebayor to White Hart Lane has now been lowered from £5m to £4m.
But the 28-year-old has told City he wants to be directly handed the entire £4m fee and effectively leave the club on a free transfer.
“He wants to punish Manchester City for how he thinks they have treated him,” a source told Goal.com. “He wants a free transfer and has told them that if he doesn’t get it he will stay at Manchester City for two more years.”
The latest twist in the saga comes 48 hours after Tottenham and City thought the deal was on the brink of completion following Adebayor’s season-long loan at White Hart Lane.
Andre Villas-Boas, the Tottenham manager, has been pushing club bosses to clinch the deal as he looks to improve his strike force by signing two forwards this summer, with Jermain Defoe the only senior striker currently in the Spurs squad.
Phil Smith, the agent who took Adebayor from Arsenal to City in a £25m deal in 2009, predicted in a radio interview earlier this week that the Spurs deal could still hit the buffers.
“I was involved in Adebayor going to Manchester City from Arsenal and he is quite ruthless when it comes to getting what he wants,” Smith said.
“He got a very good deal and quite clearly he wants his pound of flesh, not only on the way in but on the way out.
“And I think it's a deal that will die on its backside. Who is it that is going to come and give moneybags Adebayor the money that he wants other than moneybags QPR and I don't think they'd even be interested in him.”
As revealed by Goal.com, Adebayor returned to training at City’s Carrington training ground earlier this month to train with the youth team before taking a break as he waited for his move to Spurs.
Adebayor played a key role for Spurs on loan last season under Harry Redknapp, scoring 17 Premier League goals and providing 11 assists in 33 appearances.
The forward has been frozen out at City since lining up against Red Bull Salzburg in a Europa League tie in December 2010.
He has made just 45 appearances for the club in all competitions and spent the second half of the 2010-11 season on loan at Real Madrid before his year at Spurs
Fiorentina's owner/president has supposedly claimed that Aquilani's completed his move to them. No idea how much for but once we've paid off all or at least part of the difference in wages, I doubt there will be much left over.
edit: There's plenty of speculation that Joe Allen's move to Liverpool is all but done too and that it will be announced after the Olympics.
edit: There's plenty of speculation that Joe Allen's move to Liverpool is all but done too and that it will be announced after the Olympics.
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If we sell Nani for 20m...
The way over players are valued at the moment we shouldn't even be talking for less than 45m!
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Adebayor has some ******* cheek.
he's a decent player, but he's a complete merc. Arsenal fans must thank the footballing gods he buggered off when he did and for a nice fee.
he's a decent player, but he's a complete merc. Arsenal fans must thank the footballing gods he buggered off when he did and for a nice fee.
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Despite winning last night it's hard not to think we would be wiser spending the money on an attacking player. Just can't see him improving the team that much.
Why not him and an attacking player? We saw last season that if Lucas is out for a long period we'll struggle. Not only will Allen provide cover for Lucas but in a 3 man midfield they can play together and possibly most importantly, he's somebody that knows and can fit into Rodgers way of playing straight away.
There's a definite need to improve our attack but if we're switching to a 4-3-3 and going to play how Rodgers wants us to play then we also need(ed) a midfielder in that role too.
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Arsenal striker Benik Afobe set for Bolton Wanderers loan
Cant say ive seen much of him at Arsenal but Bolton have allowed afew of our players to develop so i wish him all the best
Cant say ive seen much of him at Arsenal but Bolton have allowed afew of our players to develop so i wish him all the best
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I said almost straight away that Ade should go, within weeks you could see he had an attitude problem, created problems with other players and was a mercenary too boot. Yeah, we got money out of it but RVP supposedly hates him, Bendtner can't stand him, half the squad probably hated him. He's not a bad player, now and then, though most of his goals in his high scoring season for us were tap in types that pretty much any half decent striker at a top club will get just by being in games. He spent an entire summer trying to move and we rewarded him by doubling his salary when everyone told him where to go when he started demanding 100k a week from AC and the likes. But for City being retarded we would have been stuck with him for years.
There is a rumour doing the rounds that RVP is refusing to sign for City if Adebayor is there, which gives Ade a HUGE amount of negotiating power at City, they want rid of him desparately, he knows that, he'll likely get exactly what he wants.
There are GREAT strikers, Henry can create a goal from anywhere at any time, and there are guys who get on the end of others work, Ade and his type are a dime a dozen. Hernandez, Adebayor, Defoe, Bent, they'll get you goal after goal, but aren't particularly talented. When the game isn't going well these aren't guys who will turn a game around for you, they'll dissappear.
Spurs will regret buying him at some stage, and have huge trouble getting rid of him. Once he gets his money, and a bit of fan love after a few months hard work he'll disappear and he won't be a guy to win you a title like Henry/Aguero/Drogba would. He's no where near that class, and clubs that get sucked in by "free" transfers get stung almost every single time. Chamakh.... yeah, ridiculously cheap at 80k a week.......
I honestly can't believe Levy can watch what is happening with City trying to get rid of him, of all guys to walk into such an obviously horrendous deal he's the most surprising.
The only way it would be a good deal for Spurs is if they are giving him something like 80k a week, max, no yearly wage hike, no loyalty fee's to sell him, the 5mil signing bonus is coming from City and its a 3 year deal with an option to extend it by a year or two.
Firstly they need something to hold over his head to make him perform, second they need a low wage, if they offer him a package that add's up to well over 100k a week.
What I don't know is why City aren't pawning him off to the daft Russian teams or the MLS, one of the daft clubs in the world will surely offer him a wage that makes his eyes pop out and move straight away, saving City loads?
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There is a 3% chance he'll be at a premier league team playing first team football in his career, there really is barely anyone in our youth team that is worth a damn. Eisfeld looked interesting, the fact that he came on and made Walcott look like a joke with only really a few minutes is both hilarious and not all that impressive
He made some nice runs, found space and unlike Walcott was entirely willing to run at defenders and wasn't scared of being touched.Afobe and Aneke look absolutely miles and miles away from Arsenal or prem league quality. I'd say neither have a hope in hell of playing above league one long term.
Also Bolton haven't really done anything to develop our players at all. Wilshire looked great WELL before he went to Bolton, Wenger was just too scared to play him. Same goes for Ryo, neither looked improved after being there.
Asides from Eisfeld and Yennaris I don't think the rest have any real potential, Eastmond/Coquelin have gone backwards in the past two years, they haven't pushed on at all. Miquel is an odd one, I can't tell if he's a player who has quality but trained in a poor defensive training setup for too long, or just not very good. Hopefully with changed defensive style/training/coaches we can see him push on.
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How long on nani's contract again?
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I have no idea
2 years including this season. So basically if we dont tie him down this is the last window where we will get anything like serious money for him (bar maybe January)
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15 months left?
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