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Man City - the new bitters?


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Not really much to be shitting ourselves over. He’s 2nd choice there, he’d be 5th choice here behind fabinho

 

Not seen the young lad play but he doesn’t improve the first team either immediately looking at his numbers for valencia.

 

Unfortunately I doubt that’s the end of the spending for them. Koulibaly could make a huge difference for them

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58 minutes ago, Stickman said:

To go with the £20 odd million spent on Torres  ....But hey Pep’s a genius  ..


 

@BBCSport

Bournemouth have accepted a £40m bid from Manchester City for Nathan Ake.

 

Rumoured to be stones replacement in the squad. Was probably one of Bournemouth's big wages so no surprise he's been shipped out following their relegation.

 

So they sold Sane and have bought Ake and close to a deal with this Torres lad?

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18 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Rumoured to be stones replacement in the squad. Was probably one of Bournemouth's big wages so no surprise he's been shipped out following their relegation.

 

So they sold Sane and have bought Ake and close to a deal with this Torres lad?

Never seen this Torres lad but Sane and Silva for Ake and Torres wouldn't have me shaking in my boots just yet.

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3 hours ago, CWD82 said:

Not really much to be shitting ourselves over. He’s 2nd choice there, he’d be 5th choice here behind fabinho

 

Not seen the young lad play but he doesn’t improve the first team either immediately looking at his numbers for valencia.

 

Unfortunately I doubt that’s the end of the spending for them. Koulibaly could make a huge difference for them


Lord Tinfoil supposedly feels slighted by how Napoli handled the Jorginho transfer when he wanted him at City, and therefore isn’t keen to deal with them.


With that said, Koulibaly apparently had a less than stellar season, so hopefully that’s nothing temporary and the full extent of his decline becomes clear when either Pap or that Lord of the Rings twat splashes an absurd sum on him. 

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2 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Rumoured to be stones replacement in the squad. Was probably one of Bournemouth's big wages so no surprise he's been shipped out following their relegation.

 

So they sold Sane and have bought Ake and close to a deal with this Torres lad?

Ake is presumably Kompany's replacement, as that now brings them back to 4 centre backs. But - he clearly doesn't rate either Stones or Otamendi (who does?!), so he's probably still in the market for another one, Koulibaly maybe. If not, Ake and Laporte  - an improvement on this season, but a big step down from Kompany & Laporte.

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Looks like Der Spiegel have been busy clashing Man City's evidence against actual emails and shock horror have found City could have been telling porkies. Be interesting to see how this develops, there was 5.5m e-mails, obviously they would have searched by key words, now they have have more mails they can start sorting them chronologically. 

 

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Today's one shows that dodgy Simon Pearce twat emailing someone from Etihad about sponsorship.


He says in the email that Etihad owe City £99m in sponsorship fees but that only £8m is to come from them. He arranged to send Etihad £91m and then Etihad would pay City £99m.

 

There were other emails saying similar stuff whereby they were inflating sponsorship deals by sending a shitload of money to various companies and having them funnel it back into City under the guise of sponsorship.

 

The reason this one is significant is because Pearce stated at the CAS hearing that he had never done anything like this with Etihad, and now the email has shown him to have lied.

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Just now, The Guest said:

You know for a fact nothing will come of it now. 


Agreed.

 

The only hope is the other elite European clubs keep banging & banging & banging the FFP drum until something substantial eventually sticks.

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“Further, Article 68 of the FIFA Statutes provides that the confederations, members and leagues shall agree to recognize CAS as independent judicial authority. Recourse to ordinary courts of law is prohibited unless specifically provided for in the FIFA regulations. This prohibition also applies to provisional measures (see Art 68 (2)). FIFA forces its members to impose sanctions on any party that fails to respect this obligation.”

 

It’ll be up to CAS then if City are dragged back in and asked to explain themselves again. Somehow I don’t see it happening, they’re as slippery as a barrel full of eels.

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1 hour ago, The Guest said:

Shame it didn’t get revealed at the time.  You know for a fact nothing will come of it now.  UEFA won’t be arsed to go through all that again.  I’m sure that isn’t just breaking FFP though and it’s actually just flat out breaking the law.

I was naive enough to think City would be done. I'm still clinging to a small bit of hope that the PL grow some balls. Having the whole case laid out for them and then having Der Spiegel trawl through the answers for them has to be a benefit. We know for certain from Klopp's reaction that we as club hate them and wanted them punished, Arsenal wrote a letter and got 8 other clubs to follow suit so I'm still holding out a smidgen of hope.

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3 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

A joint statement on this from the genuinely and traditionally big English clubs (and maybe even Chelsea) would be a good start. 

Although dodgy Roman may not want too may people sniffing around his finances  

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Ake has played in a team that has conceded alot of goals. Id question his credentials at the highest of levels.

 

To be fair, he may turn them down. It must take a certain type to join City when already having experienced them first hand from playing in the same league.

 

Lets see-

 

Walker

Sterling

Stones

Clichy

Nasri

Tevez

 

To name just a few...decent footballers for sure, but all with that flawed personality that fits so well.

 

Think Ake is a bit too genuine for them and hopefully he lets them know. 

      

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He'd be perfect for Arsenal or Spurs- another couple of semi decent seasons could see him make another step up.

 

Signing for City would essentially be his "highest" move and will see him being a bit part player whose career will inevitably stall and the drive and desire diminish by the week  

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