Sky and MEN : City deny Eto'o interest

Sky Sports 'understand' that City have 'denied making a bid.'

The M.E.N. have a longer piece, saying that the meeting between Cook and Laporta was quite routine, and not necessarily about a bid to sign Eto'o:

City officials are slightly irritated that Eto’o’s name has figured so prominently in speculation about the chat between Laporta and Blues chief executive Garry Cook.

They argue that while relations between clubs such as Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea and major European rivals are well established, City are very much still in a getting-to-know-you process.

UPDATE There seems to have been some serious media briefing from the club, either in response to today's Times article or as a continuation of the same process. It's now on the BBC website, saying that Eto'o formed part of the discussion but was not the point of the meeting as such.