** January Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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Tom84 said:
It's one thing admiring a player it's another actually spending the money it would take to get him. AVB recently said that their interest in Modric has gone following the signing of Meireles, now that may be just Chelsea deflecting the question seeing as Meireles has hardly been pulling up tree's but who knows?

As for United I dont think we'd pay over 30m for him and given he'll be 27 come the start of next season I wonder if we'd even pay that given our transfer policy seems even more strict now to only sign players 25 or under.

Right now I'd imagine the only English side likely to still be in for him would be Chelsea with even that possibly debatable
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fair enough - mind you, was the age limit in place when Utd payed for Berba , he must have been 26 when he joined? Its a pity , but you are are correct that its unlikely given the amount anyone would currently have to pay for him.

Rumours flying around that Utd have already agreed to sign a swedish international midfielder by the name of Elm in the summer, not sure how accurate it is though


Robbo said:
Inter are apparently ready to sell Sneijder and we're at the front of the queue... here we go again. :p
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Press are already getting the back page reprint/copy ready lol - but with his wage demands its still highly unlikely for same reasoning above;

1) Upper age limit of Utd's transfer policy
2) Transfer cost is still likely to be £25-£30m
 
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With Kolo and Savic likely to be gone in jan we will need to bring in a CB, probably someone like Chivu.

If the rumours are true about Hazard I can't see Johnson sticking around so we should be able to recoup 15m or so + the Tevez money and we might actually make a profit this Jan :D
 
He's going on loan to Roma as there's no place for him at the moment. Were not selling him.

Following on from me hoping we can make a profit, I forgot about Onouha, Bridge, Weiss, RSC and Adebayor. We should get 15-20m from them also!!
 
rumours that city might accept a loan for Tevez IF an agreement is in place for the sale in the summer (not sure why the other team would agrree to this, but you never know) - so no tevez money for 6 months potentially?
 
AC did that with Ibrahimovic?

They are trying to do it with Tevez, we won't accept that whilst Corinthians and PSG are still around.

The deal isn't bad though because if that was in place then that's a guranteed 20m in the bank next season, good for the season which is proper FFP rules?
 
Any city fan who thinks that they will get shot of adebayor and bridge is on a whole different planet. I've watched the last 3 spurs games (wishing they would lose for obvious reasons) and Adebayor is not worth the money/wages he demands on present form. He looks ok but not where he was in his 1st season at Arsenal.

Bridge isn't moving esp the more you try to push him, that was obvious from the interview.

Tevez is going to make this transfer window very interesting for the neutral. Milan are going to drive a hard deal, hopefully full details will be leaked by kia. Perhaps even city having to pay 50% of his wages to get shot of him.
 
Someone will buy Adebayor and Bridge will leave, Adebayor has scored plenty of important goals this season for spurs so wouldn't surprise me if they bid or even someone like PSG.

He hasn't gone there and been a flop.

So Bridge won't leave because of what he said in an interview, lol ok then. Where exactly does he say that? In between the lies and twisting of Mancini's press conference?

If Milan don't accept our terms he won't leave, City know that someone else will come in for him regardless of AC
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
Someone will buy Adebayor and Bridge will leave, Adebayor has scored plenty of important goals this season for spurs so wouldn't surprise me if they bid or even someone like PSG.

He hasn't gone there and been a flop.

So Bridge won't leave because of what he said in an interview, lol ok then. Where exactly does he say that? In between the lies and twisting of Mancini's press conference?

If Milan don't accept our terms he won't leave, City know that someone else will come in for him regardless of AC
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If they do leave it will be like other big name players on huge contracts who clubs get rid of, IE drop almost the entire transfer fee so the buying club can put all that into wages or a huge signing bonus, so the player actually wants to leave.

Bridge is absolutely happy not playing and getting stupid money every week, money he simply won't get anywhere else.

Lets say he's on 100k a week, and club Y come in and only want to pay him 40k a week, and he'll cost 4-5mil transfer fee. The only way he'll leave is if that club offer him 80k a week and the only way they'll do that if he's a free transfer.

Same with ade, only clubs that will offer him what, 150k a week or so are the ones who will only do that if the transfer fee is essentially non existent.

Going to be in the same situation for Tevez, Johnson if you got rid of him, though I can't see that at all.

If City are going to buy anyone you would think it might be cover for Toure(maybe both) as he'll be gone for a month or two this year and next year iirc, and De Jong is better than Toure defensively but really its his drive going forwards you will miss badly with really no cover. Nasri will not cut it in that role, its entirely as simple as that. Barry/milner/De jong mídfield isn't terrible, but isn't going to cut it as a european tie winning trio and then any injuries leaves you in trouble.
 
FrankJH said:
All 5 remaining teams in the current top 6 would want Modric for one reason or another
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Realistically though of those 5 teams there are only 3 possible destinations:

1) MC - simply because they can
2) MU - because they need a creative central midfielder
3) Chelsea - because they have made concrete bids for him in the summer

Arsenal wouldn't buy him because:
a) Spurs turned down a huge bid (£30m+) already and they wouldn't pay that much
b) He wouldn't improve the team much bearing in mind they already have Wilshere, Arteta, Ramsey and Rosicky fulfilling similar roles. That's not a veiled slant at him - if they were to buy a player from Spurs, Parker or Bale would be much better, simply because there is less competition in their positions.

Liverpool wouldn't buy him because they already have Gerrard, Adam, Aquilani, Henderson etc.
 
drunkenmaster said:
If they do leave it will be like other big name players on huge contracts who clubs get rid of, IE drop almost the entire transfer fee so the buying club can put all that into wages or a huge signing bonus, so the player actually wants to leave.

Bridge is absolutely happy not playing and getting stupid money every week, money he simply won't get anywhere else.

Lets say he's on 100k a week, and club Y come in and only want to pay him 40k a week, and he'll cost 4-5mil transfer fee. The only way he'll leave is if that club offer him 80k a week and the only way they'll do that if he's a free transfer.

Same with ade, only clubs that will offer him what, 150k a week or so are the ones who will only do that if the transfer fee is essentially non existent.
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Exactly the same as my analysis of the situation. City have paid over the odds in terms of wages to attract these players before they had CL football. Now the players lives are built around these wages and they wont happily leave to less money.

Bridge is 31 and is coming to the end of his time. He has 2 EPL winners medals (probably more than he will get at city but thats a different argument) and can quite happily carry on turning up to run around the field for 3 hours a day 5 days a week.

Adebayor is a greedy **** before he went to city. At spurs he is already back to the same player as he was at City, lazy and basically useless for the price. Arry is not going to waste his limited transfer budget on a sack of rubbish when he can get City to subsidise the costs of owning.

Tevez will take a wage reduction, to 150k a week :eek: but thats because he knows he can get another bumper deal before he gets too old.
 
HangTime said:
Realistically though of those 5 teams there are only 3 possible destinations:

1) MC - simply because they can
2) MU - because they need a creative central midfielder
3) Chelsea - because they have made concrete bids for him in the summer

Arsenal wouldn't buy him because:
a) Spurs turned down a huge bid (£30m+) already and they wouldn't pay that much
b) He wouldn't improve the team much bearing in mind they already have Wilshere, Arteta, Ramsey and Rosicky fulfilling similar roles. That's not a veiled slant at him - if they were to buy a player from Spurs, Parker or Bale would be much better, simply because there is less competition in their positions.

Liverpool wouldn't buy him because they already have Gerrard, Adam, Aquilani, Henderson etc.
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I agree about Arsenal not paying that amount, but Wilshere and Ramsey are still pretty untested (brilliant prospects mind), Arteta and Rosicky compared to Modric.....really? ( admiteedly cant remember how much either of those cost, but they would still be massively improved imo)

Liverpool - Gerrard, with his (seemingly - but Im happy to be corrected) constant injuries of one kind or another may be the same quality / maybe better, but he is nearing the end of his top flight career surely? As for the others, really anywhere near comparable? Aqua man is being sold back or about to be to Italy isnt he, never really quite worked did it?
 
Nobody is going to be buying Modric, stop all this nonsense. It pointless speculating about a player whose team is adamant he isn't going. You lot are as bad as the papers.
 
carlazai said:
At spurs he is already back to the same player as he was at City, lazy and basically useless for the price. Arry is not going to waste his limited transfer budget on a sack of rubbish when he can get City to subsidise the costs of owning.
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he's a very valuable player, he's matured, realised he's not irreplacable (city and mourinho showed him that) and he looks genuinely happy at spurs. i think him and BAE have struck up a good friendship.

i would love him to stay but it'd have to be a deal where we get him cut price or even free and his wage would need to drop but either be counteracted with a signing on fee or paid over time by us giving city a chunk of cash and them releasing it.

talk of spurs going in with £10m for samba. good player but that's too much for him.
 
Not a good enough footballer for a top 6 side either really.

Adebayor drifts out of games so much which isn't fantastic when you're a lone striker...
 
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