MCU Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 David Villa 34Million sort of puts it into reality! But then Yaya Touré for £32m and £220k per week takes that reality and rips it all up again. I didn't know that. That's disgusting and an embarrassment. Football should be wiped and started over, ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 I've been thinking about this. As we went into the transfer window we would have had plans to get a striker (at least) and probably a midfielder using the money from the sales of fringe players (and possibly a little extra that Randy might want to input). Also Randy made a statement and answered a hypothetical scenario, saying that we wouldn't be spending £20m on one player. Now; if Man City are going to come in and buy Milner for big money then maybe we'd be more inclined to splashing big bucks on a striker? We know that MON likes to play, what he thinks is, our best team as frequently as possible and that he doesn't buy into the "players getting tired" rumours. So maybe it's likely that we could buy as few players as possible - but really make them count? Sell Milner for £28m and buy a replacement for around £12m-£14m (Or Milner for £15m + Ireland) and then use the rest of the money (on top of the money we knew would be coming for the fringe players) to get a really good striker for around £18m-£20m. If that happened then maybe we wouldn't be too upset at the prospect of losing Milner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 £220.000 per week? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mini_beest Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 I have to admit when I 1st heard rumours of Milner going I was like 'No we need to keep him' But with MM coming out and saying it's done from Man City's end now I'm thinking it's a good bit of business. If the rumours are true - We will pick up a deal worth £28m. Now £18m is cash. But I have heard that it will be £18m plus one of 3 players. De Jong, Ireland or BARRY!? I would take De Jong and Ireland any day of the week. De Jong gets stuck in and I think he would be a brill replacement for Petrov and Ireland just would fit it straight away. Now that still leaves us with £18m out of this deal to get get players. So do we consider the following: Robbie Keane - £6m + £2m on add ons Richards - £6m & someone else he he What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fran_villa Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 not Richards,i think he's a weak link wouldnt have him near our team,if i was looking at a right back id like to get the Mexico lad Salcido,he can play on both feet so can switch to Left back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 - - - - - - - - - Friedel - - - - - - - - - - - - L. Young - Cuellar - Dunne - Warnock - - - - - - - De Jong - Petrov - - - - - - - - - - - - A. Young - Ireland - Downing - - - - - - - - - - - - Agbonlahor - - - - - - - - - - - ___________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - Friedel - - - - - - - - - - - - - L. Young - Cuellar - Dunne - Warnock - - Wright Phillips/Downing - Ireland - Petrov - Young - - - - - - Keane - - - - Agbonlahor - - - - - Make of these what you will but so far that's what I would expect our teams to be next season unless we get linked to any other players between now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 £220.000 per week? Really? To be fair, it is the News Of The World. So I would normally assume it to be completely fabricated. MONEY-MAD Manchester City are to make Barcelona reject Yaya Toure the highest-paid player in Premier League history by handing him a phenomenal five-year deal worth a minimum £55.6MILLION. Toure will become the first footballer in England to smash the £200,000-a-week wage barrier. And today we lift the lid on the craziest contract in English football - signed off by City chief executive Garry Cook. The staggering sums will astonish fans already fed up with over-paid stars failing to justify their super-sized salaries. Ivory Coast midfielder Toure - who played just 16 games for the Spanish champions last season - will receive a guaranteed £4.1million a year basic salary AFTER tax. On top of that he will get an image rights payment of £1.65m a year (with a profit-share on his shirt sales) PLUS an £823,000 bonus each time City qualify for the Champions League PLUS a £412,000 bonus for winning Europe's top competition PLUS additional bonuses for winning the Premier League and FA Cup - all tax-free. It means City will pay him a basic salary this season of a whopping £185,000 a week before tax. Incredible That figure will rise to an incredible £221,000 a week next April when the Government's new 50 per cent tax bracket comes into force - dwarfing the wages of England stars Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and John Terry. It also means City will have to fork out a basic £55.6m in wages over the five years - with that figure set to soar if Roberto Mancini's team are successful. That is on top of the £24m transfer fee - making the total deal a minimum £79.6MILLION. Toure - younger brother of City defender Kolo - passed his medical in Manchester last Monday after the transfer had been ratified by incoming Barca president Sandro Rossell, and the move was completed on Friday. Toure, 27, has joined a squad full of inflated salaries as City go in search of the silverware to justify billionaire Arab owner Sheikh Mansour's remarkable outlay. "This is a dream come true," said Toure. "I have always wanted to play for the same club as my brother and I am so happy that it has finally happened. "It's great for our family. "Kolo told me that it's an amazing time for the club and a very exciting project. "I love the Premier League and I watch it all the time. "City did very well to finish fifth last season but I hope we can improve on that by qualifying for the Champions League. "This is a big club and that has to be our first objective and then we have to look at winning championships as well." City have also signed David Silva from Valencia for £24m and £11m Hamburg defender Jerome, and are still aiming to complete a £25m deal to buy England midfielder James Milner from Aston Villa. But it is the details of Toure's mega-contract which will send shockwaves through football. After lengthy talks with Barcelona and Toure's agent Dimitri Seluk at the end of the season, Cook finally made his offer in the week before the start of the World Cup. City's in-house lawyer Simon Cliff, appointed from Shearman and Sterling in April 2009 and previously a consultant for Sheikh Mansour, helped mastermind the extraordinary deal. History Toure made just 13 starts for Barcelona in all competitions last season after losing his place to Spanish World Cup star Sergi Busquets and completed 90 minutes just nine times. But now he will become the highest-paid player in the history of the Premier League. Toure will earn a basic £5.75m a year AFTER tax, meaning he will take home £110,500 a week. A trifle excessive perhaps for a player who has never played a full league season for any of his previous clubs. And a trifle excessive perhaps for a Barca substitute who manager Pep Guardiola told was surplus to requirements at the Nou Camp. Granted, Toure was outstanding in Barca's 2009 Champions League final victory over Manchester United in Rome. But, incredibly, City believe his arrival suddenly turns them into major players and are convinced fans will all soon be wearing City shirts emblazoned with Toure's name on the back. And, despite having four defensive midfielders on the books in Gareth Barry, Vincent Kompany, Nigel de Jong and Patrick Vieira, City still felt the need for a fifth. The figures went through the roof just as Seluk was threatening to pull the plug on the entire deal. Cook held several meetings in Barcelona with Seluk, along with football administrator Brian Marwood and various other City officials. During City's amazing bid for Toure, they also offered to use their considerable "muscle" with sportwear manufacturers Nike and Umbro to get the midfielder a better boot deal. Italian coach Mancini now has to somehow shoe-horn Toure into City's bulging team. And Mancini has been left in no doubt by Cook they want Premier League title glory this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 4, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2010 I think we should just swap Milner for De Jong, Ireland AND Barry (not gunna happen) --------------Keane/Gabby-------------- Young ----------Ireland -----------Downing ------------Barry - De jong - That would be sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 --------------Keane/Gabby-------------- Young ----------Ireland -----------Downing ------------Barry - De jong - It would be 'sweet' to have a midfield three that Manchester City decided wasn't good enough for them to finish fifth with last season? Be still my beating heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 De Jong, Ireland, plus 10 mill, plus player sales and buy a top quality striker for 15-18 mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villanesque Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 Why can't the player contract rules change in English football? If a player is under contract with ANY team an opposing team can only buy that exact contract and the player must operate under that exact same contract until its full duration. That would certainly stop all of this ridiculous raiding of other teams players. If a player is out of contract then the player can sign for whatever the market will handle. But this stealing other peoples players then giving the player a massive raise is downright ridiculous and really puts me off football. Disgusting. It puts to shambles any business sense and really blast to hell any idea of loyalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 --------------Keane/Gabby-------------- Young ----------Ireland -----------Downing ------------Barry - De jong - It would be 'sweet' to have a midfield three that Manchester City decided wasn't good enough for them to finish fifth with last season? Be still my beating heart. They are good players though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 4, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2010 It would be 'sweet' to have a midfield three that Manchester City decided wasn't good enough for them to finish fifth with last season? Be still my beating heart. Yeah and Dunne was also one of these players who they deemed not good enough. He's one of our best players! Those 3 players have proper talent, and it's there and I think someone like MON would get the best out of them. Getting Man City rejects is hardly a bad thing, they are aiming for a totally different calibre of player then what we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 Why can't the player contract rules change in English football? If a player is under contract with ANY team an opposing team can only buy that exact contract and the player must operate under that exact same contract until its full duration. That would certainly stop all of this ridiculous raiding of other teams players. If a player is out of contract then the player can sign for whatever the market will handle. But this stealing other peoples players then giving the player a massive raise is downright ridiculous and really puts me off football. Disgusting. It puts to shambles any business sense and really blast to hell any idea of loyalty. But we do the same to other teams. Most of us would also do the same in our professional lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 I too would love to see Ireland at Villa. I don't think Milner's much better than him tbh. Yes, Milner has a better engine and get's stuck in more, but Ireland is better technically. I think if MON does well this summer, we could be starting next season with a stronger squad than we currently have. Milner for Ireland + £15m. Plus £18m-ish for selling the fringe players. We could buy Keane or could splash bigger money and get a younger striker of real quality. He's been mentioned a million times (and I've never even seen him play) but I saw something in an article Today about Falcao wanting a move to the Premier League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 --------------Keane/Gabby-------------- Young ----------Ireland -----------Downing ------------Barry - De jong - It would be 'sweet' to have a midfield three that Manchester City decided wasn't good enough for them to finish fifth with last season? Be still my beating heart. I'd like to see De Jong or Ireland at Villa, but we already have one defensive midfielder who is past his best and can't run for 90 minutes. They can keep money-bags-but-no-future-Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 I don't ever want to see Barry in a Villa shirt again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford-Villan Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 Ireland doesn't have the attitude and work ethic to play under MON and consequently won't be coming. De jong on the other hand is a real battler and was one of City's best players last season. Just everywhere and wins the ball and gives it to someone to do something with, this is why they want something better. They want a ball winner that can also do the passing aka Toure. Would love De jong, i'd also take Bojinov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 4, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2010 I'd like to see De Jong or Ireland at Villa, but we already have one defensive midfielder who is past his best and can't run for 90 minutes. They can keep money-bags-but-no-future-Barry. --------------Keane/Gabby-------------- Young ----------Ireland -----------Downing ------------Parker - De jong - How about that then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 Ireland doesn't have the attitude and work ethic to play under MON and consequently won't be coming. De jong on the other hand is a real battler and was one of City's best players last season. Just everywhere and wins the ball and gives it to someone to do something with, this is why they want something better. They want a ball winner that can also do the passing aka Toure. Would love De jong, i'd also take Bojinov I think Ireland is one of the most likely people to come to Villa (along with Robbie Keane). He's underrated at City, he's clearly not wanted, he was their player of the season 2 years ago and clearly has it in him to be a great player. I don't think the attitude thing would put MON off too much, maybe his attitude would be different if he was coming to Villa to make a fresh start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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