*** Official Summer Transfer B*ll*x Thread ***

[Blue Toy]

Guillem Balague has just tweeted:

Mata move 2 Chelsea sorted. It's a matter of hours. Clubs agreed fee, 28m, personal terms agreed too. He's very much looking 4ward to it

[Blue Toy]

Balague again. The Modric story is almost as snore as the Nasri one.

Was told today by a top source at Spurs that Modric will go too. If that is the case, if that happens... wow!!

[Mike J]

Guillem Balague has just tweeted:

Mata move 2 Chelsea sorted. It's a matter of hours. Clubs agreed fee, 28m, personal terms agreed too. He's very much looking 4ward to it

fucking great signing. :(

[Moonchesteri]

Guillem Balague has just tweeted:

Mata move 2 Chelsea sorted. It's a matter of hours. Clubs agreed fee, 28m, personal terms agreed too. He's very much looking 4ward to it

fucking great signing. :(

Agree. I'm gutted we didn't go for Mata.

[phips]

Fox,

Ambitious QPR will offer Shaun Wright-Phillips a stunning £3million-a-year contract.

Alberto Aquilani, Mario Balotelli and Peter Crouch are on AC Milan's wish list of loan signings.

Lazio has joined the race to sign Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips.

Carlos Tevez has been warned his place in Man City's team isn't guaranteed.

Samir Nasri's protracted move from Arsenal to Man City has been held up by a wrangle over agents' fees.

[Wooders]

modric and mata will be a great duo for chelsea

wonder why we weren't in for mata - bobby has been spouting about the need for a winger since may

[Chinners]

I think we were certainly sniffing around Mata but Mancini's available 'big' cash was earmarked for Aguero and Nasri and he would only get more once the 5-6 big 'not wanted' earners had/have departed

[HeyMark]

Ian_Ladyman_DM Ian Ladyman
people asking if #mcfc cld move in for sneijder. its a no. was offered to them but source described the numbers as "mind blowing".


From Ian Ladyman on Twitter. If true, good to see that we're not just paying the money even if it is ridiculous

[DoomMerchant]

I think we were certainly sniffing around Mata but Mancini's available 'big' cash was earmarked for Aguero and Nasri and he would only get more once the 5-6 big 'not wanted' earners had/have departed

this is why he's so angry...i think he knows he could walk the league with a few other players instead of Jinky or Milner, but instead he's left with Marwood's English dreams, both of whom aren't bad players at all of course, but Mancini would prefer players like Nasri or Mata all day long i'm guessing.

is that lazy of Bob to not figure out how to really get the players he has playing to their ability or our system or is he correct?

someone mentioned when Hughes was still here that this was Mancini's style, and it's what got him on the wrong side of things at Inter iirc.

if he wins, he does it with the group he told them couldn't win and is the penultimate hero if he loses he says i told you so.

typical Italian. ;)

cheers

[phips]

Fox Sports today,

Manchester City is ready to let Emmanuel Adebayor join Tottenham on a free transfer.

Manchester City defender Wayne Bridge has rejected a loan move to Celtic.

Manchester City has agreed a £3million move to sell Vladimir Weiss to Dynamo Kiev.

Manchester City still hopes to sign Uruguayan defender Sebastian Coates before the transfer window closes.

Roberto Mancini is urging Manchester City to let him sign Uruguay centre-half Sebastian Coates for £6million.

Manchester City has failed with a late swoop for Inter Milan's Wesley Sneijder.

Samir Nasri's proposed move to Manchester City should still go ahead, despite Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger refusing to comment on reports in France that negotiations had broken down.

QPR is posed to sign Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips from under the noses of Bolton.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has persuaded the club to let him offload his long list of highly paid cast-offs.

AC Milan are making a shock move to sign Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli.

A week after Manchester City expected to complete the signing of Samir Nasri, the Frenchman remains an Arsenal player with the prospect of him staying on rising by the day.

We were very popular today

ESPN,

Murmurs on Twitter that Manchester United have re-entered the race to sign Arsenal's Samir Nasri.

Wenger has apparently told Telefoot: "Both Manchester clubs are on case. Deep down Nasri likes it at Arsenal. It’s political, but it’s a long, long way from being done."

Sunderland are banking on signing Craig Bellamy before the transfer window shuts at the end of the month.

[CityGer]

Piece in the guardian on our efforts to ship players out.

It also says Jorabchian is now representing Nige. Bit of a shame if true. Didn't Doug tell us that Carlos is closer to Nige than most other players so perhaps there is some truth in it? If so, negotiating his new deal will not be straight forward.

Also, if the fee of £2.5Mil being talked about for SWP is true then someone is going to get a real bargain. I was thinking £5/6Mil myself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... yers-leave

Manchester City insist they will not let their large cast of unwanted fringe players leave for nothing despite knowing that if they cannot find buyers for players such as Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge, Emmanuel Adebayor and Roque Santa Cruz they will lose millions of pounds in "dead money" via the extraordinary salary structure at Eastlands.

The planned exodus began on Monday when Dynamo Kyiv confirmed they had agreed a £3.9m deal for Vladimir Weiss but City are having substantial problems shifting the other players who are now so far out of Roberto Mancini's plans that they train alone and are not even required to attend matches.

Many of those players will have to take huge pay cuts if they are to revive their careers but Adebayor's proposed transfer to Tottenham Hotspur sums up the problems facing City, with the forward determined not to lose the £150,000-a-week salary he earns for doing nothing more than a few gentle workout sessions at City's training ground.

Those figures are prohibitive for Spurs and, with City extremely reluctant to subsidise any part of the deal, the move is at an impasse as Adebayor, signed from Arsenal for £25m in the summer of 2009, continues to be excluded from the rest of Mancini's first-team squad.

The issues regarding these players can largely be traced back to the early part of the Abu Dhabi United Group's ownership when transfer targets recommended by Mancini's predecessor, Mark Hughes, were offered huge salaries to join the club. Those players have subsequently fallen out of favour under Mancini but their wages put them out of reach of potential buyers.

Bellamy earns a weekly figure of £95,000 and Celtic are the only club to have held significant talks about signing the striker before the transfer window closes at the end of the month. Bellamy, like Adebayor, has said he will not accept a lower wage and, unless something changes, could conceivably be left in the wilderness at City – paid millions of pounds but not even welcome to join in on the practice pitches.

Wayne Bridge is in a position of even greater uncertainty. The former England international left-back earns £90,000 a week yet is rarely seen at City these days. Apart from an inquiry from Newcastle United earlier in the summer, there has been virtually no interest from other clubs. Bridge could conceivably have to slash his wages by more than 50% to tempt any potential buyers.

City can expect to receive only a fraction of the fees they paid for these players but Mancini says the club will not contemplate letting them leave for free just to reduce their wage bill. "All these players have a cost," he said. "They are good players and, if there is a club that wants one of them, they must pay. I don't understand why we should have to pay a lot of money for them and others don't."

Shaun Wright-Phillips is a slightly different case on the basis that he is still allowed to train with Mancini's squad and his contract was agreed under the days of Thaksin Shinawatra's ownership, shortly before the Abu Dhabi takeover. Nonetheless, he still has a handsome £60,000 weekly salary, which potentially puts him out of the range of the clubs trying to sign him.

Bolton Wanderers have agreed a £2.5m fee and Wright-Phillips has already visited the club's training ground to have a look at their facilities but, again, it would require him taking a substantial drop in wages. Stoke City, Queens Park Rangers, Wigan Athletic, West Bromwich Albion all want to sign the winger, and Lazio have also contacted City.

Santa Cruz, who has earned around £8m in wages but started only eight matches, scoring four times, since signing from Blackburn Rovers for £18m two years ago, has attracted offers from Real Betis and Rayo Vallecano, both newly promoted to the Spanish top division.

The availability of the defender Nedum Onuoha has brought him to the attention of several Premier League clubs, including QPR, and he has employed Carlos Tevez's adviser, Kia Joorabchian, to help him find another club. Joorabchian has also become involved with the Dutchman Nigel de Jong, a key player who has just rejected the terms on offer for a new contract.

[Beefymcfc]

I wonder if we'll see some movement on our deadwood now?

[Moonchesteri]

I wonder if we'll see some movement on our deadwood now?

I'm afraid this deal only means we will see the departure of SWP.

[Beefymcfc]

I wonder if we'll see some movement on our deadwood now?

I'm afraid this deal only means we will see the departure of SWP.

Don't be too sure.

[Beefymcfc]

[scroll]Sky Breaking News: Anzhi agree deal to sign Samuel Eto'o from Inter.[/scroll]

[bigblue]

eto to russia?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/9811158

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

[scroll]Sky Breaking News: Anzhi agree deal to sign Samuel Eto'o from Inter.[/scroll]

WTF???
I don't have money to buy him, nevermind pay his wages.

[Beefymcfc]

[scroll]Sky Breaking News: Antti agrees deal to sign Samuel Eto'o from Inter.[/scroll]

WTF???
I don't have money to buy him, nevermind pay his wages.

Ha ha ha, crazy fool!

[HeyMark]

On twitter that ade has completed his loan to spurs. Picture of him with asso-ekotto

[carl_feedthegoat]

And the lanky fucker is allowed to play us on sunday.....Shocking arrangement seeing as the cunts going on loan !!!!!

Im putting 100 dollars on the bastard scoring for them.