£25 Million Deal Done, Ireland Staying & Bellamy Stock Takes An Upswing!
Another bleak day for English football. A perhaps ‘better than average’ footballer has been sold for an extraordinary amount of money speculatively pumped in by a foreign investor.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not having a childish dig at Manchester City here, it’s just I have to ask the question, ‘Where is this actually going?’ I could see what Chelsea were up to when they went on their spending spree of Abramovich’s millions.
I can understand the logic of paying out this class of cash for a player that will dramatically effect your fortunes, but Milner has yet to convince many that he is that player.
As I write Joleon Lescott is featured on Sky Sports News highlights being beaten by a Harlem Globetrotter who then scores. From ‘outside the six’.
Ireland was mooted as a possible makeweight to the Milner deal, but a combination of Mancini’s attitude toward such deals and the player’s general lack of motivation to jump ship at this stage have ruled that out
As we reported earlier this week, one positive to this is that it will at least kick start Villa’s shopping trip.
Craig Bellamy rumours are circulating link a nervous party host. Cardiff supposedly told he’s theirs for £6 Million. Tottenham told to make OIRO £12 Million. The latest is that Mark Hughes now wants him at Fulham.
Fulham are a Bride On A Budget compared to some, but maybe Bellamy wants guaranteed first team football and is not prepared to sit and wait for Tottenham to fail to sign anyone really eye catching before he finds out what the future holds for him.
Good bye Milner to obscurity .
The market has just gone crazy,I for one vote for the abolition of transfer fees.
Quote: “I’m not having a childish dig at Manchester City here”
Oh really? Could have fooled me…
1st there was Harry Hotspur, now there is you.. I’ll have to think about reading your posts if they continue to be so rubbish
milner is rubbish, cant really pass, doesnt have great skill. whats the point!
Try not to strain yourself Adam dearest.
I don’t understand the title of this post, no deal has been agreed for Milner, unless ofcourse the author is Martin O’neil using another name.
Ireland has also not said he is staying at City.
You want hits, you have them, but after reading this garbage you won’t be getting any more from me.
Mick,
It’s more a case of what will they achieve by buying these pretty ordinary players at vastly inflated figures? Ronaldo was daft money, but (domestically anyway) he can change games, win games.
Milner & Lescott. Sounds like a northern hat shop. Maybe they could branch out when it’s discovered they really aren’t worth the money that was paid for them.
Escapini your right with what you say, but why use the headline title you did?
Name stuff appropriately, and then when people start appreciating your work they will come back, spouting lies wont get you anywhere in the long run
Um, not seen anything about the Milner deal being done. So your comment on him being sold is not entirely accurate just yet.
I am not sure what Mancini’s plan is either but at least it appears he is shoring upt he defense so far with his purchases. Nithin, what was Chelsea’s plan when they bought SWP? He didn’t get 1st team footie… I think they bought him so others couldn’t. Milner is an interesting player. Has recently shown that he is not just a winger and can play box to box in the central midfield with offensive creativity as well as defensive aggession and pressure. Is it too much money? Most likely. Mancini likes his CM’s so be able to play defense at a top level and is willing to throw away some attack to do it. Thus Ireland (fantastic going forward!!!) sits the bench because he isnt’ very strong in defense. It will be very interesting to see Mancini put it all together. This is “his squad” now. What we see ont he pitch is going to be his creation. We will see stalwart Blues players heading for the exit or sitting the bench… Me, I want to see fewer goals given up (Hughes wasn’t so good here. I want to see good attacking footie (something the Hughes squad did well at), even if it is ManUre counter attacking footie…. I fear we are going to see defending grind it out footie… Our squad is turning into a bunch of giants!!!! look at their average height….
show me where it says (apart from here) that Milner deal is done????
There is a serious issue here we are paying 113 for petrol and a lot more in London. Yet the owners of City are using it like spoilt kids to buy average players . We should all start hating petrol Cityi hope they find a replacement for Petrol and City Cammmels go back to being a club lked by most fans . I love to see my Team evolve with a few transfers moddest wages and youngsteras comming through or like Lennon Hudds Dawson Rose brought in young and for the future.
bubbagump…milner can’t pass?? check Opta stats for last season, muppet
Oh Dear. No deals done. Tabloids are over egging the prices City are actually paying.
If I’m not much mistaken Man Utd bought Veron for around £28million and that was in 2001. I’d say even if Milner was £25million it would be a bargin in comparison. Berbatov anyone?
Chelsea spent £400 million in one year, City have spent £500 million since the Premership BEGAN.
There are NO facts here, just rubbish – worse – recycled rubbish without informed oppinion.
Just another go at City as if United, Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea have never spent any money. I suggest you have a look at the transfer breakdown of each of these clubs since 2000. Compare them to each other and City. Write down the facts, give a balanced report, and then in two or three sentences give YOUR opinion for what it’s worth.
Oh and you might want to change the picture. The guy you have pictured is Al-Fahim who was the front man for The Abu Dhabi United Group backed by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. After spouting a load of rubbish he was kicked into touch before a penny was spent. But of course why let facts get in the way of blind jealousy.
I’m confused Dan, but the purpose of the headline was to convey that several decent sources believe this deal to be done and at the figure quoted. So I pass it on in good faith. If it pans out differently, simply submit your receipt and you get an on the spot no quibble refund.
Did you know that Joe Cole effectively told Spurs and Arsenal he’d be delighted to play for them? Then Liverpool offered more cash and he was gone like a dust cloud. We speculated along with everyone else but didn’t run a Cole Is A Yid or Cole Is a Gooner simply because Cole was clearly whoring himself about. Milner is not such a player and so this deal is far less likely to collapse.
If it does, you as I, have to accept that ‘such is life’. Things do change. Has nothing ever changed in your life?
This is a transfer rumour site,matey. By our very definition there will be speculation, but we are not in the making it up business.
Ben,
Maybe you saw it here first….
DavySpuds….showing your ignorance there. City’s owners have made their money from property, not oil. FAIL! (Maybe Spuds new kit should be green, with NV on the front of it…ha ha ha)
Has anyone told Mancini that he has to name a 25 man squad only and 8 of these have to be home grown…that would explain the keepng hold of Richards. I saw on Sky the other day that city could play 3 different teams already…with that in mind there will already be 8 players disappointed which will only be added to with the influx of new additions! There may be trouble ahead….as the song says!!
And of those supposed ‘three different teams’ how many youth and barely yet to make the first team were in there…? Several from what I saw. Just usual Sky bull.
davspurs you are truly a muppett. spuds evolve with a ‘few transfers’ ? Check out how much your ‘few transfers’ cost over the last 5 or 6 years.
lol at all you manc wa*ks. shaun goater, paul dickov, samaras, thats your level know your place. we will whip ur scu*my monkey as*es just like last season and every season. your a joke. all that money and you still aint brought anyone decent, muppets
Lescott featured being featured? Almost sounds sexual! Maybe he was featuring himself being featured being featured or something like that.
To say you cant understand what City are doing but you understand Chelsea is a load of bollox as everyone and there dog had a go at them for paying the then prices.
What is happening now is that theres a hell of a lot of jealousy going around with City. Fact is all half decent English players are overpriced. Its why most teams buy overseas. City have stated so far that there not gonna pay the 30 million.
Try and do some homework before you write an article on an opposing team especially when you dont know or have the facts!
Every team in the world would love to have Citys owners and thats fact, orelse there liars.
Were not the first and wont be the last to pay big money.
@Paul
OMG you are right – I don’t think Mancini will have noticed. You better get on the blower to him and let him know.
/sarcasm
Yawn,
Good job you’re not the main feature.
Facts, eh?
City have stated they won’t pay £30m. We all know that.
English players come to market almost £10m over their real value. We all know that.
We also know Chelsea won a ransom demand of pots and pans.
History will tell us if men like Milner & Lescott are CL quality.
I think not.
That isn’t jealousy, this my opinion based upon having watched them kick a ball.
Got to say Escapini you gave me and my mates the best laugh in ages when descibing *Milner and Lescot as a Northen hatshop LOL* keep up the excellent work mate its apreciated by a good few .
If Stephen Ireland leaves Citeh then it will be their loss and his new teams gain. Chelsea should be interested as a longterm replacement for Lampard.
McParland,
Cheers Dad. The money normally goes in on or around the 2nd of the month. Let me know if there’s a problem.
Very interesting, seeing as the word is that Milner has resigned himself to the fact that the deal has collapsed and he’s fairly relaxed about it.
No doubt we’ll see.
city steve, the day im jealous of man city is the day i give up supporting spurs! it aint guna happen! you lot do my bleedin ed in. city have no history or tradition at all,a yoyo club. you were a week away from going bankrupt, a small club overspending to try and make it big, before a dodgy thai prime minister brought you. like i said earlier dickov,goater and samaras et al thats your level ! i pissed myself laughing when you got someone to sing bluemoon before champions league decider last season,pathetic ! just like dat lil shortass ricky hatton you got knocked da fu*k out! sshhh mancs, its a london ting
No problem Escapini its money well spent.I would like to think the Milner deal was done one way or another so that if any new recruites were bought in they would have some gelling time together befor the season gets under way.But at this point in time any new players seem like no go area.Keep us posted on the milner progress off for a pint now and thanks again for the comments about the Milner Lescot northen hat shop it was a classic.
Guvnor – when you say goater et al. are our level, do you mean the times when spurs were considerably richer than city? I don’t understand your point. As for no history? Are you serious? I suggest you have a little research. Granted we have done nothing during the premiership years, infact the best during my life time was seeing us win at wembly against gillingham! But I know there was a history before I started watching them through thick and thick. I’m enjoying the ride, and not to the disrespect of any other team.
I’ve been going to matches home and away since I was six, it’s a football thing. You illiterate tw@t.
What a joke, you’ve had a dig at all mentioned there. Milner is a very good player and if City to blow stupid money on players, then that’s their fault. Because they bid 24m for him, doesn’t make him any less of a player. How many players are over-priced these days? Nearly all of them. Then there’s someone comparing Milner to Ronaldo in the comments for some reason, it just gets sillier.
This is my favourite chelsea team, you can clearly see the wisdom of a coherent and knowledgeable transfer strategy
Def: Ferreira (13.2)Boulahrouz (8.5m) Asier del Horno (8m) Zhirkov (18m)
Mid: Wright Phillips(21m) Juan Veron (15m) Scott Parker (10m)
For: Crespo (16.8) Schevchenko(30.8m) Mutu (15.8m)
subs: Tiago (10m), Kezman (5m) Johnson (6m) Belletti (5.5)
How many games did that 185m get?
city steve, lol at you. tottenham are self sufficient, we generate our own money and even make a profit ! that is because we are a big club. tell us what man shi*tys history is then ? you havent got one trust me! only chelsea have done what your doing now in the transfer market and they almost ruined football with their prices, your taking it to a new level. two differences though, chelsea brought class players and they had mourinho ! end of ! the whole country will be laughing at you,as usual, when your team turns on eachother and fails miserably,again ! enjoy watching tottenham hotspur in the champions league mate ! lol
Everyone has an opinion on my beloved CITY ! Like we are ruining football and we are paying too much for this player and that player .When we bought Keith Curle from wimbledon we payed too much but hindsight is a wonderful thing and if we dont win anything it will be no different for me but if we do !!!!!!! I promise every last man who reads this that I will be drunk for about a year !!!!!!
Guvnor,
you are a disgrace and a laughing stock, most self-respecting Spuds fans will be cringing reading your illiterate teenage ramblings.
Did you not spot the racist insult the author spouted at your club, and I quote “We speculated along with everyone else but didn’t run a Cole Is A Yid or Cole Is a Gooner simply because Cole was clearly whoring himself about.”
If you did spot it and chose to ignore it, it makes you as bad as he is, and if you didn’t, then that just tells us you are only seeing what you want to see and therefore your opinion is worthless, and you are a moron.
As previous posters have urged you, go back to your history books (google it in your case) and you will find that City and Spuds have almost identical success in the past, and indeed have been rivals in many a season on almost equal footing.
Perhaps you’ll have more success trading insults regarding the bodymass of our respective mothers?
It’s Grim Ooop..
A couple of points. Did you call me a racist? And the guvnor a moron?
Here’s some House Rules.
1. As a Spurs fans I don’t recognize ‘Yid’ as racist.
2. The jury may occasionally be out on the guvnor, but here you play the ball, not the man.
4. ‘Villa…still Villa’… (as in Ricardo, not Aston)
Escapini,
Yes, I believe I cleverly insinuated the Guvnor is a moron, and I think you’ll find most Jews and self-respecting people find the term “yid” to be offensive.
if the shoe fits, wear it.
With regards to your retrospective house rules, is there one forbidding the use of actual fact when it comes to transfer reporting, as opposed to insane speculation and muck-racking?
Am I banned now?
IGON, why waste time and effort responding to the clearly moronic guvnor (where’s the fekkin apostrophe guv). I thought the guv’nor was that other cockerknee git (hammers object of affection and footballing genius who believes he’s only being prevented from being classed as jose’s equal because of his ethnic origin) Ince. This spud weener is obviously a childhood hammer. Probably can’t get to the Boleyn ground on the tube on his own.
I do get more than a little peeved when fans of sides that dont have investment, chastise those that do? Whether you for or against it, it’s irrelevant after all, because as a fan you’ve no say in it anyway. You can bleat on all you like, but the only way to actually change things is not to go to games at all, dont buy the shirts etc, and all you then deprive is yourself! Pointless argument, meaningless and puerile and as relevant as the clubs history, which is nice for reflection, but pretty useless when all’s said and done as Professional football is a results game, it’s a now game, and in all honesty most fans couldn’t give a monkeys as where the money comes from, so long as its spent on the team!. Its nice to have ideals and ethics, but really if someone came in and threw huge bundles of cash at your team, would you honestly care…no I said honestly!
Also can anyone Jewish or otherwise say as to why they find the term Yid offensive? Is my Yiddisher Momma therefore a racist chant? Please explain, because I was brought up in Stamford Hill and never found anyone objecting to the name back then, its seems only when it became adopted by the the Spurs supporters to deflect the antipathy towards them that this issue raised it head, perhaps its the well intentioned chattering classes getting in on the act and totally missing the point, you tell me? as they say the road to ruination is paved with yoghurt knitting tree huggers.
Guvnor, you really should have tried harder at school. Reading your opinions is almost impossible. Grammar and punctuation does exist you know.
I find the term “yid” offensive, in the same way I find the term “paki” offensive – often terms used in a perjorative fashion by persons looking to cause offense.
Just because I’m quarter Irish does not mean I can go around insulting fellow Irish and Irish descent, calling them “micks” or “bog-hoppers” or similar.
The sooner we all stop using these terms then the sooner we can all look beyond race, religion, colour, sexual preference etc. and get on with abusing each other solely on the team we support, and how we go about it. (some might argue you can’t change the team you’re born into, but that’s an argument for another day).
Many terms perfectly acceptable twenty years ago are not ok now, and nor should they be, just because you grew up using them does not mean they didn’t have a negative impact on strengthening stereotypes.
You soft southern fooking puffs make me sick to my stomach, stick to drinking warm shandy and leave the business of football to the real men of the North.
Am I banned now?
It’s Gr….
You’re not banned. I definitely wouldn’t use the word banned. Moribund might be better. You’re certainly dying a slow death…
> You’re certainly dying a slow death…
And you haven’t addressed the point he raised regarding your racism, Adolf. How about it?
I am impressed, however, at your ability to fashion something approaching a story based entirely on heresay and rumours, without any recourse to facts whatsoever. A job on one the red tops awaits, I have no doubt.
PS I would like to apologise unreservedly for another poster’s use of the word ‘moron’ to describe the guvnor earlier in this thread. The phrase ‘illiterate bell-end’ represents a far more accurate description of this individual.
Love ‘arry x
The market has just gone crazy,I for one vote for the abolition of transfer fees.
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No the market has not gone crazy just man city. it has completed stagnated. Its one of the slowest transfer markets i can remember and no real movement for any clubs. Bar citeh i think all the other clubs have tightened their belts and I cannot see too many big money moves. The only clubs in europe who will spend 20+ mil on one player will be city, real or barca. I cant see any other club spending this sort of money. There may be a few 10-15mil and a host of -10 mil but we are watching a big decline in collective transfer revenue. Remeber a lot of clubs are being forced to sort their books out before the new financial regs come into force, city will splash what they can then even they will be forced to stop
I may be “moribund” and “dying a slow death”, but whilst I shuffle slowly off this mortal coil, I notice “Arry the Spiv” is getting his excuses in now for when Spuds get a hammering from Bobbymanc’s Blue and White army, blaming it on off all things “meaningless international friendlies”!
This is the man who shamelessly touts himself around for the poisoned chalice of the Engerland job, you couldn’t make it up if you tried.
Escapini throws down the breadcrumbs. Several pigeons have a harmless argy-bargy around them. We discuss, share opinions. Have a bit of giggle. Evry enow and then a bloody seagull turns up with no sense of humour, balanced opinion – or why they’re so keen to get involved if it’s the rubbish they wrongly suggest it is – and spoil it for everyone.
It’s soul-destroying to watch a very good writer’s entertaining contribution to the rumour mill shot down in flames by people who are clearly keen to be outraged and staunchly stupid about things that ultimately concern a sport we all love. At least he’s not lazy. Half of us who’ve the cheek to question his views and approach do so from the safety of our manky office chairs in the spare room. Leave it out! Find something more constructive to do. Like boil your heads.
Things are changing. That is good.
> It’s soul-destroying to watch a very good writer’s entertaining contribution to the rumour mill shot down in flames by people who are clearly keen to be outraged and staunchly stupid about things that ultimately concern a sport we all love. At least he’s not lazy. Half of us who’ve the cheek to question his views and approach do so from the safety of our manky office chairs in the spare room. Leave it out! Find something more constructive to do. Like boil your heads.
A very good writer? Where? I must have missed that one.
At least he’s not lazy? FFS if this ‘story’ isn’t the very epitome of lazy journalism I don’t know what is.
> Things are changing. That is good.
The blogosphere is widening participation in football journalism to those with no clue, or talent. That is bad.
Grim up north, do you actually mean leave the football to what is now the London league for successful and well supported clubs, and that includes West Ham..no mate bring back Racing Pigeons, as it’s the only way you’ll win anything, even your stupid game of RL is over shadowed now by the Union boys, which again are well supported southern sides, nice idealism, crap on the real facts, but then again….its grim up north,or just stick to the pub matey, you’ll always feel the big man with a pint inside ya
Slacker,
If you do not wish to read my drivel, do not click on it. It’s very simple. Why am I even having to explain this to you?
> If you do not wish to read my drivel, do not click on it. It’s very simple. Why am I even having to explain this to you?
My RSS reader throws up this crap from time to time unfortunately. But thanks for your candour regarding the low standard of your writing anyway.
> Grim up north, do you actually mean leave the football to what is now the London league for successful and well supported clubs, and that includes West Ham..no mate bring back Racing Pigeons, as it’s the only way you’ll win anything, even your stupid game of RL is over shadowed now by the Union boys, which again are well supported southern sides, nice idealism, crap on the real facts, but then again….its grim up north,or just stick to the pub matey, you’ll always feel the big man with a pint inside ya
Could you repeat that in English please?