I don't get what's so bad about us saying we won't sell a player and then selling him.
Isn't that what pretty much every transfer starts with?
Isn't that what pretty much every transfer starts with?
Sterling Deal Complete: 49 million (44 + 5)
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Ok this just in.
On the way back from Karate I told Molly 'little wee Raheem' was leaving.
'WHAAAAT! This manager is a crazy guy......hes selling all our best players, Torres, Suarez, Gerrard......do we still have the crazy guy?'
'Who?'
'You know, hes funny and hes Crazy?'
'Mario?'
'YESSSSS!!'
'Yes we do!'
'Ok'
'He will probably leave though'
'WHAAAAAT!? Why?'
'Because we never play him'
'This manager!' *shakes head*
'Dont worry we will sign some ballers, weve already signed James Milner'
'Ive never even heard of him!'
'Danny Ings'
'Nope!'
'Adam Bogdan'
'Hahahahaha Bog!'
'We will sign some more'
'Doesnt matter, the manager must be rubbish, hes sold all our best players now and replaced them with a BOG!'
This doesnt look good.
On the way back from Karate I told Molly 'little wee Raheem' was leaving.
'WHAAAAT! This manager is a crazy guy......hes selling all our best players, Torres, Suarez, Gerrard......do we still have the crazy guy?'
'Who?'
'You know, hes funny and hes Crazy?'
'Mario?'
'YESSSSS!!'
'Yes we do!'
'Ok'
'He will probably leave though'
'WHAAAAAT!? Why?'
'Because we never play him'
'This manager!' *shakes head*
'Dont worry we will sign some ballers, weve already signed James Milner'
'Ive never even heard of him!'
'Danny Ings'
'Nope!'
'Adam Bogdan'
'Hahahahaha Bog!'
'We will sign some more'
'Doesnt matter, the manager must be rubbish, hes sold all our best players now and replaced them with a BOG!'
This doesnt look good.
The little ball bag was intent on leaving, regardless. I'm made up the club didn't pander to the prick.
This:
"I think if you go down and ask 10 people what they think about him, I think nine would give you a positive answer," Vieira added. "I would be part of the nine people because he's shown how good he is, how well he's been doing at Liverpool.
"If he is in the market, not just City would be interested in him. But that's the first team and I'm not part of the first team, I work with the Academy. So I'm just giving you my opinion."
"I think if you go down and ask 10 people what they think about him, I think nine would give you a positive answer," Vieira added. "I would be part of the nine people because he's shown how good he is, how well he's been doing at Liverpool.
"If he is in the market, not just City would be interested in him. But that's the first team and I'm not part of the first team, I work with the Academy. So I'm just giving you my opinion."
Ok, I just thought it was a bit.. He's talking as an employee of City, about a player under contract with another club potentially going to the club he's working for. Is that not a bit of a conflict of interest? I'd think less of it if he didn't point out the issue himself with his, I only work for the academy so I can say what the fuck I want, type comment.
Contrast that with Lambert last year when he was asked about us before he officially joined. Respect and all that shit.
Contrast that with Lambert last year when he was asked about us before he officially joined. Respect and all that shit.
He's a good player and others will be interested, no surprise there. What is surprising is the impression being given that a sale is inevitable because of comments passed by him and his agent. Only the club can initiate a sale.
Why am I not surprised. Terry only came out in the press yesterday saying Sterling had every right to leave Liverpool to progress his career.
If they won't pay more than 40m than they can fuck off.
I hope they send this return fax:
"Fuck. Off. Chelsea. FC..."
Him and Chelsea are well suited.
Who gives a shit? The club still have to accept an offer, so if they don't bid more than city they can fuck right off.
But Madrid could afford to lose Di Maria. They have half a dozen other better players.
We don't. We have no better players than Sterling.
The market is clearly inflated - 42M for David Luiz tells you that - so there will be 50M bids for this guy. 40M for Suarez the year before we sold him for 75M was insane at the time, but we held on.
We know this guys is quality, and we know he fits into our side. Two 25M replacements - cos that's what we'll buy, don't think for a fucking second we'll go and spend 50M on a replacement for him - will be just gambles, and who fucking knows what we'll get in return - especially with this manager/committee's track record.
If you've got a wonderful talent, and you don't have many others, and you don't have to sell, and you have fucking aspirations of winning things then we don't sell him.
We finished 6th, and we're about to sell our best player. 50M in return will not get us higher up the ladder.
We kinda do have to sell him though. Keeping him another season costs us about £25m. That's a disaster for us.
I don't know why some people seem to think we're in a strong position on this one. We're not at all.
Didn't we have the same situation with Suarez? And didn't we get him to sign a new contract?
Decent operators would be able to make this work. Give the cunt the 150K a week he wants, let him have the season of his life, then fuck him off for 80M the year after.
No, I think Suarez had 3 years left on his deal, at least - he'd only just signed a new one. Plus he was 26/27 and desperate not to have to see that deal out - his career was passing him by. Which meant we could bargain with him to sign a new deal with a clause inserted.
Sterling can wait it out if he wants. Barely makes a difference. Plus good fucking luck getting him to perform like the demented win at all costs superhuman Suarez is.
Sterling can wait it out if he wants. Barely makes a difference. Plus good fucking luck getting him to perform like the demented win at all costs superhuman Suarez is.
Well Sturridge doesn't play so I don't count him, and IMO Sterling's a better player and long term prospect than Coutinho.
It's line-ball really, but just my opinion I guess. If Coutinho was for sale today, we wouldn't be getting 50M for him.
No we wouldn't, but that's because as you say, Sterling has a higher ceiling, oh and he's also English.
He's not going to sign though. Whatever the offer. He wants out so it's a pointless argument. And he's really not that brilliant.
Sterling had an average season and was forced to play completely out of position due to having no striker. At the same time, Coutinho had the season of his life.
As I said above though, it's pretty close so I'm not gonna lose sleep over it either way, but long term I think Sterling's got more going for him.
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