Another coup for El City.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Real fume as Manchester City look set to take Jose Angel Pozo out of Madrid


Manchester City are on the brink of snapping up one of the most exciting prospects in European football - 15-year-old Real Madrid striker Jose Angel Pozo.
The Spaniard’s parents have been in Manchester in the past few days looking at houses and schools ahead of a move in January, which will be completed in the next few days.
Pozo is very highly rated at Real but has been swayed by considerably better wages at City and the promise of reserve team football next year.

Looking into the future: Roberto Mancini
City could have signed him for free as he does not have a professional contract with Real but have instead chosen to pay the Spanish club around £100,000 compensation as a gesture of goodwill.
Chelsea and Liverpool had also been interested in Pozo, who scored 34 goals for Real’s youth team last season but City moved quickly following the recommendation of football development executive Patrick Vieira.
Real are very upset at losing one of the stars of their academy and president Florentino Perez made a last-ditch attempt to keep Pozo in a meeting a few weeks ago.
But the boy’s family believe his future is better at City and have been encouraged by City saying they will try to help them find jobs.
Signing Pozo is the latest step in City’s move to bring Europe’s best young players to the club so they can cut spending in future years and fall in line with UEFA’s financial fair play rules.

[Beefymcfc]

Shhhhh, don't tell anyone. Real will offer his dad a job at the training ground now.

[BobbyJ1956]

Some prodigies go on to become stars, others are like Freddy Adu.

[Nigels Tackle]

sign who we want...

;-)

[Hazy2]

The Daniel Sturridge debate causes a split, this young lad will be paid at guess a mill or 2 signing on 30 grand a week. Maybe we can see where the Ashley Cole attitude comes from with young players.

[david yearsley]

The Daniel Sturridge debate causes a split, this young lad will be paid at guess a mill or 2 signing on 30 grand a week. Maybe we can see where the Ashley Cole attitude comes from with young players.

As far as I´m concerned all is legit and above board when it comes to dry bum raping Madrid ;)

[Ted Hughes]

I like this, very much.

[ant london]

I like this, very much.

me too

own medicine

taste of

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Bet we never hear from this guy again.

[david yearsley]

Think I´ll be dropping this golden nugget into some of my classes with Madridista students

" poaching is a method of cooking often used with eggs - can you think of another meaning of the same verb? If not I´ll give you some context!" ;)

[lets all have a disco]

Bet we never hear from this guy again.

Meanwhile mummy and daddy get good jobs and a real nice house.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Bet we never hear from this guy again.

Meanwhile mummy and daddy get good jobs and a real nice house.

That's another thing I've always been wondering about these deals. What does it mean that club will find them jobs? I mean, fair enough if his dad is a lawyer and mother nurse but what if they are some completely uneducated people with no previous work experience and/or do not speak word of English? How are club going to sort them jobs and what exactly would they be doing?

Weird.

[Ted Hughes]

Bet we never hear from this guy again.

Meanwhile mummy and daddy get good jobs and a real nice house.

That's another thing I've always been wondering about these deals. What does it mean that club will find them jobs? I mean, fair enough if his dad is a lawyer and mother nurse but what if they are some completely uneducated people with no previous work experience and/or do not speak word of English? How are club going to sort them jobs and what exactly would they be doing?

Weird.

Presumably they are employable. That Slovakian Lad who played around the same time as Weiss; I think they found his dad a job as a train driver or something. Wheras that German bloke who put his kids in the academy ended up as manager of Brentford.

[Hazy2]

Bet we never hear from this guy again.

Meanwhile mummy and daddy get good jobs and a real nice house.

That's another thing I've always been wondering about these deals. What does it mean that club will find them jobs? I mean, fair enough if his dad is a lawyer and mother nurse but what if they are some completely uneducated people with no previous work experience and/or do not speak word of English? How are club going to sort them jobs and what exactly would they be doing?

Weird.

Like you would have to work with a son doing this for a living. I have met many of the young lads through my company ,The package if they use it well keep calm will set them up for life including parents. Trust me mind blowing amounts of dough for potential at the end of the day.

[Yffi_88]

I know a guy who works at city who once introduced me to a young player (13 years old i think), he was from somewhere in Africa.

He said that because they couldnt pay a fee they had to do all sorts of stuff to get him to the club, finding his parent a job was one of them... They basically have to do anything they can to persuade the parents to come without it being outside the rules.

Im sure his family, if they havent got cash, have been given some rather nice sweeteners.

I dont think the lad will get much money until he turns 18 to be honest. Im not 100% though!

[john@staustell]

Shhhhh, don't tell anyone. Real will offer his dad a job at the training ground now.

Sounds like WE will be offering his dad a job. Maybe he can sort out the ticket office?

[john68]

There used to be a humorous story of an ex City 1st teamer who had the rags knocking on his parents front door while some delivery blokes were shoving (a City gift of) a 3 piece suite through the back door.

St Helens RLFC, trying to sign a young Rugby Union protige from a poor Welsh mining community in the 60s, asked his father if they could sign his young son for 3,000. His father replied "For 3 grand, you can have the whole fucking family"

Nowt's changed but the size of the deals. Am glad to know City know the game and are playing it well.

[steveo_88]

How much did Vuoso cost again?

[s1ty m]

Buster Phillips. Wow, shudders.

Anyway, on topic, whatever really. Might be great!

[phips]

we're probably ridiculously overpaying him and for him.