***Transfer Rumours Thread*** [ALL RUMOUR TOPICS MERGED]

[Mase]

[trueblue64]

The latest info...............

Balotelli agent: "We want City"
Thursday 12 August, 2010
“We’ve made important steps forward. I am coming to England tomorrow and we want Manchester City,” revealed Mario Balotelli’s agent.
It was reported today that Mino Raiola flew in to Milan to hold final negotiations with Inter and he confirmed to Sky Sport Italia that a deal is imminent.

“The negotiations aren’t finished yet, but we’ve made important steps forward. I am very confident, we hope it can all be closed quickly.

“I doubt that Mario could be on the field on Saturday, even if we were to finish the deal tomorrow it would be very difficult.

“If it was up to me, he’d play the second Premier League game with Liverpool, but I cannot guarantee that.”

Raiola’s words suggest it really is a matter of hours before Balotelli completes his move to Roberto Mancini’s City.

“Tomorrow I’ll fly to England. I don’t know if Mario will come with me. We’ll decide what to do and whether his presence will be useful.

“We still need to finalise the bonus situation. Is €28m plus bonuses the price to seal it? I know the right price, but I’m going to let you guess.

“What I can say is that we want Manchester City and hope the negotiations can be finalised soon.”

It was reported that Manchester City have raised their offer to €26m plus bonuses, whereas Inter reduced their price-tag to €28m from an original €30m

Fuck me is this guy for real..... who the fuck does he think he is.

[DoomMerchant]

[Beefymcfc]

[Kladze]

[The Man In Blue]

5live just reporting that ireland's wage demands of villa are holding up the milner deal.

[Beefymcfc]

[Dameerto]

If I was Villa I'd have seen nothing last season or in preseason worth rewarding with an increase.

[DoomMerchant]

[Chopper]

Balotelli also left out of squad for TIM Trophy.

APPIANO GENTILE - Rafa Benitez has selected 24 players for Friday night's TIM Trophy tournament at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari. The team will travel south during the day and return directly after their games against Juventus and AC Milan.

Goalkeepers: 1 Julio Cesar, 12 Luca Castellazzi, 21 Paolo Orlandoni.

Defenders: 2 Ivan Cordoba, 6 Lucio, 13 Maicon, 23 Marco Materazzi, 25 Walter Samuel, 26 Cristian Chivu, 34 Cristiano Biraghi, 35 Simone Benedetti, 57 Felice Natalino.

Midfielders: 5 Dejan Stankovic, 10 Wesley Sneijder, 19 Esteban Cambiasso, 20 Joel Obi, 29 Coutinho, 30 Amantino Mancini, 40 Nwankwo Obiora.

Strikers: 9 Samuel Eto'o, 22 Diego Milito, 27 Goran Pandev, 33 Victor Obinna, 88 Ludovic Biabiany.

[Kladze]

[irblinx]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 22,00.html


Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola believes a deal could go through on Friday, although admits it is unlikely he will feature in City's Premier League opener against Tottenham on Saturday.

"Today, there was a step forwards, I can confirm that," Raiola told Sky Italia.

"So I am very confident about closing the deal soon but it doesn't just depend on me.

"Will he play on Saturday against Tottenham? Look, at this point I would say no. Even if we close the deal tomorrow he wouldn't be able to do it, because of all the paperwork.

"Then the English laws impose details that would exclude his presence as early as Saturday.

"I am very optimistic, but today the deal is not already done.

[gillie]

I bet Blueloon is going into meltdown lol.

[Beefymcfc]

[Mark (Blue Army)]

[Ted Hughes]

Probably half of them went in a mass suicide the other day because we hadn't signed him & the rest will have wanked themselves into a coma this evening.

[Blue2]

Irekand deal being held up because he wants a loyalty payment of around £2m.......acoording to SSN

[The Man In Blue]

according to the guardian it's the amount of money stevie wants from us that's holding up the milner deal now...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010 ... ty-robinho

for pity's sake i'm sick of this shit now, roll on sept 1st.

[ashton287]

Anyone know what the deal is with these "add on's" with the balotelli deal there saying £28 million plus add-on's if he's any good.

Seems to be a common thing i hear about all the time but it makes no sense to me that we would soend £28 million and then if the player is any good we owe them even more money.

[Abu Dhabi]