lets all have a disco wrote:So it seems we tried to do things the RIGHT way in the Gago deal!!!
Guess were gonna have to be sneaky fuckers then,tapping up,agreeing deals on the sly,Cook better get ready for more abuse when he starts doing it though.
Hiding to nothing.
ant london wrote:lets all have a disco wrote:So it seems we tried to do things the RIGHT way in the Gago deal!!!
Guess were gonna have to be sneaky fuckers then,tapping up,agreeing deals on the sly,Cook better get ready for more abuse when he starts doing it though.
Hiding to nothing.
I know, I loved that.
Very illuminating as to the way that Real (and the rest of the "establishment") conduct their business.
"OK we accept your offer, let's sign the deal"
"Hang on, we've not spoken to Gago yet to discuss personal terms"
"What do you mean you've not agreed personal terms with him......why are you messing us around like this, we want our £16.3m"
"Erm....Senor Valdano, it is actually against FIFA rules for us to speak to the player re terms before agreeing a fee with you, that is called "tapping up"...you've only now just accepted our offer, how could we have already spoken to the player??"
"What? It is? Ah Cook you are a fucking amateur...you really are ruining football, now fuck off back to Manchester"
ENIAM NAM wrote:8 bodyguards for Robinho! wtf?
Surely just insure him and leave him/Santos to do the rest!
ENIAM NAM wrote:8 bodyguards for Robinho! wtf?
Surely just insure him and leave him/Santos to do the rest!
Manchester U***d winger Ryan Giggs believes team-mate Wayne Rooney is about to join Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Real Madrid duo Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo in being seen as the best players in the world. Daily Star
English debating B*ll*x
In the wake of the failure to sign up Real Madrid’s Fernando Gago, Manchester City have come in for some heavy criticism from both the Spanish side and the player’s agent. http://www.aboutaball.co.uk asks whether City need to wise up in the transfer market.
The recent activity in attempting to sign the Argentine midfielder Fernando Gago and subsequent welter of abuse that has been directed in the direction of Eastlands has certainly dragged Manchester City’s name somewhat through the muck. Real Madrid’s bitter words could just be a by-product of an attempt to try and prevent City achieving their status as one of the world’s foremost football teams.
Jorge Valdano, Real Madrid’s Sporting Director, has been the source of much of the ire, and claimed that City weren’t in any position to sign the midfielder citing a lack of any preparation and paperwork, even hinting at an illegal approach to the player before consulting his club. It rather suggests that Valdano believes that City were somewhat amateurish in the way they handled the approach, but perhaps one needs to delve further into the time-line of the transfer before reaching any conclusion.
It would appear that City were looking at Fernando Gago as a possible transfer target for some time and identified the out of favour former Boca Juniors player early in the window. Reports indicate that they were quoted a staggering £21 million to acquire Gago, despite the fact that the fee represented a 50% mark-up on what Real paid his former Argentine side when they swooped for him in a double deal with an agency to bring Gago and compatriot Gonzalo Higuain to the club.
Manchester City tax
Rebuffed City sought other transfer targets, but after the deal to sign the Kenyan Mariga evaporated, they returned to Real and were quoted a more reasonable price of around £15 million. This indicates that Real Madrid, like AC Milan in the Kaka deal previously, simply hiked up the price because it was Manchester City who came calling.
Could Kaka have been wearing the light-blue of City if it hadn't been for AC Milan?
There is certainly a lesson to be learnt for City, in that they need to bide their time when making offers for players, and they may need to be prepared to identify another target if their initial choice falls through. Chelsea suffered the same issue in the immediate aftermath of the Abramovich take-over, and City will need to go through the same process.
However, given the fact that Real substantially reduced their asking price at the second time of asking with time running out to conclude the deal suggests that the reason it failed to go through was because of their own greed. They had hoped to exploit City’s nouveau-riche status, and when Real lost the chance to move on a player who hasn’t featured much this season at a profit, they simply spat the dummy out and blamed everyone else but themselves.
Always City’s fault?
Valdano’s comments therefore smack of frustration at their inability to fleece City, but also petty-minded parochialism. There is no doubt that City’s rapid emergence in the past couple of seasons has ruffled a few feathers amongst the elite of European football, who are more interested in preserving their own status at the top rather than encouraging competition.
Manchester City were the target of much vilification from AC Milan and now Real Madrid over transfer dealings, accusing City of amateurism and unsettling players, an accusation Real Madrid in particular should steer clear of making given their conduct in the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer. Clearly there is an attempt to sully City’s name, as they attempt to financially muscle their way into what has been largely a closed-shop for many years.
There is certainly something in this theory; ultimately AC Milan accepted a bid of nearly half what City had offered for Kaka when the talented Brazilian made the move to Spain in the summer. Were AC Milan willing to accept susbstanially less just to ensure that Kaka didn’t move to Eastlands? Most suggest that Kaka didn’t fancy the move to City in the end, and that might have been so. But why then did AC Milan accept a much lower bid subsequently from Real, when their asking price when City enquired was nearly double that?
City themselves have refrained from letting themselves get dragged into a slanging match with Real Madrid after trading public remarks with AC Milan over the failed-Kaka deal. Internally though, City may need to switch their targets away from the bigger sides and instead concentrate on acquiring promising players, who can fulfil their potential at Eastlands.
Returning to the example of Chelsea, the unfortunate incident of Gael Kakuta aside, they too were often criticised for the way they conduced transfer dealings, most notably by Manchester U***d after they failed to secure Jon Obi Mikel after Chelsea trumped them for the player. City may also need to go through the same process before being able to conduct transfer business without provoking the wrath of other elite sides from around Europe.
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